Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "The Drydock - Episode 234" video.

  1.  @alanhughes6753  I believe Drach did comment in a previous Drydock that the Titanic would have been better off ramming head-on than trying to turn and scraping along the side. It was the length of the gash that overwhelmed multiple watertight bulkheads and led to a fast sinking.
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  2. Might have something to do with river velocity due to length of stream and gradient too.
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  3. They also ran into the problem of trying to pry four-engine planes away from Bomber Harris for long-range patrol. Just two or three squadrons could have closed the mid-ocean gap.
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  4. Plus there's the added bonus of having more "operational history" to your charts...
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  5.  @calvingreene90  The difficulty in switching is that they would have to re-tool the production line and retrain the workers, losing up to a year. Then there's the possibility that the RAF might declare "emergency" and take over the output for homeland defense.
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  6. They could not conceive of doing it themselves, therefore they were not prepared for the Germans to do it.
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  7. Ah, the true classics!
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  8. If Shinano was completed as a Yamato you can kiss goodbye to the Taiho and the Unryus...
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  9. Might not be a fair comparison, as "first flight" is just the beginning of the real development work, when you test out the paper design; Initial Operational Capability is the better metric.
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  10. True, but the Lancaster could take an A-bomb unmodified, while the B-29 had to have special modifications. Hap Arnold was about to eat his hat and ask for the Brits to loan him some Lancasters when they successfully tested the modified B-29s.
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  11. At least that to fit a carrier; do they have a container port there?
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