Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "The Gloster E.1/44 (GA.2); Ace or Gormless?" video.

I still wonder how things might have gone had the British government been less hesitant and those very first pre-war jets had actually gotten into combat, underpowered and underarmed or not it might still have meant us having jet fighters during the Battle Of Britain
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@andrewfischer8564 that's pretty unlikely lol, some of the late-war German designs LOOKED a bit like modern Stealth-jets sure but that didn't mean they were
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@andrewfischer8564 maybe so then; by the time the Nazi's had jets in our world we were pretty good at just seeing V1 Flying Bombs the old fashioned way and shooting them down though, both with our own new Meteor jets and with "old-fashioned" prop-planes like the Spitfire haha, so even if we wouldn't have seen the German jets coming that still wouldn't necessarily have meant much. Let's not forget how unreliable and dangerous German jet-engines were too. I dunno if that would've all been as true in 1940 as it was in '44-'45 of course, but Britain still stood a chance
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@David Howard think that something like the early Gloster jets shown here fitted with that Axial-flow engine would've actually been very good in combat then, enough to outmatch the latest piston-engined fighters of the day that is? It would've likely still turned up too late for the Battle Of Britain after all, but would've been just in time to meet stuff like the Focke-Wulf 190 in '42-'43
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@andrewfischer8564 let me know if you do remember, sounds interesting!
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