Comments by "Mike Armstrong" (@mikearmstrong8483) on "The Gloster F.5/34: Almost the British Zero?" video.

It also demonstrates the hazards of an aerial melee, as the P-38 flew right into the line of fire of a friendly fighter in the midst of shooting up an opponent.
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It has always been a misconception that the Japanese couldn't have designed their own aircraft if they were better in any way to western designs. During the war it was basically taken as official fact. There was no way that the Japanese, with their slanted eyes meaning inferior vision, and their recent evolution from a feudal society, could possibly be effective as engineers. This myth was taken as gospel even into the 60s, and still hasn't died today. The Zero has been considered a copy of a few different candidates, but it was entirely an indigenous design.
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