Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Christmas at Stalingrad | Battlestorm Stalingrad E46" video.

  1. Re: Airfields and the FW200 Kondor. The FW200 was a four engine transport with known structural issues when landing if used to carry war stores. Could it be the FW200 was based farther away due to needing a better maintained, longer, runway and, perhaps, more meticulous maintenance than any other aircraft involved? The FW 200 was the only four engine transport serially produced for Axis use during the war*. It might've required a firm, well scraped and tamped, runway; something more likely to exist farther away from the front. Most forward airfields were, at the time, grass fields; not the best option for a capable, but fragile, transport. *I think the Ju290 and Ju390 we read about were prototypes and preproduction examples, still working up toward acceptance in fully militarized form, rather than mass produced planes with full military equipment.
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