Comments by "Barrie Rodliffe" (@barrierodliffe4155) on "Curious Droid"
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Digital Nomad.
When the B 17 entered the war it was incapable of doing much at all, the RAF tried it and found it to be unsuitable for bombing in Europe at all as did the USAAF. The first use of the B 17 by the USAAF in Europe was August 1942, they were escorted by Spitfires.
From mid-1942 to mid-1943, Mosquito bombers flew high-speed, medium or low-altitude missions against factories, railways and other pinpoint targets in Germany and German-occupied Europe.
Obviously the RAF carried out most of the attacks on targets like rail, canals, bridges, viaducts, tunnels submarine pens and other targets that required greater accuracy and better bombs than the B 17 could carry.
The relevant figures you give are for a Spitfire Mk I of 1940 and a P 51 of 1944.
The range of the P 51 with full internal fuel qhd external tanks 1650 miles.
The Spitfire MK IX with extra internal fuel which a lot did have and a 90 gallon drop tank, well over 1,000 miles.
The Spitfire was never relegated to anything, it carried out many roles that the P 51 could not do, the USAAF used the Spitfire just as they used the Beaufighter and Mosquito.
Goring had already said he knew the war was lost when he saw Mosquito`s over Berlin and he had no fighters that could do anything about it, USA likes to steal a lot including sayings.
That the B 17 was useless and needed a lot of modification is evidence that it was bad.
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Poor David.
Did you get a fright?
You probably did because you have not heard a sonic boom before. The Typhoon was on QRA and that is the only time they are allowed to break the sound barrier over land these days, a real pity, I loved it when they could do so especially planes like the English Electric Lightning.
I have heard many planes and been directly below when they were flying supersonic, including the Concorde.
The thing is the Typhoon was at very low altitude and the effect is more but at cruising height the Concorde would not break windows or rattle anything much.
According to this article, windows were smashed as a result. Interesting.
So who pays to fix the windows? If my window suddenly smashed, who would I turn to in order to get a free repair? Do the government pay for it? Would the police sort it out?
That is very relevant, the first question, who would I turn to in order to get a free repair.
Having lived directly under the flight path of the fairey Delta II when they were testing it in the 1950`s and it certainly was going supersonic at high altitude and barely visible except for the vapour trail.
I know what it sounds like, I also know that it did not break or even rattle our windows, there were many claims for damage and some could not be proved one way or the other, some were just people looking for free repairs.
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@jasonclarke6194
I only just saw your reply, I wonder if you know about the raids on dams which were at night and very accurate. Or Transport.
An outstandingly successful attack was made on the railway centre at Giessen on the night of 6 December. After two hundred Lancasters had been over in clear weather, craters studded the marshalling yards, engine sheds were wrecked, and other buildings destroyed; three weeks later the marshalling yards were still completely out of action.
What about the canals?
The reconstruction was completed by 21 November and on that day the canal was being filled with water. The same night 228 RAF bombers attacked again, scoring at least four direct hits on the aqueduct and breaching the embankment on both sides of the safety gates.
Or oil production
Bomber Command entered the oil campaign with an initial list of ten synthetic plants in the Ruhr. Here in the past few months the Americans had sustained fairly heavy casualties from flak, and the accuracy of their daylight attacks had been considerably reduced by the ever-present industrial haze; however, it was hoped that Bomber Command, with its new navigational aids, would be able to overcome this obstacle even though its attacks would be launched at night. The first RAF attack took place on the night of 12 June when some three hundred aircraft were sent to bomb the Nordstern plant at Gelsenkirchen, one of the largest in Germany. Bombing on markers dropped by Oboe-equipped pathfinders was very effective and photographic reconnaissance revealed widespread damage over the entire area of the plant. Most of the subsequent attacks were equally successful and by the end of September British crews had dropped 12,600 tons of bombs on all ten of their allotted targets.
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Kal El.
OK they did not scrap the useless XB 70 they retired it for good, having long since dropped the idea of turning it into a production aircraft.
To make it into a passenger plane it would be very simple, get rid of two engines, change the fuselage completely, change the wings and it would be far easier to make a new plane, still too difficult for Boeing to achieve. You forget Boeing spent a fortune and never got off the ground.
Boeing also tried to make a plane that could only fly at half the speed of Concorde, another fail.
We have nothing as bad as the F 35 or F 22. USA has had to modify the F 15 because the F 22 does not do the job it was meant to.
I never want to fly in a Boeing again when there is a far better alternative, 777, no thanks I prefer to fly in comfort in an A 340
As for the nightmare liner, not a chance.
The new British carriers were not designed to have a catapult, unfortunately the British government bought into the useless F 35 which was not supposed to need a catapult.
Concorde, the only successful SST ever made, USA could not make one.
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