Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. It's so funny that Dassault was also pushing for the adoption of the single-engine Super Etandard because of the engine issue....
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  2. Surely Fridge Raider?
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  3. You missed a major issue. Until mid-1939 the FAA was part of the RAF.
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  4. Without the Adrian helmet Churchill might not have survived the battlefields of Flanders, he preferred the French helmet over the Brodie helmet.
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  5. Sounds like the pilots forgot the first rule. "If lost when flying at night or poor visibility, climb. For no one has ever collided with the sky."
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  6. One reason that Grumman and Douglas built so many aircraft for the USN was that the USN for many years, and they may still do this, would only accept aircraft from manufacturers who had a track record of building carrier-based aircraft. Hence Northrop had to get into bed with McDonell Douglas to get the USN to consider their YF-17.
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  7. After the Brodie helmets were issued to British soldiers in WW1 the number of head injuries increased and the Generals considered withdrawing the helmets until it was pointed out that those soldiers would have been killed if not for the helmet.
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  8. The only variant of the A-12 that never got off the drawing board was the bomber.
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  9. Wasn't the A10 going to be withdrawn in the early 1990s?
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  10. Obsolete against most German tanks, but Italian and Japanese tanks were still vulnerable.
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  11. Deep stall affects the air flow over the elevators, not the ailerons. If you lose elevator control, you only get out of the stall by a sudden thump with the ground. Any aileron input close to the stall can put you into a spin.
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  12. Well as Airwolf came out in the 1980s, it's bound to be a bit grey now...
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  13. It must have been seen as a bit of a joke to call the MFI the Flatpack😉
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  14. It looks a bit like a biplane version of the Ju-87.
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  15. The Douglas AD (originally the BT2D) was their 2nd attempt to fulfil the requirement. You really should be comparing the XBTK with the Douglas XBTD.
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  16. So ducks are a clear and present danger to the USA? Got to laugh.
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  17.  @johnross6314  yes, but the bomber version remained unrealised.
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  18. It was certainly one of the first aircraft to use bogies.
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  19. Why does the KH31 remind me of the Bloodhound missile?
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  20. Blackburn his first monoplane from Marske beach on 24 May 1909. It wasn't much ic a flight lasting only a minute and leaving the plane a write off. Things got better.
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  21. There are no truly wild horses in the UK, but we do have feral and semi-formal horses. The ones in the Carneddau are feral Welsh Ponies. The Exmoor, Dartmoor, New Forest, Shetland and Fell pony populations are semi-feral.
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  22. The requisitioned French Marylands also had their throttles changed around to push forward to increase power.
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  23. The F-4 Phantom confused Macnamara in its USAF guise, the F-110.
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  24. There UAPs out there with their standard navigation lights on...
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  25.  @mtkoslowski  it was a night navigation exercise. One of those killed was the Navigator who could of taken star shots and worked out their position if they could gave got above the clouds. Also onboard was the Radio Operator. Unfortunately the RO took a wrong radio bearing due to miscommunication. As for equipment the aircraft as it was from 239 Operational Conversion unit it would have been fitted with all the equipment in use on the operational squadrons including Gee-H which had been introduced back in 1943. The aircraft on this exercise would have sufficient fuel for their task plus a reserve, and considering the British weather in March they would gave gad suffcient to climb away from the hills and mountains of Wales and England. At the time of impact they had been airborne for about 7 hours. Now a Lincoln has a combat radius of about 2,800 miles at 15,000ft and 200mph with 14,000lb of bombs. The same fuel load would equate to a much greater range considering that no bombs would have been on board.
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  26. Those ventral fins folded to be out of the way for landing and remained in the airflow. They didn't retract.
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  27. The Hangar Myth is also laughable due to most maintenance on the Stirling being intended t9 be carried out in the open air (as stated in the specification).
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  28. But so did the Tiger Moth.
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  29. Along side as a medium bomber.
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  30. ​ @allangibson8494  the Manchester and HP.56 were both medium bomber not heavies.
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  31. The Manchester and the HP.56/HP.57 Halifax were MEDIUM bombers not heavy bombers (Air Ministry Specification P.13/36) . The only heavy bomber the RAF had ordered in the mid-1930s was the Stirling (Air Ministry Specification B.12/36). The letter P in the Specification identifies a medium bomber whilst a heavy bomber was indicated by the letter B.
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  32. In the words of General Tacticus: At night all armies are the same size.
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  33. The aerofoil section was selected for the Stirling was to ensure adequate take-off performance. As for the selection of aerofoil sections by British aircraft designers, many, like Sydney Camm,reliable on data supplied by bodies like NACA. In the mid-1930s NACA produced a report on laminar flow aerofoil sections that showed that they had no advantages over conventional aetofoil sections. This report was later withdrawn after NACA discovered that their windtunnel was faulty. But by then many designs had been finalised and production drawings and blueprints were being created.
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  34. No the AD1 was designed by Ed Heinemann to fill the same role.
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  35. Buckingham Palace was originally owned by the Duke of Buckingham who took his title from the town of Buckingham. The Blenheim was named after the battle in the Dpanish Warbof Succession at which John Churchill, the 1st Marquis of Marlborough, lead the Grand Alliance of England, Scotland, Austria, Prussia and the Dutch Republic in victory against the French and Bavarians. The Beaufort was named after the inventor of the Beaufort Scale, rear Admiral Francis Beaufort, a man and certainly not a stately home.
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  36. The potato famine affected most of northern and western Europe.
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  37. You are do right, the Canard configuration goes all the way back to the Wrights.
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  38. Offence taken.
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  39. No, it was the lead ship of a 5 ship class of ships of which only the Enterprise was built.
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  40. There were 2 formations that bombed Rotterdam. It was the force that came in from the north that did all the damage as they never saw the signal flares aborting the mission as the radio antenna had already been wound in by the time the abort message was sent out by radio.
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  41. War has a nasty habit of changing priorities.
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  42.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  would you know which kind of hoplite helmet was the inspiration? I've always assumed the medieval sallet type helm was the inspiration. The Brodie helmet certainly takes its cues from the kettle type helm.
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  43. I wonder just how much this influenced the design of the SAAB 21.
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  44. There was also a swing-wing version of the Phantom suggested at an earlier date.
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  45. Err, not according to Tony Buttler in Chapter 5 of British Secret Projects - Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950. The Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 was not based on the Bristol Type 155, which came in 2 versions, a conventional tail-dragger and one with a tricycle undercarriage, but all their own work. The original specifi action they were built to was the B.9/38 but after mock up conferences 2 new specification were issued B.17/38 for the Bristol Type 155 and B.18/38 for the Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 with a minimum cruise speed of 250mph and a bombload of 4,000lb an increase from the original specification of 1,500.bbombload.
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  46. @offshoretomorrow3346  it was formed in 1934 a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J. D. Siddeley, the automotive and engine builder Armstoong-Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft. At this time, Hawker Siddeley also acquired Avro, Gloster and Air Training Services. The constituent companies continued to produce their own aircraft designs under their own name as well as sharing manufacturing work throughout the group. A fact a post-war government chose to ignore in order to reduce the number of companies.
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  47. In 1918, they said the tank was obsolete. How did that idea turn out?
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  48.  @Tiberiotertio  short for gasoline. Remember petrol is the name of a solvent produced by Carless, Capel and Leonard. This solvent could also used as a fuel and bybthe time the original manufacturers came to trade mark their solvent's name it had become the generic name for a fuel for cars.
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  49. That's probably it's named after a place not the person, in line with the RAF's bomber naming convention of using place names from within the Empire. Canada or Australia this time.
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  50. It had an ejection system that was as lethal to use as remaining for the crash. It needed a longer runway for take-off and landing due to the rear prop and the ventral fin.
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  51. The real reason for Dassailt not to support the Jaguar for the French Navy was that they had lost out on the programme that lead to the Jaguar.
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  52. ​ @exF3-86  all Ed says is that the RAF refused to allow any of their fighter aircraft to be sent to the FAA. That doesn't mean that the FAA was part of the RAF in any way, shape or form. The RAF was ignoring the needs of the FAA over those of those parts of the RAF thatvrenained on land and didn't go to sea.
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  53.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  when you consider that the Brodie helmet is intended to protect the wear from failing shrapnel when the wearer is stood in a trench, it does exactly what ut is supposed to do. It was also cheaper and easier to produce than either the Adrian or the German Stahlhelm.
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  54. 1936 also saw the issuing of the P13/36 mefium bomber specification which produced the Avro Manchester and Handley Page Halifax.
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  55. There were 3 basic SABA concepts that BAe. There was the twin tail boom P.1238 and the canard P.1233-1 which were both pusher turbo-propfans using the Avco Lycoming T.55 as the engine. The other concept was the P.1234 which came in 3 variants all of which were jet powered: the Dash 1 which was armed with a gun turret; the Dash 2 with a straight wing; and the delda-winged Dash 3. The Dash and Dash 3 were designed around the RR Adour engine, whilst the Dash 2 was designed around the Aco Lycoming ALF.502 engine (a jet version of the T.55).
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  56. Milk bottles in the UK were a similar shape as the P-47's fuselage until the 1980s.
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  57. The potential impact on support for the war amongst the American public should never be under estimated. The American public's reaction to Sputnik is a good example of this.
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  58.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  the wing hard points weren't fitted to the B-17G. The last model they were fitted to were the B-17F. This meant in theory they could carry 17,600lb of bombs, 8,000lb of which were carried external. Range or altitude had to be sacrificed to carry this load. Either an operational range of 790 miles at 25,000ft or 1,170 miles at 6,000ft.
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  59. You should have a look at the design Volkert came up with to meet this requirement. It was the first British bomber design, not the Mosquito, intended to use speed as its main defence.
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  60. No, the intskes for the APUs are in that area
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  61. The Pilot of the B(I).8 was alone under the fighter style canopy with the Navigator in the fuselage, in the early models behind the Pilot and in the later models in front. Correction the Navigator was was in front in the early models and behind in the later ones.
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  62. @matthiuskoenig3378  no its not. People down the year have said this weapon is obsolete or that weapon I obsolete only to find that no it isn't. In 1918, the British Generals decided that the tank could be disposed of as I was designed to break the deadlock caused by trench warfare. They failed to see that the cavalry was the obsolete weapon system.
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  63. The saying "the exception that proves the rule" doesn't mean what most people think it means. In this saying the word proves means to test (as the Proof House were guns were put under test).
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  64. There's an even rarer Vickers' bomber designed by RJ Mitchell and destroyed in a bomber raid in 1940.
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  65.  @Mute_Nostril_Agony  pommes de terre are potatoes not tomatoes which are tomatoes.
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  66.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  same as in the Napoleonic War then?
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  67.  @mfletch3205 whilst that is true, it doesn't make any difference to there not being attacks on the British population since the days of Napoleon.
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  68. Sorry, but Douglas Aircraft had the same concerns about size and complexity hence the A-4D.
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  69.  @Philistine47  only on the Mustang I. The Mustang II had 4x20m cannon. From the Mustang III, IIRC they standardised on 6x0.50 cal Brownings.
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  70. Wasn't the UAPTF's predecessor, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program disbanded? Funny that as soon as they disband one body thet have to form a new one. I wouldn't put too much on the reports coming out of the same government body who thought the Soviets had more bombers and then more missiles than they did or from a country that dragged the world into another war over non-existent WMDs in Iraq.
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  71.  @AudieHolland  everything I've read states that Winkelman was initially prepared to fight on after the loss of Rotterdam. Yes, there usually is a cease fire of a limited period but not always such as at the end of WW1. And everything I've read suggests that Kesselring was ignoring what the ground commander were telling him on 14/5/1940. And guess what. You're wrong about there being a breach of the rules of war. The city was defended and the commander of the attacking force gave warning.
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  72.  @exF3-86  no it wasn't.
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  73.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  a yway thanks for your information.
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  74.  @allangibson8494  classifications like light, medium, and heavy and relative terms.
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  75. Sorry but no, milk bottles in the UK were of a similar shape to the P-47's fuselage until the 1980s.
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  76. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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  77.  @emergencylowmaneuvering7350  gods you are a moron. The SAAB 21 was design in the late 1930s a short while after this Italian design. Whilst many early aircraft were indeed pushers, this does not make any difference to my initial musings. The Sopwith Triplane influenced Anthony Fokker to design his Dr.1 triplane. PLEASE NOTE I SAY INFLUENCED. The SAAB 21 has a passing similarity to this Italian design. There were several other designs that followed roughly the same design layouts, some like the SAAB 21 with a conventional tailplane and others like the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 with a canard configuration (and built to meet the needs of the USAAC's specification R-40C of November 1939). Really if you can't ubderstand that earlier designs influence later ones, you shouldn't ne allowed on YT without an adult to supervise you.
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  78. It wasn't Handley Page that had doubts about the RR Vulture but the Air Ministry. The Air Ministry asked HP to rework the HP.56 as a 4-engined bomber to produce the HP.57.
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  79.  @mikearmstrong8483  then those historians are doing piss poor research. The Wrights achieved so much and no one can deny them their successes.
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  80.  @mikearmstrong8483  have a good day.
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  81. Something positive about the Botha for you: the Botha made the Battle look good.
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  82. I wondered how they worked out it was Chinese.
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  83.  @wbertie2604  although a few brigands ended up with a stately pile of their own.
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  84.  @PalleRasmussen  the fighters would be the long range maritime aircraft patrolling the seas off western France dealing with the German U-Boats. These would be the Beaufighters and Mosquitos, but they would have to spot the Me-264s visually. The Germans would have had to take Iceland off the Americans first to land there.
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  85.  @PalleRasmussen  yes, it would have been too little, too late. Unless they had used weapons of mass destruction like one of the early nerve agents they had developed (they had created Sarin in 1938 and had tested it as a weapon in 1939, by the end of WW2 they had between 500kg and 10,000kg of the stuff, they also ended the war with 12,000 tonnes of tabun plus some soman) or a radiological bomb (a bomb that used conventional explosives to spread a radioactive material and not one like used on Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
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  86.  @PalleRasmussen  but at that time we didn't have nerve agents, unlike the Germans. Both the Iraqis and the Iranians had WMDs and used them on each other during their war at the height of the Cold War. The Americans stockpiling gas in North Africa in WW2 brought stocks of German poison gas to Italy until someone realised the Americans were stockpiling gasoline. It's that easy to escalate an issues until someone make a mistake, such as portrayed in the film The Bedford Incident.
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  87.  @brettcoster4781  got a source for that?
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  88.  @brettcoster4781  thanks. I already knew the story of the discovery of sarin.
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  89.  @Simon_Nonymous  the sector that Churchill's unit was posted to was near Ploegsteert. On 16/2/1916 his temporary HA was shelled whilst he was eating breakfast as recorded in a letter to his wife. On another occasion it is recorded that a shell fragment hit the battery case of a lamp he was holding.
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  90. All hail the malgorithm.
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  91.  @roybaker6902  that'll be pre-embargo Oldsmobile fenders won't it?
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  92. If you'd published this on any other day....
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  93. Mostly it was to honour the country that delivered them to use. The FAA tended to use bird names for their fighters, hence Martlet which is an archaic name for the House Martin.
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  94.  @migueldelacruz4799  this rule should had been ingrained in pilots by the 1950s but still isn't.
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  95.  @geordiedog1749  well, to answer your original question, it was neither the Soviets or the French that caused Carter's plan to fail. If you want to blame anyone it was Carter who broke his plan with sales to Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and planned sales to Iran.
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  96. It's not some recreation of the Japanese Fu-Go balloon attacks is it?
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  97. The Finns were never an ally of Nazi Germany but a co-belligerent.
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  98.  @dallesamllhals9161  thems the facts. The Finns never sign the Tripartite Pact and in the Continuation War they stopped when they reached their pre-Winter War borders. They didn't even get involved in the siege of Leningrad without Army stopping around 20 miles from the city.
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  99.  @stacymcmahon453  didn't say that didn't work with the Germans, just that they weren't allies but co-belligerents fighting a common enemy.
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  100.  @dallesamllhals9161  so you don't understand the difference between allies and co-belligerents. After the Italian surrender the portion under British/American occupation turned its weapons on the Germans. These Italians were co-belligerents and not allies.
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  101.  @dallesamllhals9161  ah insults, the refuge of idiots who can't find a counter argument and know that they have been in the wrong the whole time.
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  102.  @esajuhanirintamaki965  even at the tinder ut was clear from the actions the Finns took they were only out to get back what they had lost in the Winter War.
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  103. I wonder just how long today's carbon fibre aircaft would survive if parked outside?
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  104. @infidel6728  does it rain much there? I remember reading that rain had badly affected the skins on F-22s which had been parked outside.
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  105. As everybody who watch YT know only the Hortens did flying wings..... Another nail in the coffin of that myth.
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  106.  @bazza945  his aircraft flew for longer and did more flights before beinh written off. His aircraft weren't always pretty.
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  107.  @mattheweagles5123  no, that was the town after which Sir Athur took his title.
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  108.  @mattheweagles5123  Canberra is not an English town or city but we named a bomber after it. PS before being made a Duke he was made the Baron Duoro and the Viscount Wellington in Augusr 1809, then in February 1812 he was made the Earl of Wellington and in August the Marquess of Wellington. It wasn't until May 1814 that he became the Duke of Wellington, and on the same day the Marquess of Duoro. However, before all of that he was a younger son of an Earl and so Sir would have been appropriate upto the point he was made an Earl.
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  109. Sounds like Mary-land to me. And I'm English. Remember we have over 400 different regional accents.
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  110.  @robertmoffett3486  it's sent in Kent, not the Fens (Lincolnshire/Norfolk bordering the Wash).
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  111.  @apis_aculei  except in the Pfeil it had a nasty habit of not being able to be operated as the canopy fe Ease had ripped the pilot's hands off.
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  112. What about the shelling of Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough on 14th December 1914? Ooops!
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  113. IIRC The fuselage was so narrow that engine gauges were put on the fuselage side of the nacelles.
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  114. The same can be said about domd of the products of every nation's aircraft designers.
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  115. ​ @Philistine47  the Mk1 had only 2x.50 cal guns and 4x.303 guns.
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  116.  @AudieHolland  that's only true for the northern part of the city, in the southern part, already captured by the Germans, the red abort flares were fired. The city had not surrendered at this point as negotiations were still on going. The 36 bombers attacking from the south saw these flares and the 54 attacking from a northerly direction never saw any flares due to low cloud. The city surrendered shortly after the bombing.
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  117.  @AudieHolland  that's not what any history book I've ever seen says. They all say the surrender happened after the bombing.
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  118.  @AudieHolland  bombing of Rotterdam around 13:20. 16:50 Winkelman orders the surrender. This is not the order you are trying and failing to suggest.
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  119. Good one, but how many takes?
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  120.  @Simon_Nonymous  see Lindybiege's video.
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  121. Along side asa medium bomber.
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  122. As these aircraft have top speeds at different altitudes then this exercise has no value as you are comparing chalk and cheese.
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  123.  @watcherzero5256  but those maximum speeds cannot be compared to each other because they are all dependent on the specific airframe and engine combinations. The Tornado F.3 was faster then the F-15. But only at low level. Does this mean the Tornado was the better aircraft, ir just the better aircraft in that flight regime?
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  124.  @watcherzero5256  exactly, why this kind of analysis is pointless..
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  125. Wouldn't that make it a bi-sesquiplane?
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  126. There will always be another fighter or bomber aircraft that will get the restoration funding before this beast. Transport aircraft just ain't sexy.
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  127. No, not asymmetry. From the front it has reflection symmetry in the vertical plane along the centre line.
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  128.  @ian_b  if you only consider the nacelles then, yes there is no symmetry there. But most of the time we look at the airframe as a whole.
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  129. @anthonylewis679  just like with tanks, the word medium shifts about a bit with no clear definition. When it comes to bombers, the Lancaster is a heavy bomber, but so is the B-17, but the specification that led to the Lancaster was for a medium bomber.
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  130. The Americans provided most of the money NATO spent on V/STOL programmes like the Harrier.
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  131. YT moves in a mysterious way its wonders to achieve.
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  132. Err, the spending on the Wehrmacht was started before the Nazis came to power.
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  133. You should have seen the bomber aircraft that didn't get off the drawing board. Such as the Vickers Long Range High Altitude bomber which had been designed to carry Tall Boy and Grand Slam bombs at a time when it was though no conventional bomber could carry them. It was intended to have a take-off weight of 104,000lb (with only one bomb) and cruise at 40,000ft at a speed of 306moh on the outward run and 350mph on the return leg and have an radius of action of 1,800 miles. The carriage of a single large bomb on general bombing sorties was one reason why this design got no further than the drawing board, but it did lead in late 1941 to an Air Ministry draft operational requirement for a longer with at least a 15ton bomb load (and preferably 20tobs) with an operational range of 2,500 miles at a cruise speed of 300mph at 20,000ft but with the capability of flying at 30,000ft. This became known as the 75ton bomber
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  134. You can blame the Cold War for the lack of awareness of the WW2 era Soviet aircraft.
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  135.  @emergencylowmaneuvering7350 I did say influence?. The Saab 91 had a pusher engine and twin fins. Geese.... Burt Rutan was influenced in his designs.
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  136.  @Tetemovies4  the Yak-38 didn't land on conventional carriers. The Kiev class carriers had no catapults or arrester gear, unlike the French carriers. The Yak-38 was a v/stol aircraft which needed to lift engines to allow it to fly vertically. If either lift engine failed then it took up the flight characteristics of a breeze block, just like F-35 would. This makes you analogy pointless. Doubling the number of engines whilst doubling the number of potential causes of failure doesn't increase the chances of total engine failure by double. There are very few occurrences of multiple engine failure and those are either caused by an external factor, such as volcanic ash, or non-engine related, such as ice in the fuel or running out of fuel. The chance of each engine failing remains the same and that means the chances of a double failure engine failure solely to mechanical failures is approximately half that of a single engine failure due to the way the maths work.
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  137.  @Tetemovies4  don't be stupid. The Jaguar had 2 thrust engines whilst the Yak-38 only had one. You are comparing apples with granite. As your 100 engine aircraft then it depends on the use the engine is being put to. If the engine is a lift engine then it is conceivable that a single failure could result in a crash in a vertical landing.unlikely but possible. The shaft driven lift fan is useless if the engine it is attached to fails and is little better than the lift engines fitted to the Yak-38. If either gear box fails if can only land I the conventional manner.
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  138.  @Tetemovies4  then why bring up the V/STOL Yak-38 and its problems, which according to the Aviaton Safrty Network were primarily due to the failure of a single lift engine during either take-off, landing or hovering during an airshow. That ONE engine out of THREE and always one of the lift engines. A lifting jet engine is identical to a thrust engine except for the direction the jet exhaust is pointing. Your 100 engine aircraft is nonsensical. The problem that the Mk101 engines of the earlier Jaguar had was it went from 100% dry thrust to afterburner. This was changed for the Mk102 engines to have the afferburners come on at IIRC 80% dry thrust.
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  139.  @Tetemovies4  and by your illogical push of the idea of redundancy it makes it nonsensical. As for the engine issue on the Jaguar, that was solved long before the decision was made to buy the Super Etandard. The single-engine handling was also addressed. BUT the question still remains why did you chose to base your argument on the Yak-38 when it can quite easily be dismissed?
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  140.  @Tetemovies4  more word salad.
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  141.  @Tetemovies4 having 2 engines in the Jaguer makes them functionally redundant you muppet that's what redundancy means. The engine upgrades made them work better by smoothing out the thrust characteristics and had no impact on their redundancy, which was already assured by have 2. The Yak-38 needed a pair of lift engines as the Soviet Union, and all other nations to be fair, could not make a small enough engine with the required levels of thrust. The French with their Mirage III-V needed 8 lift engines, plus a thrust engine. Now, there's redundancy. Although a better western equivalent of the Yak-38 I'd the VFW VAK 191B with 2 lift engines and a thrust vectoring main engine (sound familiar because that's what the Yak-38 had). Again it had 2 lift engines because Rolls Royce couldn't make a turbojet any shorter and jet the required thrust. However, this aircraft remained a technology demonstrator. Nut it did have design advantage over the Yak-38 as the lift engines were placed at each end of the fuselage and were powerful enough to be landed on alone if needed or by using the main engine's vectored thrust. A very Germanic concept of redundancy.
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  142.  @Tetemovies4  but it could still fly to an airfield on land if within range AND that makes it functionally and physically redundant because it could continue to fly. Your argument is spurious and facile. Just because this aircraft or that aircraft in a prototype form couldn't achieve one specific aspect doesn't mean that it could never do that with improvements, which is what prototypes are for. Improvements that, in the Jaguar M's case were not long in arriving, but arrived too late for that version of the Jaguar. At least the Jaguar M had the option to return to a land base on a single engine, whatbhope did the Super Etandard pilot have with a single engine failure? All he could do was hope that his ejection seat functioned as promised, his dinghy inflated and the rescue helicopter wasn't too long in getting to him. He had no redundancy at all.
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  143.  @Tetemovies4  prototype testing. You just don't get it do you? As explained earlier the issues foundvduringnthe testing were all resolved. Unlike the major flaw with the Super Etendard. it Plus have you never heard of air to air refuelling. The French Navy had. But if the Jaguar M had gone into service the engine and engine out issues would have already been resolved. But you don't seem capable of getting that into your head.
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  144.  @Tetemovies4  well as stated earlier the issue with the response to the throttle input was solved with the afferburners coming in earlier than originally intended. This is well know and resulted in the Adour Mk101 becoming the Adour Mk102. Also who said the Jaguar would be refuelling other aircraft, stop making piss-poor assumptions as they keep making an ass of you. I also never said anything about the wing loading being suitable, so stop shifting the goal posts. Well let's see, the F-4 Phantom had a wing loading of 567kg/m^2 against the Jaguars 649.3 kg/m^2. So a bit more, but not excessively so. But also a meaningless comparison.
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  145.  @nigelsmith7366  I was commenting on what was said, notvrepeating it.
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  146. Some piss poor research or script writing here within the 1st minute. The Americans weren't the first to fly heavier than air vehicles that was the French. They were the first to fly a fully controllable powered aircraft capable of sustained flight rather than the fully controllable weight shift gliders that had been in the air for over a decade at that point. The first glider flight was over 100 years earlier in 1801 when André Gbuillaume Resnier de Goué managed a 300m straight line glide at Angoulême sustaining a broken leg on landing. By the time the Wrights got involved in aviation men like Otto Lilienthal could control the direction of their gliders by shifting their weight. Others who flew heavier than air craft before the Wrights include Octave Chanute, Percy Pilcher and Lawrence Hargrave who invented the box kite. All the Wrights did was to solve the inconsistencies in the aerofoil data (for their heavier than air gliders), create a engine powerful enough to get them off the ground and a practical propeller and put all of them together and take flight. BUT THEY WERE NEVER THE FIRST TO FLY A HEAVIER THAN AIR CRAFT.
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  147.  @mikearmstrong8483  and I'm agreeing with your comment.
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  148. Between 1924 and 1939 the FAA was part of the RAF and not the Royal Navy. The Navy didn't get effective control of the FAA until mid-August 1939.
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  149. @chrishartley4553  that was part of the joke. I'd explain it, but like the new roof, it would go over your head.
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  150. Elbonia was created by Scott Adams in his Dilbert cartoons.
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  151.  @None-zc5vg  the design was finalised overnight, but Heinemann and his team had been designing a replacement for their less than sterling BTD-1. Heinemann had been lobbying the Navy to cancel the multi-seat BTD-1 and allow them onto submit a new design the XBT2D-1, which was later redesignated the AD-1 (or more fully A1D-1), which was designed to the same specification as the AM-1 (originally designated the BTM). The AD-1 was essentially a single seat version of the BTD which had been developed from the XSB2D-1, but with an uncranked wing and a traditional tail-dragger configuration. Heniemann had asked the Navy for 30mdqys to put in the new design submission but the Navy only gave him to the following morningba 09:00. 3 hours later the BTD-1 was cancelled and the AD-1 was born. The time taken by Martin to sort out the AM-1's handling and other issues were just what Heinemann and Diuglas needed to perfect their design.
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  152.  @nunyabidniz2868  correct, their are only a handful if solutions to every aviation design problem.
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  153.  @Katy_Jones  probably where the term stately pile comes from. Greetings from, possibly another descendant of Border Revier (from Middle March unless it's from the Glen Coe or Caithness branches of the clan).
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  154.  @teacherdude  depends on what each Me264 dropped. Standard bombs or nerve gas filled ones or even radioactive material filled bombs (not as nasty as a proper nuke but nasty enough). Might even be enough to revive isolationism in the US or to spur the total destruction of Germany.
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  155. All hail the almighty malgorithm.
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  156. If the contract had been placed with Kaiser Fleetwings thetbwoukd have had to partner with a company with a proven record if aircraft design and production of naval aircraft for use on carriers.
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  157. The Manchester was designed to meet specification P.13/36, the specification written after that for the Stirling (B12/36).
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  158. @user-do5zk6jh1k  when the Air Ministry issues the original specifications (B.9/38) they approached three companies de Havilland, Armstrong-Whitworth and Bristol. De Havilland declined to present a proposal.
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  159. And the Sapphire was based on an enlarged Metro-Vic F2, Britain's WW2 axial-flow turbojet.
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  160.  @grizwoldphantasia5005  they would have been.
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  161. They say that Ted Turner, the co-founder of CNN, tried to come up with 10 concepts per day. If so, on the day he co-created CNN he had 9 other concepts. Whatever happened to them? How many of them were rubbish? How many saw the light of day with someone else?
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  162. You are aware that the Harrier is just an improved Kestrel? These improvements were based on trials in service conditions that had started the year before the Mirage III-V was completed.
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  163. Further guise that weren't aware of the float plane Spitfires: there only 5 converted Spitfire 1 R6722, Spitfire VBs W3760, EP751 and EP754)and 1 converted from a Spitfire IX MJ892. R6722 proved to be disappointing and was quickly converted back to standard only for it to be shot down during the Battle of Britain (the pilot survived, the aircraft didn't) . It had been intended for use in Norway, but with Norway's surrender and lack of performance the idea was dropped.The Spitfire VB conversion were intended for use in the Dodecanes and unlike the Spitfire 1 conversion the performance was better the Merlin 45 with a 4-blade prop allowed a max speed of 324mph and a service ceiling of 33,400 feet. They carried the same armament as the standard Spitfire VB. They were sent to Egypy, but the last of the Dodecanes fell to the Germans before they were deployed. W3760 was struck off in January 1944 and EP751 followed in December 1944, but what happened to EP754 is not recorded in any source I have access to. MJ892 was struck off in November 1945 after becoming IIRC the fastest float plane of WW2 with a top speed of 377mph and a service ceiling of 38,000 feet. It also had the same surname t as a standard Spitfire IX. IIRC Folland was involved in the conversions of the Spitfire Vs and the Spitfire IX, but I don't know about the Spitfire 1 conversion which used floats of a Bkackburn Roc.
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  164.  @ChuckieFinzter  these used the same cockpit layout as the B(I).8.
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  165.  @marcamant7258  it must have had some lift effect being in the up wash ahead of the main wing. The Wrights did notice the destabilising effect of the canard, so it must have been generating a lifting force.
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  166.  @mtkoslowski  well let's start with navigation. The positions of numerous stars are given in Navigator's almanacs with a minimum of two stars you can get a rough positional fix, with 3 or more stars you can get a more accurate positional fix. Now RAF Valley is on the coast with the end longest runway being roughly north-south and the longest north-wedt-south-east in alignment. Once you get you position to fly to a point over the Irish Sea using dead reckoning and taking further positional fixes before turning g back towards the location of RAF Valley before descending to under the cloud base and fly back to the position of the base to land. The Lincoln had fuel burn rates between about 170 gallons per hour and 400 gallons per hour depending on the supercharger gear, the weight and altitude. These can be found online in the Pilot's Handling Notes. The Lincoln had a max fuel capacity of 3,580 gallons. Of course, as with every aircraft not al, of this fuel will be available for use in flight, so assuming g we can use 90% of this fuel in flight, then at the maximum fuel burn rate it equates to about 7 hours of running time for the engines. By the time RF511 crashed they had been airborne for about 7 hours, so at max fuel burn they would have been running on fumes. At the most economic fuel burn we're kicking at over 18 hours of engine running time.
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  167.  @alganhar1  yes, I know that you get a fix to within a fraction of a degree and that you need at least 3 to fix your position to this kind of accuracy. However, at night unless you are able to determine the difference between one patch of land and another most landmarks are useless. If you can spot the coastline or a body of water then you might spot a familiar location. But there again, and proved by WW2, you can spoof pilots into thinking there are not where they think they are by mistaking one body of water for another. Now unless you know that it is safe to descend it is impossible to avoid controlled flight in to terrain and to be certain of where you are to any degree you need to get a navigational fix, be that with celestial navigation or radio signal triangulation. Having done daytime navigational training flights I know how difficult it is to determine one town from another and that was with clear visibility, at night how do you determine one cluster of lights from another?
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  168.  @zackthebongripper7274  the Army isn't allowed to by law.
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  169.  @SteamCrane  yes they can, but the US Army has never succeeded in doing so. Even at the height of the Cold War, in 1961 when they tried to buy a version of the A4D-2N, the Fiat G51 or a version of Northrop's N156. This programme forced the USAF into providing close air support aircraft to the army.
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  170. No the fall of the Shah and the seizure of the American embassy and the hostage crisis which, in part, cost him the 1980 election. Carter was seen to be weak on international affairs.
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