Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. I'd be willing to bet that a pilot assigned to fly Hurricanes off of freighters over the North Atlantic would gave loved to have a set of floats available
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  2. In case everybody missed it the horizontal milling machine being operated by a Japanese worker was made in Cincinnati. It says so right on the machine.
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  3. In terms of aerial combat between mismatched foes my father used to tell the story of how they watched a Bf-109 trying to shoot down a Piper Cub being used to direct artillery fire. Due to the terrain and the Cub's pilot throwing his aircraft around in his desire not to get stitched by 7.92 and 20mm the 109 never could score. The 109 eventually flew off most likely out of ammunition.
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  4. The Christmas Bullet was clearly the fastest plane of its day. Of course that was sans wings and in a dive.
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  5. The USN was also interested in one of the Pratt & Whitney 24 cylinder H layout sleeve valve engines that were dropped in favor of the R-4360. These sleeve valve engines actually featured something of a throwback in some ways featuring seperate cylinders on an inline engine. The supposed reason was the ability make servicing easier. The engines were also bulkier than cast block engines such as the Sabre.
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  6. Given the needed aircraft requirements for naval convoy escort. I'm surprised the Lysander never was adopted by the fleet air arm. It's slow landing speed and rough field capability would seem to have made ideal for operating off of the smaller escort carriers in the North Atlantic.
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  7. One thing Ian over at Forgotten Weapons has brought up is all of the Swiss subsidiaries that were set up by German manufacturers that were heavily into weapons development.
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  8. Nice to see you included the official Gloster production drawings for the Meteor 😁
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  9. Why do l suspect that little of this has to do with democracy.
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  10. Well, when your character is boning Ursula Andress who's character is married to a German general you know it isn't going to end well.
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  11. No. It might have been a great short range fighter but the small wing and airframe would limit range.
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  12. Those Bat guided weapons at the 6:50 mark. From the appearance of the target could they have been tested on the Great Lakes. The target sure looks like it has the classic Great Lakes bulk carrier layout.
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  13. Another example of Merlins not improving an aircraft is the P-40 models equipped with Merlins. Both engines had single stage SCs. The Allison actually made more power. Plus the Allison was capable of handling insane amounts of boost compared to its rated boost levels. Australian squadrons in the SouthWest Pacific would often run 60 inches or more of manifold pressure.
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  14. That was my first thought. What really killed steam in rail applications was excessive servicing requirements compared to diesel and electric types
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  15. Choice of weapons. Blunderbusses I. Balloons.
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  16. ​ @thunberbolttwo3953  Plus they changed the F designator from Photo to Fighter
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  17. Lend Lease. This is what happens when you don't return borrowed tools and are behind on your lease payments. Towards the end of WWII there were several "friendly fire" incidents in what is today Croatia involving USAAF aircraft and Soviet forces.
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  18. One pilot that flew the Saber/Fury off of carriers was F Lee Bailey
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  19. I think you mean Supermarine. I'll assume that it's just spell check.
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  20. Fast is always a relative term.
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  21. It's not the tool that becomes obsolete. It's the tactics. In the end unless the goal is to leave everything irradiated you still need to take and hold ground with boots on the ground. And even if you hold boots on the ground no western nation can ever win against an insurgency. Eventually the public will demand an end.
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  22. ​ @petesheppard1709  Launched via catapults iirc. One example would be in the Marianna's once an air field was secured. And I've wondered the same thing myself.
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  23. I wonder if the Fleet Air Arm ever considered the Lysander for carrier service. With it's short field performance especially on landing it seems a good fit.
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  24. I hope when they flew to Oz they carried their ground crew with them if possible.
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  25. The initial sequence of video is from one of the many YouTube videos of Da Vinci's Songo di Volare as adapted by Christopher Tin. Used in the video game Civilization VI. Tin won a Grammy for his Baba Yetu from Civilization IV. The first piece of music from a video game to do so. And not in a special catagory.
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  26.  @stevenlamb3971  But did it reach the Christie Bullet level* of wrongness *Basement level? Sub-Basement?
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  27. And here I thought it was two observer/gunners.
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  28. The total drag as expressed in pounds exceeds the weight of the aircraft. Probably I like how for Britian you just mentioned Blackburn
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  29.  @markmaki4460  Plus he's willing to cover the failures. The top aircraft channels on YouTube for historical military aviation are Ed's, Bismarck's, Greg's and the new kid on the block who seems to be doing a good job. And right now I can not recall his name.
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  30. And in the early 1920s the Curtis D-12 came onto the scene. Burying the Hisso and leaving the Liberty to die a lingering death. Of course after that came the Whirlwind and the Wasp. The 20s and 30s are actually very interesting in terms of the various engine designs that at least reached the test stage. As usual Old Machine Press is a great source.
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  31. Offer aircraft to the enemy?
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  32. Once the USAAC had the P-47 in service they had a better attack aircraft than the ones in development IMO.
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  33. ​ @adriancauchi  Turbozilla
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  34. The roots may have been in the production of bananas for export but the large numbers of Salvadorans being forcibly removed from Honduras didn't help.
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  35. My father was in an artillery unit in Italy (173rd Field Artillery Group). An independent unit that got attached to various divisions as needed. He told us once about a Piper Cub that was dodging around to avoid getting shot down by a Bf-109. BS? Who knows. Plus that Piper Cub could also get a wandering group of P-47s or A-36 Apaches on the horn.
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  36. It's not just Texas. Olympia is in pretty bad shape too.
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  37. But in todays England, the English (and Welsh) bowman are only allowed arrrows with rubber suction cups and the bows are limited to a draw of 5 lbs. 😝
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  38. Or desperate enough.
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  39. Some of Beardmore's aviation engines look better installed in a tugboat.
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  40.  @allangibson8494  Allison eventually did design and develop a mechanical second stage supercharger for the V-1710. Only too late to do any good. Plus the finished design was not to compact.
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  41.  @2dogsRichardnBryan  Plus having to fix the crater in the floor. Or if it hits somebody. 💀💀
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  42. I'm sorry but I just see lots of drag.
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  43. The Soviet Union goes full Crimskinzy Skies
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  44. The only reason the US calls it Soccer is because of the whole Association Rules thing. Both sides using US equipment and uniforms. How could you know who was who?
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  45.  @lafeelabriel  Probably one of Harry Turtledove Incorporated's contribution to deforestation. 😁
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  46. Like the Polish crop duster?
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  47. That could be said about a number of aircraft. Westland Welkin, Hughes XF-11, Martin P6M SeaMaster and others. But it's like museum ships. Not everything can be saved.
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  48. Several factors can enter into the power rating. Displacement. Radials tend to be big and somewhat lazy. How much growth potential did the engine type have. How good was the Supercharger? All military aircraft engines of WW2 were supercharged (yes even Allison's). How much boost can the supercharger put out and how much can the engine take? Fuel quality. Higher octane fuel allows higher compression ratios. Largely thru higher boost.
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  49. The P-80 would have been great in 45. But the early jets, shall we say, aged rapidly.
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  50. Depending on the light conditions I could see them being mistaken for JU-88s. Also i have a question. During the war did the RAF & USAAC/F have different areas of responsibility in terms where they were doing operations. I know UK air defense was strictly the RAFs job. I mean in combat missions over continental Europe.
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