Comments by "Mike Armstrong" (@mikearmstrong8483) on "The Blackburn Roc; A Terrible Fighter but a Good Idea?" video.

  1. A couple of things I wonder about British logic. 1) Recognizing in advance that the aircraft would be a failure, they continued production so as not to hold up the production line. Wait, what? Knowing you are building something you don't want, you keep building it because you don't want to stop the line that is building it? Da faaq? 2) Such a loser that it ends up as a static AA gun with the engine removed. ???? Why remove the engine? What were they going to do; put it in some other plane? It sucked. It was too weak to power a plane, so why not leave it in an airframe that was useless anyway? If they were going to commit the manpower to remove a major component of the plane, then why not remove the turret and set it on a frame or little trailer to use as an AA mount, and scrap the plane for recycling during a time of acute metal shortage?
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  2. Thanks; I wondered about that.
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