Who Likes Aircraft ?

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Cockpit start procedures for B-17 engines.

 

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We haven't seen many Italian bombers on these pages until now...thanks.

 

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[Sebring]

and if the Luftwaffe had better leadership, and they had gotten the bugs worked out, the world may be different today.

Lucky they never lol

 

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The problem with the German aircraft industry was the engineers were very ****. If this worked, this + 1 was better. And while they were at it, lets ad that and the other. As a result, things were late going into production or never did because their constant tinkering made aircraft too slow and heavy and the like. Now the engine makers had to come up with more power, and round and round they went.

 

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The problem with the German aircraft industry was the engineers were very ****. If this worked, this + 1 was better. And while they were at it, lets ad that and the other. As a result, things were late going into production or never did because their constant tinkering made aircraft too slow and heavy and the like. Now the engine makers had to come up with more power, and round and round they went.

Can't agree with that one. Their main fighter, the BF109 was smaller than many contemporary Allied fighters. It was faster than most when the war started and improved every year. Most bombers were smaller and often faster than allied examples as well. The problem wasn't the engineers; it was the upper management and some unfortunate accidents such as an air crash that killed one of the chief luftwaffe proponents for larger four engined bombers (he knew that war with Russia was inevitable).

The Luftwaffe command itself was not prepared for war when it happened, they knew it was coming but were preparing for a 1943 start, not the 1939 beginning that Hitler thrust upon them.

 

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can you imagine were they would of been if the had started in 1943 instead of 1939 ?