And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tests of the fighter Messerschmitt BF.109 in a Large wind tunnel in Berlin. 1935.
The retractable tail wheel wasn't in widespread use until 1943. Ten years after work on the Bf-109 started. They were still a novelty used on only a few US military aircraft in 1939-1940. I was always amazed at how SMALL the Bf-109 and the Fw-190 were. Until mid war (and a new wing) they could only fit three guns. But like most German weapons. The aircraft of Nazi Germany were grossly overrated. ---Ray
Always wondered what the cost/benefit of the drag of the unretracted tail wheel versus the weight of the wheel retraction machinery.
ReplyDeleteThe retractable tail wheel wasn't in widespread use until 1943. Ten years after work on the Bf-109 started. They were still a novelty used on only a few US military aircraft in 1939-1940. I was always amazed at how SMALL the Bf-109 and the Fw-190 were. Until mid war (and a new wing) they could only fit three guns. But like most German weapons. The aircraft of Nazi Germany were grossly overrated. ---Ray
ReplyDeletehow many bombers did they pull down?
ReplyDeleteDefiant, Apparently not enough since they lost the war.
DeleteNumbers. It was all about the numbers.
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