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If all goes well the fighter cover can down recon planes before they can make a sighting and forestall an attack all together.

I don't know if this paraphrase is used outside of the US: "You need to know when to fish, or to cut bait". Lord Gort made the correct...

If I remember correctly, the US State Dept, i.e. "Foggy Bottom" issued on 4 DEC 41 a briefing about the UK and Thailand. The tenor was...

Well we are on the cutting blocks now.

Here then is a rather large butterfly. A better prepared Operation Matador. And Lord Gort being able to do what General Percival wasn't...

1941, Friday 05 December; The summary was finished, the facts (as much as they had) laid bare. All the senior officers and the aides...

5 June 1942. Tripoli, Libya Once the RAF’s Desert Air Force had cleared the North African coast of Italians and Germans, a degree of...

I'm gonna repost two videos by Greg. One is turbo vs Supercharging, and the other is power recovery turbines. At 36 minutes is a...

Andras---"I'm gonna repost two videos by Greg. One is turbo vs Supercharging, and the other is power recovery turbines. At 36 minutes...

Developing some method of turbo-compounding early enough to be used in WW2 is an old topic of interest. Considering the performance...

I think I'm going to use my OP privileges to resurrect my old thread. There is an interesting discussion about the benefits and...

That looks like the turbine powers the 2nd stage blower (normally geared to the crankshaft), unloading the vampiric drain from the...

I'm not 100% sure on that - currently digging through that NACA report to see how they were planning on gearing the turbine (not very...

The engines with gear-driven compressors were also able to fly above the rated altitude with the throttle fully open, hence the term...

Developing some method of turbo-compounding early enough to be used in WW2 is an old topic of interest. Considering the performance...