Not a fan of the Son of a Bitch 2nd Class then?
Nope. Not a fan of the P-40 either. Overrated.
Hey there's nothing wrong with the P-40!
I have a special dislike for Curtiss aircraft. Ugly as planes and ugly as badly designed machines.
The P40 was never more than barely adequate and should have been out of production by 1942. As a fighter it was never more than second rate.
It looks like that airplane has a tumor!Okay, I'll bite.
What genius decided it would be a good idea to pack a radar into the middle of 4 side-lobe radio noise generating contrarotating prop impromptu van de Graff generators?
Okay, I'll bite.
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What genius decided it would be a good idea to pack a radar into the middle of 4 side-lobe radio noise generating contrarotating prop impromptu van de Graff generators?
Well, you have to put the radar somewhere. It's a surface search radar, so it has to be underneath the fuselage. The wretched thing is a taildragger, so you need to put the radar where it'll have a decent amount of ground clearance. And you can't put it in the nose, or Berty the bomb-aimer won't be able to look out the window. Right in the middle of the EM-noise generators was about the only place it could go...
EDIT: Turns out that's probably the AEW version, so it might be an air-search radar instead. But it still needs to go underneath - after all, how could anything fly higher than this aeronautical masterpiece?
Bet Me-109 drivers wished they had visibility as good as the P-40.Nope. Not a fan of the P-40 either. Overrated.
with enough blades, you can beat air into submissionHow the Dornier Do X got in the air I'll never know.
Blackburn engineering philosophy "if it looks right it ain't right"It seems Blackburn has a special claim on this thread.