For want of a V2 (a rocketry WI)

[Peg Leg Pom]

BTW V-I accuracy started at 12% of range but was reduced to 4-5% of range later . Why?

Well for one thing Germany's agents in Britain kept telling them they were falling short. The fact they were built by slaves being worked to death wouldn't have helped either.

 

[marathag]

The Me 382 was a tiny 4t wooden fighter built in a rush, so it could hardly be expected handle much stress or vibration. V-I was worse at only 2 tons. The fighter bombers were 8-15 ton well built metal planes stressed for dive bombing etc and thus would be much less effected by any vibration/stress.

Wood soaks up vibration far better than metal.
When the first armored twin aircraft were tried, like the US GAX of 1920, vibration became a far bigger problem, and development had to be done to counteract that

Size can make vibration worse.

 

[PSL]

Wood soaks up vibration far better than metal.
When the first armored twin aircraft were tried, like the US GAX of 1920, vibration became a far bigger problem, and development had to be done to counteract that

Yes and that same water in the wood = warp age= catastrophic failure. You don't get that with well made LW metal fighter aircraft during the war.

done & dusted.

 

[marathag]

Yes and that same water in the wood = warp age= catastrophic failure. You don't get that with well made LW fighter aircraft during the war.

done & dusted.

Compare the RAF Mosquito vs the Luftwaffe knockoff, the Ta-154. Then the 162, also wood in it, proved otherwise.

 

[PSL]

Compare the RAF Mosquito vs the Luftwaffe knockoff, the Ta-154. Then the 162, also wood in it, proved otherwise.

Apples and Oranges considering the disastrous state of the Nazi armaments industry in the last year of the war compared to comfortable state of mid war RAF/allied armaments industry.

 

[marathag]

Apples and Oranges considering the disastrous state of the Nazi armaments industry in the last year of the war compared to comfortable state of mid war RAF/allied armaments industry.

Mosquito contract dates back to March 1940, When the Air Ministry was also a mess, and shortly would have German bombs dropping all over England.

 

[PSL]

Mosquito contract dates back to March 1940, When the Air Ministry was also a mess, and shortly would have German bombs dropping all over England.

now your just being silly.

You are comparing the success of a program that mature over the whole war with one started at the end amidst its economic military/collapse . Apples & Oranges.