Weren't the pre-production Meteors prone to crashing?What of the Gloster Meteor? First flown in 1943, and the technology exists to address any reliability or development issues.
Here's the prototype that flew in March 1943.
Weren't the pre-production Meteors prone to crashing?What of the Gloster Meteor? First flown in 1943, and the technology exists to address any reliability or development issues.
Here's the prototype that flew in March 1943.
That is until the US Navy figures out how to land a Corsair on the deck of it's aircraft carriers.
Weren't the pre-production Meteors prone to crashing?
tell him not meNot really a 1943 aircraft and the early versions were 27 mph slower than the Mk 14
Weren't the pre-production Meteors prone to crashing?
How about putting Rolls Royce Merlin engines in the A-20 Havoc/P-70?
Yeah I know the FAA did it. US Navy aviation owes the Brits a case of whiskey for that!
What of the Gloster Meteor? First flown in 1943, and the technology exists to address any reliability or development issues.
To paraphrase Warhammer 40K: "You can never have enough Mosquitoes!"Those two Merlin engines would be wasted, when they could be attached to two Spitfires, or one Mosquito NF.II
What of the Gloster Meteor? First flown in 1943, and the technology exists to address any reliability or development issues.
Here's the prototype that flew in March 1943.
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Those two Merlin engines would be wasted, when they could be attached to two Spitfires, or one Mosquito NF.II
Apparently it could out perform a Tempest V in most respects - which took everyone by surprise. Although the original Engines were thirsty limiting its endurance.
Mosquitoes delaminated in SEAsia.
P-70s didn't
Spits didn't have the range for SEAsia
What about a P47 of some type?
In all fairness Eric "Winkle" Brown considered the Me 262, which was flying by 1942, to be the superior design.What of the Gloster Meteor? First flown in 1943, and the technology exists to address any reliability or development issues.
Here's the prototype that flew in March 1943.
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Mosquitoes delaminated in SEAsia.
In all fairness Eric "Winkle" Brown considered the Me 262, which was flying by 1942, to be the superior design.
And if we can't trust the opinion of history's most prolific test pilot then who?
Would a Spitfire MK XIV really beat the De Havilland Vampire? Because that aircraft was already flying in 1943 as well, powered by its De Havilland Goblin turbojet engine and armed with 4 x 20mm Hispano Mk V cannon. I figure that'd be the best of the lot in 1943- perhaps outfitted with its latter supplementary weapons of 8 x RP-3 rockets as well, since they'd also become operational by 1943.
The FW190C - a fighter so excellent the RLM placed 0 production orders.
IE, a fighter that uses only existing technology but can use said technology without any care for nationality or procurement politics or anything like that.