MiloMorai

So you don't mind the Holocaust deniers?

And no matter how many times it has been mentioned the deniers still won't accept that it was used. The same happens with the wide spread use of 100 fuel during the BoB.

List of ALGs, Normandy campaign, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Landing_Ground#Normandy_Campaign Shows established and closing dates. Be sure to use 'map this section.....' for location on map.

Spitfire LF IX Service: 42,500 ft (12,954 m) Bf109K-4 Service: 41,490 ft. Now which a/c is it that ran out of breath?

Are you saying the Allied pilots of WW2 in the ETO were not gentlemen?;)

A larger more complete graphic can be found here, https://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=72410&d=1351164787

John, as you can see from the diagrams, the jacks are fed from a single source. Any resistance in one of the legs will cause the other leg to extend first. Same for retraction. Depending how much resistance there is in the leg will determine how much it lags behind the other leg.

Diagrams of the hydraulic system can be found here, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?98588-Supermarine-Spitfire-Hydraulic-System-(U-C)-Drawings

What flying testing was done before the modules are released to the public?

From link, "Dear ArtieBob, you are right - when we put together the Bf 109 F - K some 12 or more years ago we had only fragments of the C-Amts Listen at our disposal which helped a great deal but also left some questions unanswered. With all the new material that has been unearthed since it would be high time for a new - third - edition if we only had time for it. Right now we are fully booked out with work on the JFV series. The need for a revamping the F - K study is great as - at least in my opinion - nothing has been published since that would mark a real step ahead in the field of '109 research or could even be considered as the definitive work. Not to be misunderstood - we consider our small volume as just what it is labelled - an illustrated study. But as such - and even more so in an updated version - it could hold ist own against anything that has been published since. Jochen Prien"

Prien has admitted that there are errors in his books and should be revised. The person in the link, ArtieBob, aka Dr. Andrew Arthy, is also a published author and researcher. He authored, https://www.amazon.ca/Focke-Wulf-Fw-190-North-Africa/dp/1903223458 The new production numbers differ by 5 so would say the Arthy numbers are pretty accurate.

Post 28 has a file for new 109 production. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=2462&page=3&highlight=neubau+109s In 1944 854 K-4s had been built but only 167 were on hand with operational units and had suffered 214 losses.

The Spitfire IX modeled by DCS was built in 1943. Listed here are the units from the RAF which took part in the actions over Normandy. http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/Units.cfm I count 24 Spitfire IX squadrons and 6 Spitfire V squadrons.

I find that hard to believe as upper wing bulges were added when larger wheels were fitted to the Bf109. DCS K-4

Ltn Edwin King of the 350th Fighter Group came home to Pisa, Italy, the hard way and found that a jug can go for at least a short time, with hardly any oil at all. An oil line was hit during a strafing mission near Brizsua on the planes 110th combat mission.

All Allison V-1710 airplane engines had a supercharger. It is my understanding that it was Bell that removed the turbocharger.

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http://www.wingleader.co.uk/shop/fighter-command-war-diary-series-volume-5-by-john-foreman/ "July 1944 to May 1945 – Daylight bomber escorts, Operation Bodenplatte, the achievement of air superiority, jet combat and the final victory in Europe. The Fighter Command War Diaries series is a unique account of RAF Fighter Command’s role in WWII and forms a complete record of every operation and every loss and claim for enemy aircraft destroyed. Each volume continues to analyse each day’s fighting including details of the Luftwaffe’s activity, significant combats, biographies of the top aces and orders of battle. The publication of the fifth and final volume of this mammoth work brings the series to a total of 2,000 pages of detailed information that will become a vital reference source for historians far into the future. The definitive and authoritative nature of this mammoth work assures its place in many reference libraries." "For most days of November 1944, it says Fighter Command (the RAF fighters units still based in England) escorted RAF heavy bombers to Germany, providing numbers for some days (97 Spitfires and 48 Mustangs on the 1st, for example)." Should be a good book for setting scenarios.

Thanks for the reply which should have been easy to answer. Spit: the History doesn't have the info that I could find.

If the wing skin thickness was increased, what was the thickness of each wing skin?

It was Spitfire IXs from 401 Squadron RCAF that shot down one of the first, if not the first, Me262.

Spitfire IX Soviet Union got 1185 Spitfire IX fighters - almost all were LF IX version and only two were HF IX. First 6 Spitfires of that type arrived to Basra on April 5th, 1944 aboard s/s "City of Eastborn". Initially planes sent to Soviets were after general repairs but later planes were straight from factory. Most planes (825) were sent to PVO units. In summer 1944 Spits LF IXC/E were assigned to 26 and 27 GIAP near Leningrad, 16 and 177 IAP PVO near Moscow, 767 IAP near Murmansk and several others. One Spitfire HF IX was assigned to 16 IAP PVO, where Russian called it "Spitfire 9G" There is no reports about combat use of Spitfire IX in Russian service. http://soviethammer.blogspot.ca/2015/03/british-aircraft-in-russian-service.html

What is the publishing date for the manual?

I think you will find that the top tank drained into the bottom tank.

There has been no proof produced, except for a staffel of JG11 that did some testing, that 1.98ata was ever used operationally. Even the made up graphic of OKL, Lw.-Führüngstab, Nr. 937/45 gKdos.(op) 20.03.45 is not proof, which has been modified over the years. In fact, there is an error as III./JG27 was equipped with K-4s not G-10s. http://www.ww2.dk/air/jagd/jg27.htm