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And, III./JG54 had lost 73 Doras (enemy action (44)/non-enemy action (29)) by year end.

Is that so? 27 D-9 were built with this gun sight, 20 in February, and 7 in March 1945, according to JaPo's "Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D camouflage and markings". Approx. 4% of D-9 production used the EZ42.

And Spiteful. :)

Trim was set for a specific speed range. Above or below that speed, stick and rudder pedals input was required. Old joke: 109 pilots had one strong leg and one weak leg.

Consumption of 150 grade fuel http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/150grade/Consumption_150_Grade_fuel_Barrels.html 1 bbl = 35 gal As one can see in June 1944 over 6 million gal of 150 was consumed.

If the argument one sees for 1.98ata is used for 75" boost then this boost should have been in use from April 1944.

So you are happy with a mid 1944 P-51 and a very late war (1945) Dora? There will be all kinds of tears from Dora pilots that the P-51s won't come down and fight.:poster_oops:

Has anyone tried combat over 20,000ft?

Spit 9s shot down a Me262 so other Me types should be no problem. Yes, the truth can be hurtful. So why don't you contact Mike with the translation error corrections?

The SD2 saw use in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on 22 June 1941. Twenty to thirty aircrews had been picked to drop SD2s and SD10s (10 kg submunitions) on key Soviet airfields, a flight of three aircraft being assigned to each field. The purpose of these early attacks was to cause disruption and confusion as well as to preclude dispersion of Soviet planes until the main attack was launched. It was reported that Kampfgeschwader 51 had lost 15 aircraft due to accidents with the SD2s, nearly half of the total Luftwaffe losses that day.

http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/ 1000s of photos including a/c.

500kg bomb. note the tricycle landing gear required

Factory testing of a configuration does not mean it was in service use. Can you provide the page(s) from the manual showing the tank installed?

Strange as I can't find the tank in the A-5 manual. The British don't mention this tank in their captured examples.

The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher". So there was no mistranslation by the Allies.

DB points out that the performance of the “cell” (fuselage/wings) is extremely bad, and even worser . It makes no sense to increase the power output of the engine when on the other side the plane quality is decreasing dramatically. From the minutes from a 1.98ata meeting in early Jan. 1945.

Wouldn't sabotage or the substitution of an inferior material be a lack of quality in a finished product? Nothing specific, but for the K-4 when it was introduced in Oct 1944 there was 188 in service out of 308 produced (61%). By the end of Dec 1944, there was 160 K-4s in service out of 854 produced (19%). Something must have caused this decrease of onhand K-4s besides operational combat losses due to being shot down.

There was no K-2s built. A big nope. There was some experimenting with a MK103M but it went nowhere. And, there was no cowl fitted MG151s.

Some reading for you Sith, http://www.wwiiarchives.net/servlet/action/document/page/149/83/0 Is the manufacturing quality, or the lack there of, for German a/c going to be modeled?

Some Bf109E and Bf110s used C3 late in the BoB. The Bf109F-1, 2 used C3.

All early Thunderbolts used the R-2800-21 engine. Water injection capability was added to this engine beginning with the D-4-RA and D-5-RE production blocks. Provision was made for the mounting of 15-gallon tank carrying a water-alcohol mixture to the bulkhead just aft of the engine. A line from this tank was plumbed directly into the fuel intake. When injected into the combustion chamber, the water checked a dangerous rise in cylinder head temperature while manifold pressure was boosted. For brief instants, a 15-percent increase in engine power could be obtained, giving a maximum war emergency power of 2300 hp. In the D-5-RE, D-6-RE, and D-10-RE (D-4-RA, production blocks, the pilot manually controlled the water flow of the injector, but the injection procedure was automatically- controlled on the D-11-RE (D-11-RA) and subsequent blocks. This happened when the throttle was pushed forward into its last half-inch of travel. When installed at the factory, the water-injected engines were designated R-2800-63. The R-2800-63 engine began to appear on the Farmingdale and Evansville production lines with blocks D-10-RE and D-11-RA respectively. Kits were also made available for the retro- fitting of water injection capability to earlier P-47Cs and Ds. Since they were already built to accommodate water-injection, the D-4, -5, and -6 could be quickly modified, but the D-1, -2, and -3 and the earlier C-2 and C-5 each required about 200 hours of work for each addition of water-injection capability. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p47_4.html

JGs that used the K-4 Unit - date introduced to unit (1944) - number of K-4s + other 109s at month end - (end of Dec) III./JG1 - Nil 1944 II./JG2 - Nov - 2 + 56 - (9 + 20) III./JG3 - Nov - 9 + 58 - (8 + 16) I./JG4 - Dec - 2 + 26 III./JG4 - Oct - 15 + 38 - (26 + 2) II./JG11 - Dec - 11 + 58 III./JG26 - Nov - 35 + 36 - (29 + 15) I./JG27 - Oct - 57 + 1 - (14 + 1) II./JG27 - Oct - 2 + 57 - (0 + 21) III./JG27 - Oct - 55 + 2 - (26 + 0) IV./JG27 - Oct - 4 + 58 - (0 + 32) III./JG51 - Nil 1944 II./JG52 - Nil 1944 III./JG52 - Nil 1944 II./JG53 - Dec - 5 + 37 III./JG53 - Nil 1944 I./JG77 - Dec - 1 + 37 II./JG77 - Nil 1944 III./JG77 - Oct - 57 - (27) JG list from Prien/Rodeike book Bf109F, G & K

For units, http://www.ww2.dk/ and http://sturmvogel.orbat.com/LW_OBs.html This link has emblems, http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=50400 There is also this link with 1000s of 1o0 photos http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=126927

Shouldn't that be 100/130 fuel?

So what is your contribution to this thread besides your whining?