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Originally Posted by Crumpp
They did rush it!!'
If we take January 1942 as the time the conversion for Spitfire Mk I's was complete that represents about two years and four months between initial flight test and 100% ground operational adoption.
Compare that to the RLM's testing of 1.58ata/1.65 ata as a straight manifold pressure increase in the BMW801D2. The motor was tested at that manifold pressure in May 1942. It was not until July 1944 that we see it in the Flugzueg Handbuch for the FW-190A8. That is a two years and two months lag time. Do you not think the RLM was rushing this improvement, too?
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That has more to do with the inadequacies of the German aircraft production system ( not my words, Gallands) than anything else.
Ok, what about the Mustang? From drawing board to flight test.. Or any of the German death traps of the late war period.. Again, applying modern standards to a very urgent war time situation is absolutely ridiculous. But I suppose you've made your stand and have to stick to it, no matter how dubious or without taking into account what the reality of war was.
This is another tangent really, when one avenue closes on you you just find another..
Yawn.