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Originally Posted by bongodriver
Honestly the 262 would have been better off with the british engines mounted in a similar way, sure they were a bit fatter but they were more reliable and produced alot of power, the Meteor was no slouch, it took some time before axial flow compressors became particularily good, whereas the centrifugal compressor is unchanged to this day
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Agreed to a point. Back then Axial did not provide much improvement over Centrifugals, centrifugals also being less complex.
Then again the problems the Jumos had were not down to construction or design, but lack of heat resisting materials. The Jumo Prototypes had a much longer service life and produced more thrust compared to the production models.
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Local incursions hardly constitute world war and Japan ended up as part of the Axis anyway.
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Local Incursions? like Japan in China? Russia in Finland? Germany in Poland?
What made this war another affair was the France and the UK did not declare war on Japan, nor Russia, but Germany alone.
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Anglo Saxon....isn't the Saxon part from Germany anyway? does that mean were the same?
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The Angel part, too. And indeed you will notice that folks from the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and northern Germany are pretty much the same.