Just curious about the P-51 FM

[MaxGunz]

Originally Posted by JtD

I once saw a documentary on a WW2 battle and it started with the offical, documented weather reports from both sides on the day of the battle. Both were in agreement that it was overcast with occasional rain. Note that this was the report, not the forecast.

Just a possibility; Rain has a ceiling, if the battle was above the clouds or was met in a place where it wasn't socked in? Even so, they should have started out in wet overcast conditions.

[JtD]

Originally Posted by MaxGunz

Just a possibility; Rain has a ceiling, if the battle was above the clouds or was met in a place where it wasn't socked in? Even so, they should have started out in wet overcast conditions.

That show was about a ground battle, not air combat.

[MaxGunz]

Well how about that? LOL!

Being there and later giving an encyclopedic account of every detail are not inclusive! Because what I find from the "they were there" guys is that every word is to be treated as straight literal fact.

I remember one guy that took Dave Southwoods' article Flying Black Six and came up with a stall speed test that allows loss of height as long as a wing does not drop since Southwood never mentioned keeping height as part of a normal stall speed test. The result being that when he performed the stall speed test his way the IL-2 109G-6 has a stall speed of 135kph, time to let Oleg know the 109's are overmodeled. It was hilarious!

Why certainly, every account, book or magazine article become complete reference and instruction material carved in gold to the worshipful fanboy. And every fanboy has the uncanny mental ability to extract the supreme truth from every account, etc.

Next stop, a special museum to see how people lived with dinosaurs and the many ways that evolution and most all science is wrong. Don't forget to buy the DVD's!