Gaston's a fantasist. Some people here should know better than to give any credence to anything he says. If as he claims, turn fighting, in any aeroplane, is a good idea, why was the tendency from the end of the First World War to build faster and higher flying aircraft at the expense of turning ability? A trend that advanced exponentially from the beginning to the end of the Second World War.
Why does Gaston never talk about the FW190's Achilles heel, it's vicious snap stall, regularly mentioned in those 1200 combat reports he claims to have read, where the attacking US pilot reports the FW pulling into a turn, flipping over and nosing in without a shot being fired? Why does Gaston think the FW190 was used primarily as a fighter in Reich defence, or anywhere else in Western Europe? Why does he never mention the fact that the Luftwaffe was heavily outnumbered from 1944 on? Numbers like a B17 raid of a 1000 bombers accompanied over Germany by up to 2000 P51's, up against, perhaps, on a good day, 500 German aircraft, whose sole purpose was to shoot down bombers, with just a few dozen Bf109's in clean fighter trim to protect them. How does Gaston not grasp the fact that the Luftwaffe were the prey and not the hunters, in the West and in the East by the end of 1943? Gaston, could that explain why an FW190 was on the deck cutting his throttle and pulling hard in a turn, because it was do that or die, being hunted as he was, by perhaps up to 10 P51's? Did that 190 survive? It was the American pilot who lived to tell the tale. Even a IL2 noob understands that being low and slow on the deck is a death sentence and going slower ain't gonna help.
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07-05-2010, 10:50 PM
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