Recent content by Just Leo

I guess you can call me a fanboy of the Wright's, and of Charlie Taylor, because they were bicycle mechanics at a time when aerodynamics wasn't much of an applied science with regards to airplanes.

Truth is strange. The Soviets bought British, rather than build based on the drawings of an assassin.

When the Molins gun became available, unfortunately when RPs had more fans. Some of the drawings seem to be pie-in-the-sky with cannons co-located with u/c, and firing inside the propeller arc, solving the problem of fuel tankage in an unlikely fashion.

If you're going to redesign the Airacuda completely, you could design a new airplane to fit the requirement completely. The 37 mm Olds cannon is, however, not a great choice of weapon, compared to the 40 mm Vickers S gun, or the later Molins.

I love it when a plan comes together. I guess the Argosy was an unplanned pregnancy resulting from some unauthorized jiggery-pokey.

They call it a witch hunt for a reason, rules of evidence. There's also hearsay evidence that he was anti-nazi, and used influence and position to obtain passports and assist immigrants. What a corrupt bastard. So what evidence of what he did with his $1250/month exists? Did he declare it on his...

And without a change of decision makers with diametrically opposed visions every few years. Plans and schemes don't work so well when the planners and schemers are replaced by men with a different agenda.

It requires a temporal anomaly for it to be considered a rumor.

It wasn't possible for Dickstein to be on the KGB payroll. The source of the original claim of Dickstein's complicity is based on one author's seeing documents from a foreign agency, revealed by another foreign agency not necessarily devoted to truth, but certainly dedicated to fucking with the...

In Blackburn's " Guns of Normandy", there is related the story of the capture of a German nebelwerfer, which was pointed at the Germans and fired. It was unfortunate that the German artillery had registered the location of the weapon, with disastrous results.

They did use one captured Japanese bulldozer which was likely one captured American bulldozer, a Caterpillar R-4. The first Japanese-manufactured dozer, the G-40, wasn't yet made, or ordered.

Bullet and shrapnel wounds, burns and missing body parts were easy to diagnose, but cowardice, shell shock and concussion were not. MRIs and CAT scans helped some, but medical science don't have all the answers yet. It used to be courts martial and death squads, but it's better now...

The British operated a couple Me-108 aircraft, but they were bought, not captured. The Fieseler Storch, on the other hand, was captured and very popular with RAF and Army bigwigs. Heinkel He-115s were used for clandestine missions, but I can't recall if they were captured ones or not. Smoke 'em...

Nice to see your stuff again. The MiG-15 is, of course, a MiG-17.

He certainly invented the first ultralight.