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Re: WWII MOC: Focke Wulf
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Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:25:12 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> BTW: An excellent reference, which I swear by, for Luftwaffe
> aircraft photos and technical drawings:
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> William Green, _Warplanes of the Third Reich_ (Doubleday, NY,
> 1970). Research has revealed more in the intervening 30 years,
> but it's still the granddaddy. It was reprinted by Galahad Books
> in 1990 and there may be a few copies still kicking around in
> secondhand bookstores. If not, it's an almost guaranteed
> library denizen (unless it's checked out). The best part is
> all the freaky prototypes he's got photographs and drawings of.
> Forward-swept-wing six-engined Nazi jet bomber? It's there!
> 672 pages of techie goodness.
Hmm, wish me luck. I saw this two weeks ago at a used bookstore in downtown
Portsmouth, but passed it up at the time. I'm fixin' to head back down during
my lunch break, with all intentions of snapping it up. Hopefully it's still
there ...
> > Hmm, guess I'd better really get underway on that -109. The Stuka's a
> > sitting duck otherwise ...
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> I'd argue that it's a sitting duck anyways. ;D But I'd bet if
> you slung a couple of Pak-37s under the wings and named the pilot
> "Hans-Ulrich," tanks would fear you.
true ;) ... maybe if I got together a whole contingent of escorts it could
slip by unscathed. At least there's only a single P-38 on my shelves to worry
about for the time being ...
Admittedly, with a couple of the Paks [1], I think my Allies would be sorely
hurting. The heaviest vehicle they have at the "ready" is a half-finished M8
Greyhound.
> Maybe I should change my project to a fleet of brown Sturmoviks...
*gulp*
-s
[1] LFB's referring to large heavy caliber gun pods that Germany manufactured
to try and redefine the Stuka's role, which was flagging by about mid war. The
heavy, slow plane worked wonders while the Luftwaffe had air superiority (as in
Poland, and early conflicts with Russia), but they were basically lumbering
bullseyes once the Allies established themselves as a presence in the air. The
gun pods were specifically designed to engage tanks, making them one of (if not
the) first true "tank killer" aircraft design, a predecessor to the beautiful
A-10 I have as my computer background :)
See: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=30245
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=30256
(there are a couple other images in my brickshelf directory as well)
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| (...) Um, the warthog is beautiful ONLY in the way that any "form follows function" design that hits (in this case, NAILS) its design goals is beautiful. It's *not* beautiful the way, say, a Jag E type is. (E types aren't very functional, trust me. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) Hey, I'm in even more fear, because I have a Ta-152--the high- altitude mod of the FW-190 design spec--on my list. But it is, of course, a very tentative list; the He 162 and Ba 349 are ahead of it, which gives you an idea of how far there is (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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