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(...) (snip) (...) Now, now, that's High Cold War thinking, equating speed to power. In dogfighting, the ability to attain a high absolute speed is secondary to the ability to maneuver. For example, in WWII (always a popular referent!) Me-262 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) In this example, there are a lot more factors than just speed vs. manoeuvrability: - Many of those 262s that were shot down were jumped during take-off or landing, when their speed couldn't help them. - That late in the war there were very few (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) One of the neatest scenes in a movie was in 'The Final Countdown' (Kirk Douglas) When a modern day aircraft carrier (Nimitz if I recall) gets sucked back in tome to Dec 5, 1941. There, Douglas has to wrestle with the decision to engage the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) There was a neat SF short story I read once about a modern fighter winding up in WW I. The pilot quickly determined that the only way his aircraft was effective was to create a sonic boom shock wave as he passed the enemy fighters. I forget if (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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