Recent content by bekosh

I originally posted it in The Flag Thread and that came up there also. With the same solution. :D Multiple versions of the flag, all official.

I created this one a few years ago.

Or it could come as a bit of a shock to the next drug runner they chase down. :eek:

Nice. That might even be better than the US Coast Guard Mi-24D Hind.

He did say gas-turbine electric hybrid. Hook the turbine up to a generator that provides electricity to electric motors at the wheels. That keeps the turbine at a constant speed.

How about a Jet powered glider to make everyone happy?:p

There is no doubt that WW2 accuracy left a lot to be desired. But radar bombing by the B-29's late in the war was a real game changer over Nordon bombsight when it came to accuracy and the B-36 took it to another level because they could carry a much larger antenna. For reference you want you...

So you have no reference. Thank you for playing.

The B-36 used the same radar as the B-29 but with a much larger antennae which greatly improved the accuracy. So the radar was available several years earlier than even the sooner-than-OTL B-36. Of course if you are dropping 20kt A-bombs, accuracy within 100-200 feet is quite close enough.

As I stated above, better than the B-29 was able to do from much lower altitude.

You must not have understood. The B-29 was the more advanced design, that is why it had so many problems that weren't really corrected until the B-50 model. The B-36 was the simpler design and it had few problems in operation. You need to give me a reference for that. It is exactly the...

Except that the B-29 is the later more advanced design and the B-36 was the earlier design generation. DO-335 & Ta-183 wouldn't even get close, and I already pointed out the H-229 might get close assuming its lack of stability didn't kill the pilot first and they were able to get the engines...

How do the Germans in that 4-5 years do what US or Russia couldn't do till the mid-50's? The first US fighter that was able to just barely threaten the B-36 was the F-86D. To get a fighter that can reliably get to the B-36, you need something in the class of the F-100 or Mig-17.

How? The only conventional fighter that can even get into the same neighborhood altitude wise is the Ta-152H, and then only for as long as it's methanol-water mixture lasts. About 5 minutes. Of the jets the only one that has any chance is the Horton 229 and that's assuming they can get the...

Considering that about 1/3 of Operation Torch staged directly out of the US to North Africa, I will say that this is incorrect. No need to wait a couple of decades, if the UK is out of the war and the US has no foreign bases to work from, development of the B-36 would continue forward instead...