The creation of Stephen Ambrose, it contains many Higgins boats, aircraft, etc. It was hit by looters. Here's an excerpt of the T-P article, on WWII-L: ...
For those that follow PC games, here's a naval demo: http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=1725 (Apparently it is a first-person-shooter, therefore...
I have a couple of questions that I ought to know the answer to, but am feeling extremely dense tonight. Both relate to dive bombing and since I'm thinking of...
... Dunno, but I remember reading once that the SBDs at Midway came down vertically from 20,000 feet. I also recall it being said that was an uncommonly high...
... Up around 15,000 seems to be reasonable starting points for an attack dive. Pullout is down around 2000 feet, or lower - I've seen photos of IJN dive...
DM wrote - ... feeling extremely dense tonight. Both relate to dive bombing and since I'm thinking of dive bombers vs. ships its sort of on topic :-) ...
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I read somewhere (and alas, I don't remember where) that US doctrine (at least in 1942) called for release at 3000 feet. I imagine many pilots bored in...
... I've often wondered how vertical those "vertical" dives really were. I have book about dive bombing that shows a plane in a pretty steep dive, but then you...
I seem to recall 10,000 - 15,000 feet, and an angle of roughly 70 degrees. The Stuka had an automatic pullout mechanism that kicked in at a certain altitude,...
... I remember reading somewhere that the angle was supposed to be 70 degrees. In a report on Wake the Marines there were not impressed with the steepness of...
... Was that a later model, or a settable value? I recall an incident that included a whole Stuka formation (don't remember the number but up to half a dozen...
Only the flight leader managed to react fast enough to pullout - was an embarrassing moment for the pre-war Luftwaffe. Good telling of the incident in "Rise...
Don't recall which model, but apparently it was at, or after the start of the war. I believe I read about it in a book on the Battle of Britain, and the ...
... OK, this leads to a good physics problem. A dive bomber in a braked 240-knot, 70-degree dive begins to pull out at 2,500 feet. The pullout profile is at a...
Hi In the book "Into the Assault" by Peter C. Smith,about famous dive- bomber aces.The chapter on Richard Partridge's attack on the Konigsberg.The Skuas begun...
With regards to the physics problem, you can calculate an answer (that should be good enough for our purposes) with the following formula: V x V G = ----------...
In a message dated 08/10/2005 11:33:53 GMT Daylight Time, NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com writes: Subject: Re: Dive Bombing If I recall correctly the Ju87 had an...
A Question: When ships were powered by steam, a ship staying in harbour would put out the fires and the boilers would cool down. To be able to move again, the...
... From: kh_ranitzsch Date: 10/09/05 17:39:13 To: NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com Subject: [NavWarGames] Cold Boilers A Question: When ships were powered by...
If you read up on the Falklands battle you can get a good account of ships totally cold getting to steam. Apparently, not so long as to lose sight of your...
Is this a trick statement? Surely if you are at 'two hours to steam' it takes at least 1 hour to go to 'one hour to steam' or you would have been at 'an hour...
First, you would always have a certain amount of steam to generate electricity and other such functions. I also assume that fires would be banked rather than...
No not testing to see if YOU were asleep. I WAS ASLEEP. As mentioned by someone else it also depended on how many boilers were fired
up and how many were just...
... Note also that it takes a while to get out of port. So even if you were going to cast off at time T, you wouldn't need full steam until the tugs had...
Another book (true story) filled with the problems of cold boilers is "The Wreck of the Memphis," by Edwin L. Beach. Almost the entire drama hinges on whether...
'Had quite a North Cape battle (at 1:4800 scale) up at Quad Con in the Quad Cities -- Davenport Iowa, Rock Island Illinois, Moline Illinois, East Moline...
