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Exactly. Shaw uses many historic quotes to begin his explanations. Shaw read them.
Did the Russians ever have the speed and altitude advantage to fly that way against the Germans? Was it ever their -doctrine-? Look into their evaluation and use of the P-47's sent to them and tell me they flew as Gabreski taught his pilots. I have great respect for the Russian pilots but in all my reading have not seen examples of Russians using energy fighting in the GPW. Perhaps towards the end some did. The Germans OTOH kept their traditions alive and didn't have to learn the hard way what killed so many Allied pilots. |
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Sorry, but most of the "activity" is actually on the back of the wing: I wondered about this myself: The issue here is that the CL collapsing down and moving forward of CG (as is absolutely necessary for the theory to work without perceptible pilot effort) does introduce the issue of suction...
I doubt the turn-induced imbalance accross the propeller face would introduce greater pressure on the wing, so it has to be greater suction... There definitely is suction ahead of the propeller blades though: That is how the prop works... And slower incoming air on the inside-turn side of the prop does create a greater suction ahead of the inside-turn area of the disc as the blades go through it... An actual aeronautic engineer agreed with me on this, just not on the amount and significance... It would be interesting to know if this imbalance was looked at and quantified: Given the low-tech nature of the prop era, I sort of doubt it... As for Shaw, his evaluation of how the P-47 was used tactically in WWII is laughable: Even if you added up all his examples of "significant" dive and zoom "energy" tactics, you still barely end up with one quater the amount of 109-beating multiple circles combat quotes I have come up in one post... Including down on the deck at 140 mph... Remember, for Me-109Gs out-turning P-47Ds in sustained turns, I only ask for one tenth of the amount to be impressed... I came up with two from the same pilot, remember? Let's not count those in right away... Gaston P.S. About Hurricanes being magically out-turned by Me-109s, have you asked RCAF Hurricane pilot John Weir? |
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Predictably, this inconvenient fact of physics has to be denied.
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Here's a secret no one told you: low pressure does not "reach out and pull", it is only higher pressure that pushes. There is no perception of suction without that PUSH that is the real force. And we can be thankful for that. Quote:
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You keep throwing out these story pieces and accounts giving fragments of the total relevant information and then playing that they represent two planes in their best turns under equal conditions. Your story-fest conclusions are full of it. |
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Molecules can push. They can't pull.
Prove (as opposed to reason-up using loose word definitions) different and there's got to be a big prize for that. I know there's Darwin Awards but I think there needs to be Aristotle Awards for the dumbest believed explanations of any particular year. |
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Rarely have I seen anyone demonstrate such a fundamental misunderstanding of basic aerodynamics, while at the same time voicing such a high opinion of themselves on the subject.
Last edited by Treetop64; 03-01-2013 at 02:44 AM. Reason: Fixed some jacked up grammar... |
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Low Pressure and High pressure... no pushing or pulling but establishing equilibrium.
Low pressure's relative view of High pressure and visa versa..
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Maybe he has a point... after all even engineers/professors don't know it all.. as much as they think they do.
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