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F-35's Costs Climb Along With Concerns
Harry Andreas wrote: In article , DeepSea wrote: Dive Bombing - technique that involves the release of bombs at high speed/low altitude. High speed/low altitude is not what dive bombing is all about. Speed and altitude are residuals of the dive bombing process. Dive bombing is getting the aircraft "pointed" at the target, necessitating a dive. The bomb is released in the dive and the a/c pulls away. High speed is not a requirement, and as practiced in WWII, not even wanted. Hence the addition of dive (speed) brakes on the A-36 version of the Mustang. After bomb release, the aircraft is at a lower altitude, but only by necessity. My comments are derived from a talk I attended last year while at the US Army's General Staff College. The talk was given by a British Army corporal who served as a courier in the early days of the Battle of Britain. He was wounded (badly) in one of the attacks, and spent the rest of the war recouperating and learning to walk again. He used the terms "most" and "dive bombing" during his talk. Over the course of about an hour and ten minutes, he described being on the recieving end of the German strikes. He only saw "level" bombing on one occasion (directed at an area target), but at a relatively low level, estimated to be less than 10,000 feet, and at night. You were very lucky to have been able to attend such a rare event. Those veterns are rapidly dying. I hope the interview was taped. cheers What was the 'A-36' version of the Mustang? Cheers, Ricardo |
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