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Taken: Vorbius
Brief biography: Typhoon was created in 1940 by the British Gloster Aircraft Company. This single-engine fighter, one of the largest at the time, was equipped with a powerful engine and four 20-mm cannon.
Great expectations: Typhoon was created for the "Battle of Britain" as a means of countering the fascist bombers bombarded with bombs British towns and industrial centers. Common sense suggests that a combination of high power and good weapons should make Typhoon powerful weapon against the Luftwaffe.
The stark reality: The first surprise was that the bombers aircraft coped remarkably bad. It was so heavy that while he was gaining altitude and speed, the Germans had had time bombed. The cause was a side effect of well-armed. The British transferred Typhoon in the discharge of storm troopers. On the plane hung holders bomb pylons for rockets, put additional armor and sent to attack German columns and ships. It seemed, career Typhoon in new capacity to be successfully held, but it turned out amazing thing: weighted aircraft was a bad habit when sudden maneuvers to discard the tail like a lizard. But unlike the lizard aircraft could not grow a tail. Aircraft finalized the tail strengthened and Typhoon began their combat path. But then - once again! - I found another unpleasant feature Typhoon: he was too much like a Stuka - German dive bomber Ju-87, so the anti-aircraft gunners and Allied fighters are sometimes confused. This has made the profession of pilot Typhoon extremely unpopular. And those who flew it and survived, were quick to forget him after the war as a nightmare.
Life lesson: Positioning aircraft matters. Appearance - too!
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Messerschmitt Bf-110
Brief biography: a twin-engine heavy fighter, manufactured by Messerschmitt, was equipped with a whole battery of guns and machine guns, in 1938, he was the most secretive aircraft in Germany and a potential favorite Reichsmarschall Goering. Machine and other Parteigenosse liked, such as Goebbels, who made the Bf-110 one of the main characters of the legend of the invincibility of the Luftwaffe.
Great expectations: At the design stage Bf-110 was Schnellebomber - «fast bomber." But already I born strategic fighter, which was a new word in distribution of aircraft parts. According to the plan must be accompanied by a strategic fighter as strategic bombers and protect them at a great distance from the enemy fighters. By the beginning of the war it was made a park Bf-110.
The harsh reality: Even during the Polish company plane plunged generals and engineers in some reverie, as has repeatedly been the victim of antediluvian Polish shelving units. And, although the aircraft Poles quickly ended, the sediment remained. Bf-110 finalized and thrown in the "Battle of Britain". Every day, the pilots reported on dozens of downed British cars, and soon the German High Command believed that the aircraft of the enemy virtually no ... But the Luftwaffe continued to suffer losses, not only by anti-aircraft fire ... The investigation showed that the German aces usually takes postscripts, while brisk English fighters butchered heavy and unwieldy Bf-110. It came to that accompany strategic fighter began to detach the other fighters - lighter and more mobile Bf-109. But then, recollecting himself, subordinate Goering began to invent Bf-110 with new challenges. The car tried as a light bomber, reconnaissance, ground attack, but in any role he did not take root, as it was not enough altitude, maneuverability and secure. In the end, able to accommodate a number of machines at night fighter, but by 1944 Allied bombers began to fly over Germany during the day, seeking the remains of the German Air Force - including the last Bf-110 - right on the ground.
Life lesson: "Interspecific hybridization" gives results, but for the most part of the country.
Martin B-26 Marauder
Bio: The plane was designed before World War II, the company Glenn L. Martin Company. The highest culture of design and production of the US military was forced to trust the company as ourselves. Not surprisingly, when Martin invited the American generals-speed medium-range bomber, they immediately happily podmahnuli contract. Moreover, the car had adopted at the design stage - a case unprecedented!
Great expectations: Martin created a plane with streamlined contours, the two most powerful at that time engines Pratt & Whitney and best avionics. To bomber flew as quickly as possible, it put a minimum of machine guns, and most importantly - its wings are made very narrow and thin. In tests has given a new car speed over 500 km / h - more than most fighters of the time ...
The stark reality: The first battle showed that the B-26 is unable to get away from even a relatively nebystro Japanese fighters, not to mention Europe. Therefore, the machine had to install additional guns, increasing the weight of the aircraft and, consequently, reduce its speed. But it's not so bad! B-26 is often divided on takeoff and landing. The reason was narrow wings, which not only increased the speed of flight, and landing speed ... if the first was good, the second greatly increase the demands on the skill of piloting a bomber. Novice pilots - of which the war was becoming more and more - too often could not cope with the management. In addition, at the B-26 were very weak landing gear, which easily bends sharply at too sharp blow on the runway ...
Managed by experienced pilots the aircraft behaved well and was reliable and tenacious. But his reputation - and the plane was nicknamed "factory widows" - nothing could save. Once the fighting ended, all Marauder, not even exhausted the resources were sent under the knife.
Life lesson: What created for professionals, ineffective in the hands of beginners.
Yak-38
Brief biography: was born by the Yakovlev Design Bureau in 1981. By the time the British fashioned quite successful aircraft vertical takeoff and landing Harrier, the Land of the Soviets had to somehow respond to this brazen challenge to the Western military. The more that just were built the first Soviet aircraft carrier (again, in response to the North Atlantic ships of this class), and to equip them there was nothing but a fairly helicopters, which could not solve all combat missions at sea.
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Taken: Vorbius
Brief biography: Typhoon was created in 1940 by the British Gloster Aircraft Company. This single-engine fighter, one of the largest at the time, was equipped with a powerful engine and four 20-mm cannon.
Great expectations: Typhoon was created for the "Battle of Britain" as a means of countering the fascist bombers bombarded with bombs British towns and industrial centers. Common sense suggests that a combination of high power and good weapons should make Typhoon powerful weapon against the Luftwaffe.
The stark reality: The first surprise was that the bombers aircraft coped remarkably bad. It was so heavy that while he was gaining altitude and speed, the Germans had had time bombed. The cause was a side effect of well-armed. The British transferred Typhoon in the discharge of storm troopers. On the plane hung holders bomb pylons for rockets, put additional armor and sent to attack German columns and ships. It seemed, career Typhoon in new capacity to be successfully held, but it turned out amazing thing: weighted aircraft was a bad habit when sudden maneuvers to discard the tail like a lizard. But unlike the lizard aircraft could not grow a tail. Aircraft finalized the tail strengthened and Typhoon began their combat path. But then - once again! - I found another unpleasant feature Typhoon: he was too much like a Stuka - German dive bomber Ju-87, so the anti-aircraft gunners and Allied fighters are sometimes confused. This has made the profession of pilot Typhoon extremely unpopular. And those who flew it and survived, were quick to forget him after the war as a nightmare.
Life lesson: Positioning aircraft matters. Appearance - too!
...
Messerschmitt Bf-110
Brief biography: a twin-engine heavy fighter, manufactured by Messerschmitt, was equipped with a whole battery of guns and machine guns, in 1938, he was the most secretive aircraft in Germany and a potential favorite Reichsmarschall Goering. Machine and other Parteigenosse liked, such as Goebbels, who made the Bf-110 one of the main characters of the legend of the invincibility of the Luftwaffe.
Great expectations: At the design stage Bf-110 was Schnellebomber - «fast bomber." But already I born strategic fighter, which was a new word in distribution of aircraft parts. According to the plan must be accompanied by a strategic fighter as strategic bombers and protect them at a great distance from the enemy fighters. By the beginning of the war it was made a park Bf-110.
The harsh reality: Even during the Polish company plane plunged generals and engineers in some reverie, as has repeatedly been the victim of antediluvian Polish shelving units. And, although the aircraft Poles quickly ended, the sediment remained. Bf-110 finalized and thrown in the "Battle of Britain". Every day, the pilots reported on dozens of downed British cars, and soon the German High Command believed that the aircraft of the enemy virtually no ... But the Luftwaffe continued to suffer losses, not only by anti-aircraft fire ... The investigation showed that the German aces usually takes postscripts, while brisk English fighters butchered heavy and unwieldy Bf-110. It came to that accompany strategic fighter began to detach the other fighters - lighter and more mobile Bf-109. But then, recollecting himself, subordinate Goering began to invent Bf-110 with new challenges. The car tried as a light bomber, reconnaissance, ground attack, but in any role he did not take root, as it was not enough altitude, maneuverability and secure. In the end, able to accommodate a number of machines at night fighter, but by 1944 Allied bombers began to fly over Germany during the day, seeking the remains of the German Air Force - including the last Bf-110 - right on the ground.
Life lesson: "Interspecific hybridization" gives results, but for the most part of the country.
Martin B-26 Marauder
Bio: The plane was designed before World War II, the company Glenn L. Martin Company. The highest culture of design and production of the US military was forced to trust the company as ourselves. Not surprisingly, when Martin invited the American generals-speed medium-range bomber, they immediately happily podmahnuli contract. Moreover, the car had adopted at the design stage - a case unprecedented!
Great expectations: Martin created a plane with streamlined contours, the two most powerful at that time engines Pratt & Whitney and best avionics. To bomber flew as quickly as possible, it put a minimum of machine guns, and most importantly - its wings are made very narrow and thin. In tests has given a new car speed over 500 km / h - more than most fighters of the time ...
The stark reality: The first battle showed that the B-26 is unable to get away from even a relatively nebystro Japanese fighters, not to mention Europe. Therefore, the machine had to install additional guns, increasing the weight of the aircraft and, consequently, reduce its speed. But it's not so bad! B-26 is often divided on takeoff and landing. The reason was narrow wings, which not only increased the speed of flight, and landing speed ... if the first was good, the second greatly increase the demands on the skill of piloting a bomber. Novice pilots - of which the war was becoming more and more - too often could not cope with the management. In addition, at the B-26 were very weak landing gear, which easily bends sharply at too sharp blow on the runway ...
Managed by experienced pilots the aircraft behaved well and was reliable and tenacious. But his reputation - and the plane was nicknamed "factory widows" - nothing could save. Once the fighting ended, all Marauder, not even exhausted the resources were sent under the knife.
Life lesson: What created for professionals, ineffective in the hands of beginners.
Yak-38
Brief biography: was born by the Yakovlev Design Bureau in 1981. By the time the British fashioned quite successful aircraft vertical takeoff and landing Harrier, the Land of the Soviets had to somehow respond to this brazen challenge to the Western military. The more that just were built the first Soviet aircraft carrier (again, in response to the North Atlantic ships of this class), and to equip them there was nothing but a fairly helicopters, which could not solve all combat missions at sea.
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