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Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:43 pm

You gentlebeings might be interested in a new sub at Hyperwar: http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/NHC/NewPDFs ... cognition/

Thank you very much for posting this. I was totally unaware of its existence on Hyperwar.

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My brother told me of a conversation with a fellow pilot who was checked out to fly several warbirds. This pilot was currently flying an F8F Bearcat on his way to Oshkosh, but he told of test flying one of the few still flying BF109s compared to Spitfires. It was that pilot's opinion that the BF109...

Best of luck in returning this forum to the ranks of the collegial. One modest proposal ..... eliminate the use of emojis.

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"the battleship Littorio, while able to target the Caio Duilio with her rangefinders previously, this became impossible when the other battleship turned on her searchlights and blinded the Littorio. However, use of 'Zeiss-Septar' polarizing filters made it possible to target the other battleship wi...

I look forward to any sort of intelligibly reasoned response to the uncertainties and logical inconsistencies pointed out by Wadinga.

First western university after the Dark Ages - University of Bologna (founded 1088). Hope springs eternal.

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Quite concur.

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Hello everybody, Byron Angel wrote: "Your above response is that of a petulant schoolboy. Very disappointing." Another who can only petulantly and pompously try to teach good manners because simply unable to counter arguments, despite I treated him with some (apparently undeserved) respect after hi...

Hi Byron, you wrote: " Why must the rest of the forum members endure this seemingly endless stream of unpleasantness?" Please, suggest the same to Mr.Wadinga. Why must the rest of the forum members endure this seemingly endless stream of trolling nonsense ? Many thanks in advance. Bye, Alberto Your...

The Evans & Peattie book, "Kaigun", (IIRC) made the argument that the pre-war intended tactical role for the re-built IJN battlecruisers was to act as a fast heavy support element to assist their light DD, CL and CA forces in breaking through USN cruiser screens to deliver massed night torpedo attac...

Hi Byron, you wrote: "insult and invective directed at someone whose fault appears to me to be that he simply fails to agree with you on certain points" No, I totally disagree. First of all, it was not me starting the insults and the mocking (as per evidences I have posted several times already). T...

Hello everybody, back is the defeated troll with his last favorite topic: captions.... instead of answering points mathematically demonstrating he is wrong . :kaput: http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8329&start=210#p81086 Why nobody is willing to (very politely and softly :wink:) e...

Hi Paul, Taking a short break from the Battle of Denmark Strait ..... The leading edge slats of the BF109, from what I have read, did work. But they had certain peculiarities, one of which was described as "snatching" - a situation when, in a high G/high angle of attack situation, the slat on one wi...

If you are looking into how a re-build/re-fit of Derfflinger might have proceeded, you might want to look into the career of Goeben, which survived WW1 and continued in Turkish service as "Yavuz Sultan Selim" until 1950. Other updated WW1 capital ships that might be helpful as references would be HM...

I'm not from the USA, but if I was a citizen there in 2016, there'd be quite a decent chance that my left wing self would have voted for Trump, which is terrible in his own right, but far more benign than Clinton, which would have already plunged us into WW3. That doesn't mean that Trump is good th...

I was wondering this too. From what I’ve read on here Bismarck was a very stable ship,but wouldn’t there be even a small amount of roll when at sea? Also, whilst there is standardisation, wouldn’t there be slight individual differences in the make up of a shell? I was under the impression that shel...