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Re: Placing the Bell P39 Aircobra.
The A-36 version of the P-51 was a dive bomber. It needed divebrakes to keep it from exceeding the 390mph dive limit speed. Yet you want us to believe the much heavier Typhoon did vertical (90*) dives without divebrakes. Yah right!
LOL, even the He177 was a dive bomber but its maximum dive angle was 45*.
Actually your interpretation of vertical dive is wrong. Typhoons pilots found that by making a steeper dive than they usually did with bombs increased the accuracy of the RPs. This was not vertical, but like the Spit's 60* angle it felt like it was vertical.
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