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Originally Posted by Kutscha
For bombing one 500lb bomb was carried under the fuselage and two 250lb bombs under the wings.
Also see pg 316 and pg 317 where it again mentions 45* and 60* dive angles and some are said to be almost vertically. Note the 'almost'.
Tony, you to note the 'almost'. As well, the target would not disappear in a vertical dive though it would in a high angle dive.
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Please explain your note to me in the light of;
a) these are Spitfires not Typhoons. They were not necessarily flown the same, and pilots did not switch from one to another from sortie to sortie.
b) Spitfires did not carry RPs.
c) Spitfires carried the large bomb under the fuselage. Therefore they could not drop from the vertical because of hitting the propeller arc.
d) IIRC it was only in a vertical dive that you made the target disappear under the spinner.
Tony