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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
Tony
We do not have any problem, you have. Dive bomber is an aircraft able to drop bombs in a dive not necessarily perpendicular. He 177 was also a dive bomber but it was hardly able to stand up a shallow dive, so does not fit to your theory. Come on.
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Come on yourself, Franek. Look at the facts. Ernst Heinkel's Luftwaffenfeuerzeug was a dive bomber. He may have been lying. I don't know, but I'll take his word over yours. He certainly had enough time to make it into a dive bomber after telling Udet it couldn't be done.
You won't believe me, so I'll quote what Heinkel said.
"Even after Udet's death, leading men in the Technical Office and in the general staff .... could not be moved to take back their demand for dive bombing capabilities, despite the need for a long-range, heavily armed giant plane at the front. But even after the production of an airframe stable enough for absolute dives, the use of the DB 606 (later DB 610) coupled engine remained the plane's achilles heel". page 283 of 'Stormy Life' by Ernst Heinkel.
AFAIK the He 177 had dive brakes, automatic pullout, a system for releasing bombs outside the propeller arcs, and was stressed for "absolute dives" which means from the vertical. That made it a dive bomber.
Are you still sure it's me with the problem?
Tony