Cobras, Mustangs, Thunderbolts, Eastern vs Western front, Franek vs ...

[Franek Grabowski]

Originally Posted by kalender1973

I could not believe, that you don't know about air war during these periods. Therefore I would say, it was a joke from you.

The fact there are some aircraft flying around does not constitute an air battle. It is my understanding that it was Kuban that was the major breakthrough in the air war on the Eastern Front, as well a major change in the concept of use of Soviet fighter aviation. This was nicely described by Ivanov, who wrote about Pokryshkin's briefing introducing speed, manouver, attack rule.

Franek, congatulation! You write the new page in air war history. I thought always that thousends P-51 and P-47 lead to US success. And it was only "few dosens". As you would say "propoganda". But in this case not soviet and even not US... Maybe you can provide the source of this claim? Btw, on 25.02.1944 already 135 P-51 use as escort for Regensburg attack. And many germans pilots clams that P-47 was more dangerous and harder to shot down as P-51.

A few dosens indeed. Find me those thousands of P-51s if in the eve of Normandy's D-Day there were only 6 USAAF Groups, 1 RAF and 1 PAF Wing flying the type. Still, they gave the edge, giving Luftwaffe no airspace to fly safely.
BTW Mark Gallay once wrote about Thunderbolt - it is no fighter. How about this?

I can not believe that Mr. Romanenko can provide any serious argumets that prove his claims.

Kobry vstupayut v boj. Available on internet, I believe also in English. Romanenko clearly notes the impact of few Airacobras delivered to the Soviet Union in the early period.

Exact Franek! In some aspect and Bf-109F KEY INFO!
And the same test pilot claims that Yak-1 and 7 with M-105PF engine was superior over Bf-109F. The answer come soon ant it's name was Bf-109G-2. And what is the value of the "some aspect"??

Now, please tell me what was the difference between Me 109F and Me 109G. This is key issue to understand the problem of Airacobra. And Yak-1/7s were not considered any particularly dangerous opponents.

Sorry, I don't get a question.

What does have copying of technical features to performance of the aircraft? Although it is worth to note that Soviets copied western aircraft but it was not the other way.