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Thread ID: 150691	2022-05-27 01:02:00	Superbomber’s Achilles’ Heel	zqwerty (97)	PC World Chat

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1486469	2022-05-27 01:02:00	An interesting read: "For anybody familiar with General Motors’ stultified, bloated, internally competitive, hierarchical 1980s corporate culture, a snapshot of Curtiss-Wright in the 1930s and ’40s will look familiar. This was a company that apparently would rather have left bombers on the ground than license engine production to a competitor. At times, Curtiss-Wright seemed more concerned with its potential postwar competitiveness than it was with solving wartime problems. The company’s several divisions had no autonomy, and Wright had a bad enough reputation in the trade that it had trouble attracting top executive and engineering talent" www.historynet.com	zqwerty (97)
1486470	2022-05-27 05:35:00	Yes, well airlines had, maybe still do, a cost benefit ratio thing. Was it cheaper to pay out the families than the cost of replacing/upgrading their fleets?	piroska (17583)
1486471	2022-05-29 23:20:00	its a nonsense article "In fact the B-29 was such a dangerous airplane that had it been peacetime, only one or two XB-29 prototypes would have been built before the U.S. Army Air Forces said, “No money for you, " If it was peacetime, MANY WW2 aircraft would never have been developed Ignores the fact that after the war ended , they kept flying the B29 (dangerous ?) Ignores that fact B29 was on the very edge of 1940's tech . Tech pushed to the very limit will have alot of failures Ignores the fact B29s were still flown well after they were retired from active service . Doesnt sound like a dangerous aircraft ? Plenty of other WW2 planes would be considered unsafe today . Plenty of WW2 planes had high failure rates , incl in air failures . Tail breaking off issue for 1 British WW2 fighter The B29 cost more to develop the Manhattan Project (the atomic bomb) . thats how far they were pushing technology for that plane .	1101 (13337)
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