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Chubby Henparty posted:Remembering the movie or show where a parachute comes down in the village and the wellbeing of the guy is just about as important as the scramble to salvage the silk The Parachute Ball (Short 2012). It’s a short movie with two Germans landing into a farm house with two old gals who want to go to a dance. One is a good nazi, one is a bad nazi, they fight, and the ladies thank the good nazi and make their dresses out of the silk in it. It’s a good little short story, can recommend.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Rewatching The Pacific and Band of Brothers in between episodes of this. Noticed a few things: The actors in this show actually match much better some of their counterparts in reality. In BoB, they tended to be bit too old. The real war had 23 year old majors flying airplanes, which in a TV show would always feel a bit too young.
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Batcat posted:in that crosswind landing Cleven throttles up the engines on the wrong side of the plane, though since the whole point of that was to show what a hot-poo poo pilot he is maybe he was making it harder for himself on purpose idk). He puts rudder left, right wing low, and then adds more thrust on left side to help counter the leftward movement on ground track. That appears to be a physics workable solution to it if I remember the steps correct.
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The wing being dipped low is the main deciding control for the ground track, the balance of rudder opposite and the asymmetric thrust are what keep the plane aligned mostly right. If there’s no left side thrust increase, I believe it would not be at a favorable bank to to keep the right wing low, even with the rudder being kicked on the left.
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BigglesSWE posted:Ball turret worst turret confirmed. The decision to go down with the plane was an irresponsible and dangerous, and it's really frustrating to see it even again on TV. Just throw your drat buddy out the door and pull his cord, his best bet is getting found by Germans before he dies.
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McNally posted:Both times he tried crash landing he came up short of his intended landing area. Bailing out would have been a better choice. Especially since the plane is hosed, in both cases it can not be saved, and it was nigh uncontrollable, which warrants hitting the silk.
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I love The Pacific, and loved Sledge in it. However, I read With The Old Breed after that. What a disappointment. A disjointed book with poor grammatical structure. A mediocre writer would be an insane praise for Sledge as an author, sadly. He has passion and cool stories, but can't write well at all.
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Almost no Jews from Western Allies were separated or sent to concentration camps. There’s few exceptions, but generally you could expect to be able to wear a Star of David and be treated fine at the POW camp.
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World Wars have bit of a different level of acceptable risk. The objective is not to avoid risk.
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