yu dont have to uae rhe controller. it is an optional extra. so yu can run it (flat out) via a switch. at least temporarily.
a call to DC is required, i reckons? it is still under warranty.......
a call to DC is required, i reckons? it is still under warranty.......
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WLJayne
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Yep and if I lived just down the road I'd jury rig it and get home, but where I live is 2.5 hrs away from here and 3 different motorways away. Don't think that would be the smartest strategy. I'll just wait until MAW can get a replacement out to me, no way round it. I just hope it is the controller and not some fried piece of wire deep inside the dash - I already broke the fecking ignition switch ring thing getting the shroud orf!
Singvogel
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This isn't the first time, the designers working on the Focke Wulfe 190 had dreadful problems with cooling the bird until they nicked a cooling design from a captured allied plane. I guess it'sa bit like that.
Good example that, Will. It worked the other way too.
The boffins in the US of A couldn't design a Turbo-Jet Fighter worth a monkey's until at the end of WW2 they laid their sticky mitts on a Messerschmitt ME262.
SV.
Freelaner
Landy Driver
Good example that, Will. It worked the other way too.
The boffins in the US of A couldn't design a Turbo-Jet Fighter worth a monkey's until at the end of WW2 they laid their sticky mitts on a Messerschmitt ME262.
SV.
even the germans would've had a tough time developing that if Frank Whittle hadn't invented and patented the jet engine in 1928
WLJayne
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The boffins in the US of A couldn't design a Turbo-Jet Fighter worth a monkey's until at the end of WW2 they laid their sticky mitts on a Messerschmitt ME262.
SV.
even the germans would've had a tough time developing that if Frank Whittle hadn't invented and patented the jet engine in 1928
The Baginton air museum in Coventry has a whole exibit dedicated to Whittle and how the americans basically nicked all our research. It was a case of "you show me yours and I'll show you mine" but the Americans had sweet FA to show so they got it free, basically.
The germans had some really far out ideas in the late war design bureaus, I'd love to kit some of the cooler ones some day I bet they'd make me a tidy packet in 1/48th scale
. The tech I use produces the wonderfully crisp detail, I'd like to to an aero kit someday soon make a change from ships and armour.
WLJayne
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pulse jets are awesome in models
But so LOOOOOUUUUUUD :lalala::lalala::lalala::lalala:!!!!!
jamesmartin
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they gave the tech to the americans as well as the magnetron for radar at the beginning of ww2 for a few reasons ,plans for whittles engine were found in germany after the war
WLJayne
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If the Germans had kept churning out Panzer IV's and late mod BF109's and FW190's the war may have gone a bit differently
. As it was they spent huge resources on gimmick jets and leviathan Konigstigers and Panthers. At the end of the day, in almost every tabletop battle I play at least, the side with themost lead flying downrange wins. Every time. Weight of numbers, simple as.
Will.
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Freelaner
Landy Driver
they still couldn't outrun or out manueovre Hurricnes and Spitfires, plus they were fighting a war on two fronts.If the Germans had kept churning out Panzer IV's and late mod BF109's and FW190's the war may have gone a bit differently
At the end of the day, in almost every tabletop battle I play at least, the side with themost lead flying downrange wins. Every time. Weight of numbers, simple as.
Will.
many school boy errors led to their downfall if only Hitler had actually listened to his generals.
jamesmartin
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true in many ways but if he had he might not have gained so many victories at the begining but he was definately an asset to the allies in the later stages
Freelaner
Landy Driver
true but in many ways hitler would be a hero if he had stopped at just making germany a world power instead of trying dominate the planet.
Freelaner
Landy Driver
sheer force of numbers coupled with the fortitude and agression of the Soviet peoplesThe invasion of russia was a major flaw in his plan
Don't mess with a people that run on vodka and bear meat
also the fact that he chose to invade during the worst winter in the region i 100 years whilst his troops didn't have the cold weather kit was a cluster **** of epic proportions
jamesmartin
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and burning people he wasnt keen on
Dr_evil
Banned
Well at Kursk the german tanks were out 3-1 or something like that
Add to that the fact that they were also in unknown territory and that the Russians especially with Stalin were never going back down, Leningrad also helped as they were fighting for the city named after one of the greatest leaders Russia had seen
WLJayne
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Yeh if it weren't for Adolf the Germans would have won !
Interestingly his downfall vindicated the emerging science of criminal profiling in the US - they (a small think tank of psychiatric MD's) predicted exactly what he would do when the music stopped and he found himself without a chair.
! Interestingly his downfall vindicated the emerging science of criminal profiling in the US - they (a small think tank of psychiatric MD's) predicted exactly what he would do when the music stopped and he found himself without a chair.
jamesmartin
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greatest russian leaders ?leningrad was a mistake and against blitzkrieg ideals
