My blog do not consist in some series of day after day observations (or moods).
It is mainly dedicated to the analyses of some aeronautical and historical subjects (but not only).
Often, reading some of my old posts may be necessary to get a good understanding of the whole.
You will found here the available directions.
|------- The World War I, seen by an unusual "poilu",
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|------- The bad politics ruling France during the 30's: From 1920
| to 1939, especially during the 1926-1937 interval, the French Minister
| to 1939, especially during the 1926-1937 interval, the French Minister
| of Defense had spent:
| - 42% of his money for the Navy,
| - 32 for the Land Forces and
| - 26% for the Air Forces.
| Not a wise choice at all...
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| |-- The terrific (and well known) influence of the French bureaucracy
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| | newspapers
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|-------- The Allied Air Forces before and during the Campaign of France:
| -- A programmed failure. An analysis of this defeat (to avoid
| -- any revival of such an event).
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| |-- The Czechoslovakian Avia B 534 biplane fighter and
| | the Sudeten crisis: A (very) different point of view...
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| |-- Aviation of the United Kingdom:
| | From the Spitfire to the Blenheim. Somewhere you had read
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| |-- The Czechoslovakian Avia B 534 biplane fighter and
| | the Sudeten crisis: A (very) different point of view...
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| |-- Aviation of the United Kingdom:
| | From the Spitfire to the Blenheim. Somewhere you had read
| | superb narratives on the behavior of gallant warriors.
| | Some decision makers displayed, at least, "inappropriate"
| | attitudes, since the beginning of WWII.
| | They preferred the poor biplane Gladiator
| | fighter to his much more advanced Gloster Noname brother!
| | The true fighters were not mass produced in time, all
| | fighter to his much more advanced Gloster Noname brother!
| | The true fighters were not mass produced in time, all
| | the bombers were not so bad but the decision makers
| | forgotten that they absolutely need an escort to work!
| | forgotten that they absolutely need an escort to work!
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| |-- The French Air Forces: Specially vilified, but they fought very
| | gallantly with several burden, as was the so-called
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| |-- The French Air Forces: Specially vilified, but they fought very
| | gallantly with several burden, as was the so-called
| | Morane 406 "fighter".
| | The warning system against enemy attacks was not perfectly
| | efficient, but it became even worse after the intrusion of the
| | Wehrmacht in the French territories.
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| |-- The Belgian Air Force gathered a lot of ill-matched aircrafts.
| | The deciders of this country might chose their own Renard R 36,
| | a very good home-made fighter. They did not conclude.
| | So, Belgium stay without air cover when Hitler was attacking...
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| |-- The Belgian Air Force gathered a lot of ill-matched aircrafts.
| | The deciders of this country might chose their own Renard R 36,
| | a very good home-made fighter. They did not conclude.
| | So, Belgium stay without air cover when Hitler was attacking...
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| |-- The Netherlands Air Force was supported by a real aerial
| | industry, but its government focused on its fallacious
| | Diplomatic Neutrality.
| | The May 10, 1940, only thirty-six (36) Fokker D XXI
| | were really able to withstand the Luftwaffe.
| | The then much more famous Fokker G1 "Faucheur" fighters
| | industry, but its government focused on its fallacious
| | Diplomatic Neutrality.
| | The May 10, 1940, only thirty-six (36) Fokker D XXI
| | were really able to withstand the Luftwaffe.
| | The then much more famous Fokker G1 "Faucheur" fighters
| | took off once and for all: After their very first (and
| | last) struggle, the surviving ones (the majority of them), landed
| | for refueling and ammunition replenishment.
| | Unfortunately, they were too heavy to take off from
| | the wet grounds where they have landed !!!
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| |-- The Axis Aviation in 1940: At the beginning - apparently - they
| | won easily.
| | At the very end, they have lost everything, including their Honor.
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| | steps of the war were never seriously considered by the High
| | Staff : The Bf 109 fighters were conceived only as interceptors.
| | | | They lacked from range and, also, from a really powerful armament.
| | The lack of strategic bombers as, also, of a sufficient amount of
| | fighters were exceptionally critics.
| | fighters were exceptionally critics.
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| |---The Regia Aeronautica, initially (in the middle of the 30's) was
| | a powerful Air Force. It was quickly exhausted because it was
| | involved in too numerous and too distant conflicts in Spain,
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| |---The Regia Aeronautica, initially (in the middle of the 30's) was
| | a powerful Air Force. It was quickly exhausted because it was
| | involved in too numerous and too distant conflicts in Spain,
| | then in France, Balkan states, Russia and Africa...
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| |
| |---The Japanese nation has grown in a very terrific country,
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| |---The Japanese nation has grown in a very terrific country,
| | characterized by a lot of active volcanoes and shattered by
| | tremendous earthquakes (which can trigger tsunamis),
| | tremendous earthquakes (which can trigger tsunamis),
| | and may also experienced dreadful typhoons...
| | | | At the end of the 20's, some generals of the Japanese Army
| | decided to colonize China, that appeared them as a rich land.
| | They neglected completely the inhabitants...| |
| | Moreover, they wanted to conquer other territories to obtain a
| | reliable and not too far source of oil they found in Indonesia.
| | The way to attack this country was by the seas, in other words,
| | the Imperial Japanese Navy had to play a crucial role in such a
| | daring policy.
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| | The IJN was the first Navy in the World to have a real and
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| | daring policy.
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| | The IJN was the first Navy in the World to have a real and
| | perfectly operational Naval Air Force, gathering excellent
| | floatplanes fighters, long range reconnaissance and transport
| | flying boats, carriers housing excellent fighters
| | and bombers, as, also, a lot of remarkable land based aircrafts.
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| |-------- The emblematic Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter was the most
| | technologically advanced carrier fighter in the world from
| | 1941 to the beginning of 1944.
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| |-------- The bomber Mitsubishi G3M was an excellent land based
| | bomber used with success in discrediting the Royal Navy
| | near the coasts of Malaya, the third day of the Pacific War.
| | In Australia, she was only mastered by the Spitfire Mk V,
| |-------- The bomber Mitsubishi G3M was an excellent land based
| | bomber used with success in discrediting the Royal Navy
| | near the coasts of Malaya, the third day of the Pacific War.
| | In Australia, she was only mastered by the Spitfire Mk V,
| | in 1943.
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|------- Today (as also a bit older) or future (may be) Aviation in all countries
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| |-- The Lockheed-Martin F 35 JSF, not a fighter at all,
| | but a short legged, and too expensive bomber,
| | but a short legged, and too expensive bomber,
| | not designed to be nimble... A common mistake...
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| | how the B 29 and B 36, became unable to deliver their
| | nuclear bombs against USSR
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