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Dear Apophenia,You make some good points about rationalizing production by reducing the numbers of different designs.Are you suggesting that Poland should have developed their gull-winged monoplanes into something more like the low-winged Romanian I.A.R.?May I suggest narrowing the focus of inline engines to Hispano-Suiza 12Y?This would allow mounting a single 20mm auto-cannon as faster, all-metal bombers were being introduced. With barely 1,000 hp. late-1930s fighters could barely loft a single cannon. Look how successful So jets were with their HS engines built under license by Klimov. HS engines had plenty of growth potential. By 1942, Klimov VK-107B was pumping out 1,800’hp.
Dear Apophenia,
You make some good points about rationalizing production by reducing the numbers of different designs.
Are you suggesting that Poland should have developed their gull-winged monoplanes into something more like the low-winged Romanian I.A.R.?
May I suggest narrowing the focus of inline engines to Hispano-Suiza 12Y?
This would allow mounting a single 20mm auto-cannon as faster, all-metal bombers were being introduced. With barely 1,000 hp. late-1930s fighters could barely loft a single cannon. Look how successful So jets were with their HS engines built under license by Klimov. HS engines had plenty of growth potential. By 1942, Klimov VK-107B was pumping out 1,800’hp.
