Aircraft Weapons, their Pro Allied slant in WiTP

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Nope, I'm attributing it to a 1000mile+ round trip I'm sorry, i forgot about the trouble you have interpreting printed text. To make sure there is no further misunderstanding, its a round trip of 1,130 miles

OK. So, you claim that the Japanese pilots when they encountered the F4Fs were suffering the fatigue of having flown 1130 air miles before entering combat. Bzzzt. Wrong.
I'm not ignoring it...i'm dismissing it because its a complete fabrication on your part.

Ok. So you are claiming that the Allied pilots at Lunga had worry free nights without fear of bombardment from land based artillery, night harrassing aircraft missions, combat noise, or Japanese infilitration. Bzzzt. Wrong again.
As is your ducking and weaving, selective interpretation of an author's text, not to mention fellow that of other posters.

More of the same bs from you.
Oh dear......I am crushed. not. Readers can make their own judgements on that as I stated from the beginning.


They have. And they are. [:D]

Show me a fellow who rejects statistical analysis a priori and I'll show you a fellow who has no knowledge of statistics.

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OK. So, you claim that the Japanese pilots when they encountered the F4Fs were suffering the fatigue of having flown 1130 air miles before entering combat. Bzzzt. Wrong.

lol....you must be suffering from Malaria to have copped that interpretation out of my text. [:D]

Ok. So you are claiming that the Allied pilots at Lunga had worry free nights without fear of bombardment from land based artillery, night harrassing aircraft missions, combat noise, or Japanese infilitration. Bzzzt. Wrong again.

Nope...I'm saying that you are grasping at straws and taking the occasional Washing Machine Charlie or Pistol Pete attack and attempting to inflate it in order to counter Richard Frank's conclusions. Too bad Frank didn't think that the pilots on Lunga were suffering SO much stress while sleeping in their bunks that he would list it as a counterpoint to the Japanese accepting battle under serious handicaps.
More of the same bs from you.

Yep....its called common sense.
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Totally OT, but American Footballers throwing 300-400 YARDS?!?!?!? Not all at once I hope, or they'd need longer fields.[X(]
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I thought that was only in Baseball?[:D]
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Totally OT, but American Footballers throwing 300-400 YARDS?!?!?!? Not all at once I hope, or they'd need longer fields.[X(]
It's the steriods.

I think this is game average and not single throw... [;)]


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Hi all,
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Totally OT, but American Footballers throwing 300-400 YARDS?!?!?!? Not all at once I hope, or they'd need longer fields.[X(]
It's the steriods.

I think this is game average and not single throw... [;)]


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It's the total yards thrown in the game by the quarterback

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Hi all,
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Totally OT, but American Footballers throwing 300-400 YARDS?!?!?!? Not all at once I hope, or they'd need longer fields.[X(]
It's the steriods.

I think this is game average and not single throw... [;)]


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Is this the part where someone tries to explain Crickett?

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Is this the part where someone tries to explain Crickett?

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I was just going to say - get back on topic ....American Footbal![:)]
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lol....you must be suffering from Malaria to have copped that interpretation out of my text.


Consider this an opportunity for you to clarify what you meant then. Are you suggesting that large numbers of Zeros that participated in combat at Lunga were lost, after disengaging from combat, on the return flight from Lunga, because of fatigue on the voyage home?
Yep....its called common sense.

When you're an asshole it's "common sense" in action?
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That may be the one type of nationally oriented thread that hasn't yet been hashed out to the order of 15 pages here.

American Football vs. European Football

Which is better?

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Furthermore, if you assume the sky to be green, does that automatically mean that the grass isn't blue? Or that wheat flour and rice are substitution commodities?
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That may be the one type of nationally oriented thread that hasn't yet been hashed out to the order of 15 pages here.

American Football vs. European Football

Which is better?

[:D]


OH!!!
Dare we open THAT can of worms??!!!

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Consider this an opportunity for you to clarify what you meant then.

Why? It was very clear.
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OH!!!
Dare we open THAT can of worms??!!!

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Yeah....your probably right. Everyone knows that European football players are woosies that would suffer a negative kill ratio against huge American football players. [:D]
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OH!!!
Dare we open THAT can of worms??!!!

B

Yeah....your probably right. Everyone knows that European football players are woosies that would suffer a negative kill ratio against huge American football players. [:D]


Oh no!

Oh well since you started this..."It would depend on the circumstacnces"[:D]

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If you're waiting for me to leap to the defence of the over-paid, under-worked, knuckle-dragging clotheshorses that constitute the "elite" of European footballery, you'd better not hold your breath, Nik![:D]
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Why? It was very clear.


And you claim I "duck and weave." [8|]

No it wasn't. I'm concerned that if I claim I know what you mean I'll get your usual bullshit about "ducking and weaving" or "distorting" the things you say. You have said that the fatigue entails 1100 air miles. That's a round trip. You attribute Japanese combat losses to that effect (fatigue) in part. Since the Japanese flew 565 air miles from Rabaul to Lunga to engage the US there, your 1100 mile fatigue factor is discongruous with the fatigue felt by Japanese pilots as they engaged American pilots.

That would seem to imply that you are claiming that lots of Japanese pilots were lost on the return flight after disengaging. But if that is what you are saying, let's hear you say it plainly like a real man, rather than leaving yourself some wiggle room to claim you didn't say it or to suggest that I have distorted your claim.
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