----------| Am 29.06.2010 05:42 schrieb David Scheidt: |----------
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Chris LeBron
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Thomas Thrien <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ----------| Am 28.06.2010 18:43 schrieb David Scheidt: |----------
>>>
>>>> this plane seems over or underarmed. If it's supposed to be a pre
>>>> WWII design (the biplane part suggests that.), it's got too heavy
>>>> cannon. If it's post WWII, that's probably about right, but then it's
>>>> too slow for a fighter, and it would need ground attack abilities
>>>> (bombs, smurfs, rockets).
>>>>
>>> As already said in the title, the plane is anachronistic. This means it
>>> is perfectly armed for the time period it fits in.
>>>
>> Exactly. It's a Pulpish "'tween the Wars" design. It needs to be
>> better than anything seen in WWI, but still have some of that war's
>> aesthetic. At the same time, it needs to look slightly "futuristic" -
>> at least to eyes in the 20s and 30s.
>>
> The jets do that pretty well!
>
> Heavy cannon armed planes are a response to increased armor on planes in WWII.
>
Ok, to stress it a bit more: "anachronistic" also means: which WWII?
That one that was won by the Allies because they throw nukes on Berlin
and London; that one from 1952 to 1961; that one seeing the landing of
Japanese forces on the beaches of California; that one that was fought
without American intervention; that one that was started by the French
in 1921 because they did not accept that they had to return the Ruhrgebiet?
That's what anachronistic means.
But if you want to talk about that WWII that could be found in our
history books: that one had never seen any jet-biplanes so the
discussion about the size of its guns is obsolete.
For sure we can discuss the design of the craft, but only in the context
of the setting it is meant for ("the time period it fits in"). And this
was not defined by Otto ...
--
Thomas Thrien
Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E
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