« on: July 11, 2020, 12:40:18 PM »
Their complicated calculations showed conclusively that each Spitfire needed to be capable of firing 1,000 rounds a minute — per gun.
They also calculated the exact distance the Spitfire — whose top speed was about 360mph — had to be from the enemy to hit them: just 755 ft.
'The biggest thing was the huge increase in speed of the new fighters, which was way beyond anything people had experienced before,' says mathematician Niall MacKay.
'What they had to do was take trials conducted at a much lower speed, then work out what would be necessary for a really high-speed fighter. That would have been particularly difficult.'
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8507915/amp/The-girl-13-helped-win-Battle-Britain.htmlIt would be interesting to see these calculations in more detail.
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