Howard Mitchell
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However, despite the exigencies of the late war, a first flying date that late probably means that it would have hardly been in service by 1946. Furthermore, its actual combat performance has never really been ascertained.
I think this is an important point. Especially on flight sim forums, you sometimes see people quoting calculated figures, or those achieved by carefully-manufactured and maintained prototypes without combat equipment, and assuming that the production aircraft would perform similarly.
All to often they didn’t, and the Japanese especially seem to have been often disappointed by aircraft not living up to expectations.
The Americans also produced some pusher designs, but they never went beyond the prototype stage:
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While the battles the British fight may differ in the widest possible ways, they invariably have two common characteristics – they are always fought uphill and always at the junction of two or more map sheets.
General Sir William Slim
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interesting fighter - 
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