Kill Ratio

[Soderbaum]

Hi Craig

The kill ratio I mentioned is Victories diveded with Losses...for example 161 Victories during a month and 100 Losses becomes 1,61 with my calculator...


Gunnar

[Billy_Bishop]

Craig, I'm going to assume for the moment you're an American, and that you're not used to the way Europeans express decimals. They don't use the (.) period, they use the (,) comma as a decimal point.
Why?
I don't know,
THIRD BASE!!!

Al "Abbot" Lowe

Al,
That depends on what sort of an European you are. The Brits use the full stop or period, i.e 1.5 for 1 1/2 while Germans seem to use the comma, i.e 1,5 for same.
Regards, JohnTB.
(formerly just plain ´John´but I´ve been away for a bit and return to find another John in the place...)

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Gentlemen:
I would like to stick my oar into this conversation.
The reason for the mixed equipment in a Jasta or Fl.Abt was insufficiency of equipment. with the implementation of the "AMERIKA PROGRAM" of June 1917, which was an expansion program of doubling the the numbers of Jastas and increasing the number of Schutzstaffeln, reorganizing and requipping the KAGOHL and reforcing the Fl.Abt. and the Fl. Abt.(A) . The aircraft manufacturers were pushed tothe limit to build 2000 aircraft month and the engine builders to produce 2500 engines per month. These goals were never attained for several reasons, but primarily raw materials. They had to do two things at the same time replace lost aircraft and establish new units. Prior to the AMERIKA PROGRAM units were of a single type and maintained at full strength. A Jasta had 14 machines +4 spares in the unit, plus 3 of the same type in reserve at the Armee Flugpark. The Jasta were increased from 40 in June 1917 to 80 by March 1918. The Jasta strength dropped to around 12 aircraft and no spares. The reserve machines in the AFP were maintained at 3, but may not be of the same type. The same thing occured in the Fl.Abt. and Schusta and other units. It also caused a serious problem of spare parts with all these mixed types. The mixed types caused problems in formation flying. The units with Mercedes and BMW engined Fok.D.VII caused problems of maintaining possition in formation.. In some of the Fl.Abt. at the Armee level were equipped with a single type, most often the remarkable Rumpler C.IV or C.VII. The Armee Korp Fl.Abt. units were generally mixed and the aircraft would be used for what it did best. The Fl.Abt.(A) you would find a mix of types such as AEG C.IV, ,Alb C.X, C.XII, DFW C.V, LVG.C.V and C.VI machines.
Those Fl.Abt.(A) deployed at Division level you would find a mix that would include a few J types. The Schusta and later Schlasta units were more often than not of a single type of machine. Kasta, later Bosta were of a single bomber type.
The 200 Hp Hispano-Suiza 8Ab was rated at 2000 rpm. The 150 Hispano-Suiza 8Aa @ 1800 rpm. They were often twisted a little higher. The 180 Hispano-Suiza 8Aa was a 150 with higher compression pistons and turned at 2000 rpm.
Blue skies,
Dan-San Abbott

[Billy_Bishop]

You are of course, technically correct John. However, many Englishmen that I have talked to (as well as Scotsmen and Welshmen AND Irishmen) do not consider themselves to be Europeans.

VBR,

Al Lowe

Yes indeed Al. The, 'Little England' idea which last had its foreign policy heydey towards the end of the last century coincided with the decline of British influence in the world and in particular, relatively speaking in Europe. I wonder, are the two by any chance related?
Regards, JohnTB