2007-09-20
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Another update has been posted in the Articles Section tonight.
This is purely statistical review of production numbers by aircraft type.
Parts of this table were used for yesterday's article about British air rearmament, but I thought that complete data for the World War II period could also be of interest. I will try to crunch these numbers in Excel to see if any interesting observations can be made.
- British Aircraft Production 1938-1944 - Monthly Deliveries of New Aircraft
Fighter production in numbers compared to other types of aircraft
This is purely statistical review of production numbers by aircraft type.
Parts of this table were used for yesterday's article about British air rearmament, but I thought that complete data for the World War II period could also be of interest. I will try to crunch these numbers in Excel to see if any interesting observations can be made.
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Richard on 26-Sep-2007 13:23:00
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I note that production of light bombers in your analysis reduces to practically nothing in 1943 and to nil in 1944. This is about the time that the DH98 really come into greatest production. As the Mozzie was a light bomber (disregarding the fact of its possible 4000lb bombload), why has this been disregarded?
Monthly totals of FB and B vesions, I am sure are difficult to arrive at, but surely some indication on an annual basis could be given instead of reporting "Nil".
Thank you for your breakdown, as I have never seen a comprehensive analysis of this type before.
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Spitfire Site Editor on 28-Sep-2007 12:04:00
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Richard,
Interesting observation. Sadly, the source of the data (M.M. Postam: British War Production) does not specify which types of aircraft, factories etc. were included in each category, which admittedly would make the entire table all the more informative. My guess is that since the introduction of standard role prefixes before aircraft marks, Mosquitos were categorized as bombers (B), fighter-bombers (FB) or fighters (F). As is known, no prefix for a light bomber role was ever introduced, and this could be the very reason for the light bomber production to "disappear" in later war years.
In a way this is correct because the Mosquito was a very different aircraft in terms of bombing capability that, for example the Battle or the Blenheim.