User talk:Skyraider3D

November 2019
Hello, I'm Binksternet. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Vought F4U Corsair, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 14:36, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello Michael, thanks for your message. I am unable to quote any specific source as the correction I made is my own conclusion based on years of research on this topic. Allied air men often misidentified Japanese aircraft, as they all looked fairly similar. In the Aircraft Action Report filed by Klingman and Reusser, which can be found on Fold3 (with membership), they describe the "Nick", as they identified it, having superior performance to their F4U Corsairs and were unable to catch it at 38,000 ft until they had expended half their ammunition. The "Nick" is not even capable of reaching this altitude in the first place and with a top speed of 540 kph it's not hard to overtake by the Corsair. In fact the "Dinah" would struggle to reach this altitude (usually quoted as slightly over 35,000 ft), so I also estimate the altimeters on the Corsair weren't entirely accurate or the Dinah had been primed, polished and modified for a slight boost in performance. During WW2 only two Japanese aircraft could outperform the Corsair at this altitude and these were the "Myrt" and the "Dinah". The former being a single-engine plane, the only opponent they could've faced at that altitude was the "Dinah". And this makes sense as the "Dinah" was used by the Japanese Army Air Force to reconnoitre allied shipping in preparation for kamikaze attacks. The "Nick" was a heavy interceptor and light ground attack fighter and not suitable for the high-altitude reconnaissance role. So there is no doubt in my mind that the enemy they faced was the Ki-46-II "Dinah", as this was the most common version at the time and looked very much like a Ki-45 "Nick". All this may be of little interest to you and all you want is a source. Since I would have to first publish a book and source myself to provide a source, I have modified the text to "a Japanese twin-engine aircraft" as this is factually correct and doesn't perpetuate the erroneous identification.Skyraider3D (talk) 12:14, 14 December 2019 (UTC)