Originally posted by clackers
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If you are still intrested in the topic i will reply here:
figure 11:
shows a fighter production of roughly 1500 planes between july and november, this is included in a overall fighter production of all fighter types ( blenheim, defiant etc ) of 1908 aircraft.
repair in the same period is around 820 aircraft.
The problem with this figure is that repairs are counted on a case basis in plane english the same aircraft can be repaired several times over .
production however is counted on a aircraft basis ie one plane is counted once.
Disregarding the repair factor and counting only new production and losses , by october 1940 the strenght of Raf fighter squadrons should
have increased by at least 600 aircraft ( 1500 new build minus 900 losses. )
however the data posted in figure 3 shows a more modest increase : only 100 aircraft in the same timeframe.
The are only 2 posibilties :
1) the repair factor on a aircraft basis was in fact negative (500 aircraft still avait repairs ) even thou the repair on a case basis reached 820. In this case the aprisal of the CRO is woefully overstated.
2) the data on raf strenght in july and october is wrong.
Personally I am leaning towards option 1.
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