Spitfire!!!!!!

[Cliphead]

Ouch - wouldn't have wanted to be on this bad boy

Crosswinds aside I'd be more worried about this;

Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash

 

[SupremeSpod]

Sorry, but there is a few rude words at the end.

The Spitfire is a cracking bit of kit that, along with the heroes inside them, deserves every bit as much respect now as it did all those years ago.

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

 

[EternalOptimist]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

my great-uncle was a hurricane pilot, he said the scariest thing in his life was being chased over Kent by two fokkers at angels zero

 

[shaunbhoy]

my great-uncle was a hurricane pilot, he said the scariest thing in his life was being chased over Kent by two fokkers at angels zero

Especially when those "fokkers" were Messerschmitts!!!

 

[shaunbhoy]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

Slightly contentious, but essentially true.

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

It was the Hurricane and it's pilots that won the "Battle of Britain".

Aye, not to be forgotten. I should have put that bit in to start with, sorry.

 

[EternalOptimist]

radar won the battle of Britain

 

[Gibbon]

Britain won the Battle of Britain FFS

 

[HairyArsedBloke]

Some say that it was more of a case that Germany lost it, or that they just gave up.

 

[EternalOptimist]

Those birds with the croupier sticks, and tight-fitting , figure hugging uniforms, pushing blocks around a big map of kent won the battle of Britain