Just weird from a German

[suityou01]

Wood and glue and a couple of Merlins, fcking awesome machine.

The first use of superglue as I understand it. Then again I may be wrong.

[Troll]

FW190 was best fighter in WW2 IMHO..

Out performed the current Spitfire by quite a margin - the Typhoon with the Napier Sabre engine (worth a read on its own just for a classic British engineering story) could match the FW190

But I'm with the others on liking the Mosquito as the best Allied plane of WWII...but the ME262 has to take the overall award

[stek]

Just weird from a German

Out performed the current Spitfire by quite a margin - the Typhoon with the Napier Sabre engine (worth a read on its own just for a classic British engineering story) could match the FW190

But I'm with the others on liking the Mosquito as the best Allied plane of WWII...but the ME262 has to take the overall award

Off topic slightly but the Lanc for me, ended up carrying a 22,000lb bomb, when the B17 was stuck with 6000lbs I think...

No other plane could have dropped the mine on the dams at that time, even now could it be done in a similar fashion ie not a SCUD or ICBM?

[vetran]

just send them some Orange sashes, they will bomb themselves?

[KentPhilip]

Colleague who I call food guy came into the office this afternoon.

"Suity, I need to borrow a spitfire"

...

"Our colleagues in Dublin are doing my head in. ....

He was actually in need of Spitfire beer, to calm his nerves..




Edit: Google image search "Spitfire beer". Some of the adverts are quite funny.

[EternalOptimist]

reminds me of the old squadron leader giving a talk at our school in the sixties.
The old duffer was telling us about a dog fight over Kent

'Of course, I was on me own. seperated from the boys. Checked the bally sun, and there they were , two fokkers screaming down at me. So I dived into the clouds, did a reverse immelman, pulled the stick over, and when we came out of the clouds, I was heading back for Manston and those two fokkers were heading for Berlin. Jolly good show.What. what'

'does anyone have any questions for the squadron leader ?'

'Sir sir. were the Fokker 190 or 190A ?'

'No. no. those two fokkers were Messerschmitts'

[Old Hack]

Wasn't the Mustang the fastest prop plane in WW2?

Loved the mossy, just an elegant old bird.

[SimonMac]

Maybe he just wanted a decent beer?

The Beer | Spitfire Kentish Ale

Damn: Too Slow

[doodab]

Hmm. Best looking planes of WW2...

Spitfire
Mosquito
Mustang P51-D and onwards
Focke Wulf 190
B29

IMO

[quackhandle]

Out performed the current Spitfire by quite a margin - the Typhoon with the Napier Sabre engine (worth a read on its own just for a classic British engineering story) could match the FW190

But I'm with the others on liking the Mosquito as the best Allied plane of WWII...but the ME262 has to take the overall award

The Tiffy gets my vote as best looking plane of WW2, it was armed to the teeth and could withstand a hell of a battering and still get back to land in blighty. In fact many of the Typhoon pilots died just flying the damn thing. If you can get hold of it, Typhoon Attack by Norman Franks is a great read.

qh