Author Topic: Most Surprising Fighter Fact? (Read 12612 times)

GScholz · « **Reply #135 on:** February 02, 2004, 07:30:42 PM »

Just like I thought. You can't name even one operation or one target. You're a flag waiving weasel that has no respect what so ever for the truth or the people that actually were there and made the difference and you disgrace their memory by claiming their accomplishments as your own for petty nationalistic reasons. I have no respect for you. Your words mean nothing.

Crumpp · « **Reply #136 on:** February 02, 2004, 07:43:49 PM »

I'm heartbroken.... Say it isn't so!!

I'm sorry the world isn't how you wish it to be.

Crumpp

GScholz · « **Reply #137 on:** February 02, 2004, 07:57:47 PM »

Crumpp and Nashwan, two sides of the same coin.

You haven't provided one single proof of your claims that the OSS was "the main effort with UWO in Norway due to the large Norwegian-American population. We simply had more contacts in the country than the SOE". You can't, because it is not true. The SOE had tens of thousands of contacts in Norway through MilOrg, what did the OSS have? A hand full perhaps, if even that? Yet you claim that the OSS was the "main effort". You're a fraud, a liar and a disgrace to your nation.

Crumpp · « **Reply #138 on:** February 02, 2004, 08:01:18 PM »

Crumpp

MiloMorai · « **Reply #139 on:** February 02, 2004, 10:55:48 PM »

When in 1941 were these operations, dirt-eater?

Angus · « **Reply #140 on:** February 03, 2004, 05:41:16 AM »

Never heard of Americans participating in ops or commando raids in Norway, just Norse and British. Please inform me.

Crumpp · « **Reply #141 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:44:14 AM »

I'm a flag waving lying loser. We can leave it at that!!

Sorry to have wasted your time. On this one, seems I was wrong.

Crumpp

Angus · « **Reply #142 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:55:07 AM »

No prob bud

GScholz · « **Reply #143 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:26:40 AM »

Well, at least he has the balls to admit it.

Btw. cute kid you've got there Crumpp.

Halo · « **Reply #144 on:** February 03, 2004, 05:55:56 PM »

It's official: This thread has been hijacked and is being held hostage in a fjord. Send in the Beaufighters and Swordfish.

Swordfish? There's a return to the thread -- was the Swordfish the most successful biplane of WWII?

empty · « **Reply #145 on:** February 03, 2004, 09:05:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
Nice Widewing, Nice;)
Did you know that damage to the hydraulics system in the 190 could lead to it dropping one or both legs of gear down?

The amazing things you hear!

How did this happen, since the Fw190s retract/extend system was electric? Note, so was stab-trim and flaps.

I had heard that the B17 guys would loop and roll their B17s. Unloaded and over friendly realistate in areas where no one important would be found.
Hadn't heard that about the Lanc's, but those Brits were just as crazy...

SunTracker · « **Reply #146 on:** February 03, 2004, 09:21:48 PM »

I know of at least one documented case of a fully loaded B-17 looping. B-17 was climbing into formation in thick cloud cover. It came right up behind another B-17 and the propwash threw the plane into a loop. Airspeed got up to about 375 during recovery but the pilot managed to regain control. Only damage was rivets torn out of tail.

MiloMorai · « **Reply #147 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:11:26 PM »

First fly-by-wire a/c.

Nope not a fighter but a B-17,(afaik;) ) and during WW2 > electricity, electric motors and pots.

Angus · « **Reply #148 on:** February 04, 2004, 03:07:07 AM »

Well, it must have been due to a failiure in the electrics system then. I read a pilots account of an engagement where a burst of 50. cals into the belly of a 190 caused this to happen, then later I also saw that on a guncam picture somewhere. This is even featured in the good old flying game "Aces over Europe"!
Maybe some damage just caused the wheel lockk to disengage so the wheel dropped. don't really know, but would be interesting.

Halo · « **Reply #149 on:** March 05, 2004, 06:54:35 PM »

A few fighters in WWII had only two-bladed props, many had three- or four-bladed props, but how many had five-bladed props? Six-bladed?

I can find only one five-bladed prop fighter, the famous Spit XIV.

The only six-bladed prop fighter might be the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden canard which was only a prototype.

Even after WWII, the only other five-bladed prop plane seems to be the Hawker Sea Fury.

(Not counting counter-rotating twin props, of which there are several after WWII.)

Any other five- or six-bladed WWII fighters ... or any other type?