Oh, dear Izzie.
Revisionist? me?
Paranoid revisionist=you.
Firstly, what questions are you referring to? save me some work of reading through your bull.
Secondly, when did I say anything about the RAF winning the battle of France? They bloody well didn't, to make that clear, and I think I have their loss number at grabs (well in 4 hrs I will), - they were appalling. However I may have stepped on a nerve when I promoted you with the LW losses in that campaign. That however includes the lowlands and interceptions against the Belgians, Dutch, French, RAF and ground support.
Most losses occured over Dunkirk though.
It was just more than you thought.......
Thirdly: I have been listing my sources, and that touches your nerves again. Oh, gooodness, forgot the ISBN for the German losses in may and june 1940,- want it?
Where are your sources?
That one's source from you:
"Spitfire vs. Bf 109 : 219 to 180 lost.
Hurricane vs. Bf 109 : 272 to 153 lost. "
What source? Author, page ISBN, Website?
Fourthly: COWARDLY FLEEING????
Be merry that you're thousands of KM's away from me you avacado!
I'd give you a course in LEVERAGE!
I can not see myself fleeing from a subject, I am staying with you.
So be more specific.
Then on to terror bombing.
What do you call sending up to 1000 bombers, night after night, dropping incendiaries over a city with 6 million inhabitants?
The fires that raged in London in the autumn of 1940 were so fierce, that at a point the fire Brigades EMPTIED THE THAMES!
The interesting part is how low the losses were, but since the Brits expected something like this to come (Learning from Warshaw, learning from Europe) they had actually put a whooping amount of citizens out to the countryside, out of harms way. Then of course, the London Underground...
Want some ISBN numbers on books about it? Would be a healthy read for you.
Anyway, as you yourself have so often stated, London got bombed for months, and there was nothing the RAF could do about it.
My addition to this is: AT NIGHT.
Already in 1940, only a 100 miles flight, London was too costly for daylight bombing.
Semi final. The Stick length and leverage.
I think it's quite obvious that Izzy never dipped his hand into cold water. That means, no sense of physical application.
Ifa shorter stick means better leverage, why bother with a stick at all? A knob would do.
Why do you have a longer shaft for increased leverage?
Seriously Izzy, you are making a confrontation on none less tham Arcimedes himself! I vote for Arcimedes.
Then finally, yet another bone for you all.
Hans-Schmoller-Haldy, 109 Pilot after a ride in a Spitty:
"I was able to fly a captured Spitfire at Jever. My first impression was that it had a beautiful engine. It purred. The engine of the Messerchmitt 109 was very loud. Also, the Spitfire was easier to fly and land, than the Me 109. The 109 was unforgiving of any inattention. I felt familiar from the Spitfire from the very start. That was my first and lasting impression."
Source is from Alfred Price, no less.
Now, why would that 109 pilot have said a thing like that.......
