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« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2005, 10:38:17 PM »
Most respondents are well trained in the public relations art of providing whatever they want to answer rather than responding specifically to the question.

So, specifically:  P-39.  :D
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« Reply #31 on: June 21, 2005, 02:01:25 PM »
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Which is prettier... well that's easy! Which ever I'm in at the moment:p

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« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2005, 02:03:41 PM »
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« Reply #33 on: June 21, 2005, 02:13:36 PM »
spad II

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« Reply #34 on: June 21, 2005, 05:35:49 PM »
between spit and pony, P51D

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« Reply #35 on: June 22, 2005, 07:56:39 AM »
Nothing beats the 38.







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« Reply #36 on: June 22, 2005, 08:05:44 AM »
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i will have to go with the grumman duck


Freud would definately have a comment on this...

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« Reply #37 on: June 22, 2005, 08:35:06 AM »

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« Reply #38 on: June 23, 2005, 02:14:41 AM »
Although I agree that the Spitfire is probably the most beautiful WWII fighter, and the P-51 and P-38 are very beautiful as well, I'd still like to nominate two others:




and...






(Ohhh ... I just love that angle!)



... but as I said, it is very hard to beat a clipped wing Spit V!


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« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2005, 03:49:45 AM »
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I kinda like that photo for  some reason :)

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F/L Clive Gosling in the Spit XII prototype DP845, rolls away from photographer Charles Brown's aircraft, October 1943.
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« Reply #40 on: June 23, 2005, 07:11:37 AM »
now that i think about it i would have to go with this

tuskeegee airmen: the early years
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« Reply #41 on: June 23, 2005, 08:00:34 AM »
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now that i think about it i would have to go with this

tuskeegee airmen: the early years


Is that you Smidsy? Too funny :D

I think the Spit is too girly, I'll go for the P-51D, polished metal finish.

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« Reply #42 on: June 23, 2005, 08:03:36 AM »
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I think the Spit is too girly, I'll go for the P-51D, polished metal finish.


I'm beginning to wonder about you. I like girls... Girls are pretty! (check thread title). :D

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« Reply #43 on: June 23, 2005, 07:39:06 PM »
no thats not me. just some photo i found on the internet. then the gears started turning: small biplane+red nose+ black guy+ silly= tuskeegee airmen: the early years. thats how my brain works. here is an example of somethin that made me fall out of my seat laughing.

george forman+spongebob episode involving boxes+futurama+timing+mr.T= fall out of my chair laughing for no explainable reason.

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« Reply #44 on: June 23, 2005, 09:39:31 PM »
Now this is a good looking airplane!



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