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Offline Anaxogoras

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Oh my spitdweebs!
« on: October 31, 2008, 01:03:19 AM »
Straight from the horses mouth for ya. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-Ra0dH-Lg&feature=related
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Offline Angus

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2008, 02:29:08 AM »
Saw that one before. :D
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

Offline Karnak

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2008, 02:46:09 AM »
And in war that made the Spitfire the superior fighter.

It also kinda backs up the AH Spitfire model.
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2008, 03:59:31 AM »
Reporter (standing at a Spitfire): "How was the Spitfire to fly"
WW2 Ace: "Well look at her, she's beautiful, very beautiful"
Reporter: "ehhm, yes indeed..."
WW2 Ace: "Beautiful like a beautiful woman"
Reporter: "Well, yes"
WW2 Ace: "And that answers your question. Anything that beautiful just has to be good, be it an aircraft or a woman"

This happened  :D
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

Offline Enker

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2008, 12:14:26 PM »
If it takes an idiot or above to fly a spit, why can't my dad fly a spit? The only thing he has gotten in the air long enough was my R/C plane, which he crashed one minute later...Do they have to be skilled idiots?
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2008, 12:30:33 PM »
Quote from: Enker on October 31, 2008, 12:14:26 PM
Do they have to be skilled idiots?


Just idiot-savants.


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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2008, 12:34:03 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on October 31, 2008, 12:30:33 PM

Just idiot-savants.


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Funny you said that, I saw it on a show last night.  The guy was saying how idiot savants only have 1 item in their brain which allows them to focus on that one item and know it inside and out.  I guess that's why everyone here tells new guys to pick a plane and learn all about it.
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Offline 715

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2008, 01:23:46 PM »
I really do not understand the abject contempt most players have for the Spitfire.  What exactly is it based on?  Because it was designed by a tea drinking Brit who was desperate to come up with something to save his country, and worked tirelessy on it all the while painfully dying of cancer?  Is it because it is "pretty" and you think all "real" planes should be as ugly as a jackboot?  Is it because you think it is too "easy" to fly in Aces High?  (It barely manages a K/D of 1.  Not exactly point-and-click.)  Is it because it is too common in Aces High?  (Then you should really hate the P51D- since that is the most common plane.) 
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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2008, 01:28:50 PM »
Hehe... I had seen that before.  Good to see it again.   :)

Spitfires are much easier to fly that the 109's as they are a much more forgiving aircraft.  However, we all know that a well trained and or experienced Me109F-4 (or other such typical 109) pilot can take down an unexperienced and untrained Spitfire Mk8/9 pilot with time.  Throw in the Spit16 and it will take a little longer.

The sad thing is... this sim/game allows the "noob"  that much more capability if in a Nik2, LA-7, or Spit16 and will be able to keep up with the vet in the 109x far more easily that it should.  Ah well...

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2008, 01:35:29 PM »
Quote from: 715 on October 31, 2008, 01:23:46 PM
I really do not understand the abject contempt most players have for the Spitfire.  What exactly is it based on?  Because it was designed by a tea drinking Brit who was desperate to come up with something to save his country, and worked tirelessy on it all the while painfully dying of cancer?  Is it because it is "pretty" and you think all "real" planes should be as ugly as a jackboot?  Is it because you think it is too "easy" to fly in Aces High?  (It barely manages a K/D of 1.  Not exactly point-and-click.)  Is it because it is too common in Aces High?  (Then you should really hate the P51D- since that is the most common plane.) 

Oh, it was all meant in good fun. ;)
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2008, 02:38:49 PM »
I would bet that 99% of the Luftwaffe fans in AH would, if pressed into the real thing, want to be in a Spitfire rather than any German aircraft.

This is not because of any lack on the German aircraft's part, it is because of the world Germany was fighting to create as compared to the world Britain was fighting for.

Being a fan of one side's equipment 50, 60, 70 years on is not the same thing as actually wishing there had been a different outcome.  I'd bet quite a bit of money that as much as Anaxogoras hates Spitfires in AH and derides their very existence in the game, he would not wish for a single additional Spitfire to have fallen to the guns of a Bf109 than actually happened.
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2008, 03:10:55 PM »
Ahhh luftwhine in the fall.... refreshing....not.
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Offline Anaxogoras

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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2008, 03:11:38 PM »
Too true.  In fact, I think France and the UK should have occupied Berlin after WW1 to prove that Germany was really beaten, despite the humiliation it would've been.

I just enjoy playing the role of the bad guy.  USRanger's offline mission where the Luftwaffe takes off to the tune of the Empire Strikes Back is pure genius. :D
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2008, 03:12:37 PM »
Quote from: Bronk on October 31, 2008, 03:10:55 PM
Ahhh luftwhine in the fall.... refreshing....not.

Tastes a lot better than your usual bromide. :aok
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Re: Oh my spitdweebs!
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2008, 04:43:05 PM »
 :lol touché
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