Author Topic: Name This Plane (163) (Read 1003 times)

brady · « **on:** April 21, 2001, 11:02:00 AM »

????

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Pongo · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2001, 11:38:00 AM »

cool.
My 9 year old son got it right...

Staga · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2001, 11:46:00 AM »

Bügelachten Bü-38

Fishu · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2001, 12:14:00 PM »

Looks like brady found the captured allied planes gallery.

Tac · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2001, 01:09:00 PM »

it even looks pretty with those obscene markings

Flitze · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2001, 02:30:00 PM »

Wow !

That's my plane

! I need this painting immediately !
I knew the germans had some secret weapons

Since this plane has a totally new painting and not only the markings replaced by the german ones, what was it used for ?
Only for evaluation or also for special operations ?

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XNachoX · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2001, 03:44:00 PM »

P-38 in German camo? Uggggggglllllyyyyyyy!

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BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2001, 04:55:00 PM »

They used it for recon missions
An captured italian P38 was the only allied plane to shoot down a allied plane

Again the p38 hit the records

Jack55 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2001, 05:10:00 PM »

Was it field-fitted with MW50?

Replicant · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2001, 06:25:00 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:
They used it for recon missions
An captured italian P38 was the only allied plane to shoot down a allied plane

Again the p38 hit the records

Didn't the Finnish air force use the Hurricane against the Soviets?

Nexx

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Widewing · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2001, 07:15:00 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:
They used it for recon missions
An captured italian P38 was the only allied plane to shoot down a allied plane

Again the p38 hit the records

There were many allied aircraft shot down by other allied aircraft. Since we're on the topic of the P-38, what about that idiot RAF Spitfire jockey that shot down the USAAF C-54 carrying 200 sets of dive recovery flap kits for the 8th AF's P-38J fighters?

My regards,

Widewing

LLv34_Camouflage · « **Reply #11 on:** April 21, 2001, 07:51:00 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322:
An captured italian P38 was the only allied plane to shoot down a allied plane

Errr, false. I'm sure there were many friendly fire cases!!

And the Finnish Air Force is a whole other chapter...

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Originally posted by Replicant:
Didn't the Finnish air force use the Hurricane against the Soviets?

Yes. And don't forget that the FAF had also other "allied" planes in their inventory: Brewsters, Curtiss Hawks, Fokker D.XXI's, Bristol Bulldogs, Gloster Gladiators, Morane Saulnier 406's, as well as captured Russian I-153's, I-16's and LaGG-3's. All of them scored kills against the Russians.

Camo

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juzz · « **Reply #12 on:** April 21, 2001, 08:57:00 PM »

Name one fighter that was used by both sides, and actually did fight combats against itself...

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #13 on:** April 21, 2001, 09:09:00 PM »

Bf-109E3, Yugoslavia had several and used them vs Germany in the April 1941 invasion.

Flitze · « **Reply #14 on:** April 21, 2001, 09:18:00 PM »

Thx, BUG.

I've read the post about captured allied planes now, too.
What BUG meant is that the captured P38 was the only US-build plane shooting down another US-build plane (B17) in WWII. Friendly fire not taken into account.

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