Spitfires: The main reason people dont fly them

[USRanger]

I wish I was too cool to fly certain cartoon planes.  Some of you are truly my heroes.

[Boozeman]

I wish I was too cool to fly certain cartoon planes.  Some of you are truly my heroes.

I'm not sure this has anythig to do with being cool.

[mechanic]

The only valid reason I can see for not choosing a spitfire is so that people will actualy fight you. Fighting Spitfires seem to scare people into 'one pass then run' tactics more than anything else. I've seen people who are more willing to turn fight a zeke than a spitfire. That is the only downside I can see.

[BlauK]

I just LOVE the Spits in fire?   .... but NO, I cannot see any reason trying to turn fight against them.

[FX1]

When I played the spit 16 was my main ride. When you fight 5v1 low on the deck or trying to clear a dar bar the spit is my plane. Also Levi handed my ash to me so many times that he showed that 1 good spit pilot could control the fight and win most fights when your at a disadvantage.

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight!   

[Crash Orange]

When I played the spit 16 was my main ride. When you fight 5v1 low on the deck or trying to clear a dar bar the spit is my plane. Also Levi handed my ash to me so many times that he showed that 1 good spit pilot could control the fight and win most fights when your at a disadvantage.

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight!   

 

I'll take a Spit driver who'll fight at a disadvantage over a tater-chuckin' cherry-pickin' alt-monkey K4 dweeb any day of the week.

(Ever notice how Spit drivers never pi** and moan all over the forums if they don't get 1-shot kills with every shot?) 

Plus, Spits just look cooler. 

[jdbecks]

I can see right now that I'll have to set you brits straight on a few things. First of all Spitfires are ugly. They look like a turd with wings. They can't dive, climb, turn, outrun, catchup, or outshoot anything but another Spitfire. The wings are weak....just like the guns. They suck gas like there's no tomorrow. As soon as you take off you have to turn around and go land, for you're out of fuel!
When I blow by a spitfire in my shiney american killing machine with mean looking shark teeth painted on the nose, I am usually flipping them the bird and mooning them as I collect the scalp that was on their six.
Spitfires seem to lose control alot, for I see them flopping like a fish out of water when I'm about to saw their pink wings off.
Yes gentlemen, sad as it is there are not 1 but 2 models of pink spitfires I'd venture to say the queen has a soft spot for those. Come to think of it, there's alot of queens, fancy lads and dandy boys that enjoy a fish floppin' sortie aboard a pink machine
I must close for now as I am laughing uncontrollably at the very thought of the spitfire 1,5,8,9,16,14.....and seafire. My goodness that's alot of Spitfires.

P.S. Churchill would sneak across the pond at night a fly P51s. (Image removed from quote.)

yeah but you missed one thing, we nammed a beer..well an Ale, after the spitfire and named it..."Spitfire" and then check out these ubber cool advertisment slogans!

http://www.spitfireale.co.uk/advertising/index.htm

http://www.spitfireale.co.uk/advertising/cartoons.htm

I mean come on..how cool is that!  

[Crash Orange]

I fly the P-40E over the Spit...more fun for me...nothing against Spit drivers.  But the P-40 is sexy...

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You look like Ben Affleck in that P-40, you know. 

Oh... wait...

[Boozeman]

The only valid reason I can see for not choosing a spitfire is so that people will actualy fight you. Fighting Spitfires seem to scare people into 'one pass then run' tactics more than anything else. I've seen people who are more willing to turn fight a zeke than a spitfire. That is the only downside I can see.

I don't think so. Spits get fought as much as much as most other planes get.

The reason not to choose a Spit is to choose the difficulter, but in the end the more rewarding ride. Just an example.

[moot]

The only valid reason I can see for not choosing a spitfire is so that people will actualy fight you. Fighting Spitfires seem to scare people into 'one pass then run' tactics more than anything else. I've seen people who are more willing to turn fight a zeke than a spitfire. That is the only downside I can see.

Key words in bold and I doubt they're the truth.  The fact, and pretty much anyone with a clue knows this, is that spitfires don't require much effort to win fights with.  Just work your way past any initial energy disadvantage and it's all downhill effort from there.  The envelope is simple enough for you to make all sorts of mistake and get away with it.  All of this comes at the cost of top speed and relatively light armament.  Even if the envelope is easy and fool proof enough to mostly nullify this lighter armament, it all makes for a package that's pretty pedestrian, regardless of how effective it is.  It's no speed demon. 

[SectorNine50]

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I'm confused by the connotation of that picture...  Are you laughing at me, or with me?

The sentence you posted that too was supposed to be a hyperbole...

[Kazaa]

At you mate, at you.

[Crash Orange]

I fly Spitfires because they are cute and easy to fly!

I prefer this one:



(Haven't quite finished the Emil yet - my AH addiction has been interfering with my RC addiction lately.)

[A8Hunter]

Only thing more fun than flying the spit, is watching others cry foul when they die by one. The words, easy, real plane, get a pair, dweeb, only make the experience that more enjoyable. Spent the last four years working the whole Spit series and never a dull moment.
The Spit is in my opinion the easiest plane to get up in and fight with right out of the box. But that is about where easy ends. If you want to do more than just die in a spit over and over endlessly you got to work on your ACM. The Spit has serious limitations and good gamers here know well how to use them against a Spit. Unfortunatly those are primarily the ones that cry foul when a Spit shoots em down. Somehow the person flying can never be equal simply because the plane they chose to up didn't meet their standards.
The Spit is by far not the best plane in the game. It can be however the most fun. And making others throw out the quick barb as they rest in the tower chosing a new ride has got to be one of the best perks
But, this is all coming from a Spit dweeb so this and a buck will get ya a cup o tea  :dev

[moot]

But that is about where easy ends. If you want to do more than just die in a spit over and over endlessly you got to work on your ACM. The Spit has serious limitations and good gamers here know well how to use them against a Spit. Unfortunatly those are primarily the ones that cry foul when a Spit shoots em down. Somehow the person flying can never be equal simply because the plane they chose to up didn't meet their standards.
The Spit is by far not the best plane in the game. It can be however the most fun.

Especially biased, non-objective assessment. Except for the bolded part; no argument there. The rest is definitely a self-serving spitfire dweeb talking.
edit - the only addendum to this being that only the Spitfire 1 and 5 fit what's in the quote.