Author Topic: Fairey Firefly  (Read 1428 times)

Offline trigger2

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Re: Fairey Firefly
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2009, 01:35:04 AM »
The point is that if you're going to start a thread on a topic that was already covered, it should at least add something new to the topic.  Posting a laundry list of specs that anyone can see for themselves by googling or wikiing "fairey firefly" isn't going to do much.   At the very least you could do some kind of pictorial or synthesize something from all the publicly available info on the Firefly, that really grabbed AH players' interest for the prospect of a Firefly in the game.

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If you woulda skimmed the replies you woulda seen that I put a link to another thread with it on there, with some good replies and some pictures to boot. ;)
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Re: Fairey Firefly
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2009, 01:52:50 AM »
I meant that for Nemesis.
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Re: Fairey Firefly
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2009, 01:24:57 PM »
Also your qouting the specs on, probably, the MK-lV, or MK-V. Which, if I remember right, wasnt built until 2 or 3 years after the war and was used extensively in Korea. Only the MK-1 saw squadron strength/operational use in WW-ll and had far more moderate performance, "tho still competative".

Anyway, all you ever wanted to know about it. http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Firefly.htm From my trove of WW-2 websights.

Interesting sight of all things Brit. http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Home.html

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Re: Fairey Firefly
« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2009, 04:18:27 PM »
Well since somebody started another one let me point out that we still have exactly one CV airplane representing a country that was a huge, and cutting edge, CV and aerospace presence in the war. Far more then, say, the Japanese. At least technology wise.

I realize the RAF, and the industry it controlled, was notoriously cheap when it came to developing CV born aircraft. But with the FireFly I think we have a competative design that would fit in well in the game.
   That is the main reason i posted this, we NEED more british carrier planes. We have 1 plane...I think. The U.S. has 6 carrier planes, not including the A's, D's and all those modles the F4U has.

And if the last one was in May then, My search didn't show it. I typed in Fairy Firefly and Firefly. I can't see how someone would post a thread and not name the plane.
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