Your Spitfire XVI quiz question of the day.

[Krusty]

Notice I was not advocating a perk in this thread. I was trying to keep my thoughts out of that topic. I was just stating that (logically) you can't separate the two plane types if you start talking about perking 1, the other, or neither. They are, essentially, the same plane with minor variations.

[bustr]

Lets compromise on the spit16.

HiTech adds a clipped wing Spitfire L.F Mk VB and reduce the perk on the spit14 to 4 or eliminates it entirely.

OOOPSies.....sorry ment eliminate the spit14 perk entirely. UNPerk the spit14 in the vernaculare.....

[vonKrimm]

perk der spitensexteen!  It b ub3r!  how i knowz this?  cuz i gots ramtarted by a B-38 2day & it dead & i lifed to lanz me killz even tho both of us pee-lots got collideds.

 

[SIK1]

I figured as much bustr just being facetious. 

[Soulyss]

Damn someone beat me too it...

Found another one though

A Spitfire XVI (TB752/KH-Z) of No 403 Sqn RCAF claimed a Bf109 on April 21 1945 near Schnackenburg.  Apparently that airframe went on to claim a 2nd and 3rd victory before the end of the war.  This is according to Osprey Publishing's American Spitfire Aces.

http://books.google.com/books?id=mLJcA6hGWvkC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Spitfire+XVI+victory+claim&source=bl&ots=0QmnqmAx5T&sig=UVR3mdPw3YbqmHHGkfAHa7mUeKs&hl=en&ei=9FiiS9-eC4u-sgPU-MCMBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Spitfire%20XVI%20victory%20claim&f=false

[waystin2]

But that was the impetus for developing the "clipped wing" ... so yeah ... you can't compare, but on the other hand, you shouldn't be doing high speed pursuits or high speed dogfighting in a Spit 5/8/9 against planes that are better suited for that type of engagement.

I concur Slapshot.  Bringing the cons into your zone of best performance is the best way to fight the 8.  Darn my squaddies but there is always one of them that gets in deep and I have to dive my Spit 8 several thousand feet to help em out.    That is when you see the above mentioned high speed sluggy behavior.

 

Way

[Guppy35]

how did this turn into another perk/moan about the XVI thread?

No clue.  I was just asking if anyone could find any documented XVI air to air kills.  I couldn't.  I knew that it was employed in the ground attack role with 2 TAF as was the LFIXe.  I was just curious as if there were any air to air, it had to be few as the Luftwaffe had just about disappeared by that time.

[Ack-Ack]

If you like your plane to get kills for you then yes it is.....just like the F4U.

Last time I checked, none of the planes in the game maneuver or fire the guns without pilot input.


ack-ack

[4deck]

Coincidence... or something more?

Hans:       Ze Indians haf ziz airquaft zat iz like UFO!
Herman:   Ja, I haf zeen it.  Retainz E as zo ze gravity und atmozphere did not exist!
Hans:      Vat do ve do!?!?!
Herman:   Im not going up zer again.
Hans:      Focke it.  Neizer am I.  I sink ve should surrender.
Herman:   Ja.  I haf zwei kinders!  Make ze call...

:::ringringring:::

Hitler:     ...Allo?

That is just funny chit 

[uptown]

did the spit16 kill any luffwafen guys or not? i'm comfused 

[Guppy35]

did the spit16 kill any luffwafen guys or not? i'm comfused 

Not many, due to lack of targets.  It does appear some Canadian Spit XVI pilots did shoot down some of the rarely seen Luftwaffe types however.

[uptown]

Not many, due to lack of targets.  It does appear some Canadian Spit XVI pilots did shoot down some of the rarely seen Luftwaffe types however.

ok thnx. that's what i've got out of this so far too. Seems the 14 seen more action than 16 did. That surprises me. I always thought the spit14 came after the spixteen.

[Guppy35]

ok thnx. that's what i've got out of this so far too. Seems the 14 seen more action than 16 did. That surprises me. I always thought the spit14 came after the spixteen.

Spit XIV was there before the XVI.  While the XVI was tasked with ground attack, the XIVs that went to the continent were used in the air to air role so they found more things to shoot at.

[SlapShot]

I concur Slapshot.  Bringing the cons into your zone of best performance is the best way to fight the 8.  Darn my squaddies but there is always one of them that gets in deep and I have to dive my Spit 8 several thousand feet to help em out.    That is when you see the above mentioned high speed sluggy behavior.

 

Way

I hear ya.

[SlapShot]

No clue.  I was just asking if anyone could find any documented XVI air to air kills.  I couldn't.  I knew that it was employed in the ground attack role with 2 TAF as was the LFIXe.  I was just curious as if there were any air to air, it had to be few as the Luftwaffe had just about disappeared by that time.

Oh Danny-Boy ... you could have bet the ranch that it would have come to ... "Perk the Spit 16".