American PR Spitfire pilot....

[MiloMorai]

..... sees his crash landing 70 odd years later. He makes some interesting comments as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY&feature=youtu.be

[gyrene81]

very cool vid...

saw it...twice now...
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,349153.0.html

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,349227.0.html

[streakeagle]

I had not seen or heard about this before.
Well worth the time and I am going to make sure more people I know see this video.
Thank you.
 

[J.A.W.]

Cool dude..
He didn''t rate the Lightning as much..

[Chalenge]

Cool dude..
He didn''t rate the Lightning as much..

Just confirming what we have always known about the 38.

[J.A.W.]

Little guy E.Brown frightened himself recording Mach 0.87 in a Tempest test.

Took a bit of brute force to heave it around, but those big tough 2nd TAF Kiwis loved 'em.

The Tempest's high-Mach excellent dive & zoom with lateral manoeuvring capability is

exactly what the Fw 190 & Bf 109 found difficult, when they did their split-S & dive routine.

Of course, the poor Mach number-capable P-38 was found wanting against 750kmh Vne e/a..

& this is one reason why they did not do do as well in the ETO.. as the PTO..