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Offline oakranger

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #120 on: April 28, 2016, 10:45:25 PM »
Quote from: nrshida on April 28, 2016, 02:23:09 AM


For no more rational reason than its quirkiness, design and the bravery of those who fought in it. Excellent wishlist thread over here with a wealth of pictures and info:-

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,313538.0.html

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Offline nrshida

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #121 on: April 29, 2016, 01:48:11 AM »
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #122 on: April 29, 2016, 09:26:57 AM »
This is one of my favourites...
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #123 on: April 29, 2016, 10:44:56 AM »
That be Screwball.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #124 on: April 29, 2016, 08:51:20 PM »
Quote from: nrshida on April 29, 2016, 01:48:11 AM
Lolz, what?

Plane might had so much potential only if they had enough Merlin engines.
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Offline nrshida

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #125 on: April 29, 2016, 09:18:06 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on April 29, 2016, 08:51:20 PM
Plane might had so much potential only if they had enough Merlin engines.

It's a small aeroplane. The concept was more two smaller units divided to clear the nose for bomber-killing armament.

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Offline GScholz

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #126 on: April 29, 2016, 09:25:32 PM »
Yet it doesn't carry more firepower than a Hurricane IIc...
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #127 on: April 29, 2016, 10:32:10 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on April 29, 2016, 09:25:32 PM
Yet it doesn't carry more firepower than a Hurricane IIc...
Well, it did it earlier and faster on less power.  If it had been designed for Merlins, well, it would likely have been up there with the Fw187 as an actual twin engined, high performance fighter rather than the overweight twins like the Bf110 and Ki-45 that mostly made it to service.
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Offline nrshida

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #128 on: April 30, 2016, 02:25:25 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on April 29, 2016, 09:25:32 PM
Yet it doesn't carry more firepower than a Hurricane IIc...

But it's eight times more good-looking  :rofl

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Offline GScholz

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #129 on: April 30, 2016, 06:14:42 AM »
I don't know... I have a soft spot for the old Hurri.  :cool:

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Offline nrshida

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #130 on: April 30, 2016, 07:38:46 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on April 30, 2016, 06:14:42 AM
I don't know... I have a soft spot for the old Hurri.  :cool:

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You wanna watch yourself GScholz. At this rate you'll soon have to change your avatar to Winston Churchill and sell your BMW for a Morgan Plus 8 in BRG  :old:



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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #131 on: April 30, 2016, 09:03:50 AM »
A long time ago I did own a Rover SD1 2600 VDP... in gold. Still one of my favorite cars ever. Such a nice ride, and made all the right noises. Being a British car made by communists on strike all the time it also made all the wrong noises now and then and was in the shop a lot.

But when it worked it was such a nice car to drive...



These days I do drive a Bimmer yes... but I also have a Land Rover, so I have one foot on each side of the Channel. ;)

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Offline nrshida

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #132 on: April 30, 2016, 11:47:55 AM »
Very cool cars the old SD1s. Poor man's Daytona they used to call em. Yeah trade unions irreparably damaged and killed the UK's motor industry. Social change was also necessary I suppose. Britain always was class-based and heavily buerocratic. Just watching Top Gear again and there's a season 4 episode featuring the Jaguar XJS. May's explaining how they cut costs even on the rubber in the bushings, the plastic electrical connectors, everything they could. There's a company that reconditions good ones and fixes the whole mess making a decent car.

All Over for Rover now of course  :cry

Opps, I seem to have simultaneously rule #3 & #5ed myself all at once. Pardon.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #133 on: May 01, 2016, 09:22:18 PM »
I figure a lot more folks would fly P-40s if they had a Viper covering their six.....

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #134 on: May 05, 2016, 03:43:08 PM »
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