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Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: 1K3 on May 15, 2007, 06:50:09 PM
2 choices...

full wing
(http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/pix/vehic/Spitfire_Aus.jpg)

or

clipped wing
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Spitfire_banks.jpg)


?
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: evenhaim on May 15, 2007, 06:55:00 PM
umm niether....
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: evenhaim on May 15, 2007, 06:55:48 PM
if any then ok the spit 9
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: KONG1 on May 15, 2007, 06:57:27 PM
Breaded and deep fried with lots of ketchup to hide the aftertaste.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: sonic23 on May 15, 2007, 06:59:49 PM
very nice
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Kev367th on May 15, 2007, 07:01:48 PM
You missed one - extended (pointy)

(http://www.elknet.pl/historia-lotnictwa/av_hist/planes/spit_8/01.jpg)

(http://www.luchtoorlog.be/img/spit_v/anm.jpg)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: evenhaim on May 15, 2007, 07:05:14 PM
Quote
Originally posted by KONG1
Breaded and deep fried with lots of ketchup to hide the aftertaste.


lmao i agree!
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Xasthur on May 15, 2007, 07:11:38 PM
No wings!

like this:

-screenshot link - (http://www1.hitechcreations.com/page4/Archaius262_109KvSpit.jpg)

:rofl
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: 1K3 on May 15, 2007, 07:14:52 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Kev367th
You missed one - extended (pointy)

(http://www.luchtoorlog.be/img/spit_v/anm.jpg)



nooooo

MY EYES!:O
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Bronk on May 15, 2007, 07:18:03 PM
(http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/milestones-of-flight/aircraft/images/1943/1943-p019203-S-M-Spitf-XII.jpg)


Clipped and with a griffin if you please.

haha got it before corky. :D


Bronk
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: ozrocker on May 15, 2007, 08:46:36 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Xasthur
No wings!

like this:

-screenshot link - (http://www1.hitechcreations.com/page4/Archaius262_109KvSpit.jpg)

:rofl



LMFAO, Looks like a spit or two of mine

                                        Oz
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Xargos on May 15, 2007, 09:00:52 PM
Well Done.   :t
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Blooz on May 15, 2007, 09:10:38 PM
http://www.rebelflyingclub.com/photos/RFC/ic/2003-08-01/spitfirecrash-wing.jpg

Very well done.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: thndregg on May 15, 2007, 10:22:41 PM
"How do you like your Spitfire?"

On a spit, over the fire?
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Guppy35 on May 15, 2007, 11:50:00 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Bronk
(http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/milestones-of-flight/aircraft/images/1943/1943-p019203-S-M-Spitf-XII.jpg)


Clipped and with a griffin if you please.

haha got it before corky. :D


Bronk


Yeah but you don't know the pilots.  I do :)

F/L Clive Gosling in the first Spit XII photo, flying MB882 the last production Spit XII in October 1943.  Photo by Charles Brown.  Corresponded with Clive for 20 years.  Raised a glass with him at the RAF Club in London in 85 :)

Your photo.  MB882 EB-B being flown by F/L Don Smith RAAF, April 1944 from Friston.  Corresponded with him for a while too.  MB858 EB-D often flown by F/L Bruce Moffett ( I have his logbook).  Also later flown by F/O Don Tebit. (also corresponded with him)

Don Tebit in MB858 and F/L Terry Spencer in MB882 EB-B flew the last operational Spit XII flight in September 1944.

So there!   Yeah I'm a Spit XII junkie :)

OK so I couldn't help my self showing off a bit.;)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: evenhaim on May 16, 2007, 12:02:42 AM
lol guppy a bit to savvy with the intellegence we need to dum u down a bit (no offense just my superiority complex)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Atoon on May 16, 2007, 01:23:17 AM
Spits are for kids~
Title: ?
Post by: stockli on May 16, 2007, 01:29:27 AM
Clipped like fore skin.

Those full wings are unsightly.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: stockli on May 16, 2007, 01:31:15 AM
HAHA Guppy shared a glass with Charlie Brown.

Its an American thing.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Furball on May 16, 2007, 01:52:43 AM
I love the little "i hate the spitfire!!" kiddies who jump on the bandwagon because it is seen as a 'dweeb' plane in Aces High.

Personally i prefer the full wing.  It is magical when you see a Spitfire in a hard turn/climbing turn and hear the roar of the engine.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1179298337_0429827.jpg)

Image from http://www.airliners.net
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Xasthur on May 16, 2007, 02:06:04 AM
^I wouldn't read into it too much, Furball.

Clipped is uuugggllly and not the real 'spitfire' look.

The full wing is what gives the spit its distinct profile.

Aside from the fact that I dislike the spit in-game, the full-wing spit is a beautiful aircraft
Title: Re: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Nilsen on May 16, 2007, 02:26:44 AM
Quote
Originally posted by 1K3
Re: How do you like your Spitfire?



burning
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Bronk on May 16, 2007, 05:02:08 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Guppy35
Yeah but you don't know the pilots.  I do :)

F/L Clive Gosling in the first Spit XII photo, flying MB882 the last production Spit XII in October 1943.  Photo by Charles Brown.  Corresponded with Clive for 20 years.  Raised a glass with him at the RAF Club in London in 85 :)

Your photo.  MB882 EB-B being flown by F/L Don Smith RAAF, April 1944 from Friston.  Corresponded with him for a while too.  MB858 EB-D often flown by F/L Bruce Moffett ( I have his logbook).  Also later flown by F/O Don Tebit. (also corresponded with him)

Don Tebit in MB858 and F/L Terry Spencer in MB882 EB-B flew the last operational Spit XII flight in September 1944.

So there!   Yeah I'm a Spit XII junkie :)

OK so I couldn't help my self showing off a bit.;)



Just had to one up me, didn't ya.:p
All that spit info + first hand look at that race kingcobra.

Color me green.

Dan


Bronk
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Charge on May 16, 2007, 05:21:06 AM
Pink -and standard wings, thx.:cool:

-C+
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: LYNX on May 16, 2007, 09:39:03 AM
I prefer the look of the full wing but when I get to do this to so many and done to by so few then clipped is ok with me:D

(http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/1090_1178640112_ah9.jpg)[/IMG]
  Get it...so few :)

(http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/1090_1178656728_ah5.jpg)[/IMG]
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: EsX_Raptor on May 16, 2007, 10:26:49 AM
I prefer clipped ones ever since that was a try from the british to avoid me shooting their spits\' wings off... didn\'t work for them :)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: crockett on May 16, 2007, 12:01:55 PM
Quote
Originally posted by LYNX
I prefer the look of the full wing but when I get to do this to so many and done to by so few then clipped is ok with me:D

(http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/1090_1178640112_ah9.jpg)[/IMG]
  Get it...so few :)

(http://[img]http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/1090_1178656728_ah5.jpg)[/IMG]


agreed I prefer the real short clipped wing version :D


However when I flew them, I liked the spit 9 or the seafire that I fly from time to time off a CV. Other than that IMO Spits are too easy to fly.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Gianlupo on May 16, 2007, 12:11:46 PM
Standard wing and Griffon engine, please! :)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: SlapShot on May 16, 2007, 12:42:46 PM
Standard wing ... preferably the "old" Spit V that we had, dressed in "Malta Blue".
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Atoon on May 17, 2007, 01:02:49 AM
I love RL spits! AH spits.. meh- not so much
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Serenity on May 17, 2007, 01:22:58 AM
Full wing. Not long and pointy, not short and clipped. Standard, full wing. And no Gryffon. That things just a tad bit too large for my tastes.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: JB88 on May 17, 2007, 04:03:29 AM
(http://www.augustradio.com/boom.jpg)

i like mine up close and personal.

:cool:
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: LYNX on May 17, 2007, 06:28:07 AM
Quote
Originally posted by crockett
agreed I prefer the real short clipped wing version :D


However when I flew them, I liked the spit 9 or the seafire that I fly from time to time off a CV. Other than that IMO Spits are too easy to fly.


Watching a TV program an old spit pilot Bob ? (forgot Sir name) said of the Spitfire "any idiot could fly one".  He then went onto explain that Jerry needed more training hours where as our lads didn't.  

Listening to BBC radio4 (woman's hour:rolleyes: )  one morning they had an old dear on....amazing storey she told.  She used to fly planes from the factories to the airfields where needed.  Now this old dear flew just about everything made in Britain.  Single, twin and four engined aircraft.  At the end of her interview the presenter asked "The" question...."what did you like flying the most". With a joyful tone in her middle class English accent she replied "the Spitfire my dear it was part of you".

These statements go to show how much of a truly balanced fighter the Spitfire was.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Nilsen on May 17, 2007, 06:46:50 AM
It is easy to fly, and thats why its also so boring.
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 17, 2007, 08:07:41 AM
Parked, like so

(http://www.vord.net/609/spitfires/spitfire_crash.jpg)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: dedalos on May 17, 2007, 11:04:38 AM
Blue
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Krusty on May 17, 2007, 11:10:31 AM
Quote
Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Parked, like so

(http://www.vord.net/609/spitfires/spitfire_crash.jpg)


:confused: :eek: :D :lol :rofl :cry

:aok
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Gianlupo on May 17, 2007, 11:48:17 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
It is easy to fly, and thats why its also so boring.


As Furball, I can't understand all this anti Spit bias.... Boring???? How can a plane be boring, just because it's so well designed that anyone can fly it? Must a plane be a barely maneuverable brick to be exciting?

The Spitfire is a great plane that relieve you from the worries of flying it and let you concentrate fully on what you're doing, and that's great to learn to fight, to hone your SA and your gunnery.

If you need excitement, take a Spit and dive in the middle of a red crowd, then you'll tell me if it's boring, or if you'll be grateful to it because it's so easy to fly that can really help you in staying alive!
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on May 17, 2007, 11:53:24 AM
Yes gian

P47's are much better than spits.
everyone knows this.
Honestly spits are the last plane i will ever fly in this game "BLAH!"



"Reminder" Do you guys have the engine sound,that is of a house fly?
I put that on every british & japanese plane.

When getting near a furrball it was like standing next to a old corps "flys buzzing about .ect"
:)
Title: How do you like your Spitfire?
Post by: Gianlupo on May 17, 2007, 12:03:21 PM
Yes to what? It seems you don't agree with a single word of what I said! :confused: