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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Treize69 on September 03, 2010, 05:52:08 PM
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Did they park this one at a Wal-Mart or McDonalds? Or maybe it's a deleted scene from a particular Alfred Hitchcock movie?
(http://spitfiresite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/265.jpg)
I know I wouldn't want to try and fly through that, so probably a good thing it's not running. :)
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must be feeding off of a puke pile.
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Looks like a Mk. V, It wont run from anything.
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must be feeding off of a puke pile.
I heard birds have a fondness for cookies... Especially tossed ones. :rofl
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The bird droppings will reduce the max speed by at least 20 mph on that thing.
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Notice it is a Polish squadron Spitfire.
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Jokers vulching again? :huh
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Notice it is a Polish squadron Spitfire.
and ? (you fail to properly address the "observation", leaving a few options)
It is a 317 sqdn Dywizjon Myśliwski "Wileński" - Vilnius Spitfire Mk. VB (It is JH-H). Don't know what you're trying to "point out", but the 317th fighters performed sweeps of Normandy on June 6th, 1944. They also were ground attack for the remainder of the war for the Allied troops.
Kind of like French jokes, they long ceased to be funny. Especially regarding the circumstances. JH-H served with No. 317 Squadron between September 1941 and March 1942, when it's career ended through forced landing near Bolt Head, Devon while short of fuel on return from the fighter sweep over France. IIRC the photo was taken near Northolt, England.
http://www.polishairforce.pl/dyw317zdj.html (http://www.polishairforce.pl/dyw317zdj.html)
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Good man K :)
317 Squadron Spit Vb. There is a beauty of a Spit Vb restored in 317 Squadron markings. Part of the home Spitfire library contains some good books on the Polish Spit drivers. They did some remarkable things with them.
Don't think Milo meant anything by it, just pointing out the nose marking.
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Good man K :)
317 Squadron Spit Vb. There is a beauty of a Spit Vb restored in 317 Squadron markings. Part of the home Spitfire library contains some good books on the Polish Spit drivers. They did some remarkable things with them.
Don't think Milo meant anything by it, just pointing out the nose marking.
He left it open to interpretation. If he meant nothing by it, then I'm fine. Otherwise...... ;)
Being part Polish, I've developed an extreme interest of the Polish Air Force prior to and during WWII. If you have any recommendations of Polish books, I'd very much enjoy to purchase them as well and pass them on to my son. :salute
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Don't think Milo meant anything by it, just pointing out the nose marking.
Correct Dan. If it had been any other nationality I would have pointed that out.
Masherbrum, if I wanted to take a dig at the Poles I would have said something like: 'well, it is a Polish Spit so what do you expect'.
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Correct Dan. If it had been any other nationality I would have pointed that out.
Masherbrum, if I wanted to take a dig at the Poles I would have said something like: 'well, it is a Polish Spit so what do you expect'.
Again, you left it open to interpretation. I apologize. :rock
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I pity the ground crew who will have to clean up all the droppings in the cockpit and all over the plane :) :D
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I pity the ground crew who will have to clean up all the droppings in the cockpit and all over the plane :) :D
:rolleyes:
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Masherbrum I expect you've read "A Question of Honor" by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, pretty much required reading for those interested in the Kosciuszko squadron from the BoB and beyond. :aok
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Masherbrum I expect you've read "A Question of Honor" by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, pretty much required reading for those interested in the Kosciuszko squadron from the BoB and beyond. :aok
I have it and read it in three 8 hour shifts at an old job.
I'll get "The Forgotten Few" as well. Before I returned to Nazgul then joined the WidowMakers, I was CO of "303 Kosciuszko Squadron". As much as I'd like to bring the 303 back into AH, as they SHOULD be represented, I enjoy the WM's too much. Good friends and brothers.
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I picked up "Spit & Polish" by Richard Whittle, when I was at the Legends Airshow at Duxford in 2005. Great coverage of the D-Day Polish Spits that operated from Chailey Sussex. Some wonderful photos included of the pilots and the Spit IXs.
Probably the expert on Polish Spits is Wojtek Matusiak. I have his first volume "Spitfire IX & XVI of Polish Airmen"
I know he's working on a second volume.
He's also co-Author of the Osprey book "Polish Aces of World War 2" He helped me out when I was trying to figure out the story on the silver Polish XVI we have in game so that we had enough info for Kev to skin it accurately
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I sincerely Thank You Dan. :rock
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the silver Polish XVI we have in game so that we had enough info for Kev to skin it accurately
:salute to you for your effort, sir, my favorite Spitfire skin, with the silver Spit V right in tow. A silver Spitfire is a gorgeous bird. :aok
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Notice it is a Polish squadron Spitfire.
not even in the ballpark of funny dude.
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not even in the ballpark of funny dude.
maybe because it wasn't intended to be "funny"?
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not even in the ballpark of funny dude.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
If it had been the 2cd post in the thread no one would have got their silk knickers all in a bunch. If I had known what squadron I would noted that as well.
So I repeat:
"If it had been any other nationality I would have pointed that out."
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
If it had been the 2cd post in the thread no one would have got their silk knickers all in a bunch. If I had known what squadron I would noted that as well.
So I repeat:
"If it had been any other nationality I would have pointed that out."
well....i had interpreted that as you taking a shot at the polish pilots.....if i was wrong, i'm sorry.........
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well....i had interpreted that as you taking a shot at the polish pilots.....if i was wrong, i'm sorry.........
YOU WAS WRONG!!!
Next time read further. Why no comments on the insensitive puke and cookie comments, especially the one with the :rofl ?
For the record, I have had 3 relatives (brothers, great uncles) die in combat as well as my name sake. Only one has a grave. The other 3 are MIA.
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Why no comments on the insensitive puke and cookie comments, especially the one with the :rofl ?
Because slandering Spitfires on this forum is socially acceptable. Very few who dislike the Spitfire in AH will distinguish the real Spitfire from the in game Spitfire when it comes to their loathing. You see it in every Spitfire thread.
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Because slandering Spitfires on this forum is socially acceptable. Very few who dislike the Spitfire in AH will distinguish the real Spitfire from the in game Spitfire when it comes to their loathing. You see it in every Spitfire thread.
Hey the Spitfire is the queen of British Aircraft
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from all i've read, the hurricane was a much better gun platform. not meant to "down" the spit.........
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YOU WAS WRONG!!!
Next time read further. Why no comments on the insensitive puke and cookie comments, especially the one with the :rofl ?
For the record, I have had 3 relatives (brothers, great uncles) die in combat as well as my name sake. Only one has a grave. The other 3 are MIA.
Since day 1, fbWildcat has been on my Ignore List.
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I didn't mean to offend anyone. I saw the OP as trying to be funny. I don't hate the Spitfire, I don't try to disrespect it. I love our men and women in combat. My grandfather served in Peleliu. My Dad was drafted at the end of the Vietnam War. My other Grandfather was a Navy pilot. I don't disrespect them. If I had known the actual meaning of this thread, I wouldn't have posted something like that. I thought it was trying to be funny. Please don't take youthful ignorance as disrespect. I would love to say this is the first time but seeing as I have a tendency to be forgetful of content or sompletely ignorant of it, cannot. I have a great respect for pilots, of all nationalities.
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i lost a great uncle in ww2, and nearly lost my uncle in vietnam.
i don't think it's possible to put into words how highly i hold these guys(all of our military personnel).
suffice it to say, that i thank god an awful lot for people like them.
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:salute
I've been thinking about joining once I get out of highschool. Very few types of people can have my respect without even knowing them, veterans are one of them.