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Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Kieren on July 14, 2000, 04:28:00 PM: "the"
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Hangtime on July 14, 2000, 04:32:00 PM: *yawn*

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Send this one (along wit da udder one) back to A/C and vehicles; plz. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Kieren on July 14, 2000, 05:26:00 PM: (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: milnko on July 14, 2000, 05:32:00 PM: Betcha he ain't gonna *YAWN* when his poor RUNSTANG can't get away innymo, when da BUTCHER-BIRD arrives (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Hangtime on July 14, 2000, 06:39:00 PM: LOL.. Run; did you say?? What on earth for??

Can't kill 'em when yah run from 'em. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Post by: Cobra on July 14, 2000, 11:24:00 PM: I have a cunning plan.....
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: funked on July 14, 2000, 11:43:00 PM: punt
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Hristo on July 15, 2000, 12:15:00 AM: The beauty !
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Post by: RAM on July 15, 2000, 06:24:00 AM: yes
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Post by: funked on July 15, 2000, 10:36:00 AM: too unbalancing
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Post by: -lazs- on July 15, 2000, 10:59:00 AM: i would mention that it wouldn't be unbalancing if they added a -4 Hog at the same time but an AH -4 would probly turn half as well as a typhoon. They did of course make twice as many -4's as D9's tho.

"Butcher bird"? The nickname for the Corsair (whistling death) was given to it by the enemy.... Butcher bird was the name the designer came up with at a staff meeting with some of his add guys.
lazs
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Hristo on July 15, 2000, 12:04:00 PM: Lazs, stop that crap.
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Rock on July 15, 2000, 12:24:00 PM: Early War!
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: -duma- on July 15, 2000, 02:38:00 PM: Quote
The nickname for the Corsair (whistling death)

I thought the Beaufighter was the whistling death?

[This message has been edited by -duma- (edited 07-15-2000).]
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Post by: Torque on July 15, 2000, 03:47:00 PM: LOL....Lazs. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Post by: Karnak on July 15, 2000, 05:07:00 PM: Beaufighter was called the "Whispering Death" by the Japanese.

It was an early war night fighter. The Japanese at that time didn't have any way of countering or detecting it, so to them it was a silent killer. You'd be flying along and <BOOM>, you're dead.

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Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: CavemanJ on July 15, 2000, 05:54:00 PM: the Corsair was called Whistling Death because of the way the wind would whistle through the oil coolers in the wings at high speed, like diving down to light up a zeke (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: -duma- on July 15, 2000, 06:13:00 PM: Hmm, you're right, it was the whispering death.. now I remember a little though, wasn't it just that it was exceptionally quiet? I'm fairly sure the nickname came long before the nightfighter variants, and was given by the PBI rather than anything aerial.
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Nashwan on July 15, 2000, 07:55:00 PM: It was because they were quiet. The Beaufighter was used mainly for ground attack in Burma.
The first night fighter variants with radar entered service in the summer of 1940 though.
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: juzz on July 16, 2000, 12:19:00 AM: The Bristol sleeve-valve radial engines are relatively quiet, apparently.

I don't think the nightfighter version of the Beaufighter were used in the Pacific?
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: -lazs- on July 16, 2000, 11:17:00 AM: gee hristo... u can allways stick ur fingers in ur ears and yell CRAAAAAP and then you will never learn anything that u don't want to hear. The "enemy" called the 190.... "that radial engined fighter" and the D9 "that long nosed 190".
lazs
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Post by: Sascha JG 77 on July 17, 2000, 02:21:00 AM: I posted something similar on AGW some time ago...

Gentlemen, may I introduce you to

(http://biztrek.com.au/dandenongs/flora_fauna/greybutbird1.jpg)

the Butcher Bird or "Würger" (verbatim: "Strangler")

A small bird of prey that sticks its prey to thorns in order to tear it apart. The reason for this behaviour is AFAIK the fact that the Würger lacks typical bird of prey talons and/or beak.
The word/name "Würger" in German has in no way the same sound/implication as its english translation and as lazs pointed out was indeed given to the plane by its creator, Kurt Tank. Also remember that very early versions of the 190 were considered undergunned by the LW since they only carried 4x7,92 mm. It wasn't until the A-3 (A-2?) arrived, that the 190 got the fearsome armement that *seems* to be the source of its nickname. Birds were often used as source of nicknames for german planes. Me-262 "Schwalbe" (Swallow), Fi- 156 "Storch" (Stork) or the He-219 "Uhu" (Owl) come to mind.

Sascha

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Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: Pongo on July 17, 2000, 08:29:00 AM: cool post
Thought the spit pilots called the Fw "oh toejam"
might be wrong
Title: Fw190-D9
Post by: ygsmilo on July 17, 2000, 08:35:00 AM: I thought Torque was whistling death.

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