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Offline Connery

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« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2007, 08:42:08 AM »
Not sure what aircraft were in use at DREM in Scotland but I do know that some of the first bomber kills were made over Scotland.
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #31 on: March 14, 2007, 09:40:30 AM »
Spitfires. They killed the first LW bombers of Edinburgh in Sep 1939.
(This is out of my memory)
The surviwing crewmember(s) of one bomber were taken captive to the castle of Edinburgh,  -the first LW if not German Prisoners of War in Britain.
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« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2007, 10:09:01 AM »
Hi,

in germany BoB did end when the invation date got shifted to an undefined later date, afaik that was in late september or october.

Greetings,

Knegel
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Offline Serenity

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« Reply #33 on: March 14, 2007, 10:46:24 PM »
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in 1940 basically, most historians set the date in October.
Can check tomorrow if you like ;)


Thats what I thought. So I was right, the Boston came in AFTER BoB...
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Offline VooWho

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« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2007, 04:40:00 PM »
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The Whirlwind did not have a Merlin, and the airframe didn't support one either. And the engines never got rid of their teething problems.
The cannons had 60 rpg if my memory serves me, and by the time it was showing in it's biggest number's. Hurry II was there and Spit V around the corner. So perk? nope.


I never said it had a Merlin. In the specs I said it had a Rolls-Royce Peregrine 12-cylinder vee-type engines. The reason why I would perk it is because it would be the only EW fighter in AH with 4 20mm cannons. Would you like seeing 100 Whirlwind fighters comming at your hurrican Mk1. I sure wouldn't. Isn't that why the F4U-1C is perked?
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« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2007, 04:48:50 PM »
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The reason why I would perk it is because it would be the only EW fighter in AH with 4 20mm cannons.  


Hurri 2c :aok
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« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2007, 06:00:19 PM »
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Hurri 2c :aok


Oh yea forgot about that one. Okay how about a 4 20mm plane that is faster than a spit at low altitudes?
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