Hey man good luck with the squadron
, i am in 71 squadron and its cool to see a sister squadron coming up, some of us fly at european times too.
Since your brother was in it you probably have a ton of stuff about squadron history and the like which is always good to flesh it out a bit and make it more lively.
I am sure your the right man to found that squad, you have a verry good reason to do it. I hope you find some european pilots to stick with you, always great to have a 3-4 men core team that has been together in squad for a while, while the squad grows and shrinks always remember it s not really the size that matters.
We fly spitfires as squadron plane like the historical 71 squadron did, well we enlarged it a bit to all spitfires. The historic 71 did fly hurricanes at first so we use em too. But while not on squad sortie our pilots are free to fly whatever they want, i mostly fly 109k4 which doesnt fit to the squad but well, its a nice plane
If you need a wingman for a sortie or have questions about squadron stuff feel free to ask me, i am a bad trainer but i gladly fly as wingman if you wish. Not that i am a good pilot in any way but i can look around and warn you of enemys and play bullet catcher.
ciao schutt