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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #840 on: March 12, 2012, 04:31:26 PM »
Where did you read about him Bruv? There was a Timewatch documentary entitled 'Mystery of the Missing Ace' about him.

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #841 on: March 12, 2012, 04:58:10 PM »
I've been reading the siege of malta 1940-1943 by James Holland,   but I also got his biography that I haven't started but am now looking forward too because he features in it alot. 
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« Reply #842 on: March 12, 2012, 05:15:32 PM »
my godmother's parents were on malta during WWII, dont know much about it but I assume they were RN because just after the war she was christened at HMS St Angelo and was given the ship's bell when it was decommissioned (must be a navy tradition I guess?).
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #843 on: March 12, 2012, 10:44:24 PM »
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #844 on: March 13, 2012, 11:49:03 AM »
I've been reading about Malta and the exploits of a certain Adrian Warburton.   

He flew a reconnaissance Beau at points but did most of his work in a Maryland?   Now this pilot just added to my respect for the Beau. 

Warburton was best known for his Spit recce flights.  he used to tangle with Spit fighters and could always twist them in circles.  He was killed in the crash of a recce P38 later in the war.  Seems like they just found the crash site a few years back and recovered his remains.
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #845 on: March 13, 2012, 12:09:27 PM »
Warburton was best known for his Spit recce flights.  he used to tangle with Spit fighters and could always twist them in circles.  He was killed in the crash of a recce P38 later in the war.  Seems like they just found the crash site a few years back and recovered his remains.

spoilers Guppy!!    :cry

it doesn't surprise me after all the twin engine bombers he flew successfully and lucky escapes he had that a P38 would finish him off.  :(

Are you sure it was a Spit because so far all it suggests are Marylands all over the med from Tripoli to Sicily.  He has just been transferred to 2 PRU Beaufighters out of Egypt.

Since you spoiled the ending I read his wiki article and his wife he left at home was a Mitchell he married in Portsmouth 1939.   Small world.  Not as impressed with his two timing on Malta with a saucy dancer now.   
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #846 on: March 14, 2012, 09:25:05 AM »
The Timewatch documentary was largely lightweight & disappointing. Although the first half has a little background and real footage of Warburton belly landing his shot to hell Maryland reconnaissance plane. Earlier it tells how this Maryland returned to base with a section of an aerial from an Italian battleship wrapped around its tail gear, after making multiple low level passes under fire to get the necessary pictures of the disposition of the Italian fleet.

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #847 on: April 08, 2012, 08:04:34 PM »
Still waiting so ever patiently.

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #848 on: April 09, 2012, 05:37:33 AM »
While it hasn't flown in all theater's of the war, the same could be said about the He-111. :D
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #849 on: April 09, 2012, 02:51:10 PM »
STOP PUNTING THE DAMN THREAD!

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #850 on: April 09, 2012, 06:08:54 PM »
STOP PUNTING THE DAMN THREAD!
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #851 on: May 18, 2012, 06:36:40 AM »
I know the video is from another game...  because AH is sadly lacking great machine!

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #852 on: May 18, 2012, 10:25:54 AM »
Beaufighter was one of my favorite rides in Il-2 lol

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #853 on: May 18, 2012, 11:02:04 AM »
While it hasn't flown in all theater's of the war, the same could be said about the He-111. :D

Right. Now is it one of the very few foreign made airframes flown by American forces too? Offhand the Beau, Mossie, B-57 Canberra "I actually saw one of the last operational ones, set up for spying, come in and out of a NATO airbase once", The Harrier. Did I miss any?
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #854 on: May 18, 2012, 11:10:49 AM »
iirc the USN uses Hawks :aok
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