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Offline titanic3

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #855 on: May 18, 2012, 11:11:37 AM »
American Spitfires? If those count. And all those French/British planes in WWI too.  :aok
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Offline Rich52

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #856 on: May 18, 2012, 05:39:32 PM »
Quote from: titanic3 on May 18, 2012, 11:11:37 AM
American Spitfires? If those count. And all those French/British planes in WWI too.  :aok

Yeah, I forgot. Africa right?
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #857 on: May 18, 2012, 08:07:09 PM »
     The 31st FG was using them in Italy before they converted to P-51s as well.

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #858 on: May 19, 2012, 08:23:41 AM »
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Nose heavy can't really be bad in a dogfight..
It can... I had troubles with P-51s and other American planed being nose-heavy and it causes decreased vertical performance e.g it will not take much of pull before the plane stalls and buffers.
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Offline bozon

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #859 on: May 21, 2012, 04:29:02 AM »
Quote from: Karnak on March 12, 2012, 10:44:24 PM
Did I hear somebody ask for something to escort in my Mossie?
We could have super-cool Coastal command raids. Who needs X-wings and Y-wings flying in the trench of the death-star, when you can have Mosquitoes and Beaufighters in a Fjord?
Screw George Lucas and Give me the real thing!
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Offline SDGhalo

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #860 on: May 22, 2012, 11:02:23 AM »
Quote from: bozon on May 21, 2012, 04:29:02 AM
We could have super-cool Coastal command raids. Who needs X-wings and Y-wings flying in the trench of the death-star, when you can have Mosquitoes and Beaufighters in a Fjord?
Screw George Lucas and Give me the real thing!


Ah good old 633 squadron with Cliff Robertson  :salute
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Offline bozon

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #861 on: May 22, 2012, 11:38:25 AM »
633?! I am talking about the real deal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj_Q280Gpz4

Jump to 02:10 if you can't wait.


633 is an unforgivable movie. The SOBs burned real mosquitoes for this movie, to death! oh the humanity!   :cry
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Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

Offline lyric1

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #862 on: May 22, 2012, 11:40:05 AM »
Quote from: bozon on May 21, 2012, 04:29:02 AM
We could have super-cool Coastal command raids. Who needs X-wings and Y-wings flying in the trench of the death-star, when you can have Mosquitoes and Beaufighters in a Fjord?
Screw George Lucas and Give me the real thing!
:aok
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Offline Volron

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #863 on: May 22, 2012, 02:04:09 PM »
We don't need the Beau...



















































We NEED the Beau... :D
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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #864 on: May 22, 2012, 02:12:51 PM »
Bo knows Beau

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Offline Rich52

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #865 on: May 22, 2012, 03:07:48 PM »
Quote from: bozon on May 22, 2012, 11:38:25 AM
633?! I am talking about the real deal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj_Q280Gpz4

Jump to 02:10 if you can't wait.


633 is an unforgivable movie. The SOBs burned real mosquitoes for this movie, to death! oh the humanity!   :cry

Man I Love watching that video of that attack. They actually murdered a real Mossie in the movie? Seriously?
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Offline Greebo

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #866 on: May 22, 2012, 03:26:30 PM »
To be fair most of the Mossies used in the film were destined for the scrap heap anyway. The film probably saved a couple for posterity.
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Offline bozon

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #867 on: May 23, 2012, 02:01:12 AM »
Quote from: Greebo on May 22, 2012, 03:26:30 PM
To be fair most of the Mossies used in the film were destined for the scrap heap anyway. The film probably saved a couple for posterity.
It's like experiments on animals. It is for the greater good, but it does make the hairs on my back stand looking at the poor monkey in the cage, about to give his life for science.

Today, when flying mossies are extinct, it is a difficult thing to watch a real one burn.
Are there any Beau's in flying condition?
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Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #868 on: May 23, 2012, 02:53:53 AM »
Duxford museum has been working on getting a Beaufighter flying. A few years ago i heard they were having trouble sourcing suitable Hercules engines for it. Post war Hercules engines are relatively common but have cooling fans and exhausts that sweep back behind the engine like the BMW engine in the FW 190A. The Beaufighter had its exhausts meeting in a collector ring on the leading edge of the cowling. Not as good aerodynamically, but it did also act as a de icer. Not sure what progress has been made since then.



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Re: Bristol Beaufighter
« Reply #869 on: May 23, 2012, 08:54:00 AM »
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... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB
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