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Offline Angus

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Spitdweeb thread
« on: December 15, 2009, 04:38:47 AM »
Now, how about some nice Spitdweeb footage gents!
I'll start, Hadn't seen that one before..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItwejnzfGUc&feature=related
Ahrrrrfff....the sound

And what the devil is this???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQEFQTJzKo&feature=related




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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2009, 10:01:42 PM »
i like the 1st one  :aok
« Last Edit: December 15, 2009, 10:10:07 PM by MachFly »
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2009, 11:16:47 PM »
Quote from: Angus on December 15, 2009, 04:38:47 AM
And what the devil is this???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQEFQTJzKo&feature=related

Obviously it's the Best Spitfire Pilots movie ever made by IWC PRODUCTIONS!!!
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 03:33:35 AM »
Hehe, here's a good one. And what Mustache!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-Ra0dH-Lg&feature=related
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 06:15:30 PM »
Quote from: Angus on December 16, 2009, 03:33:35 AM
Hehe, here's a good one. And what Mustache!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-Ra0dH-Lg&feature=related

I always wondered what Lanny Mcdonald was up to these days!  :rock
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 07:31:15 PM »
Quote from: BaldEagl on December 15, 2009, 11:16:47 PM
Obviously it's the Best Spitfire Pilots movie ever made by IWC PRODUCTIONS!!!


John Malkovich certainly will take just about any job won't he? 
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2009, 12:10:23 AM »
Quote from: Angus on December 16, 2009, 03:33:35 AM
Hehe, here's a good one. And what Mustache!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-Ra0dH-Lg&feature=related

nice!!!

and the second video prolly made spit pilots look worse than anything the mustache man coulda ever said. :x
« Last Edit: December 18, 2009, 12:18:50 AM by bagrat »
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2009, 04:50:16 AM »
Just watched the BOB movie again. I love the scene of the attack on the HE-111's, "the spanish built ones used for the movie", when the Luftwaffe sent them in alone without escorts. This was one great WW-ll flight movie, "maybe the best". I love watching the actual Spits fly, and the Hurris. You will never see another movie that uses so many actual WW-ll aircraft again.

I just had to run over to my console and Spitdweeb it in a MK-lV for a bit afterwards. Probably the ultimate Spit movie.:salute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zVRey2XEs
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2009, 11:18:39 AM »
They had escorts, but those were 110's. Maybe not shown in the movie.
What many do not know is that in the raids on S-England, the 109 escorts were up to 3 per bomber. And many more do not know that the LW was almost entirely focused on the S-English area, including those north sea raiders. They thought the RAF had all their sources right in the south while the truth is that they had 2 groups out of 4. 10 (sw), 11 (hot-spot SE), 12 (midlands, too late to intercept attacks south of Thames) and 13 (N-England up over Scotland, and I think they had one in Ireland as well, but it could have been 10)
So basically, the bulk of the LW was hitting 1 or 2 groups of the RAF. 10 & 11, while 12 kicked in in September (London bombings) and the 13th group "took care" of the side-slash from Denmark/Norway.
Hence the shock of meeting big RAF formations while bombing London, - that was 12th group which finally had the time to try out the "big wing" theory, - the LW provided them with the extra minutes of cruise while they climbed to alt.
A great movie anyway. I hope they don't do a hopeless remake.
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2009, 11:22:58 AM »
They had escorts, but those were 110's. Maybe not shown in the movie.
What many do not know is that in the raids on S-England, the 109 escorts were up to 3 per bomber. And many more do not know that the LW was almost entirely focused on the S-English area, including those north sea raiders. They thought the RAF had all their sources right in the south while the truth is that they had 2 groups out of 4. 10 (sw), 11 (hot-spot SE), 12 (midlands, too late to intercept attacks south of Thames) and 13 (N-England up over Scotland, and I think they had one in Ireland as well, but it could have been 10)
So basically, the bulk of the LW was hitting 1 or 2 groups of the RAF. 10 & 11, while 12 kicked in in September (London bombings) and the 13th group "took care" of the side-slash from Denmark/Norway.
Hence the shock of meeting big RAF formations while bombing London, - that was 12th group which finally had the time to try out the "big wing" theory, - the LW provided them with the extra minutes of cruise while they climbed to alt.
A great movie anyway. I hope they don't do a hopeless remake.
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2009, 04:59:32 PM »
Indeed, many parts of England were ravaged at the time, and Belfast, Ireland suffered a large raid at one point. Coventry was hit so hard that they were one of the few areas where you coulf really say the bombers did their true job - destroy civilian morale.

The BoB movie is great, and "Dark Blue World" has used some of that footage and has improved some of it. Great scenes; though a little "pearl Harbor"-esque. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKjR1V-Dg14
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2009, 05:20:25 PM »
Quote from: Angus on December 15, 2009, 04:38:47 AM

And what the devil is this???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQEFQTJzKo&feature=related


Obviously two Spit 16 picktards  :D


Love the Mustached man, he tells it like it is, lol. I mean seriously, when have you ever seen a numbers guy in a 109?
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2009, 03:19:31 AM »
Quote from: SgtPappy on December 21, 2009, 04:59:32 PM
Indeed, many parts of England were ravaged at the time, and Belfast, Ireland suffered a large raid at one point. Coventry was hit so hard that they were one of the few areas where you coulf really say the bombers did their true job - destroy civilian morale.

The BoB movie is great, and "Dark Blue World" has used some of that footage and has improved some of it. Great scenes; though a little "pearl Harbor"-esque. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKjR1V-Dg14

Coventry was bombed at night. It was normally so when the bombing went inland, at one point in the autumn of 1940 the LW realized they could not penetrate inland (even as short as to London) without unacceptable casualties. Same goes with the RAF when they bombed Germany, it was at night almost from the beginning.
Basically what tells you that the RAF won the BoB is that the LW had to abandon daylight bombing where the distance was down to 100 miles and the escorts outnumbering the opponent by far as well as the Bombers with 3-1.
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2009, 05:32:55 PM »
Ah, September 15th 1940. There were all those Hun aircrews heading for London, confident that the RAF was down to its last few fighters - and they had to defend themselves all the way in from the Channel. Over London itself, Bader's Duxford Wing came barrelling in, guns blazing in "the finest bloody shambles ever". So much for Goering's credibility . . .

To all the people who inflicted that first crucial defeat on Hitler's bully-boys  :salute 
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Re: Spitdweeb thread
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2009, 02:58:14 AM »
There was a big party on the 7th, although 15th is the official. But yes, that's when the Duxford wing came in with full strength.
It's an issue for another thread, but basically, both sides (LW & RAF) made very big mistakes in the BoB. Had one of them "corrected", it could have changed the outcome mighty fast.
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