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18-09-2007, 02:15 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Spitfire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire Spitfire,-1939-.jpg Spitfire Flying over the English Coast 1939 Spitfire_IV_XII_DP845 Griffin.jpg The first Griffon-powered Spitfire, DP845. SpitfireDuxford2JM2.jpg Duxford, 2001. The "Grace Spitfire," a preserved trainer version, ex-No. 485 Squadron RNZAF.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 18-09-2007 at 02:26 AM. |
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19-09-2007, 06:54 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | The Seafire adaptation of the spitfire. Seafire3a.jpg A Spitfire turning a V1 with its wing tip. spit & V1.jpg spitfireozfc2.jpg
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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19-09-2007, 07:00 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | The Spitfire was developed originally from the MkIX floatplane that was designed for the Schneider trophy contest. The MkIX won a number of years in a row until war was declared. The MkIX floatplane FloatplaneMkIX.jpg And close up detail of the Schneider Trophy schneider trophy.jpg
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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08-12-2007, 09:52 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Came across this photo: Anyone seen it before? I haven't! ADDENDUM WITH LINKS TO OTHER SITES: medievalhistory.net
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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08-12-2007, 10:16 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | That is a beautiful picture. It shows up the camo so much better than this: Aircraft illustration (scroll down about half way) Its history: 37 Maintenance Unit 15-9-41 222S 'ZD-F' 1-10-41 Rodeo 51 shot down by Fw190 over France on sweep to Ostend 25-5-42 S/Ldr Jankiewiez killed
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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08-12-2007, 10:18 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Haven't seen that before, Spidgeman. Rather happily, I picked it as a 222 Sqn Mk V, mainly because the ZD codes are carried by OFMC's MK IX MH434. No doubt my big head will deflate soon! Great pic. Is that a S/L "flag" below the cockpit? Edit: just saw Kyt's post so I guess it is!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. Last edited by Andy in West Oz; 08-12-2007 at 10:20 AM. |
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08-12-2007, 10:29 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | It is a S/L flag but not for Jankiewiez. The IWM states that the pictures shows Quote:
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. | |
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08-12-2007, 10:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #7 | Some of you will have seen this sketch before as I have posted it elsewhere. However it is of interest and I feel it warrants inclusion here. The drawing is taken from my father's P.O.W. "Wartime Log." He and the artist Tich Lockyer were prisoners together. Tich is depicting his own shoot down by Obfw Hermann Staege 2./LG 2 on 23 Feb. 1941. On this day Tich Lockyer was operating over Ostend with 1 PRU. He was flying Spitfire R6598. Also attached with the sketch are a couple of pictures of Tich taken when he was a P.O.W. |
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08-12-2007, 10:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | As I'm sure I've said before, David, that is such a beautiful sketch. I know it is sacreligious to say so but that would look great framed and hanging on the (my!!) wall. Cheers.
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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08-12-2007, 10:51 AM
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You're Top Poster: #7 | Quote:
You could take the three flying ducks off your wall and replace them with that. | |
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