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12-10-2007, 01:58 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Supermarine Seafire Okay, something a bit different from a Spitfire thread! Post-war aircraft but excellent pedigree and a stunning aircraft  http://www.ezellaviation.com/Past%20Pages/seafire.htm Good book with cover artwork much better in the flesh! http://www.amazon.co.uk/They-Gave-Se.../dp/1840372451
__________________ 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. |
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12-10-2007, 02:03 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1  | It was a beautiful aircraft, that did an excellent job. Unfortunately, it gets a lot of flak because it is always being compared with US carrier aircraft. And like in a game of top trumps, they always pick on it's weakest point which was it's relative range.
__________________ _________________  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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12-10-2007, 02:33 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Spit was more of an interceptor I always thought. Not really a loiterer but more of a defender. She did okay with drop tanks though but that's cos she's a legend!
__________________ 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. |
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07-12-2007, 01:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | An interesting performance comparison here between the Spitfire Mark IX and the Me 109 G Spitfire Mk IX versus Me 109 G - Flight Testing
__________________ 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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