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03-02-2005, 02:49 PM
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Country:  | It is...its a box...Doesnt have a nice round fuselage like that of the B-29 or P.108...
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03-02-2005, 04:05 PM
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Country:  | I've always thought all flying machines were beautiful but looks like someone has proven me wrong.
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03-03-2005, 10:29 AM
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03-03-2005, 09:56 PM
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03-04-2005, 10:18 AM
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03-04-2005, 12:47 PM
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Country:  | hey the lanc aint a plank.........
although that did make me chucckle, never heard her called that before.........
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03-04-2005, 02:21 PM
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Country: | I think the Lancaster is very much a Love-Hate plane in terms of styling. Im in the Hate camp as you know...I like the plane though
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03-06-2005, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Lightning Guy Here are what some of the other countries around the world were trying to do while Kelly Johnson was designing the P-38. The first is Holland's Fokker D.XXIII - a novel concept for the times, but poorly refined, under-powered, and using a very poor airfoil. The second is Gloster's F.9/37 which was the absolute contemporary of the P-38. It certainly never had the looks of the Lightning. | LOL
Then you are forgetting about the Fokker G.1, which was allready available in 1936. Even before the FW-189.
You just have to admit that the P-38 was a good copy with the techniques learned from the G.1 that was tested by the RAF and other things learned in the years after that. And still it took until the J version to get a succesfull fighter. The first series had a lot of serious problems, where the Fokker G.1 was known as the secondbest allied fighter in 1940 (after the Spitfire) | |
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03-07-2005, 12:33 PM
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#114 | | Master of Ewes
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03-07-2005, 03:04 PM
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03-07-2005, 08:53 PM
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Country:  | Most of the Early WW2 Bombers look to be built by someone who was at home making boxes. A lot of them seem to look very rectangular and not at all like a cylinder, which is what the B-29 looks more like to me. | |
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03-07-2005, 09:02 PM
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Country: | Maybe the Russian Plane is being hidden, to prevent its own side mistaking it for a target plane. It is ugly enough after all. What pilot wouldn't want to have a go at it? | |
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03-08-2005, 10:21 AM
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Country: | There's nothing wrong with a boxy looking plane. The Whitley was slab-sided but it had that essential quality called style
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03-08-2005, 11:10 AM
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Country: |  Again, I like the Whitley but not its styling The Coastal Command markings improve its looks somewhat though.
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03-08-2005, 11:13 AM
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