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10-05-2005, 11:14 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: MK UK
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| Discovery Wings Top 10 Fighters Listmania is underway again... DW is running an online voting competition that will likely stir up everyone once again. Well, it annoyed me. In fact it is nigh on worthless because the list is too broad and omits some obvious warhorses like the Bf 109 and Zero... but includes such anomalies as the F22. http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/fl...on/index.shtml |
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10-05-2005, 11:21 AM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Agree! Why even put the F-22 on there? For theat matter why noy the F-35 or the Typhoon?!?!
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10-05-2005, 12:59 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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  | Agreed, Thats a silly list...Im not voting  |
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10-05-2005, 01:34 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: MK UK
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| Thanks for the comments. I reckon it must have been put together by someone who is not a true fan. Even the Sea Harrier they include is the wrong one... the FA2 is the newer model and not the one which did so well in the Flaklands. I dunno why bother doing the site and the channel when you do dumb stuff like this. Much more fun on this site! |
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10-05-2005, 01:51 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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| May I take the time to remind people of the survey being undertaken...details on the homepage...get voting!  |
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10-05-2005, 01:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003
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| yes, that's just about the only poll i've voted in on this site 
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10-05-2005, 04:06 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Nicholson, PA
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| Why do they have that poll up still? That shows been on since last year.
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10-05-2005, 04:27 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | What a ridiculous list. The spitfire was a great plane, as is the F-15, but you cannot really compare the 2. If you are goin gto have a poll loike that, at least keep them in the same generation!
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10-05-2005, 04:33 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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10-05-2005, 05:07 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Boise, Idaho
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| And to give the P-51 marks for inovation and particularly drop tanks, when the P-39 was the first AAF plane to use them (before the 51 was designed) and Lockheed was the leader in the technolegy, Not to mention the P-38/P-39 were using them Operationaly before the Merlin P-51 existed. P-51 politics stack up! wmaxt |
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10-06-2005, 01:44 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| That is dumb.
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10-06-2005, 01:49 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| I seen the "experts." on the show - who the hell are they?!?
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10-06-2005, 01:53 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Guys who sit behind computers and read what other people read and then think they are experts in the field even though they have probably never felt the vibrations of an aircraft engine humming to life ever!
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10-06-2005, 02:34 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003
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| well neither have i but i could still make a better list than that!
__________________ "Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy." |
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10-07-2005, 02:00 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas
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| Haha, no kiddin. As patchy as that list is, the -22 is the most out of place. Although it is one of the most advanced fighters it has never been tried in combat. At least the others have a combat reputation.
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