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07-23-2006, 01:50 AM
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Country:  | I somewhat liked the bolton paul. They say it wasn't a bad fighter apart from the fact that it had no forward firing guns- it was speedy, manouverable, good this and that. If they had thought to put 2 or four .303s in the wings to make sure no one lined up for an easy kill I think it may have done much better.
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07-23-2006, 02:57 AM
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#32 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | but think of the extra weight she was a bit of a whale as it was, and the whole idea of a turret fighter was to releive the pilot of having to fight as well as fly, i do agree with you however something forward firing was needed............
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07-23-2006, 07:14 AM
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Country: | That it was. Early on though 109's mistook them for Hurricanes and had a nasty surprise when they lined up for an attack from behind only to be met with a load of fire from the 4 303's in the turret.
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07-23-2006, 09:54 AM
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Country: | Best of the raf!
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07-24-2006, 05:59 AM
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#35 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | i think we're excluding the Meteor as she never engaged in air-to-air during the war.........
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05-05-2007, 02:09 AM
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Country:  | Spitfire. 
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05-05-2007, 02:20 AM
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Country: | OK, Spitfire - but which mark? For pure air-air, I'd go for the MkXIVe with the RR Griffon engine and two-stage compressor - BEAUTIFUL! Lines and performance.
Doing anything other than air-air with a Spit is sacrilege, so I won't even mention it.
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05-05-2007, 02:21 AM
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Country: | Geez.............Here I go an original post of the 'spitfire' 
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05-06-2007, 10:12 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I'd prefer the Spitfire LF Mk.IX for dogfights and whatnot.
I feel that the extra weight associated to the torque-happy Mk.XIV somewhat downgrades the docility of the name: Spitfire. Plus the Spitfire LF IX's were known to carry a lot of fuel and a good bit of bombs later in the war but the XIV was really (IMO) a Spitfire trying to be a Mustang.
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05-07-2007, 12:00 PM
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Country: | I have to point out that Spitfires escorted over France, Holland and Belgium that includes escort for the U.S 8th and 9th, as well as Bomber Command Groups.
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05-07-2007, 12:32 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Spitfire is the king.
Hurricane was awesome when strafing troops. Finns had MK I planes in ground attack duties and what I have read those eight 7.7 machine guns really did some nasty work against massive russian infantry attacks  | |
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