Recent content by Tankworks

Fine by me. It's been a slice.

Warm and not so warm!

Warmer.

I seem to remember reading that in the battle for Malta the fighter vs fighter losses were about 3-2 in favour of the LW but the RAF pilot's morale did not suffer because they did not know that, they thought that they were winning because of the confusion of over claiming. As regards claims over...

Your logic is impeccable, but you are still wrong!

Point taken. In my own (somewhat lame!) defence, I am not using image search, I try to puzzle out what I am looking at and then try to find verification using the interweb. It just happened last time that the same picture came up when I put in the aircraft name, not like the Harrier nose pic...

What are you using? Hard copy (reference books?)?

Alrighty then, try this one (I hope that I haven't given too much away.

I punched in 'delta-wing jet' and it just popped out! Give me a mo to sort through some pics.

SAAB 210

I think the Spit IX was the best stop-gap fighter. It was a rush job to get something in the air to try and match the FW 190 and turned out to be a winner. It more than held the line until the later more powerful marks came on.

Glad to have given a bit of a challenge. This quiz is getting more fun every time! Next...?

I was counting on that! The louvres and rivets made it look like something from an old prop job. I thought the cards clue would have tipped it off, Tutor, Tudors, kings and queens of England (or maybe it is a Canadian thing to slur 't's to 'd's).

Yessir!

Post-war single engine jet, not American or British.