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12-18-2004, 04:01 PM
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12-19-2004, 01:44 AM
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| I hit the wrong button. The max was made up of 6 x 1,600. And Lanc, the B-17 didn't have to be modified. It's range was severly limited and it would carry the overloads of ammo used on long range missions, but it wasn't modified.
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12-19-2004, 07:30 AM
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| By severly limited are we talking a couple of hundred miles or what? |
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12-19-2004, 07:36 AM
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| are you sure it didn't have to modified?? not even making the bomb bay bigger or adding external hardpoints for the external bombs??
__________________  "Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy." |
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12-19-2004, 08:17 AM
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| I guess the extra fuel needed to fly at the higher altitudes does play a part in the B-17 range... Back to the B-25, B-26 & Mossie n' P-38, they were essentially twin-engined 'Medium-bombers'.....Four-engined was termed 'Heavy-bombers'. Others like twin-engined Whitleys, Blenheims, Boston/Havocs etc. were more 'Light-bombers'....I guess really, P-38's, Mosquitos, gunship B-25's and Beaufighters fit into the 'Heavy Fighter-Bomber' Class....... B-29's were THE 'Heavy-Bomber' of the War, I cannot deny that.... - I'll have to let Lanc sort-out the finer points on the 'Tallboy issue', I do concur though, that operationally, they were the Lancaster's baby, to devastating effect....... |
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12-19-2004, 08:18 AM
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__________________ "Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy." | |
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12-19-2004, 08:20 AM
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| P.S. - Love that particular shot in your new siggy, Lanc...... |
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12-19-2004, 08:26 AM
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| me two, here's the pic i cut it from.................
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12-19-2004, 09:15 AM
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| Nice pic, lanc!  I like the sig too! |
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12-19-2004, 12:19 PM
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Yes the lancs siggy is good because you cant see the Lancasters horrid front end... | |
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12-19-2004, 12:24 PM
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| it doesn't have a horrid front end......... and the beaufighter was a strike fighter.............
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12-19-2004, 12:46 PM
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| /torpedo bomber |
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12-19-2004, 01:00 PM
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| /maritime strike
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12-19-2004, 01:11 PM
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| /night fighter |
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12-19-2004, 01:32 PM
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| ohh that's a good one /escort fighter
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