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02-11-2004, 10:56 PM
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| The storch may look bad, but you gotta admit its damn useful. Take off in 213 feet, land in 61 feet, and if the wind is 25mph it can "hover." Don't you just love desktop calendars 
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02-11-2004, 10:59 PM
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#62 | | Facetious Extraordinaire
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02-12-2004, 05:25 PM
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#64 | | | Sure many planes could damaged Tanks as well as the Il-2, but few could have withstood AA & enemy fighter attacks as well the Sturmovik. | |
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02-12-2004, 06:24 PM
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#65 | | Facetious Extraordinaire
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Country: | I think maybe only the P-47 could come close to it, but the IL-2 would alway's be way ahead.
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02-13-2004, 01:38 PM
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02-13-2004, 04:50 PM
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#67 | | Facetious Extraordinaire
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02-13-2004, 05:13 PM
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| IMO the P-47 doesn't look too bad, it has a massive radial engine so it can't be too sleek. IMO the P-47 is the best ETO fighter/ground attack, don't worry, the Spitfire ain't far behind.
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02-13-2004, 05:22 PM
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#69 | | Facetious Extraordinaire
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02-14-2004, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Archer IMO the P-47 doesn't look too bad, it has a massive radial engine so it can't be too sleek. IMO the P-47 is the best ETO fighter/ground attack, don't worry, the Spitfire ain't far behind. | i wouldn't have even put the spitfire in for the catagory of fighter bomber, but for me, it still has to be the mosquito
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02-14-2004, 01:12 PM
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| Well, I was actually placing it in the best aircraft in Europe but I originally typed fighter and was too lazy to delete it LOL.
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The P-47 is the best aircraft used in the ETO IMO. The Spitfire is only slightly behind the P-47 (probably because it wasn't such a good ground attack plane  )
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02-14-2004, 02:02 PM
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#72 | | Master of Ewes
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02-14-2004, 04:01 PM
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| w/e spit is weaksauce 2x cannon and 2x mg=bullshit 8x brownings is what its about and spits had very little range for use as fighter bombers (cuz occasionally u need to reach the target u know cant just get there and not come back) and besides 2.5k of bombs and such is better than 1000lb cuz we all know 2 3x rocket tubes and 3 500lb boms and 8x .50 is better than 2x brownings and 2x 20mm and 2x 500lb bombs so spit is **** in ground attack and sure griffon engine spits are faster than p-47s but less guns and less bombs so spit loses | |
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02-15-2004, 07:07 AM
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#74 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | yeah, but the spit wasn't designed as a fighetr bomber, so you can't really say that. later versoins were armed with more that two cannon and two machine guns, and the spit held on throughtout the war, so it can't be that bad.
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| w/e=whatever and i got those spit specs from griffon engine examples so what about british pride now? yea i know not all griffon examples sucked that much ass but still... | |
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