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02-24-2004, 01:55 PM
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| Are you a big fan of the Paul Defiant then? I must admit i used to get irritated when people said it was crap...it wasn't really that crap, i mean it was actually quite a good night fighter i was told  just really not suited to the role it was first given thats all but having said that they DID stop building them quite early in the war...
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02-24-2004, 03:22 PM
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#92 | | | the german 162 salamander the thing was made of wood and had a jet engine straped on the top! | |
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02-24-2004, 03:51 PM
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#93 | | | The 162 Salamander was one of the aircrafts with jet propulsion.
It was about 100 miles faster than any other aircraft of the Allies.
It was made of wood because all other resources like steel were used for things like Tanks or what ever.
And wood is light.
And do you the mosquito ?
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02-25-2004, 05:41 AM
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#94 | | Hairy one of Old Judea
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Country:  | HE 162 was an amazing aircraft, 6 WEEKS from initial plans to production, got to be some kind of record!
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02-25-2004, 11:56 AM
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| Yeah, it must be some sort of record cos the quickest kind of design and production effort that i heard of was in Australia with the Commonwealth Boomerang which took about 5 months to design and build. It was done in a big rush because the Australians only had a handful of Brewster Buffalos to protect themselves from the Japanese (lets face it, wouldn't that scare anyone into designing their own fighter??!) - mind you the He162 was a jet and the Boomerang was a good old-fashioned propeller aircraft (I'm not a big fan of Jets and my knowledge about them is lacking - which i'm sure is more than evident on my 'best jet' poll  )
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02-25-2004, 12:39 PM
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Country:  | i aint a fan of jets either, modern combat planes are all so boring  give me an old propeller plane rather than a modern jet fighter anyday 
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02-25-2004, 12:53 PM
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| Yep, thats exactly how i feel, modern planes all look the same and totally lack any kind of interesting background or character. you can look at any WW2 aircraft (even the terrible ones) and they all have an interesting past
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02-25-2004, 12:54 PM
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02-25-2004, 01:06 PM
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| So how did you get interested in planes then? over-enthusiastic parent or off your own back?
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02-25-2004, 01:08 PM
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#100 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | im afraid the lanc is responsible he draws planes and i started asking about them and then he showed this site and now i love em
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02-25-2004, 01:14 PM
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| Oh cool - assuming you live in the UK...have you ever been to places like Duxford or Hendon? they both have amazing collections - if you haven't you don't know what you've missed!
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02-25-2004, 01:46 PM
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#102 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | yeah, i got him interested, and i'm thinking of planning a trip to the fleet air arm museum, it's the closest one to us
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02-25-2004, 05:37 PM
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| The Fleet air arm place in Yeovil? yeah i've been there, no Lancasters though - they have full sized lancs at Duxford and Hendon though - you really don't get a true impression of how big those planes are til you stand next to one - forget the B-17, Lancs are HUGE
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02-25-2004, 06:58 PM
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| yep,im looking at it right now,50 stars,thats wiered | |
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02-26-2004, 08:32 AM
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| No mention of the Hallibag ..not that it was the worst mind you but the guys sure where hanging out for the Lancs when they heard they were getting them ...also regards missions (just a footnote really) when they did a mission to Italy early in the war they used to paint an ice cream cone on the plane instead of a bomb as it was considered a "milkrun" lol.
But back on topic- i think the battle is fairly well up there on my list of planes never to fly near any axis planes if i ever drop into a timewarp  | |
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