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06-27-2004, 07:05 AM
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#241 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | don't forget ground attack, especially during the Suez Crisis....................
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06-27-2004, 07:06 AM
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#242 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | don't forget ground attack, especially during the Suez Crisis....................
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06-28-2004, 02:35 PM
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#243 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | F7F-3N most say the Ultimate Tigercat! They were used at night for lots of different missions. Were also used as photorecon. 
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06-28-2004, 03:37 PM
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| The Mosquito was definetley the best night fighter for me, it was at least 100 mph faster than the Me-110 for example, and compared to the looks of the Me-110, Ju-88 and others it was a thing of beauty!  | |
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06-28-2004, 04:26 PM
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#245 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | it was a thing of beauty compared to anything.......................
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06-28-2004, 08:10 PM
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| Nah.... (Going for a quadruple) | |
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06-28-2004, 08:10 PM
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| DAMN! Didn't work! | |
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06-28-2004, 10:12 PM
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Country:  | the mosquito was a pretty good night fighter because the bottom part of the fuselage in one variant was painted black which would make it hard for enemy ack-ack to spot the planes
and the bf109 probably was the worst because it was paintes TOO black
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06-29-2004, 01:19 PM
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Country: | So Dan you like the PTO? The night fighters were very good there as well. I still like the P-61 and yes Erich it was not the best but was on its way. But why are looks so important at night?
Why not the "Wispering Death."
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06-29-2004, 03:05 PM
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#250 | | Master of Ewes
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the mosquito was a pretty good night fighter because the bottom part of the fuselage in one variant was painted black which would make it hard for enemy ack-ack to spot the planes
| wow, painting a plane that flew at night black, if only they did that on all planes that flew at night...........................
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06-29-2004, 03:57 PM
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#251 | | the old Sage
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Country: | It was found that any night fighter with black undersides could be seen from underneath at altitude. Stealth technology was not invented quite yet guyz.
the night sky was never purely balck as there was always some blue in it, the reason German nf's had an all blue underdies till 1945 when the German nf's were poised to do night ground attack. Then some a/c had a black undersides. The Bf 109 at first was painted black in 1941 as all 110's and Ju 88's, Do 17's and 217's were until a blue-grey base camo came into effect. Having an a/c at extrememly low altitude in black was not a bad idea as it could not be picked out at the horizon except for it's sound of the engines, and as I have said in a couple past threads the Bf 109G's did quite well agasint the Mossie LSNF and intruders, more so than the He 219 with only 12 kills, a couple of them debateable.......
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06-30-2004, 02:11 PM
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#252 | | Master of Ewes
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Stealth technology was not invented quite yet guyz
| not quite true, i take it you know about the british radar jamming?? the Piperack radar jaming system which was carried in a lead aircraft could hide an entire bomber stream in a "radar proof cone" behind it
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06-30-2004, 02:20 PM
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Country: | Lanc, are you talking about Window? 
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06-30-2004, 03:07 PM
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#254 | | the old Sage
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Country: | The RAF and the Germans both window or Düppel. This did not totally keep the RAF halibags and Lancs from the german nf systems as the expereicned Bordfünkers on the German nf's could see through the Window and concentrate on the heaviest area of window which would indicate numerous bombers to intercept.
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06-30-2004, 04:51 PM
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| Not to mention that the Germans could simply home in on H2S, Monica, and the J-switch.
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