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01-26-2006, 07:50 PM
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#61 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | A lad walked into a prop at Aldergrove when my dad was there ... "quite the mess" in his words. I'll have to ask the aircraft it was.
Flying any bomber during daylight in 1940 was practically suicide ... although not 1940, it's early on Bomber Command -
4th September, 1939, fifteen Blenheims and fourteen Wellingtons attacked Brunsbuttel naval base and warships in Schilling Roads. Several Blenheims attacked Admiral Scheer with 500 lbs. bombs which bounced harmlessly off the deck. And other Blenheims attacked various other German vessels, out of ten in the first wave five were shot down. The second Blenheim wave of five failed to find target, and turned home without attacking. The Wellingtons went for Brunsbuttel, no damage worth mentioning was done and two were lost. Out of twenty-four aircraft, five Blenheims and two Wellingtons were lost ... for nothing.
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01-28-2006, 03:17 AM
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#62 | | Master of Ewes
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Originally Posted by MP-Willow Halifax or WEllingto;n, would be my pick. To fly over Canada as a trainning pilot or ferry pilot over the atlantic.
A Halifax with coastal comand  | not one to pick a fight are you 
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01-28-2006, 07:28 AM
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#63 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Good info there pD.
As for the bomber command bomber that I would fly, it would still be the Lancaster. When I think of bombers I still think of the heavy 4 engine bombers and for the RAF it is the Lancaster for me.
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01-30-2006, 08:18 PM
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#64 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Lanc what not fight? I would have thought that you might with me picking a Halifax.
Dear Adler, the two engine ones did a lot of work, but the Lanc, got a larger then it share of the promotion.
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01-30-2006, 09:48 PM
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Country:  | Mosquito, it was fast, carry a decent load, a real pain in the German butt.
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02-04-2006, 06:59 AM
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#66 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by MP-Willow Dear Adler, the two engine ones did a lot of work, but the Lanc, got a larger then it share of the promotion. | Yes but that is why I said Quote: |
When I think of bombers I still think of the heavy 4 engine bombers
| . That was an opinion of mine. I did not say that 2 engines bombers did not do a big share of the job, just that when I think of bombers I like to think of the 4 engined one. 
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02-04-2006, 02:12 PM
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Country: | Dear Adler, I do not mean to upset you. I think most people think of the 4 engine heavies when bomber comand is spoken about as do I.
So I will say another bomber, the B-24, Liberator MkII
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02-05-2006, 07:08 AM
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#68 | | Der Crewchief
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__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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02-11-2006, 05:25 PM
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Country: | thanks. what elts do you think of when thinking of the 4 engine bombers?
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