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| View Poll Results: Your favorite non-Spitfire British fighter? (WWII) | |||
| Skua |     | 2 | 1.69% |
| Roc |    | 1 | 0.85% |
| Defiant |    | 2 | 1.69% |
| Gladiator |    | 3 | 2.54% |
| Meteor |    | 3 | 2.54% |
| Firefly |    | 1 | 0.85% |
| Fulmar | | 0 | 0% |
| Beaufighter | | 16 | 13.56% |
| Blenheim (!) | | 0 | 0% |
| Mosquito | | 35 | 29.66% |
| Hurricane | | 27 | 22.88% |
| Typhoon | | 14 | 11.86% |
| Tempest | | 31 | 26.27% |
| Whirlwind | | 7 | 5.93% |
| Fairey Swordfish | | 3 | 2.54% |
| Oh, now, what did I forget this time? | | 3 | 2.54% |
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08-28-2008, 02:09 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
Posts: 277
| Your favorite Non-Spitfire British fighter? A lot of us would have to say the Spitfire is our favorite WWII fighter from the UK, and if I made a poll with it in there, it would get most of the votes, so I'm leaving it out. Your favorite Non-Spitfire British fighter???? |
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08-28-2008, 03:06 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
Posts: 555
| Mossie for me edd
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08-28-2008, 03:11 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow
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08-28-2008, 06:31 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Adelaide
Posts: 32
| the mossie was good but personaly i like the hurricane. |
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08-28-2008, 09:10 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas
Posts: 1,736
| Same here. The Hurricane is one one of my favorites. It did well in BOB against the superior Me 109 Emil. And also in China against the Japanese 77th Sentai. Last edited by Amsel; 08-28-2008 at 09:18 AM. Reason: spelling |
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08-28-2008, 09:59 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
Posts: 2,489
| Tempest for me
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08-28-2008, 10:00 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
Posts: 4,345
| I'm with you Roman. I think the Tempest just looks like a bad a$$.......and it often was.
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08-28-2008, 10:35 AM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| I like the "Stringbag". It took a lot of balls to go to war in that kite. Charles
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08-28-2008, 01:08 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Pine Mountain Lake, California
Posts: 981
| Okay, you did forget one very important WWII British fighter: the Hawker Sea Fury, one of the most beautiful aircraft of all time. |
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08-28-2008, 01:09 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Posts: 15,220
  | Tempest/Mossie/Whirlwind for me.
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08-28-2008, 01:19 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| That's a good selection Gnomey.
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08-28-2008, 01:43 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| The Hurricane for me. It was the true hero of the BoB in my opinion.
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08-28-2008, 01:49 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
Posts: 4,029
| Hurrie for me also it did the majority of the work during the BOB and claimed its fair share of 109 kills as well as taking on the bombers yet being a more mundain looking workhorse never recieved the same acolades as the more glamourous Spites |
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08-28-2008, 01:50 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
Posts: 4,345
| Agreed Adler. I don't understand why the Spitfire gets all the credit in the BoB. Is it kind of like the B-17 gets the credit while the B-24 did more work and dropped more bombs? Or was it because the Spitfire was truly better than the "Emil" while the Hurricane was just it's equal?
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08-28-2008, 02:24 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Posts: 57
| I think Tempest is my favourite non-Spitfire British plane.
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