Remarkable kill

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by Konigstiger205

Just 10 fighters...wow...talking about air superiority....

I'm exaggerating, I'll have to count, but I guess it isn't more then 20 still active the next day and they hardly had any fuel or ammo left. Imagine the LW had about 240 fighters on strength against my country.

[Njaco]

On 10 May the Netherlands Army Air Force had on hand 132 aircraft including 23 Fokker G1s and 28 Fokker D-21s.

Marcel, that pic of 229 nose into the ground, is that the plane of Sgt. Roos? I ask because isn't the canopy still there?

[Marcel]

That's the same plane, only this crash took place before the war. All photo's are no. 229, the plane of sgt Roos. Numbers about the dutch LVA is correct, I was only talking about May 11th, most fighters were wiped out during the first day, so there weren't many left on day 2.
To compare the two airforces at the time:

LVA ready to fly on may 10th:
9 Fokker T.V bombers
28 Fokker D.XXI Fighters
23 Fokker G.I fighters
12 Douglas 8A fighter bomber
6 Fokker D.XVII fighter
17 Fokker C.V reconnaissance planes
15 Fokker C.X reconnaissance planes
32 Koolhoven FK-1 training and reconnaissance planes

LW flying in the NL 10 May 1940:
28 Ju-87 (
34 Ju-88
196 He-111
6 de Do 17 F
9 Do 215 K
180 BF109
62 Bf110
9 Hs-123
28 He-115
12 He-59 water planes
11 Fs-156

[Njaco]

Thanks Marcel. I didn't have the numbers for 11 May.

[Marcel]

Originally Posted by Njaco

Thanks Marcel. I didn't have the numbers for 11 May.

This was the strength at the start of the hostilities in the morning of May 10th. In the evening the following planes could still be flown:
2 G.I's
11 D.XXI's
57 of the biplane reconnaissance planes (C.X, C.V, FK-1)
6 T.V's

[Captain Dunsel]

IN the very early 1980's, we were assigned to Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. In those days, the T-33s used in Alaska had missions as recon birds, plus, sometimes, playing aggressor. The main fighters were F-4s.

During one exercise, a T-33 was bounced by an F-4. The F-4 got right on the T-33's tail and proceeded to call in a shoot down. The T-33 pilot called that he was ejecting. As you know, before ejecting, the T-33 pilot would have to jettison his canopy.

The IG judges decided that, since the F-4 was so close to the T-33 when the pilot called he was ejecting, the canopy would have probably hit the F-4. Since F-4's don't like FOD, so the canopy would probably have killed the engines when ingested.

Net result: The T-33 pilot was credited with killing the F-4 that had shot him down.... That led to a lot of merriment at the O'club that night!

CD