Your top three second world war planes.
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The Birdman
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Oh I forgot the Swodfish brave pilots .
Spun Cuppa
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I got the 'big' Airfix Spitfire one Xmas, 1:24 IIRC. Looked the dog's when put together painted...
Barnham Seagull
Yapton Actually
Hawker Hurricane
De Haviland Mosquito
Hawker Typhoon
De Haviland Mosquito
Hawker Typhoon
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
Wellington
Lancaster
Meteor
Honourable mention for the Short Seaford!
Lancaster
Meteor
Honourable mention for the Short Seaford!
skipper734
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Spitfire
Hurricane
Mosquito or anything with wings and a Merlin
Lancaster
Typhoon
Meteor
Hurricane
Mosquito or anything with wings and a Merlin
Lancaster
Typhoon
Meteor
Hillian1
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Crippled the Bismarks rudder they did, as well as attacking and destroying part of the Italian Fleet in the shallow harbour of taranto.
Norman Potting
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Spitfire
Swordfish
Mosquito
Swordfish
Mosquito
Seagull over Canaryland
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Mosquito
Spitfire
B24 Liberator
The B24 isn't glamorous but makes my list for safely bringing my Uncle home after getting shot up several times while serving in the Far East. He was an RAF gunner in the belly ball turret so very vulnerable to flak plus not a place to be trapped if the plane needed to make an emergency landing. Somehow he survived several low level missions where they attacked Japanese targets and took a fearful amount of return fire. He wouldn't talk about it but I found out that on one mission his crew thought he'd had it when they lost radio contact with his turret and could see blood but the access hatch had become jammed and couldn't release him. They nearly opted for a crash landing but somehow the damaged plane just made it, not knowing that he was alive under the plane until he was cut free.
Spitfire
B24 Liberator
The B24 isn't glamorous but makes my list for safely bringing my Uncle home after getting shot up several times while serving in the Far East. He was an RAF gunner in the belly ball turret so very vulnerable to flak plus not a place to be trapped if the plane needed to make an emergency landing. Somehow he survived several low level missions where they attacked Japanese targets and took a fearful amount of return fire. He wouldn't talk about it but I found out that on one mission his crew thought he'd had it when they lost radio contact with his turret and could see blood but the access hatch had become jammed and couldn't release him. They nearly opted for a crash landing but somehow the damaged plane just made it, not knowing that he was alive under the plane until he was cut free.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
My late father-in-law was in Burma in the latter part of the war and flew in Libs and 'white Wimpys' (anti-submarine Wellingtons).We saw one of the Libs he actually flew in at RAF Cosford,gave him a bit of a shock!
Publius Ovidius
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Sunderland flying boat
Curtiss kitty hawk
Supermarine Spitfire
DeHavilland Mosquito
Avro Lancaster
Messerschmitt BF109. ( tropical)
Mitsubishi zero
Bristol Beaufighter
Michell B25
Curtiss kitty hawk
Supermarine Spitfire
DeHavilland Mosquito
Avro Lancaster
Messerschmitt BF109. ( tropical)
Mitsubishi zero
Bristol Beaufighter
Michell B25
Paskman
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Beaufighter - my grandfather was shot down in one over the Burma jungle, he and the pilot parachuted out and made their way back to Imphal through the jungle.
Mossie - saw the BA one several times in the air before it crashed. Just the best WW2 aircraft, Goring asked for them!
Short Sunderland, flying porcupine!
Mossie - saw the BA one several times in the air before it crashed. Just the best WW2 aircraft, Goring asked for them!
Short Sunderland, flying porcupine!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
nail head
skipper734
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Merlin
There was an urban myth that Rolls-Royce got a bit anal about a low-end mass-producer like Ford (?) in America building the Merlin engine and refused to send them the blue-prints. The War Office ordered them to do so, and they promptly got them back, as Ford worked to tolerances of ten-thousandths of an inch, rather than RR's thousandths
This sounds more like it. http://shortfinals.wordpress.com/20...factory-system-ford-built-merlin-engine-mosi/
The Buttery Biscuit Base
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1. Lockheed P-38 Lightning: 443 mph and a range of 1,300 miles 5 cannons and the possibility of 4 rocket launchers
2. Messerschmitt Me 262: Germany might have won the war had they brought them in a year earlier.
3. De Havilland Mosquito: The Boss!
2. Messerschmitt Me 262: Germany might have won the war had they brought them in a year earlier.
3. De Havilland Mosquito: The Boss!
Kalimantan Gull
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Fiat G.55
Brewster Buffalo
PBY Catalina
Brewster Buffalo
PBY Catalina
pastafarian
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if anyone has any of these in the loft we could sort this out
Leekbrookgull
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Merlin
There was an urban myth that Rolls-Royce got a bit anal about a low-end mass-producer like Ford (?) in America building the Merlin engine and refused to send them the blue-prints. The War Office ordered them to do so, and they promptly got them back, as Ford worked to tolerances of ten-thousandths of an inch, rather than RR's thousandths
Enjoy. Not even at Max REVS. Wonderful sound.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yprfH5ZsAHk