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Your top three second world war planes.













Frutos

Frutos

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Helpful Moderator
NSC Patron
May 3, 2006
35,541
Northumberland
1) Supermarine Spitfire
2) Avro Lancaster
3) Boeing B-29

None of them even CLOSE to being my overall favourite military aircraft though.
 






beorhthelm

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,287
Mosquito
Spitfire
Martlet :thumbsup:
 
















Hillian1

Hillian1

( . ) ( . )
Jul 15, 2010
15,364
Struggling for breath at the top of the stairs
The Birdman said:
Did they put a marlin engine in the updated P51
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A Merlin engine yes, I believe it was the Packard company that took the engine and gave it a supercharger.

I think it was Fieldmarshall Model who said when he saw a Mustang escorting bombers over Berlin he knew the war was lost.
 


Spun Cuppa

Spun Cuppa

Thanks Greens :(
Jul 2, 2009
5,352
'We're on the road to nowhere...'
Spitfire (Battle of Britain)

Mitsubishi Zero Zen (Tora! Tora! Tora!)

Messerschmitt ME109 (Battle of Britain)

An acquaintance picked up a box of old home Standard8 cine films at an estate sale, and a couple were shot during the war, and showed a few real dogfights over the south of England, between English planes, Spitfires/Hurricanes, and hun, ME109's mainly. They went for BUNDLES at auction :ohmy:
 








Spun Cuppa

Spun Cuppa

Thanks Greens :(
Jul 2, 2009
5,352
'We're on the road to nowhere...'
The Birdman said:
Did they put a marlin engine in the updated P51
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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 :lolol:
 
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Cheshire Cat

Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Nov 4, 2006
11,431
Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...
Gloster Gladiator
Bristol Blenhiem
Fairey Battle
 


vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,884
My late Uncle was a member of RAF groundcrew during the war. All the fighters had cameras that would operate when the pilot's pulled the trigger so that the intelligence people could see if an enemy was, hit, damaged or shot down. He had the job of riding a motorcycle across the airbase to fighters as they landed in order to retrieve the films from the planes and rush them back for developing.
He was 17 when he enlisted and said it was the best of times and the worst of times but he always said a Hurry did most of the work as opposed to the fancy dan's in the Spits. so, for me,

Hurricane

Spitfire

Beaufighter

ps, God rest you Uncle Geoff, you are not forgotten.
 


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