Recent content by Arrawin

I had no idea they developed a 50cal with that rate of fire in WW2, that is an astounding amount of lead in the air in a very short time.

I think quite a few of the WW2 fighters survived because they found they made pretty good pylon racers with some modifications.

I was wondering what opinions you might have as to why it was that America seemed to prefer a load of machine guns over the use of a few machine guns and a real heavy hitter like the autocannon (one or two)? I may be wrong and I know some of our fighters did have at least 1 autocannon but a lot...

I had no idea there were so few Stuka's left in flying condition or even just intact. I was hoping our local aero museum might get one but that is out of the question. I had a control line model of a stuka when I was a kid that I just loved to death, it even had a bomb it could drop. The one...

I tried to translate the saying under the image and as near as I could come it says something like God Punish England. Why they thought England needed to be punished I don't know.

It seems if you look just a bit you can find German ex-military showing up pretty much all over the world just a few years after the war ended. How did they do that? The country was devastated, you couldn't just go to the airport and catch a plane to Brazil, I even read recently of an...

The Bf109 that we have in our Flying Heritage Museum has that same Weeping Bird emblem on the side of it.