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Kenley? Or was in Bunker Hill?

Hah. Numbers prove it. Hurricanes show down more, but if it were a better aircraft it would have show down at LEAST an even proportion to it's numbers. They should have show down 3 times as many Germans as the Spitfires.

Anyone ever read Derek Robinson's book Piece of Cake? This guy sort of reminds me of Flash Gordon and a bit of Moggie Cattermole.

You're kidding - right? If a country is designing tanks that can be destroyed with a wash of .303 then they need to redesign the thing - or stop making them out of wood. You know the Hurricane was designed as the RAF's first monoplane fighter? Keyword: Fighter? It's a shame Hurricane...

I think you mean the highest CLAIMING fighter of the war. Everyone knows the deal with RAF claims. "So I hopped over the 109s with ease, and shot down the whole foramtion of Heinkels! Must have been 100 of them! One pass of course, old boy."

And sometimes more than that. Catching fire, shedding a wing and blowing up, for instance, is something that probably no pilot ever asked of his Hurricane, and yet....

Seems to me that a moving tail like that would be a liability for damage. Imagine having to land your plane on its rudder.

Incorrect. I seem to recall the Germans being very meticulous in their claims. Luftwaffe records show their claims being much closer to actual numbers than RAF records. Between August 11 and August 24, Fighter Command claimed to have shot down 636 Enemy A/C. A mere 113 of those were seen to...

For future reference for you: Schweinfurt

To which there was a forever ongoing battle, with the Flak gunners saying they were more effective and that the fighters needed to stay away in flak zones, then the pilots saying that THEY were more effective and then flak needed to stop whenever fighters were around. "just look at how many more...

The Spitfire had a higher top speed and I'd trust it more in a turning fight than that cow of a fighter the Hurricane. And as we well know, a concentrated gun platform didn't matter for turds during the BoB because your average RAF fighter pilot was such a lousy shot that the spray effect of the...

I was reading the memoirs of a B-24 pilot and he said that once you lost an engine in a B-24, everyone had better get their bail-out kit in gear because if you lost another one you were going down. Not so with a '17.

That doesn't mean it could fly a ring around a P-38.

And a B-17 has FOUR engines and it couldn't fly a ring around my house. Put less stock in powerplant, and more in airframe.

Yeah, great stuff BombTaxi. Even without installing a turret, you'd think that a pair of ventral MGs would have done the job.