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that G55 looks like theyve gone through the parts bin and put three different aircraft into one, it doesnt flow for me. The Spitfire is sleek and purposeful and beautiful curves.

deleted . good luck to you all.

I already said that many of those who have legitimate grievances with US foreign policy can go too far with criticising for unilateral action and end up justifying genocides rather than let the US act. as for the world can kiss your ass, well thats really symptomatic of the contempt the US...

Spitfire VIII Hornet Hunter

wow excellent, thanks to you both. sending PMs

I dont know about chicken, many nations like Australia are too small to offer anything other than token assistance. And its a bit disingenuous to suggest that the US is somehow solely interested in bringing freedom, all countries act according to their own interests and I have seen many graves...

fair enough Matt. I dont know enough about either fighter ( p47 or F4u) it appears.

The North Vietnamese obviously. wars are not won by adding up who was victorious in the most battles but by which state withdraws from the conflict. German soldiers killed Soviet soldiers in their millions yet they still ended up buried in the ruins of Berlin 1945. Their was never the...

nice list Matt308, but do you reckon you could get air superiority with the p47 and Corsair? forgot about the Sunderland though, theres just too many British types to fit into a 9 slot list ;)

Okay my list Tiger Moth AVRO York Lancaster Spitfire XIV Tempest VI Beaufighter De Havilland Hornet Mosquito Swordfish

It`ll fly again one day. they are almost too valuable now not to be viable to restore.

the .303 gets a poor press, mainly because towards the middle of the war aircraft had up-armoured and up-gunned and left it behind. In the BoB it was still a lethal armament when hosing the unprotected glass cockpits of German bombers. Its unfair to compare it to 0.50 armed fighters since by...

Hiya all. For a long term hobby, and to start spending some of my money before the wife can spend it all on horses and shopping, I`ve started putting together my own static spitfire MKVIII, to hopefully one day well into the future to look like the beauty below. Well to be honest at the...

yeah, the recommended minimum entry speed for a Spitfire loop is given as 300kts IAS, which is a fair old click. not enough entry speed and you end up much lower than you started, which is never good when the grounds that close to start with. I`ll have to find some pics of the XIVs rebuild...

I reckon a better insurance fighter would have been the little Miles M20. Faster than a Hurricane even with fixed undercarriage, it would have made a great emergency fighter