Recent content by kleinnak

Amen to that, Trackend! it takes a special kind of plane to be able to outlast all its wartime successors in service, lol.

ahhh, alright, that clarifies a good deal on your stance jabber, i apologize if i jumped the gun a bit. and apologize for the oversight on my part of 103's designation, get accustomed to writing Sqn too often and it becomes force of habit :-S. i however, am not a big fan of ambiguity in...

some of my favs as well. i'm also a big fan of hitting right at the base of the wing, as on some planes (109s and other thin winged planes) a couple cannon rounds are usually enough to blow the wing right off. that's also where the oil coolers are on 109s as well. they won't go down...

those are good points as well. i was just saying the one i knew for a fact and had read about. and actually, the oil cooler on the il-2 was rather large, and really not much harder to hit than the aforementioned cockpit area or specific control surfaces (i'm a die-hard Il-2 Forgotten Battles...

ahhh, gotcha, it does for me but i'm just a stickler for accuracy that way :-s. and a lover of the 109 at heart, so again...bias i s'pose. i guess it does bug me a lot more when i see it in a book or something like that, because those are the places that are supposed to get those things right.

*side note* i agree with you too on the Bf designation thing, that bugs me quite a bit to read :-S especially when i see it in books and tv and other sources that are supposed to be "scholarly"

quite a while as a matter of fact...to be totally honest...these are my first...:-S, i've been a member for a while, but i wasn't big into forums at the time and actually forgot i was a member until i came across this site by accident again. so...these are my first posts

lol! there is merit in that, can't argue that about the lanc, however i personally would discard the .303s in exchange for .50s. my personal favorite plane of all time has to be a tie between the beaufighter and the p-47 (which made me feel really bad playing il-2:fb last night when i came...

okay, will concede i was a bit excessive on the halifax. and i wasn't implying the hurricane was being unnoticed on this site, i was just throwing that out as a common one i've seen over the years, shoulda been more specific there. i will admit that a bit of my own personal biases were coming...

unfortunately i cannot answer the first two of your queries :-S but i can tell you the answer to the last one. the armour on the cockpit of the area was good...but there's only so much glass can do. the area that was the most vulnerable on the Il-2 was the oil-cooler underneath the nose. that...

*side note* Galitzine also made his flight on September 12, 1944, when access to the Mk IX (an all around better aircraft) was far more available than the Mk V which had been largely phased out of service as a frontline fighter except for the LF.Mk V version, which rated for low level would have...

hate to break it to you chief, but the plane Galitzine flew was a mk IX, No. 103 Sqn DID use stripped down mk Vs in the middle east, but Galatzine flew in the UK with the Special Service Flight (Or High Altitude Flight in the PC age) out of Northolt against the high-flying ju 86p/r's. he did...

I personally cannot decide on a list myself, but with all the talks of the ju 88s versatility, it's a crime to focus on just it and not the mosquito in the same respect. there's not a single role the ju 88 did that the mosquito could not do and did not do, and in fact did more. day and night...

I can't say at this exact moment, I'll have to do some reading when i get home from work, but i know the highest combat recorded was flown by Emaneul Galatzine (sp?) of the RAF in a stripped down Spitfire Mk IX against a Ju 86R/P (?) which i believe was at a height of either near or above 45000...

Ahhh, alrighty, thanks for the reply, didn't get it until after I'd sent that second one :-S. But that's good to know.