Recent content by Oleanna

well, its all very well having good planes, but you ned the expertise and the balls to be able to fly it in the first place. I recall reading an argument along these lines a bit earlier on in the forum....no matter how quick the plane, how heavily armed etc, if the piliot is crap then he is...

it ceased to be independant a few hundred years ago i believe!

I may have been mistaken but did I read somewhere else that you were defending the Corsair as not a wholly american plane??? I seem to recall reading that you defending the integral part that the britsh played in the design of the plane?

I must say, i do hope that i dont upset this JJ1982 fellow. He seems like a rather nasty piece of work.. I have just seen a few of his posts. I thought that this was a forum for WW2 aircraft. Sorry JJ1982 if your reading this

Best navel planes i think would be the japanese. The kamikaze piliots were guarenteed a kill....Oh by the way, did you hear the one about an irish Kamikaze piliot who flew 22 missions???? LOL. Sorry hope there are no irish or irish decendants on here. They are a nutruel country after all!

IMO, Bronzewhaler, I think that the points that you have made are very valid. The Roc and the defiant were both let down as you say by the speed. But if it is so obvious to us, and I know Hindsight is a good skill to possess...then surely ALL planes would have been fitted with a better engine...

In my opinion the Heinkel He113 was possilbly the worst aircraft of the second war war, mainly due to the fact that it didnt actually exist. The Nazi propaganda machine claimed that the He113 was a development of the He112. It was supposed to be powered by a single mercedas benz engine with...