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hearing that a japanese whaling ship caught fire. Being bowled out for 30 is bad but i was on a team that got all out for 16. Yes we were terrible, a bit the England side for most of their aussie tour. DerAdler i didnt even know you guys had snakes in Germany?

Most machines from the period interest me eg, aircraft, tanks old steam enginges etc., i like the noise, colours and my dad was interested in the stuff. Then i learned my grandad was in the RNZAF and so ive been told time and again that he was supposibly the last guy to fly out of Singapore...

I dont pretend that the Me-262 was perfect but speed is a vital asset to have to take on bomber formations with their fighter escorts. Put it this way how many Me-262s were lost to the gunners from a B-17? They couldnt keep up with it. On the video game secret weapons of normandy there is an...

you really cant go past the me-262 for its firepower and speed. As long as the pilots could get a good shot in. I was reading about the me-163 Komet and they also had an amazing speed but there guns had a slow speed or rate? anyway this meant that it was more luck or miracle if they hit their...

in my opinion i strongly believe that the Me-262 was the best fighter. I dont know if the stats of the kills to losses ratio affects peoples opinions but sometimes stats dont show the full picture. For instance just because it was vulnerable in the landing and takeoff phase does it make it any...

sounds like a cool piece of software mate. good luck with that!

i watched this funny clip on utube of donitz replacing hitler View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHnyQXyuTGY

The Stuka was of course vulnerable to enemy aircraft but if you were solely to consider its ability to detroy tanks then you cant overlook what it achieved in this role

i think it might of been the Heinkel 177 Griffon or something that had a habit of falling out of the sky or catching fire. Hitler once called it a piece of crap. Of course some of the italian planes were pretty bad too.