5 Favourite Planes

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that was a different raid....................

 

[plan_D]

So if you were talking about one raid, and I was talking about another. Then we were both right, and you were no more right than I. 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but we were talking about the same raid.................

 

[plan_D]

I was ORIGINALLY talking about the raid that sunk the Tirpitz. Which had three in it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

ok i think we need to go back and figure out where we went wrong.................

 

[plan_D]

I don't know, it got muddled up somewhere.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yeah and since then it's just been us two going on for ages..................

 

[plan_D]

At least it was about World War 2. And in fact about aviation.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and huge bombs................

 

[plan_D]

And sinking big lumps of metal.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and not just metal, and that's what makes it interesting.................

 

[plan_D]

And not just any metal, German metal.

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

Actually, it could have come from anywhere in the Reich...


(Unless, of course, the Tirpitz was built before 1938...)
[For those who don't know, the Third Reich by January 1, 1939 {to be blunt and innacurate; I don't know when Czechosloazakia was annexed or when the Annschluss occured other than in the year Nineteen-Hundred, Thirty-Eight, A.D.} already consisted of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.... What I'm getting at is that the metal itself might not have been German...]



Just to make things more complicated...

 

[plan_D]

I can't fully remember but I think Czechoslovakia was taken in October 1938. Austria was March 1938. Even with those two countries it's most likely that Tirpitz was German steel, since steel from the Rhine-Ruhr Valley is/was some of the best steel in the world.

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

Most likely...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

why are we having a debate about which steel was used to make the tirpitz.......................

 

[plan_D]

Because it gives us a reason to post.

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

Wow, I didn't even notice I hit 800...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

wow, i didn't even know i'd broken 4000.................

 

[cheddar cheese]

ok, 1200 posts behind, i have my target.....