Aircraft Identification Thread I

[kiwimac]

Careful lad, Italian planes are nifty!

Kiwimac

 

[plan_D]

About as nifty as having your balls trapped in a vice, yes.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Shows how much you know about them....

Dont worry, its not a personal dig, many people underestimate Italian planes.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

with good reason................

CC go to that green shop opposite the multi-story in town, the one next to the windmil tearooms or whatever they're calling themselfs these days, they have a few rare italian and french plane models that i think you'll like, they're visible in the window.................

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ok, im going into town in the new year to get a HAIRCUT and open a bank account. Ill ceck it out 8) Only problem is i dont have much money left after buying my guitar

Why did you mention French planes? I doubt ill buy any of them in the near future...

 

[evangilder]

I am not crazy about the french, but their airplane designers were pretty innovative in the mid-late 30s. There was one particular, Marcel Bloch. Anyway, Bloch build some pretty cool airplanes for his time. The Nazis put him in a concentration camp because he would not design airplanes for them and joined the resistance. He survived the war and changed his last name to Dassault, his resistance codename. That was the start of Dassault aviation.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yeah, the Bloch MB.152 looks pretty good. Not a fan of French planes on the whole though, but some did look good.

 

[Nonskimmer]

I didn't know that about the Dassault name, evan. Very interesting!

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

The Mb.153 was pretty fast, actually...


After it was captured, it was scheduled to fly to Rechlin (somewhere like that, a German test airfield) and arrived 40 minutes ahead of time!

 

[evangilder]

I learned it while researching one of the Bloch bombers a couple of years ago. I found it quite interesting and that is why it stuck.

 

[plan_D]

MOST Italian planes were still flimsy pieces of crap, face it.

The French planes weren't ALL bad, shame about the pilots though. Although, they did well in the Normandie Neuman sqd. in Russia.

 

[cheddar cheese]

No, I wont face it, because there is nothing to face.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

just thought you might like the french planes as well CC, that's all...............

 

[R Pope]

Werner Molders got shot down by a Dewoitine D520, so the French planes weren't all that bad.

 

[Vegafox]

Answer...

 

[plan_D]

If the Italian planes were so good, why were they so crap?

 

[Yeomanz]

Werner Molders got shot down by a Dewoitine D520, so the French planes weren't all that bad.

well that was a good french plane , but they weren't all that Good ,
but wasnt only 40 odd D.520's made , or 40 D.520's that flew ?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and just becuase you get shot down by it, doesn't nessisarily make it a good plane...............

 

[Yeomanz]

oh dear it appears i was incorrect , i hope correctly spelt incorrect , wait .. i had a point ,what was it .... oh yes , lets say ut was the /one of the best french planes instead of Good

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that's better.............