Best Aircraft in Many Different Roles Part II

• May 27, 2005

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Incompetent pilot?

 

• May 27, 2005

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WHAT DIFFERENCE DOSE IT MAKE, HE'S ONLY GOING 65 MPH!

 

• May 27, 2005

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well it does make bringing your ack ack guns to bear a tad more difficult at Taranto one actually dipped his wheels in the water and nearly went arse over tit.
I just found another use for the Stringbag motorbike transporter.

 

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• May 27, 2005

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• May 27, 2005

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Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

 

• May 27, 2005

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cheddar cheese said:

Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

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• May 27, 2005

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No one believes me when I tell them how versatile they where Fly they where also used as personel transport (4 passangers) bit of a squeeze though

 

• May 27, 2005

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trackend said:

No one believes me when I tell them how versatile they where Fly they where also used as personel transport (4 passangers) bit of a squeeze though

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Oh I agree, and them being so slow but yet so successful is what amazes me!

 

• May 27, 2005

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They should have put a merlin in it....

 

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cheddar cheese said:

Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

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Well you may mock young Cheesy trouble is your not far wrong heres a tail from the North African campaign.

 

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• May 27, 2005

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but she could take a huge payload given she had only 730HP to her name........

 

• May 27, 2005

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Well the SAI 403 could go immensely fast with just 750hp... 8)

 

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the lancaster kicks ass said:

but she could take a huge payload given she had only 730HP to her name........

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The supercharged Peggy Mk30 was rated at 775hp at 2200 revs
and her carrying capacity was down to 607sq ft of wing area which is more than a Dornier 17Z

 

• May 28, 2005

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Yes, but thats because it has 2 wings

 

• May 28, 2005

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My God I never noticed that Cheesy although there is a case where the upper wing was nearly all shot off of a Stringbag and it flew back to base OK and another that upon returning to the Carrier a aircraft fitter put his hand inside a hole that been blown in the lower wing and pulled out a foot of main spar.

 

• May 28, 2005

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well she was a tough bird......

 

• May 31, 2005

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I think the Stringbag was one of the most amazing aircraft for what it accomplished for what kind of aircraft she was.

 

• May 31, 2005

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Me too.

 

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She did away with many a Capital ship from Germany and Italy. She deffinatly earns her spot in history.

 

• May 31, 2005

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I can agree with that!