Bomber command plane you would fly.

[Gemhorse]

Most of us DO cherish our chances of survival if ''we were in Bomber Command,'' for so many of us to have made the same instant choice I did when voting....it was indeed a unique aircraft of it's time, especially when virtually every Mosquito in Bomber Command carried no guns, relying on speed and agility for survival...For all those crews who flew, each knowing they barely had a pistol for self-defence, man, that took courage, of the stainless-steel kind, especially the Pathfinders who marked through the raids from all levels....

Depending on taste for adrenalin, what do you guys reckon would have appealed to you, flying Mosquitos in which branch of Bomber Command ?

For example, the Light Night Strike Force, a special branch comprising all Mosquitos, was a fast growing force by the end of the War, especially on the Berlin run, and were counted as a Main Force raid.....

For myself, the pre- and post- Photo Reconnaissance or Meteorlogical Flights were of great fascination; all-weathers, altitudes, high and low, the art of evasion, etc.etc.......

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

i wanna die so im flying a whitley, OVER BERLIN


'hate my life

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

What kind of music do you listen to. If its Heavy Metal can I have your CD collection?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and if you want a really classey way to die in a whitley? go for a parchute jump out the hole cut in the floor, smash your face on the way out so badly you're in too much pain to pull your chute and land, no, it really did happen

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

What kind of music do you listen to. If its Heavy Metal can I have your CD collection?

i only listen to local music, and besides, i lost most of my
CDs since i moved in, the arpenters stole 'em

a bloody way to die is to smash out of the side of a whitley and get by the propellers....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

how're you gonna manage to do that

 

[cheddar cheese]

If I wanted to die id play Russian Roulette, by bailing out of a P-38. (Plane, not gun )

 

[mosquitoman]

If you really wanted to die in Bomber Command it would have to be the Fairey Battle, don't use the Whitley- they were good IMO, better than Hampdens anyway

 

[Mosin]

Id be in a naval wing. Dont know exactly what they did but i have always loved naval patrol planes and squadrons.

 

[evangilder]

If I wanted to die id play Russian Roulette, by bailing out of a P-38. (Plane, not gun )

And not this P-38?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Id be in a naval wing. Dont know exactly what they did but i have always loved naval patrol planes and squadrons.

Yep - a VP Squadron on Key West

Then to Sloppy Joe's for Happy Hour!

 

[wmaxt]

If I wanted to die id play Russian Roulette, by bailing out of a P-38. (Plane, not gun )

The P-38 was no more dangerous to bail out of than any other aircraft. Zenos has a video that shows a normal bailout and the pilot clears by 5 or so feet. Also the enevator is not only at the same relative height to the cockpit/wing as other fighters it is further away from the trailing edge of the wing giving added clearence. A good place to see this is the Planes and Pilots of WWII web page and the "Is Size a Dissadvantage" article. The P-38 is dangerous to bail out of rumor is just a rumor and thats all!

wmaxt

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

And why anyone would want to come up with ways to kill themselves on here in a plane is just stupid!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Maybe being a ground crew and walking in to the prop of a taxiing G.50 would be fun

 

[mosquitoman]

Maybe being a ground crew and walking in to the prop of a taxiing G.50 would be fun

Or not...

 

[Gnomey]

Why can't you all me men and just shoot yourself in the head, or stab yourself with a knife?

 

[mosquitoman]

Go on then, you first

Anyway...
I'd take a 100 Group Serratte Mossie or Beau to take out LW nightfighters.
If I wanted to kill myself ( which I don't ) I'd take a Battle at low level over France in 1940

 

[Gnomey]

I don't want to kill myself, I was just making suggestions. Anyway I would agree about taking a Battle in at low level over France in 1940, you would be almost certain to be shot down and at least injured.

And as I said earlier in this thread I would fly a Mossie (NF or Intruder).

 

[Erich]

85th or 157th Sq Mossie XXX please ......... 1945

 

[MP-Willow]

Halifax or WEllingto;n, would be my pick. To fly over Canada as a trainning pilot or ferry pilot over the atlantic.

A Halifax with coastal comand