Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
I don't want any of what they're smoking.
How little they know...
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Laughing so hard, I almost cried....
Oh go on, you know that you want to! Just for the perverted fun of it!
I'll have a bash at provoking them into a debate with equally stupid comments later this evening.
Should pass the time until the Missus goes to bed and I can get on the xbox.
Cheers Chris
razor1uk
Staff Sergeant
I don't think they'd be smoking anything allegedly inferred to. ...too busy watching 'My Country Is Largely Talentless or My Parents Lied To Me, Y (..Did They)-Factor' on their personal viewing device, that and the lack of induced semi-focussed theorising going way off at a humouristic tangent..
Mmm, well it could be more worse, they could be in power/office now! and/or as aerially historically ignorant akin to some who troll at an aviation game/simulator-s home website usually can be at times.
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
The quotes I posted were the gems of the bunch, but I still get a pretty good laugh at some of the "informative" lines in there:
The British designed the motor for that role, and it was not dependable. Rolls-Royce actually developed the motor. I forget who bought it here in America, IH, maybe. I forget. They are the ones who took the motor and developed the plane around the motor.
- Their reference to "IH" is most likely International Harvester, a tractor, truck and utility engine manufacturer that also built a line of vehicles for several years...
P-51D, an american failure fixed by the RAF -
And to be even more historically correct ground strafing was the main role of the p38 lightning and it's English variant the mosquito.
- Love the "English variant" reference. I was surprised to know that DeHavilland manufactured the English version of the P-38 and called it a Mosquito...who knew?
The P47 was adapted later in WW2 for tank busting, using a 37 mm fuselage mounted canon. Very inaccurate and the recoil was a big problem.
- I'm sure that having a 37mm cannon mounted anywhere in the P-47's fuselage would have caused problems!
Ya. They found out in Nam 51's were to vulnerable to ground fire for ground support role. Still, fastest prop fighter ever!
- I'm sure that a P-51 used in 'Nam would have had more things to worry about besides ground fire...
P-51s were hardly ever used as ground attack aircraft, perhaps never.
- Perhaps never!! I'm going to say that there were quite a few Germans that would have disagreed with this.
well i have to tell you, youre totally wrong... the 51's p and f's were outfitted with bombs, and had alot of secondary uses other than escorts and fighters. they had a bigger fuel load than most fighters then, and could carry out longer and more covert missions - nope. f and p 51's were outfitted with bombs, and could easily have ran those missions.
- That P-51F and P-51P sounds seriously badass...I'd love to see one, but they were covert, therefore secret
The German Focke-Wulf Fw-190D series came close to matching it but it came too late in the war, very few were built
- This is a real shame, too, since the Fw190 was a nice aircraft...perhaps the Germans should have made more of them earlier...
I almost feel compelled to go look for more of this stuff!
The British designed the motor for that role, and it was not dependable. Rolls-Royce actually developed the motor. I forget who bought it here in America, IH, maybe. I forget. They are the ones who took the motor and developed the plane around the motor.
- Their reference to "IH" is most likely International Harvester, a tractor, truck and utility engine manufacturer that also built a line of vehicles for several years...
P-51D, an american failure fixed by the RAF -
And to be even more historically correct ground strafing was the main role of the p38 lightning and it's English variant the mosquito.
- Love the "English variant" reference. I was surprised to know that DeHavilland manufactured the English version of the P-38 and called it a Mosquito...who knew?
The P47 was adapted later in WW2 for tank busting, using a 37 mm fuselage mounted canon. Very inaccurate and the recoil was a big problem.
- I'm sure that having a 37mm cannon mounted anywhere in the P-47's fuselage would have caused problems!
Ya. They found out in Nam 51's were to vulnerable to ground fire for ground support role. Still, fastest prop fighter ever!
- I'm sure that a P-51 used in 'Nam would have had more things to worry about besides ground fire...
P-51s were hardly ever used as ground attack aircraft, perhaps never.
- Perhaps never!! I'm going to say that there were quite a few Germans that would have disagreed with this.
well i have to tell you, youre totally wrong... the 51's p and f's were outfitted with bombs, and had alot of secondary uses other than escorts and fighters. they had a bigger fuel load than most fighters then, and could carry out longer and more covert missions - nope. f and p 51's were outfitted with bombs, and could easily have ran those missions.
- That P-51F and P-51P sounds seriously badass...I'd love to see one, but they were covert, therefore secret
The German Focke-Wulf Fw-190D series came close to matching it but it came too late in the war, very few were built
- This is a real shame, too, since the Fw190 was a nice aircraft...perhaps the Germans should have made more of them earlier...
I almost feel compelled to go look for more of this stuff!
Bucksnort101
2nd Lieutenant
razor1uk
Staff Sergeant
Your brains hurts, many others will too lol, mind-due, theirs didn't even register it'd seem to those with more historical programming, then again some nice mix of partial infos jumbled together with incorrect A/C, eras and 'it was sometime time way before I was born or care-ology'..
37mm cannon (Stuka G?) fuz mounted (Martinn B26, Ki46II Otsu-Dragon Killer/Shlacht Muzik) P47 Thunderbolt - hell atleast they didn't say the Thunderbolt had 4 GAU8 Avenger gatling cannons in each wing....
37mm cannon (Stuka G?) fuz mounted (Martinn B26, Ki46II Otsu-Dragon Killer/Shlacht Muzik) P47 Thunderbolt - hell atleast they didn't say the Thunderbolt had 4 GAU8 Avenger gatling cannons in each wing....
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
If I could be bothered, I'd post there along the lines of "Don't spout b*ll*cks when you know **** all. Go and do some studying of facts before committing cr@p to the 'net." Followed by "You have two eyes, two ears and one mouth. Use the pairs long before the single".
Thorlifter
Captain
I like that!!!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
....and then Terry's mustache would beat the crap out of them.
I like it!!
I like it!!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I'm afraid I used to get this sort of cr@p at least once a month, when I used to present lectures, six times a day, to six different groups, on the development, use and effects of infantry weapons.
There was always at least one ****ing 'Anorak' who knew better, as he'd had 'lots of experience' - on video games!!!!
Never actually used the real weapon(s), and most often, hadn't even seen one until coming to my presentation, but tried to tell me, a qualified SA instructor, what was what!
That's when I used to use that phrase, rather than say "Shut the **** up, d***head !".
There was always at least one ****ing 'Anorak' who knew better, as he'd had 'lots of experience' - on video games!!!!
Never actually used the real weapon(s), and most often, hadn't even seen one until coming to my presentation, but tried to tell me, a qualified SA instructor, what was what!
That's when I used to use that phrase, rather than say "Shut the **** up, d***head !".
Morons will be morons...
fubar57
General
Geo
N4521U
Colonel
Morons will be our leaders one day!
Again.
Again.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Why not post pics of the German marked Mustang, Thunderbolt, Spitfire and the Lightning, h*ll...throw in that Italian Lightning as well, that would confuse the sh*t out of them!
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
I could only make it part ways down. OMG. I'm going to the "Bacon" thread.........
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
I think that colour 9 smells like freshly BBQ'd bacon in the morning.....
