How would YOU fly?

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[mosquitoman]

57milimetres of sheer hell!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i prefer to think of it as 6lbs...........

 

[DAVIDICUS]

Lanc said, "any particular reason??"

As a little kid, reading about the adventures of Francis Gabreski and the 56th FG is what trurned me on to WWII aviation.

The passion you have for the Lancaster is equaled only by my passion for the Thunderbolt. To me, it represented everything American about the war.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

what it was big, fat and as aerodynamic as a "house brick"??

 

[cheddar cheese]

I was going to make a joke like that earlier but refrained.

You could also say they can take a whole lotta shit!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and it could give out a whole lot of the stuff as well

 

[DAVIDICUS]

How dare you poke fun at the P-47 Thunderbolt!

 

[cheddar cheese]

We're not - Taking a whole lotta shit implies its tough, and giving out a whole lotta shit means it had good armament.

We were actually poking fun at Americans if anything

However, feel free to poke fun at the British too!

NB: I have nothing against Americans.

 

[evangilder]

NB: I have nothing against Americans.

We're actually quite tasty when grilled with lemon and garlic!

 

[cheddar cheese]

Mmmmmmmm, lemon...Incidentally thats the only actual fruit I will eat

 

[BombTaxi]

Id fly a Typhoon or Mustang with 2nd TAF in Operation Overlord. I thinhk the guys who flew those low level strikes, especially thr Tiffy pilots, must have been fantastically brave and somewhat crazy to achieve the results they did 8)

 

[FLYBOYJ]

F-86s during Korea, any unit!

HAPPINESS IS KILLING COMMIES

OOPS WRONG ERA!

 

[DAVIDICUS]

Lanc said, "what it was big, fat and as aerodynamic as a "house brick"??

While I am an American and am big, fat and as aerodynamic as a house brick, I'm pretty sure that was a negative comment addressed to the P-47.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Most probably, to be honest I didnt see that. Bad lanc!

 

[MP-Willow]

But we could turn out the P-47s as fast as the WASPs could get them to the sailers to take to the war.

P-38 Operation Torch!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it was actually aimed more at the americans.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Well technically speeaking the human body isnt exactly aerodynamic in the first place...I wonder if our feet will ever evolve into having venturi tunnels on the soles for extra downforce?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well are feet are pretty aerodynamic, it's the torso that's the problem, fortunatly for felix in our science class he has no worries about the resistance from his head..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

Too true