Need your help, please!

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I have an amazing library but unfortunaly about 350 of my books are still at my mothers house in boxes until I find the time to go and get them. I only have 57 military books here at my place with only about 40 of them beeing WW2 aviation. I basically took my favorites with me when I moved and will get the rest later.

 

[davparlr]

Thanks for your help and replies but I think I'll stick with the spitfire. I've done some research and have some reading to do. I'll have more details soon.
Tucker

Hello Susan and Tucker,

I am a North Florida native from Pensacola. The comments about the museum at the Pensacola Naval Air Station is a good one. You should make time to see it sometime. There maybe a good musuem at Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach too. Of course if you live in Jacksonville that is still a long way to go.

I think your selection of Spitfire is a good one. Many people have heard about it but few have a lot of detail (in America). Also, I think your best resource would be the internet since local libraries may be short of Spitfire books. You might could order a book and some people on this site could recommend some good ones.

This site does tend to get sidetracked but the knowledge available here is amazing. In fact, if you did a search on spitfire on this site, you would probably find some interesting data.

Good luck!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Exactly, we get sidetracked but somehow allways return the topic and if you just ask for info, somewhere here will be able to help and all will be happy to do so.

 

[Susan]

I was wondering if you had any good tragedies that I could use. A lot of the information is focusing on triumphs and technical configurations of the airplane.

Thanks! Tucker

 

[pbfoot]

Just off hand the air battle over Dieppe

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

I hope you're talking about the spitfire or some non american plane

 

[Susan]

I'm focusing on the Spitfire for my project. Sorry. Tucker

 

[Matt308]

Anyone have any information on pilot losses of the spitfire protege used in the Snyder Trophy races? Perhaps detailing some of these daring exploits related to the pre-spit configuration with dual floats leading up the first Mk. I'm not an expert in this area of the Spit development, but surely someone here is.

What about some of the tragic loss of British Spits during the Battle of Britain intercepts? Many more are more knowledgeable than I am, but certainly there were squadrons that suffered signficant loss of attrition in that most knoble or knoble fights.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wouldn't call the Schneider Trophy races a tragedy for the spit in fact the races had little to do with the actual spitfire..........

and it's very hard to think of a real Spitfire Tragedy.............

 

[Matt308]

Aww Lanc. Are you telling him that his choice of the Spit is now the wrong choice? I would say that there are lots of tragedies in war irrespective of the tools of war. It is all how you spin it. I recognize the Schneider Trophy races did not include Spits, however the Trophy race airplane was the precursor of the Spit was what is spawned that lovely airplane. If he focuses not upon any particular tragedy associated with the Spitfire, but rather how tragic it is that such a marvel of engineering spawned from mankinds drive for greater and greater speeds resulted in the loss of life in Spitfire development (racing deaths), flight testing experimental models and ultimately by pilots on both sides of the war. That is truly tragic, to realize an engineering dream spawned from man's desire to master the natural world results in one of the worlds most efficient killing machines. This tragic irony could then be juxtaposed with the ultimate good that the Spitfire afforded the hardy people of England, the aviation community in general and ultimately the world.

Hey. Just some thoughts from across the pond.

Tucker - At some point you gonna have to start putting pen to paper. I would suggest you formulate an outline and perhaps share that for comments. That might help you and the forum participants narrow their scope and have a better understanding of your intended audience sophistication.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

wait a minute how could i possibly forget the biggest spitfire tragedy- the fact that Mitchell never lived to see his machine become the legend it did!

 

[Gnomey]

Triumph - Great plane
Tragedy - designer died before it saw it's full potential...

.....

 

[Matt308]

wait a minute how could i possibly forget the biggest spitfire tragedy- the fact that Mitchell never lived to see his machine become the legend it did!

There we are Lanc. Beauty.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Triumph - Great plane
Tragedy - designer died before it saw it's full potential...

.....

yes gnomey i know you posted it before and you may have the credit if you like it was that that reminded me of it actually.........

 

[loomaluftwaffe]

how about the dieppe battle, or the period after the BoB? from my book, the new Bf-109F and Fw-190s from the squadrons like JG26 kicked alot of Spitifre *** during that time

 

[Gnomey]

yes gnomey i know you posted it before and you may have the credit if you like it was that that reminded me of it actually.........

Fair enough.