Spitfire hauling beer

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Feb 25, 2012
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You guys probably have been seeing these pictures many times, need to add anyway, so clever "field operation".
Story here: http://spitfiresite.com/2012/01/modification-xxx-beer-carrying-spitfires.html
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I wonder what the ale tasted like? I hope it didn't get frozen in transit. It's not supposed to freeze or even be drunk cold!
Steve
 
I saw a similar story with a Mustang that was taken to altitude to make ice-cream in a clean drop tank. Gotta hand it to an enterprising military person.

I've heard that one too. Apparently someone rigged a drop-tank up with a churner, powered by a small prop.
 
At last a practical use for a Spitfire! A 400 MPH beer cooler. Musta been Johnson's or some other Canadian outfit, we like our beer cold.
 
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At last a practical use for a Spitfire! A 400 MPH beer cooler. Musta been Johnson's or some other Canadian outfit, we like our beer cold.


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Click on the 'fun stuff' tag... they a bit toned down from earlier ones. Apparently the German legendary sense of humour failed....


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Cheers

John
 
i heard of pilots in the pacific taking "test flights" to check performance that was really a ruse to get the beer cold. a lot of the islands didnt have generators and refrigeration units and the boys got tired of hot beer....
 
i heard of pilots in the pacific taking "test flights" to check performance that was really a ruse to get the beer cold. a lot of the islands didnt have generators and refrigeration units and the boys got tired of hot beer....

And you should have seen what happened when they ran out of beer - apparently they went on strike!
 

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