The P-108/B-17/Lancaster Thread

[cheddar cheese]

master? but i am superior to you in every way 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[kiwimac]

The He-177 was a good looking bird

The He 177 served as a five/six-seat heavy bomber from 1942 to 1945. The Greif (Griffin) was the only long-range heavy bomber built by the Luftwaffe in World War II in significant numbers. It was, to the good fortune of the Allies, one of the most trouble-plagued and accident-prone aircraft in existence, and the German crews and ground staff did not like it either. The plane was desgined to meet a misguided and impossible goal of 1938 that not only demanded long range with heavy bomb load and a speed of 536km/h but also required the big bomber to be able to divebomb. This and many other difficulties caused great delays and added to the weight. The designers wanted to use neat remotely controlled guns but this was a big problem and eventually it had to be discarded in favor of the ordinary turrets or hand-aimed guns. Worse yet, it was decided to use four engines and pack them in two coupled pairs to reduce drag, so that the He 177 looked like a twin-engined aircraft. Although great efforts were made by Daimler-Benz to make the 2,950hp DB 610A twinned units work properly, they created numerous problems and caught fire so often that - like an aircraft of World War I - the big Heinkel was dubbed "the flaming coffin." In total more than 1,000 of many versions were built. Armed with various combinations of 20mm cannon, 13mm heavy machine guns and rifle-caliber guns, the He 177 carried up to 6,011kg of bombs or missiles, and in some types even went into action at "nought feet" as tank-busters carrying huge 50 or 75mm caliber cannons. Late in the war some new versions, like the He 274 built in France and He 277 in Austria, had four separate engines, but they were too late to have any significant influence in the course of the war.

Source: http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2833/luftwaffe/bomber/he177/he177.html

Kiwimac

 

[cheddar cheese]

yes i agree, the he-177 did look good 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well, i dunno, it's nothing specail....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

your opinions are like mine, they dont count, i mean you think the ;ancaster looks good (sorry, had to say that)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[cheddar cheese]

8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

not funny.....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

sorry, dont you like people doing impessions of you? 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that was cheap C.C., real cheap

 

[cheddar cheese]

8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

stop doing that................

 

[cheddar cheese]

8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you got that quote from my book!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crazy]

your book says ' 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) ' in it?

 

[cheddar cheese]

no he means my signature 8) an aint your book lanc, it belongs to the people 8) thats why i love libraries, communism is still thriving in 'em 8)

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

lol (damnit u guys ur spam is starting to possess me) that communist library thing is soooooo true

 

[cheddar cheese]

see, my theories work 8) its in schools too: "dont litter children, its your school" 8)

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

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