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A mosquito, for most of the war could outrun single engined fighters and so could choose whether to fight or not. With 4 cannon and 4 machine guns if it hit a single engined fighter it would cause serious damage. With any combat twin or single engined the winner is the one with the crucial advantage.
I absolutely agree!
The Mosquito was in it's one league for speed and firepower.
This is one of the reasons why I'm so convinced of the FW 187. She is exact in between the Westlad Whirlwind and the the Mosquito. So I think the FW 187 could combine both good characteristics.
The F7F was not certified ready for combat until July 1945. By then the competition consists of Me-262 jet fighters plus late model piston engine fighters like the Spitfire XIV, Do-335, P-51H and Ta-152H. Much stiffer competition then what the Whirlwind, Fw-187 and P-38 had to face during 1939 to 1942.
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I live in Hannover, that's ok. We have a good night life, i think.
Were you a soldier?
Eee baa'gum you schweinhund...Even more strange was he spoke "plat" with his friends, my grandmother spoke "yorkshire dialect" .....they are surprisingly close
for a while I lived on a farm with an old couple Otto and Hilda, Otto was a soldier in the war protecting airfields it was strange for an english guy to meet someone who actually saw an Me262 fly. Even more strange was he spoke "plat" with his friends, my grandmother spoke "yorkshire dialect" .....they are surprisingly close
Eee baa'gum you schweinhund...
...it's not working for me...
I used to drink in a bar where the barmaid spoke Bayerisch, one customer spoke plat, another spoke hoch and the owner was Italian.....Great nights they wereMy Grandmother and all her relatives speak "plat" too. So if the "yorkshire dialect" is something similar i can absolutely follow your description.
But I think for you, it must be hard to apart german and "plat".
Edit: Also I think you and Otto had some great discussions about "birds" and WWII with a good drink?!
TECSeriously Colin the yorkshire dialect comes from the danes and saxon
I used to drink in a bar where the barmaid spoke Bayerisch, one customer spoke plat, another spoke hoch and the owner was Italian.....Great nights they were
phonetically
Hoch = rous
Plat = root
Bayerisch = Oussie
hoch+plat+bayerisch= OUT (english)
Otto was an old guy, during the D Day landings he was around Calais (somewhere) and must have retreated across Europe. Those must have been terrible times for him and also his wife. He only mentioned it once, he was sort of embarrassed (because I was english) and proud (it was his young life). Like many old people he didnt talk about his experience easily.
TEC
I don't doubt it, I was just pulling your leg
At this moment I´m still laughing. Yes it can be realy funny to be with mixed people and dialects or foreign languages in between and this in a rural environment .
I can follow this. I only get the brothers of my Grandmother to talk about WWII, when they drink a lot. Then they are more relaxed. But this times are over because they are stone old now.
I did meet one guy who was a real laugh, he spoke english when I had no german, during the war he was buried alive by a shell for 4 hours ended up as a prisoner of war and after the war worked for the army driving transporters, we had some great nights together.
Obviously the Avro Anson is right up there
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In June 1940, a flight of three Ansons was attacked by nine Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109s. Remarkably, the Ansons downed two German aircraft "and damaging a third before the 'dogfight' ended" [2], without losing any of their own
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I dont know if I believe the above but I have read it in several places, must be the best piece of shooting in the war!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a joke or?
The Bf 109 pilots must be talking about their girls last night and at this moment very graphic, otherwise i can't imagine this incident. Lol.
Maybe the ansons used their speed and manouverability to advantage
Just because it is on a couple of sites doesn't mean much. Look at the number of 'copy and paste's saying the 109K-4 had MG151 cowl guns.
Ansons aren't that hard to fly. My father piloted them and he wasn't a pilot, though aircrew. He has told stories of non pilots landing and taking-off in them. This ended when a seagull crashed through the nose on take-off and the Anson crashed (no fatalities).
I suppose it depends what you are doing with it and a twin engined plane has 2 engines, for all sides engine production was a factor at times, unless a twin is significantly better you are wasting resources.