What If?......

• May 5, 2004

• #201

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It's just a transport ship...

You do realise being in the RAF you will have to defend the aircraft, although that's the Regiments job you'll have to do it as well. My dad was a Technician in the RAF, he's seen plenty of action.

 

• May 5, 2004

• #202

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not if you jion as a dentist, which would b my second choice............

 

• May 5, 2004

• #203

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Unless you get sent to a field hospital on the front line, which you probably won't.

 

• May 5, 2004

• #204

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i could fight off the enemy with a scapal and people's organs ...........

 

• May 5, 2004

• #205

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Peoples teeth would make a good weapon...

 

• May 5, 2004

• #206

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Dec 20, 2003

here's another what if, what if the germans would have had the fw-190 in the BoB.............

 

• May 5, 2004

• #207

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That's a scary thought, I think we would have still won. I mean, if they used the bombers the same they were still at a disadvantage. It would have been a lot closer, that is a scary thought though.

We would have lost a lot more aircraft and men, but by the end of the BoB we were out producing Germany on planes.

 

• May 5, 2004

• #208

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Dec 20, 2003

would it have been as scary if we had the mossie?

 

• May 5, 2004

• #209

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If we had, had the Mosquito we would have been raping them in the sea, in the air, and on their land...

 

• May 5, 2004

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• #210

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th reason i dont like jets is cos they have no character at all, the only jets i have a slight interest in are MiG's 8)

 

• May 5, 2004

• #211

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I think jets have a lot of character.

 

• May 5, 2004

• #212

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I don't like jets too, but not for the same reason. I don't like them because when you're talking about piloting a jet, you're not talking about the pilot skill, but you're talknig about the computer that is almost an AI.

With the WW II planes, it's the pilot's skill that counts. Now with the jets computer, a 5 year old boy could pilot a F-18.

 

• May 6, 2004

• #213

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I doubt a 5 year old could fly a F-18, it's not always the computer that's controlling the plane. You can never replace the judgement of the human. What about the Blue Angels, Red Arrows and other stunt teams, that's all flight skill.
The only thing with modern combat is there's no such thing as dog fighting anymore, you just fire off your missiles and head for home. And at the other end you are trying your hardest to avoid it.



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• May 6, 2004

• #214

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I know that a 5 year old boy could not pilot a F-18. It was only a missed attempt to make a joke about the computer in jets.

But as you said, with the jets you only have to fire a missile then head home. For me, it's not air combat. For me, a true air combat is slipping behind a plane, aim it and fire all guns to shot him down. THAT is a true combat !

 

• May 6, 2004

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• #215

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yup 8)

 

• May 7, 2004

• #216

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i don't know what your on about, the migs had the least caracter of all the jets, and i don't know how oyu can say a meteor or 262 have no caractor........

 

• May 7, 2004

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• #217

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but migs are russian and heres how i can say that meteors and 262's have no character: meteors and 262's have no character well, they do have more than most jets but still lag behind piston engined planes

 

• May 7, 2004

• #218

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I think all jets have character, the last dogfighters were the Korean planes. The Mig-15 does have character, the only problem is it had the same character as all other 50s planes.

 

• May 7, 2004

• #219

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The last pure dogfighter was the F-8 Crusader and it saw some service in Vietnam. Of course the French still used it into the late '90s!

 

• May 7, 2004

• #220

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That's because they suck, the French I mean.