What your Favorite LATE WAR prop fighter says about you

[buffnut453]

Still trying to understand guys like buffnut453 and @P-39 Expert, for what it's worth.

For the record, the Buffalo is nowhere near my favourite aircraft...I just find its conflicting combat record fascinating.

My all-time favourite is the Mosquito. The epitome of "if it looks right, it flies right".

Now...to get things back on track, my favourite late-war fighter would likely be another de Havilland product...the Hornet. Yes, I know it's just squeaking in at the end of the war...but it's close enough for me to self-justify.

 

[pops-paolo]

The Spitfire Mk XIV wasnt a late war plane, that would be the Mk 21 or 22 and Tempest II.

yeah you are right i didn't realise it saw service

 

[pops-paolo]

If pops-paolo was a proper Italian he would use Roman numerals. Spitfire Mk 14 indeed? Its a Mk XIV.

you know i gotta make an excuse ummmm
do you guys know how to read Roman numerals i dont think you guys can....

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

For the record, the Buffalo is nowhere near my favourite aircraft...I just find its conflicting combat record fascinating.

Oh, I was just teasing, brotha.

 

[buffnut453]

Oh, I was just teasing, brotha.

Yeah...I know. I fully accept that I'm weird!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah...I know. I fully accept that I'm weird!

Weird is good, m'friend!

 

[buffnut453]

do you guys know how to read Roman numerals i dont think you guys can....

Yes, we can....MCMLXXXVI = 1986. Easy-peasy!

 

[pops-paolo]

Yes, we can....MCMLXXXVI = 1986. Easy-peasy!

welp i guess i got caught in 4k

 

[pbehn]

The people in charge of the deception campaign before D-Day called themselves "The 20 committee" 20=XX = double cross (geddit)?

 

[rochie]

For the record, the Buffalo is nowhere near my favourite aircraft...I just find its conflicting combat record fascinating.

My all-time favourite is the Mosquito. The epitome of "if it looks right, it flies right".

Now...to get things back on track, my favourite late-war fighter would likely be another de Havilland product...the Hornet. Yes, I know it's just squeaking in at the end of the war...but it's close enough for me to self-justify.

Sound choices

 

[pbehn]

yeah you are right i didn't realise it saw service

I dont think they saw combat but were issued to Squadrons in the last weeks months of the war. Roman numerals are quite easy up to 20 which is where they are used most, I find it easier to remember marques as Numerals or letters than as a simple Arabic type number.

 

[SaparotRob]

you know i gotta make an excuse ummmm
do you guys know how to read Roman numerals i dont think you guys can....

They were using Roman numerals while we were still in grammar school.

 

[pbehn]

Anyone using Roman weights and measures has no scrupulum.

 

[GrauGeist]

Anyone using Roman weights and measures has no scrupulum.

I was with the understanding that it was 24 Scrupulum to an Uncia?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

you know i gotta make an excuse ummmm
do you guys know how to read Roman numerals i dont think you guys can....

American football fans know 'em thanks to the Super Bowl.

 

[pbehn]

I was with the understanding that it was 24 Scrupulum to an Uncia?

I was just checking if the boys at the back were paying attention, I just found out that the bone I broke when I was 17 (acetabulum) is also a Roman measure, and an organ in some invertebrates, thats the trouble with using too much Latin.

 

[GrauGeist]

I was just checking if the boys at the back were paying attention, I just found out that the bone I broke when I was 17 (acetabulum) is also a Roman measure, and an organ in some invertebrates, thats the trouble with using too much Latin.

Indeed.
Not only Latin, but Greek tends to get in the mix as well.

By the way, I must be slipping. That should have read XXIV Scrupulum to the Uncia.

 

[pbehn]

Indeed.
Not only Latin, but Greek tends to get in the mix as well.

By the way, I must be slipping. That should have read XXIV Scrupulum to the Uncia.

cough cough XXIV scrupuli please.

 

[buffnut453]

cough cough XXIV scrupuli please.

C'mon...conjugate the verb...

 

[SaparotRob]

C'mon...conjugate the verb...

I was waiting for someone to post that.