Warbird Information Exchange

I think it had an engine failure or two on one unfortunate flight. Red Bull now owns it and from the pics I've seen it looks spectacular.


-Tim

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Frank;

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p38regis ... 53254.html

Right at your fingertips buddy Or is that Mouse tips

Going back to the original question, any of the Fiat biplane fighters, or the Macchi 200 series. Since we've tried to remove the 'shooting and getting shot at' portion of the question, I'll go for what have been described as some of the best flying airplanes of the era. Eric Brown was especially impressed by the Macchi 205.

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

thanks guys for the info! It looks great, although i'm not a fan of the red bull logos on the planes to promote an energy drink,( even though they have millions of dollars.)

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Somebody said something a couple pages back about paying for gas, I want to change my answer to TG-8...


-Tim

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Then you're still paying for gas, but you're paying someone else to burn it up for you

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

Alrighty I'll downgrade yet again to a Target Kite Mk. 1 or 2, but not the Mod 1 as I don't want ot to easily be lost at sea.


-Tim

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ha!

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Where to start? I find myself thinking more of the early actual pre war transitional designs that lasted into WW2. I would fly the Fokker D.XXI because it spans that transition from fixed gear open cockpit biplanes to retractable gear all metal monoplanes. The D.XXI is itself a fixed gear monoplane built of steel tube and wood. It actually had a pretty good record with the Finns versus the Soviets in the Winter War of 1939-40. The Dutch did what they could with them but were outclassed by the 109 though unescorted Ju 52s were slaughtered. The D.XXI is a funkly little plane that could actually be built if plans were available.

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anybody want to fly a buffalo into combat?

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I know that the finns did ok with them but I'm thinking that maybe you would be better off flying a WWI fokker DVII.Fighting in a Buffalo is about as appealing as taking on the Japanese navy in a douglas devastator at midway

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Napier Saber powered Hawker Typhoon, followed by the Grumman Duck.

i would add McNamara's telephone pole sam raid to that list

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-recovering Viper crew chief
-AWACS driver/soon-to-be A-26 driver
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thats a good one!

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thats a good one!

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."