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Tsk Tsk Tsk.

*Shakes head*

If you'd joined in when we asked.........

Anyway, if it wasn't for some bloke called, what was his name?  Oh yeah George Washington or Wimbledon or something, you'd still have been a colony and would have got to fly proper planes like Hurricanes and Spitfires.

NOTE HUMOUR ALERT, THIS IS A JOKE NOT THE START OF WW3



Will

I've not seen it, but it sounds funny.

Will

I think I've made this point before, but here goes again. What stood the Spit apart from the Hurricane in the long run was the fact that the Spitfire had development potential and the Hurricane was essentially not upgadeable beyond the fitting of an all metal wing and better weapons.
After 1941 when the RAF went on the offencive the Hurricane began to adopt a new roll of fighter bomber/ground attack and in North Africa and the Pacific theater it excelled in this roll untill the end of the war. The Spit went on to become Britains main frount line fighter and stayed in production beyond the end of WW2. The Spit was never able to truly take on the ground attack roll and it's short range was it's biggest shortcomming, but as an out and out dogfighter it was perhapse without equal.

brensec thats a great little show you got going on at the bottom of you post...

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LOL I love it ATI. Who said Germans have no sense of humour? Oops..........! My turn to duck & run away.


PS. On the subject of Hurricane vs Spitfire. The Hurricane was a traditional development of earlier designs by the same design team. You can clearly see its lineage from the classic Sidney Camm biplanes like the Hawker Fury. It was not developed further as such but by the same process the company produced a long line of successful fighters. These include the Typhoon, Tempest & fantastic Sea Fury, itself influenced by the Fw 190. The beautiful Sea Hawk was basically the jet version of the Sea Fury. Add swept wings & you get the Hunter & so on. The ultimate achievement of the Camm team was & is the amazing Harrier.

The Spitfire was a brillliant one-off work of genius, a revolutionary design no doubt influenced by the He 70. The basic design was capable of continuous development throughout WWII but this had to reach a peak at some point. This came at the end of hostilities at the time when jets were taking over. Its successor, the Spiteful, did not have the handling qualities of the Spit & its jet version, the Attacker was a failure. As I mentioned in another thread, Supermarine never repeated their success with jets.

ATI err two things;
1)Aren't you meant to be in Holland drowning yourself or sailing or somesuch (re-enactment of the Bismark?)? Not doing a tour in your Panzer
2)Err didn't your side end up being the runner-up?
I'm off to practice my Basil Fawlty walk and find some marmalade to put on ATIs house.
Oh and your first stunt lesson will be conducted in a Spitfire, just to teach you some respect young man

Ozzy 8)

PS. Do you really think just a helmet and Reeboks is enough to save you from my terrible wrath?

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I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it

You started it!
No we didn't!
Yes you did, you invaded Poland!!!!

Actually if any of you have the most recently release videos of Fawlty Towers you'll find there are snippets of an interview with John Cleese in between episodes, and he is talking about 'The Germans' in one and says that whilst in a hotel in Germany one morning the concierge yelled out "Hey Mr. Cleese, don't mention ze var!"