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Spitfire Britian's Flying Past Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | ||
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The Brits seem infatuated with its looks and it is plenty good looking alright - but it's not nearly as good looking as a F4U Corsair. Fun video to watch - thanks. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Thanks for posting. I too love the looks of the Spit also F4U and... oh hell I am bit of a WW2 aircraft nut. | |||
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Best looking WW II aircraft IMO. 1. F4-U 2. Spitfire 3. P-51-D 4. A-26 Invader 5. FW-190 (Good looking airplane but it can't be high on the list because it was built by the Nazis.) Sexy players that aren't very well known. 1. F-8F Bearcat 2. F-7F Tigercat Irresistibly cute, fat and cuddly. 1. F-4F Wildcat  Actually I think that time period produced some of the most aesthetically pleasing airplanes ever built and there are very few of them that I don't like to look at. The Germans pretty much took the cake on ugly for the time period. | |||
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and a Ferrari isn't as good looking as a Mustang..right?  The Lavochkin La9 is easily the best looking of the Soviet WW2 era aircraft..IMO of course. http://www.google.com.au/url?s...ust=1371711734745955 | |||
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the Spitfire strikes such a cord with the British and Many British protectorates as it well should. It is a gorgeous airplane. And it was a great home defense airplane. Savior of the battle of Britain and savior of a nation no doubt about it. But like Ira said about her. She's cute, but she's got limited fire power, short range, and can't really do anything we need it to. (We meaning the American Army Aircorps.)In need of long range escort fighters, obviously. Would I like to fly one? You bet your sweet ass I would! The one and only one I've seen I'm not sure I can fit my 6'4" frame into one with a parachute and close the "hood" too unfortunately. I do fit nicely into a P-51D that'd work too!! | |||
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Yeah, yeah! Didn't the Poms drop a "Spitfire" motor into the P-51 to at least get to fly a little bit.   And would you just believe it, one of those bloody South Africans, as a Squadron Leader, flying the bloody thing? Really do not know how that could have been allowed? | |||
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Rolls Royce made the P-51 a useable airplane! | |||
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This gent seemed to like the Spitfire. http://www.wimp.com/warfootage/ | |||
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I watched every second. Born in 1943, I was well aware as a kid of WWII. Army surplus stuff was everywhere, and we used a lot of it in the Boy Scouts. I built combat fighter models. Everyone had served or had a relative who did. My great aunt was a "Rosie". If the video is any indication, that awareness is a lot more prevalent in Britain than the US. That would be due in part to the fact that they fought the battle at home and we did not. How would we do if called upon as our parents and grandparents were? | |||
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I still think the Spitfire is the most beautiful plane ever built. I was fortunate to sit in one... years back there was one on dislpaly in the Athens, Greece airport. As a teenager, I climbed under the red-velvet rope to keep the masses back, climbed onto the wing and got in! Surprisingly small cockpit...  | |||
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