90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 21, 2006 08:18AM
Interesting. Clipped wings, not the graceful elliptical shape.
Note to
self..must investigate variant via the web.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: November 21, 2006 08:53AM
an airplane joke you have probably heard before....
A World War II fighter pilot is reminiscing before school children about
his war experiences. "In 1942," he says, "the situation was
really tough.
The Germans had a very strong air force. I remember," he continues,
"one
day I was protecting the bombers and suddenly, out of the clouds, these
fokkers appeared."
Several of the children begin to giggle.
"I looked up, and realized that two of the fokkers were directly above
me.
I aimed at the first one and shot him down. By then, though, the other
fokker was right on my tail."
At this point, the girls in the auditorium are now all giggling and the boys
are laughing out loud. The children's teacher stands up and says, "I
think
I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of a German-Dutch aircraft
company, one which made many of the fighter planes used by the Axis powers
during the war."
"Yes, that's true," says the pilot, "but these fokkers were
flying
Messerschmitts."
90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 21, 2006 09:47AM
A neighbor of mine who flew P-51s during the war told me that joke so many
times I began to think he was senile.
Byte ME Report This Comment Date: November 21, 2006 11:06AM
90130_ Wrote:
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> Interesting. Clipped wings, not the graceful
> elliptical shape. Note to self..must investigate
> variant via the web.
I am not sure, but that could be a naval version.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: November 21, 2006 12:53PM
Sub hunter-killers
90130_ Report This Comment Date: November 22, 2006 03:56AM
Supermarine Spitfire info; This would be a Mark V version with clipped wings to
improve manouverability. Further investigation reveals that the naval versions
was equipped with folding wings and arresting hooks for carrier service. These
were called
Seafires a consolidation of the name "Sea
Spitfire."
The most beautiful WWII fighter aircraft, regardless.
rogerramjet_2003 Report This Comment Date: March 12, 2008 03:01PM
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