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Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:36 pm
by jarhead60mm
I thought some Lardies might find this of interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOqNj7R1jg
Terry
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:30 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
I'd have gone for Henry Cooper and Nigel Benn, but there you go.
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:40 pm
by Truscott Trotter
Funny my first thoughts were Henry Cooper and Joe Bugner.
I guess it is Spits and Hurries not Gloster Gladiators and Harts?
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 7:45 pm
by chris cornwell
Joe Bugner was South African really iirc
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:56 am
by Truscott Trotter
Actually he is a Hungarian-born British-Australian national
But interesting vid anyway and two iconic Brit planes indeed
This is my fave though
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:29 am
by Quackstheking
Gotta hand it to the pilot of the Camel - you couldn't pay me to go up in that string bag powered by a faulty lawnmower engine!
Don
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:28 am
by Truscott Trotter
A faulty lawnmower engine that rotated and would plunge your plane into the ground if you did not pay attention.
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:26 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
I had an actual lawnmower that used to do that.
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:12 am
by KTiger_44
Well, you're now officially halfway towards building a plane to engage Fokkers and Pfalz's over the Somme
But to come back to the original topic, it's just sad that things like "stalling speeds" exist, because if it wasn't for that, it would have been a great thing to see a Camel, a Spitfire, an English Electric Lightning, a Jaguar, a Tornado, a Typhoon and a F-35 flying together!
... but well, at least, it'd be possible without the Camel, which could then fly in formation with helicopters.
Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:04 am
by Truscott Trotter
EE Lightning is one of my favorite jet fighters of all time and the Aifix kits was one of my earliest builds.