Two Iconic Brit Fighters

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Two Iconic Brit Fighters

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I thought some Lardies might find this of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOqNj7R1jg

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Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters

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I'd have gone for Henry Cooper and Nigel Benn, but there you go.
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Funny my first thoughts were Henry Cooper and Joe Bugner.

I guess it is Spits and Hurries not Gloster Gladiators and Harts?
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Joe Bugner was South African really iirc
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Actually he is a Hungarian-born British-Australian national :lol:
But interesting vid anyway and two iconic Brit planes indeed
This is my fave though
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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!

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A faulty lawnmower engine that rotated and would plunge your plane into the ground if you did not pay attention.
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I had an actual lawnmower that used to do that.
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Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters

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Well, you're now officially halfway towards building a plane to engage Fokkers and Pfalz's over the Somme :mrgreen:
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.
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Re: Two Iconic Brit Fighters

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EE Lightning is one of my favorite jet fighters of all time and the Aifix kits was one of my earliest builds.
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