Flying Legends 2007 Part 5 of 8
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Beautiful footage of the Gloucester Gladiator flying! Thanks !
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Modern a/c don't have the soul that piston engined a/c have. You can hear every piston firing and that's my kind of music!
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those 50's did jack when fighting 109's and 190's with cannon. You had fighter escort for that, if lancs had done the job a bigger tonnage of bombs would have been dropped not that it really matters really. But to say that 50 cals would have made the difference is absolute bullshit.
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The Manchester failed mainly due to the complicated vulture engine, 2 RR peregrine engines joined together. When they finally gave up on those two power plants and moved on to the all-new merlin, it powered most good RAF bombers and fighters, all those mustangs and even some P-40's.
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What the RAF Bombers really needed was fighter escort, but spitfires didn't have that kind of range and the US was keeping all her mustangs for herself ;) Funny when you consider how little interest the USAAF showed in the early mustangs - a design built for export to the UK.
Still you can't see enemy fighters on a night mission :(
Come to think of it there was a fighter escort on the mission to bomb the Tirpitz in Norway, hellcats I think.
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The 17 was the result of a 1934 requirement The Lanc was a modification of an existing design, the Manchester, which was the result of a 1941 requirement. Those six years made a big difference. The Lanc had the 17 beat in bomb load, and range. Two things about the 17: it had more .50s than a porcupine has quills, and it could take a lickin' and keep on tickin'. If the Schweinfurt raid had been done in Lancs, none would have come back. Not that it was any fun as it was.
DachtorStrange
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Yes, you never see those things coming.
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they tried, the fusilage was too narrow, wouldnt have made much difference at night against Schrage Musik anyways
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I loved seeing the Percival Mew Gull in flight!! I recommend the two books written by Alex Henshaw, Flight of the Mew Gull and Sigh for a Merlin (about flight testing Spits during the war.) Thank you so much for the stiring shots.
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blewett76 4 years ago 4
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