Top Gear - Spitfire Magic

An extra from the Top Gear Challenges 3 DVD.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May have a go in Spitfires before facing the Germans in Zolder. (see episode 11x06. This is extended footage from their spitfire flight.

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Entertainment

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• top gear
• jeremy clarkson
• richard hammond
• james may
• spitfire
• world war
• german
• battle of britain

[rlgdestroyu]

The Spitfire had its place for sure, but the Hawker Hurricane deserves much of the credit for the Battle of Britain.

[damondesilva]

hamonds face XD

[Flatine1]

I love the sound it makes

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets Clearly you are none too bright to issue such a ridiculous, contradictory statement re the war in the far east. On the one hand, you are presenting an argument that the defeat of the Japanese was an entirely American affair. You then refer to the role of the British on the SE Asian continent- thereby acknowledging that the British & CW forces played an active role in the defeat of Japan, thereby contradicting yourself. WW2 was a TOTAL WAR fought by many nations- NOT just the US.

[coldbedsheets]

@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH

Talking about what the british were doing in SE mainland can not even closely compare to what America is doing. Sorry, but America defeated japan, there is no argument there. Britain wasn't fighting a MAJOR war in the SE campaign. Nearly all of their military force was focused on Europe. Yes, they had battles there, but don't even try to say that they had equally the same amount of force applied in asia than they did in europe.

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets Perhaps you would like to elucidate on what the British were doing on the SE Asian mainland?? Playing tiddly winks?? So what if half of all the weapons were 'allegedly' manufactured in the US. Who fought with them? Courage, sacrifice & victory rests with those at the sharp end, not people on a production line. It is the finger on the trigger that wins the victory ultimately.

[coldbedsheets]

@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH

"the RAF carried more of the burden in Europe than did the USAAF"

Once again you are ignoring that even if this were true it was because America was fighting two MAJOR fronts, pacific and european.

You seem to be clinging to talking about what America did and didn't do in WW2. No matter what you say, you will never be able to top the statistic of HALF of all weapons being manufactured in America. Sorry bro :(

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets Another great myth the US clings to is that it did not engage in area bombing. By denying doing so, the USAAF attempted to take the moral high ground, "We precision bombed, the 'nasty' Brits area bombed." Actually in 43, the USAAF took delivery of H2X- the British H2S radar system, renamed to make the Americans feel better about themselves. On receipt of thie technology, the USAAF sanctioned one major area bombing op per week until the end of the war. They also firebombed Japan.

[coldbedsheets]

@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH

You mistakenly think that NASA is involved ONLY in space flight. They have MANY different agendas. China regularly launching rockets, does not in any way show that it's catching up to NASA. North korea launches rockets for gods sake.

"and shelving it's plans to go to Mars- you can thank Obama for that"

Wow i can't let you make this mistake again. I have already proven to you that the mars program is NOT shelved several times now.

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets It matters not one jot, the FACT is, the RAF carried more of the burden in Europe than did the USAAF, something I suspect many Americans would be surprised by. It is irrelevant that Lancasters underwent modifications to their bomb bays in order to carried the 10 tonne Grandslam. Amazing, they removed the bomb doors, the front turret and the dorsal turret- radical stuff. NOT. The sole fact that counts is that they possessed the capability to lift the load.

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets The daylight bombing campaign resulted in USAAF bombers carrying much smaller bomb loads than did the RAF. Due to the demand for armour & more .50 Brownings, the US bombers had to sacrifice bomb carrying capacity due to the extra weight of armour/guns/crew. Also, the USAAF crowed about 'dropping bombs in a pickle barrel from 20,000ft with the Norden sight. Utter nonsense. Only 20% of US bombs dropped landed with a 1000 ft radius of the designated tgt.

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@coldbedsheets Considering NASA's allegedly larger budget than all other agencies combined, China & India are busy little bees aren't they? China has an extensive sapce programme and regularly launches it's own rockets. They are openly talking about a manned moon shot within a few year from now. What is NASA doing? Scrapping the shuttle and shelving it's plans to go to Mars- you can thank Obama for that.