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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:00:08 PM   
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There seems to be a round hole in the side you havent fixed yet.


That's cos it's a shufti kite and she would've been designed for taking photos. So that hole is where the photographer used to sit, when the Spit got over the target the pilot would roll through 45 degrees so the guy in the back could use his camera to take his pictures.


Youre not joking are you?



Nope. Obviously it had to be a little chap around 5' 6" or so and no more than 120lbs, there isn't much room back there and it's impossible to bail out in an emergency. It also upsets the centre of gravity a bit, although that is partially offset by the fact the Griffon is such a big engine and it's so far forward along with the huge 5 bladed prop.

sounds like a highly attractive job!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:02:12 PM   
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There seems to be a round hole in the side you havent fixed yet.


That's cos it's a shufti kite and she would've been designed for taking photos. So that hole is where the photographer used to sit, when the Spit got over the target the pilot would roll through 45 degrees so the guy in the back could use his camera to take his pictures.


Youre not joking are you?



Nope. Obviously it had to be a little chap around 5' 6" or so and no more than 120lbs, there isn't much room back there and it's impossible to bail out in an emergency. It also upsets the centre of gravity a bit, although that is partially offset by the fact the Griffon is such a big engine and it's so far forward along with the huge 5 bladed prop.




How did the guy get in?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:04:20 PM   
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The Lanc





That is culturally insensitive and politically incorrect. I demand you remove that at once!

Reminds me of that joke "...yes, but it was dark and we didnt land".

Edit: What's the diff between the red and yellow bomb icons?


Yes it is. But because we won it doesn't count


The red ones are trips to the Big B.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:06:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

There seems to be a round hole in the side you havent fixed yet.


That's cos it's a shufti kite and she would've been designed for taking photos. So that hole is where the photographer used to sit, when the Spit got over the target the pilot would roll through 45 degrees so the guy in the back could use his camera to take his pictures.


Youre not joking are you?



Nope. Obviously it had to be a little chap around 5' 6" or so and no more than 120lbs, there isn't much room back there and it's impossible to bail out in an emergency. It also upsets the centre of gravity a bit, although that is partially offset by the fact the Griffon is such a big engine and it's so far forward along with the huge 5 bladed prop.




How did the guy get in?


He had to tilt the pilot's seat forward and fit himself in behind. Then the seat was secured in the normal position and the pilot climbed in. A bit of a rigmarole but they were trying to keep the number of openings to a minimum for the pressurisation.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:08:21 PM   
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The Lanc





That is culturally insensitive and politically incorrect. I demand you remove that at once!

Reminds me of that joke "...yes, but it was dark and we didnt land".

Edit: What's the diff between the red and yellow bomb icons?


Yes it is. But because we won it doesn't count


The red ones are trips to the Big B.

As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:12:47 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:16:56 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

And despite many bad things for Germany: You ended Htiler's reign. That's worth something, too

< Message edited by Historiker -- 8/3/2012 9:17:07 PM >

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:27:47 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

And despite many bad things for Germany: You ended Htiler's reign. That's worth something, too


Indeed and it's a shame that it had to come to what it did. But in the end it's helped to make the world what it is, probably far safer than if he hadn't turned up.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:32:45 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:35:48 PM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:55:41 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

And despite many bad things for Germany: You ended Htiler's reign. That's worth something, too


The Russians helped too, I think.

Pretty sure I can guess how you feel about that one though.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:56:49 PM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 9:59:25 PM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?


It's where an oblique camera would have been fitted on a real recce kite.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 10:04:12 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

And despite many bad things for Germany: You ended Htiler's reign. That's worth something, too


The Russians helped too, I think.

Pretty sure I can guess how you feel about that one though.

well... they weren't too happy about the German attempt to "liberate" them first...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 10:05:23 PM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?


It's where an oblique camera would have been fitted on a real recce kite.

you mean... the brits actually had the technology to operate a camera remotely? I don't believe that. I think your first story is true!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 10:28:16 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 10:29:10 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 11:09:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		If the Swede can do it, then so can I. While "lend lease" is well known, people outside of this forum generally don't know about "Reverse lend lease". The USAAF recived Spitfires,Mosquitos and Beaufighters. The USN received Spits for observation duties over the Normandy beaches (vice Kingfishers, which we assumed wouldn't survive). Here's an early (1942) USAAF edition in the UK.




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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 11:58:28 PM   
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As Napoleon is supposed to have said: "History is written by the winners"


Aye, and then about 50 years after that it gets rewritten by someone else. If nothing else, winning meant we got Dad's Army and a good episode of Fawlty Towers.

And despite many bad things for Germany: You ended Htiler's reign. That's worth something, too


The Russians helped too, I think.

Pretty sure I can guess how you feel about that one though.

well... they weren't too happy about the German attempt to "liberate" them first...


Some did. But the German....foreign policy....at the time didnt make it very easy to like the liberators.

On the positive side, the post-war German culture gave us...



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/3/2012 11:59:53 PM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?


It's where an oblique camera would have been fitted on a real recce kite.

you mean... the brits actually had the technology to operate a camera remotely? I don't believe that. I think your first story is true!


I think you have them, Torsten.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 12:00:32 AM   
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Here's some pictures of the recce Spitfires that Sweden bought after the war.




Yours has a hole in it too. Shoddy British workmanship!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 12:01:24 AM   
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If the Swede can do it, then so can I. While "lend lease" is well known, people outside of this forum generally don't know about "Reverse lend lease". The USAAF recived Spitfires,Mosquitos and Beaufighters. The USN received Spits for observation duties over the Normandy beaches (vice Kingfishers, which we assumed wouldn't survive). Here's an early (1942) USAAF edition in the UK.






Thats because Americans refused to take pictures unless someone could hear them say "cheese".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 12:18:52 AM   
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If the Swede can do it, then so can I. While "lend lease" is well known, people outside of this forum generally don't know about "Reverse lend lease". The USAAF recived Spitfires,Mosquitos and Beaufighters. The USN received Spits for observation duties over the Normandy beaches (vice Kingfishers, which we assumed wouldn't survive). Here's an early (1942) USAAF edition in the UK.





Not just recon birds either...

They operated some 600 spitfires all up.

Uncle Sam's Spitfires



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 2:19:50 AM   
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Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.


I can't believe anyone fell for that one....





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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 5:13:25 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Historiker

quote:

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?


It's where an oblique camera would have been fitted on a real recce kite.

you mean... the brits actually had the technology to operate a camera remotely? I don't believe that. I think your first story is true!

He did fib a bit to spruce up the truth. In reality the little guy in back had to sketch the scene below.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 9:36:56 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Historiker

quote:

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Also, I made up the stuff about the XIX. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

It sounded really strange. But who should know it if not you?



Touché - good one!


I agree but....

So whats the actual story with that hole?


It's where an oblique camera would have been fitted on a real recce kite.

you mean... the brits actually had the technology to operate a camera remotely? I don't believe that. I think your first story is true!

He did fib a bit to spruce up the truth. In reality the little guy in back had to sketch the scene below.

Yes, that's what I thought. The Brits had painters on board to paint the scene.
I heard the Italians planned to land and ask for informations while the french were just planning to drop white flags.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 9:38:05 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 10:36:58 AM   
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Germany's shot put silver medallist.




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She looks like a bloke!!...... Drugs kids, don't do it.


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 10:53:48 AM   
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Women's triathlon right now. Too sad they only do the "olympic distance" (go figure). I'd love to see them do the long distance. But all nicely trained women. Nice to watch

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/4/2012 11:06:45 AM   
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< Message edited by Historiker -- 8/4/2012 11:07:18 AM >

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