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semmern
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posted 10-04- 03:41 AM
   
Nearly everyone has a pic in their sig, and now I have it too.------------------
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Commando
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posted 10-04- 06:37 AM
Is this a record, right first time Sig test?Well done Semmern ------------------
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semmern
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posted 10-04- 12:18 PM
LOL!
We really need a Swordfish now that we have the Ark Royal.
Ah, and that's a Robert Taylor painting, that is.Norton Commando in your sig??? Looks like one. [This message has been edited by semmern (edited 10-04-2000).] IP: Logged |
Commando
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posted 10-04- 12:28 PM
Yes its a Norvil copy produced from parts being produced today.Suggestion: The Bristol with a Fleet Air Arm skin and a torp in its loadout would look the part , prob with the speed though , need it to fly at 190/200 mph in level flight to get torp to work. ------------------
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semmern
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posted 10-04- 04:10 PM
Yeah....speed is the prob. The Swordfish was as far as I know, along with the Lysander and Skua, the only WWII aircraft that was so slow it could use its (lack of) speed to kill enemy a/c's, as evidenced by a stringbag that got two Ju-88c's simply by slowing down!  IP: Logged |
Commando
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posted 10-05- 01:24 PM
A squadron of Stringbags attacked the convoy of German Battleships (can't remember the names) that ran the gauntlet of the english channel, they missed their escort of spits but still attacked, the FW190's caught them but could only fire at them by applying full flaps and lowering their undercarrige. Sadly most of the stringbags were brought down including the Squadron leader who was postumously awarded the Victoria Cross. The ships continued unmolested to the Baltic.Bit more info 'By this time Hitler had judged his own surface fleet to be inadequate to standing up to the Royal Navy and deployed them cautiously, under plenty of protection. When the German battleships Scharnhorst,
Gneisenau, and Price Eugen left the French port of Brest on 12 February, 1942 (to be transferred to Northern European ports where they would be less vulnerable to air attack), six Swordfish attacked and
were all shot down by covering fighters. Of the 18 crewmen, only five survived. The Swordfish was never again used as a torpedo bomber. However, it had already been and would continue to be employed in another role against Hitler's main weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic: the
U-boat. ' Got that from :- http://vectorsite.tripod.com/avsword.html ------------------
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Commando
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posted 10-08- 02:39 PM
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semmern
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posted 10-09- 02:09 AM
S/L Esmonde that was. I'm in the process of building his Swordfish in 1/48 scale.------------------
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