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Title: They called them Spitfires
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Published: Mar 13, 2012
Author: k
Post Date: 2012-03-13 14:53:53 by PSUSA2
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Views: 369
Comments: 5

War wasn't a video game back then.

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#1. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

Thank you for posting this. The Spitfire was an elegant point-interceptor. The wartime Spits used aluminum rivets, all of the flying examples today have had every last rivet replaced with sturdier rivets (10,000+ rivets per airplane).

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-03-13   21:01:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: X-15 (#1)

all of the flying examples today have had every last rivet replaced with sturdier rivets (10,000+ rivets per airplane).

Did'nt know that.

We use to have personal unauthorized modifications now and then.

Air force had a term called AOCP written on the Form 1.

Aircraft out of commission awaiting parts....

No one dared use that term, therefore unauthorized "modifications".

Cynicom  posted on  2012-03-13   21:18:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: PSUSA2, Cynicom (#0)

I always preferred the P-38.

"You shall have fun, no matter what you do." -- Turtle

Turtle  posted on  2012-03-14   15:49:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Turtle (#3)

Interesting how the war movies/documentaries never get it right. These guns do not go rat tat tat. They go GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. 600 cyclic x 6 or 8 guns does not = rat tat tat.

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PSUSA2  posted on  2012-03-14   17:59:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-03-15   0:22:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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