I love this thread 🙂
1. Spitfire Mk 1 (with Rotol and 12lbs boost capable) with Eric Lock markings
2. Spitfire Mk LF Vb with Lance Wade markings. (but leave off the Volkes filter plz.)
3. Bf-109F4 with JG27 Shultz markings. (the Spits need something to toy with) :diablo:
4. DH Hornet (lovely)
5. F.1 Vampire (with a modern jet engine thanks)
No Yank hardware… Well, if there was a 6th I’d want a Bearcat.
Anyway, whomever is taking the orders, please deliver the above to Ann Arbor Airport in Michigan, last hanger on the east end of the field. Just leave the keys in the box.
THANKS.

Uh, not to be greedy, but if someone is handing out planes here I am going to need another 5.

1. Supermarine S.4 mid-wing fillets are wonderful

2. Napier-Heston Type 5 Monoplane

3. Arsenal VG 33

4. Fairy Delta FD2 (my uncle designed the airframe)

5. and that Bearcat (Rarebear to be specific)

Thanks again. Please hurry it along as I am still waiting on the first 5.

Umm….perhaps you could seek the advice of those who flew them in combat, isn’t that ‘first hand’ and ‘to the limits’ enough for ya? No ‘replication’ needed.
‘Too hard’ you say?…..dig a little, do a little research, make a few inquiries with veterans organisations……

Dave

I take Eric Brown’s notes and RAE test data as truth, but there are many less reasonable types who, uh how do I put this politely, claim bias if the data came from Farnborough or even post war USAF. I think also that combat reports tend to be rife with bias and contain far too many variables to be quantitative for most. I still love reading them tho :).
I suppose the skeptical heart attitudes wouldn’t change even if we had new data. If something didn’t fit one’s expectations there would be cries of bias again.
But still, IMHO the best rational for flying these birds is to learn from them. Imagine what we could get from modern test equipment? Probably never happen, we have buckets of Warbirds flying and I see very little info on how they perform…
Kermit if you are out there, I’d love to see new data on the Tempest:diablo:

I gotta chime in again.
I want Yellow 10 (and a real Bf-109F4 and a few other Axis planes) to fly again because I want the TRUTH.
I want a pilot like Hinton, Walker, Brown or Romain to tell us how it performs. I know that trying to replicate the mech conditions that these planes flew under in the 1940s may be an impossible dream, but we would know much more about the Dora if it was flown by someone who could fly it back to back against Spits and Mustangs.
That said, I never heard how Black 6 fared against the XI that it was flown with. (?) Allison knows? Perhaps it was never flown close to its limits?

B-25 Yankee Warrior from Willow Run.

If I post everytime this one goes over I’ll wear out the keyboard.

Saw 15 B-25s go over last Saturday. 🙂 I think I live too close to the airport.

I have no valid opinion on the question of airborne rarities, however, if Yellow 10 were to fly again I would expend the last of my expendable income to go watch her fly.
I hope that Mr Allen has the same irresponsible urge that I have to see her flown to her limits, and have those limits recorded – it might settle a few 60 year old arguments.