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  • in reply to: Spotted (2015) #912786
    hampden98
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    P51 over Yateley 1:55.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254172
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    Great idea but a minor flaw. You couldn’t not persecute the Jews!;)

    In good old Nazi tradition do all that then persecute them afterwards.

    in reply to: Can you do better than Adolf? #1814152
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    Great idea but a minor flaw. You couldn’t not persecute the Jews!;)

    In good old Nazi tradition do all that then persecute them afterwards.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254728
    hampden98
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    Don’t persecute the Jews. Start your own Manhattan project (Jewish scientists). Get nuclear weapons.
    Invest in Jet and Rocket technology.
    Boom!

    in reply to: Can you do better than Adolf? #1814515
    hampden98
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    Don’t persecute the Jews. Start your own Manhattan project (Jewish scientists). Get nuclear weapons.
    Invest in Jet and Rocket technology.
    Boom!

    in reply to: Running costs of a Spitfire #914648
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    Aren’t Spitfires like expensive watches or fine wines.
    If you have to ask `how much` then it’s probably not for you.

    in reply to: Dambusters Remake Latest #918942
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    The original Dambusters film is a great film but has some outrageously atrocious special effects typical of a 1950’s film.
    I wince every time I see the Lancaster crash into the pylon. You can almost see the wires, model scenery, flat backdrop and hand holding up the model.

    Deep blue world on the other hand has some of the most unobtrusive cgi special effects and touched up old BoB movies outtakes combined into
    the movie. You have to struggle to see them.

    CGI needs to be done well so you don’t see it. It also offers an opportunity to place the viewer into positions not possible with real or model aircraft.
    Take the digitally remastered battle scene from Star Wars as an example.

    Amazing CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifR0Ndsh10
    Comparison between CGI and Models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faBFPENMbg

    I look forward to a new Dambusters film and also look forward to a remastering of the original with the horrid fx’s replaced with modern CGI.

    in reply to: Kermit Weeks Tempest V Restoration Walk Around #919150
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    Andy Salter (Kermit’s ‘engine guy’) has a couple of examples at Polk City to work with I believe

    Hearing a Sabre running is definitely on my bucket list!

    in reply to: General Discussion #255959
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    The Bismark was not designed to engage naval ships, she was a surface raider. Perhaps her downfall was she never really wanted to
    engage the Royal Navy in Battle.
    Having said that she did take hits and was heavily damaged before the Swordfish engaged.
    Ironically if the Swordfish had not attacked Sheffield by mistake and if she (Bismark) had stopped engines and had done nothing to defend herself against the Swordfish she probably would have survived.

    My father served on HMS Anson during WW2. Those German sailors were brave men.

    in reply to: HMS Hood #1815453
    hampden98
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    The Bismark was not designed to engage naval ships, she was a surface raider. Perhaps her downfall was she never really wanted to
    engage the Royal Navy in Battle.
    Having said that she did take hits and was heavily damaged before the Swordfish engaged.
    Ironically if the Swordfish had not attacked Sheffield by mistake and if she (Bismark) had stopped engines and had done nothing to defend herself against the Swordfish she probably would have survived.

    My father served on HMS Anson during WW2. Those German sailors were brave men.

    in reply to: Kermit Weeks Tempest V Restoration Walk Around #919159
    hampden98
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    Didn’t realise the Tempest had an inline engine. Always thought it had a radial.
    Presumably enough Napier Sabre engines survive to make a few complete ones?

    in reply to: General Discussion #256303
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    Man is the only creature that kills for fun or sport.

    Wrong. Women do it too.

    in reply to: Lion killed by American Dentist #1815752
    hampden98
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    Man is the only creature that kills for fun or sport.

    Wrong. Women do it too.

    in reply to: General Discussion #256398
    hampden98
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    Ironically Americans seem to mostly shoot Americans.
    So leave em to it I say.

    in reply to: Only in America #1815848
    hampden98
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    Ironically Americans seem to mostly shoot Americans.
    So leave em to it I say.

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