Once again you guys are ALL wrong! SNOOPY shot down the Red Baron!Time to go back to school,all of you!

Silly Guys!Its the prototype of the Gloster Meteor!Sheesh,You guys dont know nuthin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its obviously the side of a Merlin built by Rolls Royce under license of its “True”designer
……………………………………..BUICK!………………………………………………………..

How to anger Great Britain, Hollywood style!

Hey! we invented the merlin engine and the turbojet didnt we?
oh yeah,you guys did and gave them to us!oops!sorry my mistake………..You win………………… are you angrier now?

The Sea Fury is such a beautiful airplane,always one of my favorites.I dont know about you guys,but I find the aircraft sporting the Iraqi markings to be quite attractive.Anyone agree?

Why didn’t the Americans develop a match for the Merlin?

We didnt have to,Our good friends and allies(the British)set us up to make our own Merlins.I guess that they did this so that all of the airplanes that the U.S. built for England ,Ourselves and others would have engines,Which are very helpful if you want said airframes to fly.The Various U.S. engine manufacturers had many exotic engines in development during the war, however the Merlin was a known quantity and successful and even the most ignorant observer could see the writing on the wall that said that jet engines had already obsoleted piston engines and were the future of aircraft powerplants.P.S. our good friends the British also gave us the know how to build these too(thanks to those damn germans)!This fortunate event for America was an unfortunate one for England because it gave America a Headstart that Airbus and other european aerospace companies have caught up to only recently. Thank you.

“There will always be an England!”

Hello to you Joe in Tx.Yes theres a fellow countryman or two on this forum but we’re few and far between.Over all it’s an enjoyable forum, but watch out for some of the french members.They’re rather nasty little buggers.(bad attitude,ya know?)and allow me to give three cheers for the R.A.F,Royal Navy,Army and all U.K. armed forces,past and present!
Hip,Hip,Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Mounting VERY heavy firepower in the nose of a B-25

The ingenious development that comes to my mind are the in the field improvisations performed by “Pappy”Gunn in the South Pacific theater.He mounted any number of 50 caliber Browning machine guns in the noses of various B-25 bombers.8,10 ,12 guns,take your pick. any place he could hang or strap on a gun,he did!you can never have too many M2 Brownings!(not true,they’re heavy guns).These were then all wired to a switch to be fired by the pilot .This was one hell of an improvisation!He also mounted cannons of various sizes in B-25’s .Japanese recipients of these modifications were VERY unhappy about them,this made Pappy VERY happy!.50 caliber rounds make very big holes in things and lots of 50 caliber guns make lots of big holes in things.Imagine being on the receiving end of this!NO THANK YOU!Even Warships were blown apart by this withering firepower. The success of these mods eventually led to the North American Aviation factory installing machine guns in hard noses and also 75 mm cannons as well.However the cannon installations were not as well liked as were the Brownings, the recoil from firing these was rather brutal and even damaged some airframes.These were just a few of the infield mods tried out by Mr.Gunn.Everybody loved Pappy but the Japanese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tim.