Don’t think I would be of any help but I would buy it.
Ooh … Scandalous … !
To be honest nothing beyond what a quick google will bring up;
“Mosquito HK314 of 219 Squadron crashed at Knowle while performing a slow roll at low altitude. Stalled while low flying Knowle Warks. 19.3.44, Pilot T/W/O/2 G McKintosh, Canadian and F/Sgt Griffin were both killed”
Photos of course!
Plenty of photos if you google ‘Spitfire RN135’
Imperishable? That must be the metal variant.
Definitely not the rubber one 🙂
In slide 2 the 4 prop nose-on with a white nose I take to be an IL-18, likely Malev?
Also in the same slide, upper LH side, side on? Is that what has been described as a Constellation?
Interesting, thanks. Odd looking prop?
To me this looks to be a quick change standard ‘Power-Plant assembly’ – engine, bearer, accessories, dedicated cowlings etc.
Perhaps best not to anticipate the bit it hangs on.
A remarkable survivor either way.
Oh c’mon, maybe the OP asked quite a confusing/silly question, but some of “veteran poster” replies here are not better either. I can see some folks trying to put this guy down, but really… Repeating “the slower planes also shot down faster planes!” argument is getting borderline ridiculous. // snip …
The point was not that slower planes shot down faster ones, it was that there is much more to a successful fighter aircraft than just speed.
Well that has told you lot.
Moggy
I’m feeling the love 😀
Ok fastest wins every time. Simple eh?
if iam not wrong , the bear cat turn as good as the zero
I don’t think that was ever put to the test in a combat situation. I doubt that the F8F could turn with a Zero at lower speeds.
Sopwith Camels and other bi-plane was later replaced by mono plane
But it did combat, with great success, various Albatros and Fokker Biplanes with considerably higher maximum speed.
Hawker Hurricanes is no way as good as Fw-190D , P-51B or Spitfire , it not a failure but it only doing alright
The Hurricane fought against faster Bf109s/110s during the Battle of Britain, very effectively.
Folland Gnats have quite the same speed as other aircraft of it’s time like f-86 , it not slow for it’s time at all
Try comparing it’s speed with the F-104s that it met in the India/Pakistan wars.
BAE Sea Harriers strength vertical take off and landing and in it’s time we already have missiles with speed of mach 3-4 and radar to attack BVR so speed become alot lest important ( however it still not as successful as supersonic fighter like f-15 or f-16
The SHAR was still substantially slower (which was your point) than the Argentine Mirages and Daggers that it met during the Falklands War, and which it defeated in 100% of resolved combats between them. It also fared well in mock combats with the F-15 (Sharkey Wards Book references this if I remember correctly)
B17s in the background and tattooed t*ts? I think not.
but still it better to have aircraft with better performance , a zero trying to fight a bear cat will pretty much end up being shot down
Theoretically the Zero could keep turning out of trouble until the Bearcat ran out of fuel or the pilot went home for his tea.
If your contention was correct; Sopwith Camels, Hawker Hurricanes, Folland Gnats/Ajeets, BAE Sea Harriers etc (to quote but a few British examples, other nations combat aircraft are available too) would all have been abject failures in combat.