Wild guess – Dewoitine D520 (or 521)

Apparently not wild at all.

BINGO.

Few other potential choices.

The kicker for this is if someone ask “Axis?”, the answer will also be YES! (better to ask “Only allied?”
520’s were used extensively by Luftwaffe and Regina Aeronatica during the war as trainer and second line fighter. VF also used.

I originally though of the P-36, as it was also used by LW and VF, but not as extensively.

OK, that was too easy.

Working on another, unless someone jumps in.

(wow, 3 more posts as I wrote this up, now I see when active time is)

Most probably…
British?

EEEEEH! No.
12 questions left.

Allied?

Yes, but question can be better asked.

Fighter?

Yes.

15 questions left.

Moggy -Yes, after January 1939
D1566 – Yes piston
Charlie – Yes single engine

Yeah, the Time Zone is an issue. :/

Great fun!

So far aircraft picked are:
Blackburn Roc
Martinsyde G100 Elephant
P-61 Black Widow
Yale / BT-9 / BT-14

I have a plane in mind, not hard, if everyone is game.
A clue though, be careful of the sides you guess. 🙂

What I did not take account of was what happens when the genie’s been let out of the bag, as it has in America with more than 300 million guns loose (more guns than people).

You could be miles from help in a vast continent 3,000 miles across… and while you’d probably not wish to be in position where you had to fire in anger…sadly most murders in the US are overwhelming of poor people by guns…I can now see that a gun might have some deterence value….though my stance has nothing to do with the second amendment right to bear arms or any of the “we the people” scared cows!

The other side of the coin I suppose is not sure if being able to own an AK-47 assault rifle, or have completely unfettered controls so beloved by the NRA lobby, really does contribute in helping to save lives (unless I suppose one of the ‘end time’ chaps need it for the coming apocalypse! ; – ) ).

I am sorry to say it was not wise of me to take a such position until I was (slightly 😉 ) better informed. As you say “there are two sides to every story. The truth is usually somewhere between the two”, but then you already knew that years ago :- )

Let me inform you then. 🙂

It IS legal to own a functioning machine gun (or assault rifle) in the US and hundreds (thousands?) do, however it requires an expensive annual license with mental screening and background checks.
Never heard of a machine gun used in mass shooting.

Semi-auto rifles (aka “assault weapon”) account for less then 5% of all deaths, probably less then 2.5%. Hand guns by far the majority (50+%?), Shot guns, rifles (aka “long guns”), and then SA rifle as minority. To ban SA rifles wont even put a dent in the death rate. (off hand, I think more died from bombs then SA, but could be wrong).

Our “3000 mile” is the reason we need rifles. Parts of USA have huge infestation of wild pigs that are deadly, besides causing destruction. Wild predators still exists. And the spread out nature means for around 70% of residents police are 10 min or longer away.

We do have controls that work, but IMHO do need mandatory education and health checks.

FYI:
I do NOT own a gun, but fired off a variety, even held a machine-gun (MG-15 FYI)
I despise the NRA (and even a lot of NRA members do to, but fear getting their guns confiscated (yes, sad)).

I just feel very sorry for the Americans and the situation they are in.

Why? (yes, very late to this debate in this forum)

There is nothing to apologize for owning a firearm.

The problems are from other then firearms, one is mental health services and being ready to act on them.

Case in point:

I’m not sure guns in a ‘secure place’ within the owner’s property would solve many problems; the recent killer’s first victim was apparently his mother at his home.

The problem is the guns. Look at this story from China, twenty-two children injured in a school by a man with a knife; if he’d had a semi-automatic weapon most of them would be dead. Children have been killed with knives in Chinese schools but far less than would be the case had guns been involved (and I don’t know what gun-controls exist in China).

See?
Guns are not issue, its deranged people, an infliction that hits all countries.
Weapon of choice for terrorists are explosives, for instance.

Taking away guns would not stop mass killings and murderous thoughts.

I will agree that it will be harder for people to be killed, but it will not stop the act.

The one item I think must be done is.
1. Mandatory safety education.
2. Mental health screening.
3. Criminal behavior (extended to arrest records)