I have to agree and say Air America is great !!

Also another good flick is “Always” starring John Goodman & Richard Dreyfuss…some great A-26 and Catalina flying as well as a C-119 dropping fire retardant…sure the love story is a bit gooey but the flying scenes are worth the effort !!

But if you love B-36’s & B-47’sget get get get Strategic Air Command !!!
A worthwhile classic !!!

The takeoff scene with the B-36 still leaves me with goosebumps everytime I see it :p

Cheers
Chris

I sincerely hope you are going to supply us pics with your “Spit coming out” party, Daz !!

Yes, but as Nermal touched on, why bother modifying the Defiant to a great extent, when the Hurricane and Spitfire were doing a fine job already.

Anyway another aircraft I mentioned in an earlier thread was the He-119. Showed a lot of promise and flew really well but was never followed up.
(I’m referring to the single (mid) engined recon aircraft that looks similar to the He-111.)

not very long ago, these were our main strike force……

When flown properly, the Skyhawks were amazing to watch.

yup …’tiz our gain;)

I think the P-40 looks absol briliiant in AVG markings.

We do have some great aircraft here in NZ at present,…but you ppl’s in the other hemisphere have certainly got some great ones still….I mean to say BBMF to name just one, taxi-ing Lanc as well…

originally posted by dhfan

I suspect duxfordhawk’s right, by the time they found out it was a dog, all available Merlins had been allocated.

Just quoting William Green’s “Fighters Volume 2” (bible !!)

He says of the Whirlwind…..”for a twin-engined aircraft it was highly manoeuvrable; its handling characteristics were frequently referred to as delightful, and it’s performance at low altitudes was superior to that of contemporary single-engined fighters”

But he does mention the poor maintenance characteristics and nasty Peregrines as well as the landing speed problem.
Apparently, the latter restricted it to only a few airfields with long runways. Still, could have been sorted though.

I reckon if Packard came to the rescue (like for the Mustang)….could have been turned into a great aircraft ’cause it packed a punch and a half with 4 20mm cannons