A B-17...

Sendraks · Post by **Sendraks** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:29 pm

Hawker Typhoon for me please.

goran · Post by **goran** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:39 pm

May I have one of these, prrrrreaty please

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:46 pm

Is that the Lightning? I have can just about remember making an airfix of it when I was about 5. I could have sworn it was an RAF plane rather than USAF. It is entitley possible I put the wrong transfers on it though.

JohnnyBoy · Post by **JohnnyBoy** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:59 pm

DH, I was in Bognor Regis on Saturday when a B-17 flew over. It was green with the single white-star-in-a-blue circle on the underside of one wing. I think that would be USAAF colours rather than USAF colours.

Then on Sunday, I was walking in Eartham Woods when an Avro Vulcan flew over.

I can't remember whether it was Saturday or Sunday, but 4 Spitfires or Hurricanes flew over my village (I couldn't identify them for certain because they were almost out of sight when I spotted them)

P.S. That P-51 is one fabulous looking plane. I think that it was a better match for the RR Merlin than the Spitfire. I don't really think that the Spitfire showed its true potential until a Gryphon engine and a 5-bladed prop were bolted to the front.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:12 pm

That's the P51D version.

Brief spec: Packard built V12 Merlin which produced nearly 1,700 hp. This machine could do about 440 mph in level flight, carried six heavy machine guns in the laminer-flow wing and could be fitted with rockets or 2,000lbs of ordnance for ground attack missions.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:46 pm

Yall are real lucky... the only thing that flies near my house are army transport choppers...

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:08 pm

LittleBear

The RAF flew the P 38 Lightning, probably in Burma, so your kit was correct.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:14 pm

wackyman465 wrote:
Yall are real lucky... the only thing that flies near my house are army transport choppers...

I live near the old Greenham Common Airforce Base - (where those damn yanks kept their nukes

) - we get lots of Chinooks and until people complained (!!!!) Apaches used to do touch-and-go training there.

And I've changed my mind I don't want a Spitfire - I want a Mosquito (two spitfires strung between bits of wood! )

Anyway, I'm glad I started this thread - another little facet of the users of Oolite's inner psyche revealed...

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:34 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
I live near the old Greenham Common Airforce Base - (where those damn yanks kept their nukes )

...... .......

Ya know, nothing stops us from detonating those nukes on the ground...
And we also have airlift helicopters lifting HVAC systems onto nearby roofs. That's loud.

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:11 pm

I grew up near Leuchars airbase – I remember seeing the decidedly Cobra-esque Vulcan bombers rumbling past.

There was something of a flap back in the 1970s when a fireball – which later rumour had it was a piece of a Soviet satellite – came down in our neck of the woods. Well, it burned up before it hit: me and my friends were playing football and saw it shoot across the sky. No-one believed me (well, my parents and big sister didn't) until the police came round the village asking if anyone had "seen anything unusual in the sky". Somewhere inside NATO's archive there's my and a bunch of other 10-year-olds' garbled reports of what we saw ...

CptnEcho · Post by **CptnEcho** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:44 pm

I enjoy flying many of the WWII airframes via flight simulator games.
A good modeling program will also include the historical quirks of various aircraft.

I'd like either a Hawker Hurricane or a Bf-109E, please.
The B-26 could be a fighing hauler, in my opinion.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:56 pm

CptnEcho wrote:

The B-26 could be a fighing hauler, in my opinion.

Perhaps like a python or boa?

CptnEcho · Post by **CptnEcho** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:24 pm

Hmm... I'm not sure. The Python and the Boa (and the BCC) can all turn decently. The B-26 needs a lot of room to make a turn.

Still, you're probably on to something.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:07 am

Well thats because a plane has to fly turns.... I'd be willing to script oxp planes if someone else made textures and models...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:34 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
And I've changed my mind I don't want a Spitfire - I want a Mosquito (two spitfires strung between bits of wood! )

Durn.. you beat me to it! In my teens I had a 32nd scale Airfix model of one, with what I still feel was the best paint-job I ever did.

There seem to be very few good colour pics of Mosquito's in flight online, but this painting is nice...