Ozzy Heaven!!!

[ATI_7500]

ATI err two things;
1)Aren't you meant to be in Holland drowning yourself or sailing or somesuch (re-enactment of the Bismark?)? Not doing a tour in your Panzer
2)Err didn't your side end up being the runner-up?
I'm off to practice my Basil Fawlty walk and find some marmalade to put on ATIs house.
Oh and your first stunt lesson will be conducted in a Spitfire, just to teach you some respect young man

Ozzy

PS. Do you really think just a helmet and Reeboks is enough to save you from my terrible wrath?

a) i'll be in holland from thursday on (hey,who said "good.." ?!?)

b)marmalade on my flat (!)?? hah! there must be an old 88mm flak cannon around here...*evilgrin*

c) are there any Me 109s for FS 2002 ?! i don'r really like the spit... *continues to run*

d)respect? whatta f*** is respect?

e)reebok? nah,adidas!

f)a good ol' Stg 44 could save me from your wrath..or my uncle with his Tiger II (he's a panzer fanatic).

[ozzy72]

Remind me to address your uncle as SIR!
I don't know of any purpose built 109 models for 2k2, I know of some 190s however. And they would give my beloved MkV a whipping, so I'd better go polish my IX

Mark

PS. Respect is what you'll be giving me lots of after your flying lesson my dear boy

[Hagar]

c) are there any Me 109s for FS 2002 ?! i don'r really like the spit... *continues to run*

As I remember, Mauro's excellent Bf 109s work very well in FS2002. Even down to the automatic slat deployment.
http://digilander.libero.it/IceMauro/planes.htm

[HawkerTempest5]

[quote]Ermm...last I heard the Defiants and the Blenheims got a pasting whenever they got airborne...not much of a help.

[OTTOL]

The B-29 can take them all! The British build Jaguars, the Germans; Porsche and the Americans; Cadillac. Why nit-pick each other, when you can just climb to 25,000' and nuke verybody from a safe altitude, which is what I feel like doing to this worn out topic. You guys sound like a bunch of old biddies.

[Felix/FFDS]

Ozzy would LOVE the last gasp of the biplanes - Hawker Harts against the Italians in East Africa!  Gladiators in Iraq!

[Crumbso]

Yo visitor without us there would be no litlle island for you to save, and you better give a big thankyou to the russians aswell.

P.s Without the glorious merlin your P-51 that "saved" us would not be worth its weight in Avgas.

Only joking. You yanks needed a little encouragement to join the fight that was all.

[OTTOL]

touche' ...................but.........your forgetting the A-26, the P-47(noted;mentioned earlier) the Corsair and a few others.
Don't forget the power and durability of the R-2800 engine. I
can't believe none of you guys over there in "Engulund" have mentioned the Mosquito!  8)

[Crumbso]

Well again the corsair had huge problems with working on carriers because its nose was so long and the supsension made it bounce wildly across the deck. The  americans got fed up and gave them to us. We fixed the suspension problem and just did a very tight turning approach. When the americans saw this they started using our methods another problem fixed by us. The P-47 was a great aircraft along witht the mossie.

[ozzy72]

Ah the Wooden Wonder, something so backwardly radical that it worked wonders, and the Air Ministry didn't believe them, just proves you can never trust pencil necks!
A bomber that became a fighter! And a damn fine one at that! Now that is radical. Ah the purr of those twin Merlins. Sweet music too my ears.
Is it true that someone over on the other side of the Pond has nearly finished restoring one to flying condition?

Ozzy

[OTTOL]

Sad, sad, sad, that it took a "Yank" to pull you from your Hurricane/Spit stupor. Maybe not THE best fighter to fly the Channel during the War, the Mosquito was definitely the sexiest.
           I don't know about a Mosquito being built, there is a group here at Fort Lauderdale that scratch built an exact flying replica of Amelia Earhart's Electra(flawless work). There's also a guy out in Washington state that is building 100% Me 262's with J85 engines.  :)

[Felix/FFDS]

I beleive that Kermit Weeks had a Mossie in flying condition as late as 1990, in his Miami facilities.  Sadly, many of the flying and non-flying exhibits were destroyed during one of the hurricanes .. (Andrew?)

Ah the Wooden Wonder, something so backwardly radical that it worked wonders, and the Air Ministry didn't believe them, just proves you can never trust pencil necks!
A bomber that became a fighter! And a damn fine one at that! Now that is radical. Ah the purr of those twin Merlins. Sweet music too my ears.
Is it true that someone over on the other side of the Pond has nearly finished restoring one to flying condition?

Ozzy

[ozzy72]

I'm just passionate about warbirds really. I had heard about the 262, didn't it crash on a test flight a while back?
Didn't know about Amelias plane being replicated. Gosh you learn something interesting every day here. Thats why I love it soooooo much. Thanks OTTOL.
Oh and Felix, I don't know about Kermits one, but there was an advert for a near completely restored project one going for sale. I only found it as I was researching engines for my Spit build and came across this advert.... Haven't found it again since! This was last year when the Spit project started getting off the ground (not physically yet sadly, long way before that happens).

Ozzy

[Hagar]

I think the only problem with restoring a Mossie (if one could be found) or even building one from scratch would be the very reason for its success. The fact that it's made of wood using unusual construction methods. Having seen the quality of the work carried out by the outfits Stateside, I have no doubt that if anyone could do it , they could. I visited Tom Reilly's place in Kissimmee on my last trip & was astounded by what he showed me. http://www.warbirdmuseum.com/
I still live in the hopes of seeing one in flying condition again one fine day.

[OTTOL]

If you happen to read AOPA, they had a quick blurb about the 262. I think, and don't quote me on this, there are two complete, and one in the works, with plans for more. I think there was a incident with the original aircraft, but nothing major, unless something else has happened in the three months since I read the AOPA article.
        Just as a matter of interest. I fly Lear 25's and 35's. The 25 uses the CJ 610 engine(essentially the same as the J85 used in the 262 replica). Our initial climb rate(up to 20,000 feet and greatly dependent upon temperature) is anywhere from 3,000-6,000 feet-per-minute. I don't know the exact specs on the 262, but I'm guessing it has to weigh  
half as much(15,000# MTOGW for Lear25D). And the magazine article said that the J85'S are 1/4 the weight of the originals. Sound's like fun airplane to fly!