Anybody read this book?

[PsychoDiablo]

[quote] It didn't do well at the box office

[dcunning30]

[quote][quote] It didn't do well at the box office

[BFMF]

It wasn't too bad of a movie...

[ATI_7500]

And as a pilot leaped out of a burning plane, no parachute, he fell at the same velocity a human body would fall today.

As far as I know there already were some 'chutes avaiable, but pilots weren't too eager to wear them.

It was exciting, all right- a little too exciting.

For them, maybe. But me as a child of the supersonic information age, anything slow is boring.

[TSC.]

As far as I know there already were some 'chutes avaiable, but pilots weren't too eager to wear them.

Nope no parachutes, certainly not for the Brits at the start of the war - British commanders felt that if a pilot had the option to bail out, then they would - instead of fighting all the way to the death.

So bad infact were the emergency procedures, that just before the first squadrons left for France, each pilot & mechanic was supplied with a humble inner tube - to be inflated by mouth if they should end up in the English Channel.

Cheers,

TSC.

[H]

For them, maybe. But me as a child of the supersonic information age,

(Don't I remember something about you, an Me109 and a model of an FW190?)

...anything slow is boring.

I'm not sure the 109 pilot was thinking that as he crashed into the trees when outmaneuvered by the pilot of that Polish, unarmed trainer biplane 68 years ago.

8-)

[ATI_7500]

(Don't I remember something about you, an Me109 and a model of an FW190?)

Sure, but those things are considerably faster than a Ju-52 or DC-3 or else...

I'm not sure the 109 pilot was thinking that as he crashed into the trees when outmaneuvered by the pilot of that Polish, unarmed trainer biplane 68 years ago.

I think same applies for the Sabre pilot trying to get himself a nice piece of an old, slow soviet rustbucket over Korea.

[Woodlouse2002]

I'm not sure the 109 pilot was thinking that as he crashed into the trees when outmaneuvered by the pilot of that Polish, unarmed trainer biplane 68 years ago.

I think same applies for the Sabre pilot trying to get himself a nice piece of an old, slow soviet rustbucket over Korea.

Except the old, slow soviet rustbucket was actually just as new, and faster than the Sabre.

[ATI_7500]

Except the old, slow soviet rustbucket was actually just as new, and faster than the Sabre.

That's not what I meant.

[awakenings]

[quote]Psst Theysellcoke... I'm gonna spoil it for you... it's the Red Baron who did it!

[dcunning30]

Alright, before we go off criticizing Americans flying Sabres, what was that kill ration again?

[ATI_7500]

Oh-my-goodness, you're one sensible guy...

[Woodlouse2002]

Alright, before we go off criticizing Americans flying Sabres, what was that kill ration again?

Before we go off calling kill ratios what were the relative numbers of Migs and Sabres?