Hooray for the old .303 Browning

[ozzy72]

You can chuck your Spit into an Irish bog at speed and then 70 years later you can dig it up and still use the guns (the Merlin isn't looking quite so well)...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440
So hooray for a great gun 8-)

[H]

You can chuck your Spit into an Irish bog at speed and then 70 years later you can dig it up and still use the guns (the Merlin isn't looking quite so well)...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440
So hooray for a great gun 8-)

Strange... hooray doesn't seem to be among the expletives used for it by many of the Germans, Itlatians and Japanese of that era...

8-)

[Bud Greene]

All I can say is "WOW"!
Oh, and isn't this a 'Real Aviation' topic?

[patchz]

I had a British Enfield .303 when I was 17. Wish I still had it. 

[BigTruck]

Oh how I love Browning!!

[expat]

Oh, and isn't this a 'Real Aviation' topic?

You can always tell a MOD, you just can't tell them much..............

Matt

[ozzy72]

I posted it about the gun so no it isn't really aviation is it? It is a great gun that happened to be bolted to the finest aircraft ever made 8-)
It was also attached to a number of inferior aircraft and used on jeeps, trucks and tanks in various theatres

[jetprop]

ozzy,are you irish or something?
the spitfire in your signature is from the irish air corps and you post quite some irish stuff.

[ozzy72]

I'm half-Irish, half-Scottish, born in London.
And that Spit is special, the photo was taken by Doug (Hagar), then sent to me by my best friend who'd found it on another site (weird or what?)
It was the first Spit I ever sat in, she was doing engine testing post-rebuild from a tragically fatal crash and a few days after I had had my bum in the "office" she was in the skies once more 8-) She'll always have a special place in my affections 8-)

[Flying Trucker]

Well done Mark...

[Bud Greene]

I posted it about the gun so no it isn't really aviation is it? It is a great gun that happened to be bolted to the finest aircraft ever made 8-)
It was also attached to a number of inferior aircraft and used on jeeps, trucks and tanks in various theatres

Just kidding around.
Ozzy, I know you are are a motorcycle fanatic but you should check this link out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NLxZvdwBXs
Triumph Spitfire vs. Supermarine Spitfire.  My cousin owned a Triumph Spitfire like the one in this ad.  His tag...'MYSPIT'

[Hagar]

And that Spit is special, the photo was taken by Doug (Hagar), then sent to me by my best friend who'd found it on another site (weird or what?)
It was the first Spit I ever sat in, she was doing engine testing post-rebuild from a tragically fatal crash and a few days after I had had my bum in the "office" she was in the skies once more 8-) She'll always have a special place in my affections 8-)

I took that photo in 2005. This is what she looks like now.