Like many men I love tools and machinery of all shapes and sizes. The thought and design that goes into devices of all shapes, usage and complexity is a never ending source of fascintaion to me. I take special delight in warplanes and have posted on the joy the sound of a merlin powered spitfire brings when zooming overhead.
This plane too deserves some attention as it is hard to beat in the brutal looks department.A giant engine with eight large guns was in the second world war a lethal combo and I look forward to seeing this brute flying overhead at some future event.....more power!
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The steady gunship was always foremost in a pilot's mind back then.
Of course the 'nimble' Spitfires and Hurricanes were identified with getting under the Germans' skin, but these planes you describe, were just formidable!
Nice post Thudders, and clearly you're nearly off (in your mind) to sunny CA, for a well deserved hol!
Ahh! the "Jug", why use finesse when brute force will do the job ?.... hope to get to Duxford to see it in September.
The P-47 Thunderbolt, really the hammer of Thor incarnate. Heavily armed and armored, they would blow-up even trains!
I clicked on here, saw that and got a chubby.
Should I be ashamed ?
KEV,Everybody loves a throbing engine
Like many men I love tools and machinery of all shapes and sizes.
As a builder, I'd never have guessed it, Thud.
I'm disturbed it was used to blow up trains.
Ha ha! I never thought of that.
How about, "French trains full of Nazis!"
Is that better?
Err, my apologies, etc.
DC...it would be an A10 after him now!
What a super way to celebrate the Fourth of July by posting an American Classic. Happy Independence Day, Yanks!
The "Flying Milk Bottle" before W E W Petter even doodled the Lightning. Truly a marvellous aircraft, it could dive at 550 mph and was so rugged that pilots preferred to crash land it than bale out, knowing its engine would protect them. Despite its amazing ground attack capability and the hard work its pilots did in 1943 winning air superiority, the 8th AF got rid of it indecently fast in favour of the P-51D just because the Mustang could fly to Berlin, instead of the Thunderbolt's forays just over the Dutch border.
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