Spitfire V Mustang

[kluge]

Anorak mode on:

Wasn't that the aircraft LK-A that the Matchbox 1:72 scale model was based on?

Haven't seen that picture in donkeys.

Improve long term memory - drink Chianti with James Boags chasers

[glad rag]

100% on the money there Blacksheep!
Many of the "aces" quietly acknowledged the superiority of the Hurricane as a gun platform for destroying the bombers.

[Dengue_Dude]

What on earth have they done between the two fuselages of this F82? It has to be too big to just be fuel.

I think you'll find the big pod was a radar. They sometimes used this as a night fighter with a radar operator in one of the cockpits.

[Dengue_Dude]

elecEye

the stalwart of the BoB was not the Spitfire.. ok it did a good job
but the Hurricane did most of the work

Careful . . . you'll get loads of paranoids shouting that the 'erks' did most of the work - perhaps they did, but that's what they were there for eh?

Along with most of the BoB 'erks, I shall now put my tin hat on and take cover. . .

[Modern Elmo]

Sea Fury and P-47N -- twins separated at birth?


Cavanaugh Flight Museum: Republic P-47N Thunderbolt

[kluge]

Maybe F-8F Bearcat or La-9 instead of the P47.

[Dr Jekyll]

I always thought the Sea Fury was 'inspired' by the FW190. Good visibility and surprisingly small wings.

[Jig Peter]

@ Torquatus

And the Spiteful's wing went on to the Attacker, whose tailwheel undercarriage was a "good thing" for flying off carriers ...