Pop Quiz...

[Skii]

Ok what did the ME109 have fitted to its engine during the Battle of Britain that the Spitfire Mk1 and Hurricane MK1 did not??

at a guess m8 a negative-G carburettor

[Dakaras]

Yeah we were busy using float carbs the crazey thing was we invented the neg G in the 30s and not installed them on the engines and the OKL had pinched the idea of us!!

[Dakaras]

Next question?

What was the first German plane to be shot down during world war 2 that crashed on UK mainland?

[Tumble]

Dornier Do-17 recon plane?

[Dakaras]

Nope

and who shot it down ?

hehe

[da_ging]

looking for the answer ive jsut come across this fact ,gives a new meaning to silent but deadly now dont it

A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)

[Nick]

iirc, it was an He-111... but I don't know who got it... I think it was shot down somewhere over Scotland.

[Neil Washbrook]

First shot down - 26 September 1939 a Skua of 803 squadron of HMS Ark Royal piloted by Lt BS McEwen and PO BM Seymour, along with another piloted by Lt CLG Evans and Lt WA Robertson, shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war, a German Do18 which fell in the sea, its crew subsequently being picked up by HMS Somali

Over British soil it was a He111 on 28th October shared by 602 and 603 Squadron.

[Neil Washbrook]

Ok a RAF one now - whats the relationship between this spitfire crash http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...ty_502030.hcsp and Douglas Bader

[Tumble]

Didn't ol' Dougie a similar thing? Which was trying to take off with the screw in coarse pitch whereupon he ran out of runway and beaned his aeroplane into a wall and bent it.... he didn't die tho...

[Neil Washbrook]

He crashed at Hendon I think but thats not the link :-)

[Skii]

Hmmm might there be a link between this aircraft and Dougie - had he personally flown or been flown post war in the aircraft(being a 2 seater)

sad read tbh.

[Zak33]

iirc, it was an He-111... but I don't know who got it... I think it was shot down somewhere over Scotland.

first time EVER this is from memory....
it was shot down by a Lysander with canons in the wheel spats on its way home....

least thats what the old boy at Old Warden told me (and 7000 other people) at an airshow las year on a tannoy !


Anyway.....two seat cockpit Spit....
..working on a tie up with Bader, the miserable git

[Neil Washbrook]

Hmmm might there be a link between this aircraft and Dougie - had he personally flown or been flown post war in the aircraft(being a 2 seater)

sad read tbh.

Its not the Aircraft

[Zak33]

this is a hayfever question, isn't it?

[Dakaras]

Pete Townsend in his Hurricane HE111 was the first to crash on british soil in Yorkshire