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I realise I'm going off topic and most rational people agree that the Spitfire is more beautiful than any war machine is entitled to be, with a sound-track to die for.
But:-
RAF - "What can we do with this pile of wood, a couple of surplus Merlins, some Brownings, a few of these Hispano cannons we found at the back of a cupboard and this old Molins 57mm, 6-pounder quick-loading anti-tank gun?"
de Havilland - "Hold my beer..."
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Mosquito, aka "Wooden Wonder", aka "The Flying Matchbox", the single most versatile aircraft in WWII (as long as you don't take it to the tropics)
Fighter? - check (and able to out-run many contemporary single-engined machines)
Fighter-bomber? - check
Night fighter? - check
High altitude photo-reconnaissance? - check
Low-level precision bomber? - check
Pathfinder bomber? - check
Tank buster? - check
Train buster? - check
Coastal patrol? - check
Anti-submarine warfare? - check
It's pretty too.
edited to add
"But what has this to do with an Aston Martin forum?" I hear you ask. Errrr...it has a couple of really nice-sounding V12's?
You can have your thread back now
But:-
RAF - "What can we do with this pile of wood, a couple of surplus Merlins, some Brownings, a few of these Hispano cannons we found at the back of a cupboard and this old Molins 57mm, 6-pounder quick-loading anti-tank gun?"
de Havilland - "Hold my beer..."
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Mosquito, aka "Wooden Wonder", aka "The Flying Matchbox", the single most versatile aircraft in WWII (as long as you don't take it to the tropics)
Fighter? - check (and able to out-run many contemporary single-engined machines)
Fighter-bomber? - check
Night fighter? - check
High altitude photo-reconnaissance? - check
Low-level precision bomber? - check
Pathfinder bomber? - check
Tank buster? - check
Train buster? - check
Coastal patrol? - check
Anti-submarine warfare? - check
It's pretty too.
edited to add
"But what has this to do with an Aston Martin forum?" I hear you ask. Errrr...it has a couple of really nice-sounding V12's?
You can have your thread back now
Edited by LTP on Saturday 23 January 16:15
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