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Posted: February 23 2013 at 2:25am |
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Amazing statistics! Thanks for the good read.
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hoadie
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Interesting stats.Note the issue with the Allison engines. As I've noted before..the Mustang ALMOST didn't come into exsistance because of the Allison power plants.
I note there is no mention of the Typhoon.(Although it had shortcomings, it was mass produced.)I'm surprised at no mention of the Stuka or the Mosquito, as well Hoadie |
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woops! I spoke too soon! There it was..the '"SKEETER" IS listed. I stand corrected
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Zed
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Thats an interesting article. The casualty figures from WWII are astounding, when you consider that 95% of all Allied casualties were Russian!
The Spitfire is my favourite plane of WWII, (It' normal I'm english) I have a client that owns and flies a Spitfire Mk19 (36 litre RR Griffin engine instead of the 27 litre Merlin) It is a photo reconaissance version with pressurised cabin, very rare. Last year I got to visit the hangar and sit in it, that was a boyhood dream come true. There are many films on youtube of his Mk19. There is only 1 Lancaster still flying and I think 1 Mosquito.
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Some of the statistics about losses are truly alarming. I think the RAF lost 80,000 aircrew from the bomber command over Germany in the course of that war. That's just one command, in one campaign in one theatre of war. The impact on the German population must have been absolutely staggering too.
The information you mention only details the more popular aircraft too. There were dozens of other less common types all manufactured in their hundreds and thousands by all sides. I think we do live in safer world nowadays. let's hope it stays that way. |
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25-5
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Just want to say that these stats are not totally complete. They are what they are, and from a US perspective. Anyone who knows about WWII is fully aware of the sacrifices made buy all the allies and like myself, honor them all. Those of us who are more mature have a responsibility to let the youngins know that "Freedom is not free" .
My original source had photos of all the planes listed. However, I was unable to get them to copy. Probably too big a file.
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Zed, there is TWO flying Lancasters.One in Blighty & one here in Canada.(Hamilton,Ontario).There is also one out west in Canada, although operable, does not have an airworthy ticket(read$$$). I was told-but I dont know- that there is one in Oz, as well.It is supposedly under the same constrictions as the one out west...taxi but do not fly. (sigh)
To my knowledge, there is not a single Mossie airworthy.I DO know that there was collection boxes @ some legions for donations for a 'skeeter" restoration project. It was a P/R model, ex Jamaican air force.Dunno what ever became of that. Hoadie |
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I've seen a TV documentary in which the cameraman was in a flying Mosquito in the UK, sounds and all.
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Many years ago an article on the U S Airforce stated that at the end of WW2 we had 76,000 combat aircraft and 3.5 million personel. They may have been counting some civilian personel and airmen still in training and not yet assigned to duty as aircrew.
There may have been some overlap of Naval Aviators and Marine Corp Aviators.
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For anyone interested, here is a link to a site that features several videos of the Mk19 Spitfire of one of my clients, as well as his recently finished Hawker Sea Fury, which was the last piston engined Royal Navy fighter. 18 cylinder radial, 3,000 HP
http://www.youtube.com/user/ericgoujon/videos Turn the sound up for the fly pasts!!
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The B-29 was even worse at 40 per 100,000 hours; the world's most sophisticated, most capable and most expensive bomber was too urgently needed to be able to stand down for mere safety reasons.
(Compare: when a $2.1 billion B-2 crashed in 2008, the Air Force declared a two-month "safety pause"). The B-29 was no better for maintenance. Although the R3350 was known as a complicated, troublesome power-plant, only half the mechanics had previous experience with it. ..............................."
the one in my avitar was one that made it back to rest in the desert , my father was an electrician on her ground crew and left gunner in the air , the avitar is the cover of yank magazine in december 44 , photo taken on hardstand soon after the dec 7th raid
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There is no mention of the Tempest or the Defient or the lysander sorry but these were all aircraft flown bybthe RAF during world war two the lysander was used fly spys in to france as well as other duties.
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The Tempest & the TYPHOON were one and the same.The Bolton-Paul defiant wasn't produced in great numbers, & was actually obsolete by the time the festivities got going.
I note there was ALOT of Yanks flying in RCAF.(We got into the 2nd twirl at war in '39.)Doc Hannah only lost ONE crewman during the airwar.It was a kid named "PARKER" from Chicago.He was trapped in the tail turret when they crashed the Sterling on a training mission.He couldn't get out when she burnt.Went onto Lancs after that..& didn't lose anyone else. Hoadie |
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The Tempest was developed from the Typhoon with basically an improved wing, being thinner among what can be seen in the image. Same airframe though.
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& you had to "tap the brakes" at about 90 KIAS just to get the tail to come up.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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