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Old 25th July 2007, 22:21
Jukka Juutinen Jukka Juutinen is offline
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Re: Placing the Fairey Battle.

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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski View Post
Because Thunderbolt was an 'overpaid' plane. It was too heavy, too expensive, not very manouverable.
Another BS statement for the P-47 e.g. rolled better than your beloved PoS Mustang. Using WEP it could operate from similar sized runways that the PoS Mustang. As for prices, it was only some 15% more expensive than the Hellcat, supposedly a very production friendly design. Comparisons with the flimsy PoS Mustang are not fair for the latter is capable of carrying considerably smaller external stores or internal armament.
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