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Looks like the one of the ones my dad shot down in 1940 over the channel! Achtung! Spitfeur! :)

Not a lot of people know it was originally powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engine, but come September 1939 these became hard to come by in Germany so they fitted the next best thing! ;-)

Good to see you keeping this important piece of history alive despite it's unfortunate association with the nazi cause.

My granddad prefered the FW-190 (espechially the D-9 because he never had the chance to fly with the Ta-152 or the Me 262) to the Me 109, since he had a bad crash-landing with one (it seems to be a common problem with this plane - see my #38). Although it was senseless at that time (it was senseless at any time, but he did not know it back then) he blasted away quite a few Lancasters, B-17s, US-fighters and Liberators in the late years of the war. Due to his experience (he was a Luftwaffe pilot since 1934) he was one of the quite dangerous Krauts. During the "Blitz" he served as a flight instructor back in Germany and never saw -to my knowlege- British skies.

The Spitfire was indeed a good plane. Maybe you know what Galland (I think it was Galland) said to our fat Goehring in 1940: If you want to win this war give me a squadron of Spitfires.

It is good to know that we do not shoot on each other anymore. God bless you.