The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hurricanes vs Spitfires (1936-1945) - Jan.27th, 2005

Aviation History. | November 1994 | David Alan Johnson

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Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Here's a quote that just jumped out . . .

If those officers had had their way, the RAF would have faced the Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt Bf-109s with obsolete Gloster Gladiators in the spring and summer of 1940. It was that line of thinking that made Dowding's job of upgrading and modernizing the RAF more difficult.

Can't help but wonder how England would look today if this had become a reality. Thankfully for them there were those with this forsight . . .

I take the view that it took both of them to win the Battle of Britain, and neither would have achieved it on its own.

[Will tonight be the night I here something from my Ms Snip???? The faithful wait.]

[alfa6]

So that's how they get more tanks, eh?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[alfa6]

Well I have finally figured out how to get my pics to open up in the picture program so I can resize them to post on the Foxhole, YIPPEE. I have three Hurricane pics and four of the Spitfire, here goes nothing. And of course a big lift of the alfa6 lid to the fine folks that made these pics possible.

First up two Hurricanes from Glenn Alderton's maginficent collection.

A Hurricane MKIV model complete with Vickers 40mm guns under the wings, better known as the Flying Can Opener.

Here are the four Spitfire pics

Here is a Spitfire MkIX from the 2003 Duxsford airshow.

Another MKIX showing off the famed elliptical wing of Reginald Mitchells Spitfire.

A Spitfire MkV showing off the clipped wings that were on several Marks of the Spitfires.

And last but not least another Glenn Alderton pic that should at least have you thinkingDUCK

That's it for tonight folks, y'all have a great night and a better tomorrow.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

WOW thanks so much! Fantastic.

[snippy_about_it]

Here I am O'faithful one. ;-)

I have a few minutes anyway. I'm sorry we haven't been posting much. We are trying to get some of our advertising started and working on our marketing plan for 2005. Yep, we need to plan out the ENTIRE year by COB Jan 31st.

"Home Office is flying out Feb 1st for a visit and our local paper is meeting with us the 2nd and we need not only an ad ready but a profile of us both for a write up of new businesses.

We have been invited to speak at the local Kiwanis tomorrow at 7 a.m.!

We just got 10,000 pounds of seed in yesterday and we are still on the phone working with folks we ordered from at the Trade Show.

We read to school children in March and I need a particular book I want to read.

Lots of small stuff in between and all this just to get customers!!!

So, how have you been sweetie?

[snippy_about_it]

Wonderful pictures alfa6. Sorry we are so late in responding. Busy, busy, busy.

[snippy_about_it]

This is so unlike your basic fighter pilot, normaly they're so laid back and unaggresive.

LOL. Oh yeah!

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening Gail. We've been kind of busy these last few days and I'm just getting here. It started out sunny, then clouds most of the day but mild weather and not as much fog as we have been having.

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening Mayor. Another long day and I'm late getting here.

[alfa6]

What was it Kermit the Frog used to say, oh yeah..."it isn't easy being green"

Y'all take care of business now, ya heah

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[aomagrat]

Busy, busy, busy.

Me too.

[PhilDragoo]

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'" (London, England, June 18, 1940)

Requires RealPlayer, a RealPain, but worth blood, sweat, tears and toil.

~~~

Hawker Hurricane Mk II B / C

Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB

Lowering the Merlin engine into a Spitfire at the Vickers Castle Bromwich plant in 1942.

'MERLIN'S HANDMAIDENS' - A Rolls-Royce Merlin Crank-shaft is being lifted from its bearings by W.A.A.F. fitters.
Merlinspannerspankentruppen

The P-51D's Rolls Royce Merlin installation.

1930 Bobby "Blue" Bland Rosemark TN, blues singer

Saw him with B.B. King in Boston 1970. Rap, on the other hand, is noise.

Daphne Hughes is pictured filing the corners of teeth for a Rolls Royce Merlin engine’s timing gears – vital parts for the famous engine that powered the Spitfire aircraft among others.

Merian C. Cooper, director of King Kong

In one of Hollywood’s greatest stunt castings, the two men in the plane that shoot down Kong are none other than directors Cooper and Schoedsack themselves. The best part of the story is that this wasn’t really stunt casting. If there was really had been a giant ape terrorizing the city, explorers and adventurers Cooper and Schoedsack would have been the best men for the job.

And now you know the rest of the story.

[snippy_about_it]

It's a good thing, I hope. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. But we're not making rent money....yet. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

I dare say we could change a few words of Churchill's speech and it would speak of our fight against Islam.

[SAMWolf]

"Shameless plugs" always welcome. :-)

[SAMWolf]

LOL! I don't think I ever met a "pushy" fighter pilot.

[SAMWolf]

I'm an expert at making new mistakes.

[SAMWolf]

I don't know if that "Religion Lite" applies to the entire Church or just the American part of it. From what I hear from Poland, they don't seem to have fallen into the same "change to keep up with the times" attitude as we have here.