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Ironically I just watched that video the other day. Love the Requiem for a Dream music with it too. There isn't too much flying like that anymore. Simply incredible stuff. I've been flying for 4 years but watching certain planes fly still makes my hair stand up.

And speaking of planes with guns, and planes that give me chills watching, not much compares to the A-10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkkhYg8F2og
 
Nice.

Man, that was a simpler time. Wish we could go back to that amount of industry and technology, if not less.

The world is way too industrialized and cluttered with technology now days.

And here I sit glued to my little light box that makes me feel connected to the world.

Think I'll log off and go outside for the day.
 
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Great plane with great engine..

Those Elliptical wings gave them enhanced inside turning ability..


Amazing how far we came in those 6yrs thru technology be it prop driven aircraft to jets, dumb bombs to smart bombs, guided missiles to rockets.. radar, communications, etc

Yet thru all this, "Man, remains, the_Ultimate Weapon"


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Damn those .303 British rounds do a lot of damage. Pretty big flash with the API for a .30 caliber bullet
Damn Jeff that is what I was going to say, but I will bet not all of that was .303. There were 24 marks of Spitfire and many sub-variants. These covered the Spitfire in development from the Merlin to Griffon engines, the high-speed photo-reconnaissance variants and the different wing configurations. More Spitfire Mk Vs were built than any other type, with 6,487 built, followed by the 5,656 Mk IXs. Different wings, featuring a variety of weapons, were fitted to most marks; the A wing used eight .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns, the B wing had four .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns and two 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano cannon, and the C or Universal Wing could mount either four 20 mm (.79 in) cannon or two 20 mm (.79 in) and four .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns. As the war progressed, the C wing became more common. Another armament variation was the E wing which housed two 20 mm (.79 in) cannon and two .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning machine guns. That is alot of fire power.
 
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