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Originally Posted by The Kraken
I think using it as a nightfighter was only slightly more efficient than scrapping them.
Still love crap planes though, and agree it would be nice to fly it one day, no matter how unlikely that is.
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Don't get me wrong, if we get this as a flyable sometime, with the possibility of multicrewing, I'd love to get an inkling of what it was like to fly it in anger.
Such a strange concept with hindsight, but at the time was thought viable, except strangely enough by Hugh Dowding. He was sceptical of them from the word go, and was soon proved 100% correct.
Can't help being a bit fond of the old pig though.
