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Originally Posted by redtiger02
2, to be exact. FO James (Jimmy) Wilkinson and PO Walter D. Richey, you can find the contents of the interviews I did with them in the library at Baylor University, Waco, TX. If you want to know which doctoral thesis to request from the library that will have to be done in a PM, as I am not about to put personal informating like my full name in such a public forum. Also, evidently you didn't read the post before you decided to respond with more nonsense. I am not pro or anti Hurricane, I am, however, pro-pilot. So, how many Hurricane pilots have you interviewed? Did you also interview Luftwaffe pilots to hear what they had to say about it? Did you interview anyone from the RCAF about their experiences during WW II? Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to speak with anyone from the Eagle Squadron, but those guys are few and far between. I don't care if you're desperately attached to the Hurricane. You're underinformed. Sir Sydney Camm is probably rolling over in his grave over what you're saying. As he died in 1966, I couldn't exactly talk to him about it, but even he said it was an outdated fighter and worked night-and-day to better the situation. <pause for you to google him to create some response> So, to the point here, I am neither pro nor anti Hurricane, I put the facts in front of you and you ran them over with a lawnmower. I am and will remain pro-pilot, because as I said in the post you evidently didn't read, the plane is nothing, the pilot is everything. Incidentally, you can't "choose not to debate something," when someone has already closed the issue after pointing out that debating the planes was neglecting the pilots. That whole "you can't fire me because I quit!" thing only works on tv. Next time, read the post, think a little, then choose whether or not you are going to say anything else. At the very least, post something about what was actually said instead of going off on your weird Hurricane fetish. I've heard of people being into shoes, stuffed animals, midgets, etc., but this is the first airplane fetish I have encountered.
"The engine of an airplane is its heart, but the pilot its soul." "The War in the Air," - Sir Walter Raleigh |
I have family who work with veterans, thus get to see many of them myself, and they swear by it. They say the spitfire WAS a better fighter, but i didnt once deny that fact, thye like me just feel the hurricane doesnt get the credit it deserves.
Why would i speak to luftwaffe pilots??? so they can tell me how it was to fly AGAINST?? that is not what we are talking about, we are talking about how adequate it was at its job and how you seem to be very anti hurricane. Its kind of freaky if anything. Rather worrying. Are you on medication? maybe you should be!!
It was simply a case of giving the hurricane a little more credit. Not you going off on one and spitting your dummy out.
Forget anythign you have learned or written about, the simple fact remains that the hurricane was good enough in 1940 battle of britain. If your talking absolete by then, then i suggest looking at the fairely battle or the paul defiant!!! THEY were obsolete in 1940.