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Old 09-05-2009, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by M3-SRT8 View Post
In reality, the latter marks of the Gustav were a real pig of an aeroplane. Too heavy, they had to be flown a near full power in the landing circuit, or they would fall out of the air.

The early "F" was the real Pilot's aeroplane. Light on armament, it was a great dogfighter. When the F-4 and later marks with gondola wing mounted cannon came in, they went downhill.

LJB
So very true. The Fs really are the best 109 varient
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