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Originally Posted by Wutz
Well although I am no red flier, I would give any bomber a thumbs up! As bombers tend to be treated like step children compared to fighters. Even though it was usually the bombers that had the bigger impact on battles than fighters.
Also a interesting plane which was used in the Spanish civil war, and as a high level reconisance plane during 1940/1941 is the Ju 86
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He he, one of my friends grand father shocked me one day... I had always seen him as a rather boring old retired postman telling bad jokes - and one day when where talking about aircraft out on the lawn he said "did you kids know I was a bomber pilot during the war?". He piloted the Ju 86 in Sweden that where license built here and called B3 in RSAF. His status grew quite a lot after that
He said that it was a great plane to fly and it actually stayed in service as a transport plane up until 1958 in Sweden. There is a nice example at the Swedish air force museum (which is actually the only remaining Ju-86 - German museums have been giving offers to buy it that have been refused):
12-07-2010, 03:19 PM
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