f6f hellcat

Spitfire mk2 no question. Its the most beautiful plane to ever grace the skys.
Its such an enduring plane. That james may toy story program a couple of weeks ago proves it. My sons freinds are buying models of it after seeing that. Look out for the homemade youtube stop motion films soon!

Just watched it and it was incredible!! felt quite jealous that i wasn't part of it especially as i could appreciate it more than the kids hahahaha. They did a great job with it and it looked superb. Many fond memories brough back to me of me and my dad (RIP) sat together making these models. Used to love it. All in all a great programme.........

EXCEPT (you know whats coming!!!)


he says "the spitfire won the battle of britain" blah blah.


he talks crap lol. You guys know what i think so i wont have to say anything more :P

HaHaHa, Hmmmmm wouldn't have anything to do with the Hurricane now would it Foz??

Just a hunch ;)

Wow a topic still on topic after 10pages!

omg well the name that plane did well too

Its a sign!
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/speci..._nimrod_r1.jpg Not sure if ive put it before but the Hawker Sidley Nimrod.

I wouldn't say the Nimrod itself is a beautiful plane because it does it's best to uglyfiey the lines it inherited from the most beautiful De Havilland Comet.
http://www.bredow-web.de/Museum_Cosf...t_1A/Comet.jpg


Also the failed AWACS version of the Nimrod was an abomination to the eyes.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviatio.../3/0784373.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...BAE_Nimrod.jpg

The Nimrod AWAC failure is a classic of incompedance and poor project management.

Consider this....

There were TWO seperate project teams, with seperate project managers, dedicated to the fore and aft RADAR systems.

There was NO liason between the two teams.

There was NO overall overseer to keep an eye on the enterprise.

And guess what.....

Both Fore and Aft RADAR systems interfered with each other and were software incompatible with each other.

The project ended up unfixable and it was decided that to continue was to throw good money after bad.

It looks like that plane has the Proteus syndrome... :shock: