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Old 07-30-2011, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by David198502 View Post
hey its a film about ww2 warbirds.
Really?

I hope it's a movie about the racial discrimination during the WW2... if it's a movie about ww2 warbirds then those guys are totally hopeless.

Another American generation who gets brainwashed...
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A whole generation of pilots learned to treasure the Spitfire for its delightful response to aerobatic manoeuvres and its handiness as a dogfighter. Iit is odd that they had continued to esteem these qualities over those of other fighters in spite of the fact that they were of only secondary importance tactically.Thus it is doubly ironic that the Spitfire’s reputation would habitually be established by reference to archaic, non-tactical criteria.
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