Ich meine es gab nur 6 RAF Piloten die mehr als 30 Abschüsse während des gesamten Krieges hatten und etwa 40 mit mehr als 20 Abschüssen. Woher soll denn der genannte Abschuss-Durchschnitt pro Spitfire kommen?
Many German pilots had hundreds of kills because they fought mainly Russians, who had bad pilots and planes. Also British pilots lacked training in the Battle of Britain, and even when they got better pilots in 1944 and 1945, and better planes (the spitfire mk14 was the best plane in ww2), they couldn’t fly into Germany that much because of poor range. The Mustang had much better range than the spitfire, so it therefore had more kills when the war ended.
My great uncle Art was an RAF fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, never knew the man but i dug up his old fight log book when i was 14 in my families garage attic. His spitfire took damage and and he was wounded during the fighting but still managed to destroy 2 enemy aircraft before successfully landing in friendly lines. My family donated the book to a war museum in Sarnia, Ontario his home town where it remains to this day.
This looks very much like a dogfight filmed for the TV series "Piece of Cake". I saw that being filmed when I lived near the Seven Sisters (between Beachy Head and Seaaford Head) where this was shot.Not sure WHEN this was was taken but quite certain WHERE.
You talking about usa planes? If so, your right, if not, stop drinking, you already drunk. This video, is not even real, so doing any judgments based on it would be unwise.
Thank you for this video. It can't be real cause no one says "Shizzta". Fun to watch, frightening to imagine being in that situation. Freedom is not free!
Points to think about, if the radio is in german this preludes that the pilot of the camera plane is also german. BUT the chase plane does not engage the BF109 nor does it engage the Spitfire though it does tail the spitfire that was engined. ANOTHER thing is when the spitfire slots between it and the BF109, it does not fire on the spitfire despite having perfect attack window to do so. Im not calling it fake, though if it is its done very well due to the camera quality and limited color. but i am trying to mention theres so many things about this engagement that make my brain spin.
The English pilot shot at the Luftwaffe plane... saw the smoke and pulled away... The Polish pilot saw the smoke and continued following and shooting until the plane crashed... The hate in the Poles was enormous...
100% unused footage filmed during the making of Battle of Britain movie. The basic defence for a spitfire would be to out turn the ME109s. The ME109s would then have to disengage, increase power, gain height and then reengage fresh. In this film the spitfire pilot just weaved and not very well. The kicker though as evidence this was from the film, the plane carrying the camera was at one moment following ME109s and didn't engage them and then later it was following a spitfire and it didn't engage that either.
There is no 109 to be seen in this clip. NONE ! These are clearly Spanish HA1112 "Buchons" developed AFTER THE WAR. Original 109 had an inverted engine with the exhaust at the bottom of the nose. These "109's" clearly have EXHAUSTS AT THE TOP OF THE NOSE. That gives away they are Rolls Royce Merlin powered HA1112's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano_Aviaci%C3%B3n_HA-1112
How cool it would have been to have recordings of the pilots talking to eachother during ww2!! You can tell these are all written lines because the germans speak way to little slang and way to simple. ”zu hause” etc haha.
