Meeting BoB Spit pilot and Rigger

[zxwings]

Please ask him this: How far away could he hear the (engine) sound of another fighter, at his 12, 3, and 6 o'clock, respectively?

If you can show him sreenshots of COD, please ask him if the colour and brightness of the explosions of 20mm cannon rounds in COD are the same as what he saw in air combat.

[Skoshi Tiger]

In their weapon loadouts when they used .303 'Ball' did they use MkVII or MkVIII or both? (Though I guess this is more of an armourers Job)

Cheers!

[adonys]

I've just finished reading "The blonde knight of Germany.. Erich Hartman" in which there are some answers to some of the questions which are floating around here:

- Hartman talks in two places about zooming in from above, and then having the enemy aircrafts losing him and his katschmarek due to looking from above for camouflage painted 109's against terrain (one case is in winter, another is in summer)

-> pilots were really losing sight of an airplane against the ground

- he also talks about flashes in the sky: due to german aircrafts being camouflage painted, he indentifies some flashes he saw in the sky as Mustangs (ie probably the russian couldn't have been indentified as flashes neither), which had bare metal parts

-> camouflage painted aircrafts were not flashing in the sky

- he also talks a few times about his mechanical chief starting to clean his canopy as soon as he landed, in order to prepare the 109 for the next mission

-> canopy was constantly cleaned up before each flight

[Talisman]

Did all fighter sqns, Spit and Hurri, have 100 octane fuel for the Battle of Britain period?

Thanks in advance.

[BRIGGBOY]

Originally Posted by Talisman

Did all fighter sqns, Spit and Hurri, have 100 octane fuel for the Battle of Britain period?

Thanks in advance.

fantastic question.

[zxwings]

Originally Posted by zxwings

Please ask him this: How far away could he hear the (engine) sound of another fighter, at his 12, 3, and 6 o'clock, respectively?

Oh, this I forgot to put in front of the question: 'when flying a Spit with his cockpit closed'.

[guderian]

PLEASE...why dont you ask him to come to your place and play some cod??...u could record it on video and see what he thinks about it..then post abck in here...it would be very interesting i remember something like that (an interview with a former wwii pilot about his impressions on clod, the only thing was that there was no video)..

For the rigger:

A couple of days ago I saw a entertainment documentary about the delivery of a Spitfire (later modell with invasion stripe markings) to the US. A British pilot did the last check and tuning flights with the Spit in the US before handing over the keys. One of the tuning work done was to slightly bend the left corner trailing edge of the right aileron upwards (using a pre-formed wood block that the pilot held with his left hand on the upper side of the aileron where the bending should take place and with his right hand he held a hammer and thus hammering the bottom of the aileron trailing edge of the Spit and thus incurbing this part slightly upwards). The objective was to modify slightly the airflow there so that inflight the airstream would timidly pull the aileron from neutral position down thus countering the right roll tendency encountered otherwise. The pilot said this was described as a procedure in the handbooks. I would like to know more about this. Can this be confirmed by the rigger? What where the commonly applied procedure?

[_79_dev]

~S~

Would You be able to ask him what was top altitude they ever flown in early spit versions, was it really hard to fight against 109's at celling alt? How hard was spit in controls manners at high alt?

Thank You in advance...

[Nicolo]

I wish there were a post here from Luthier saying "ask them if they want to work with us as consultants". I thought the developers had some veteran consultancy.
What a nice oportunity PPP, we're waiting for your post about the meeting.