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Re: But a Warbird?!?!?!
Posted by Jeff on Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:13:54 AM
In reply top But a Warbird?!?!?! posted by Olivier Lacombe on Tue Dec 23, 2003 05:05:45 PM
If some bright spark there had decided that being armed the aircraft had a better chance of making it through to it's intended target. easier to refit than find a way to mount the guns onto a cessna I think.
Either way it is not a very likely choice and not really a sane one but then.. look who we are talking about here.
: Why oh why would you use a Warbird for such a mission? Gr
: anted, it's fast. Granted, it's nimble. But it's not eas
: y to fly and sometimes you have to put lots of work into t
: hem to make them fly!
:
: On a one-way WMD mission, civilian aircrafts are the best.
: Relatively cheap, somewhat incognito, fast (Piper Aerost
: ar, Bonanza, Mooney, Cessna 210, and all the turbine and j
: et stuff). You get good payload, good range and they are
: easy to fly. A Warbird is not. A SeaFury is hard to fly.
: Harder than a Spit or a Hurrie.
:
: Sure, you can use a Warbird to do damage, but why use that
: when any business aircraft will do the jobs 5 times bette
: r?
:
: Ollie