Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:36 pm
Those look suspiciously like Czech flag pennons.. are you sure they are Polish?
Ssshh! They're in disguise...
(3rd Uhlans are recorded as carrying these non-standard pennants for at least part of their existence. They should have had boring scarlet-over-white. They're also recorded as having crimson-and-white spirals on the lances on one occasion, but bugger that... That was probably a 'special' for a parade or honour-guard anyway.)
Etranger wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:03 pm
The Dutch could really pick a crappy plane, couldn't they?. Cracking stuff once again.
Aw, I've got a soft-spot for the Dutch East Indies Air Force and they weren't that bad. The Buffalo is manifestly maligned due to the RAF's mis-management of them in Singapore (buying the underpowered version, then overloading them with everything the RAF deemed 'essential'). 67 Sqn in Burma did FAR more with the Buffalo and the Finns loved them. The Dutch had the same uprated engine as the Finns. The Curtiss Hawk 75A also wasn't bad - the RAF made good use of them as the Mohawk IV. The Martin B10 wasn't too had - the world's first all-metal monoplane bomber. Lastly, the Curtiss CW-21 Interceptor was a superlative dogfighter, if somewhat under-armed (also true of most IJA fighters of the time, such as the Nate and the Oscar).
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Wg Cdr Luddite wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:50 pm
Respect due bro
That is a thing of sheer beauty...
The much-maligned Buff also out-performed the Hurricane II at altitude; as confirmed in an air-test dogfight over Rangoon between Sqn Ldr Jack Brandt (OC of 67 Sqn) flying the Buff and Wg Cdr Frank Carey. Frank Carey AFC was CO of 267 Wing RAF, who had 18 confirmed kills flying Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain and had risen from Sgt to Wg Cdr in two years, so was no slouch when it came to assessing comparative performance.
