Q fr @aisb23 Did you ever fly a Spitfire? I know your opinion of the RAF is not high but what about their planes? A: Spitfire not great. P-51 was able to take the war to Germany
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I would point out that plenty of RAF Eagle squadron pilots with more kills than General Yeager like Donald Blakeslee and Don Gentile had a much better opinion of the Spitfire.
These two preferred the P-51, in fact clamored to fly it. Further, Gentile flew combat 2 years when there were more Germans in the sky. I flew combat for 8 months - we saw Germans on about 5 of 60 missions
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They prefered the P51 over the P47.
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No, he doesn’t because as I pointed out, Blakeslee and Gentile flew P47 Thunderbolts after transferring from the RAF, and they did not like ‘em. That’s why they wanted to fly P51s. I don’t know why the General wants to bad mouth Spitfires, to the average Brit, it looks weird.
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You keep talking but still aren't telling truthful facts so please stop talking or be blocked as you're wasting space
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