What is your best / worst performing unit...

[getagrip]

Anyone can fly a snub fighter down a trench, a real pilot can do it in a four engine heavy bomber with props

Easy, I used to bulls-eye womprats in my T16 back home.

[toxicpixie]

Nah, if space fighters fly like aeroplanes, then I'm sure aeroplanes fly like space fighters!

[paulr]

Anyone can fly a snub fighter down a trench, a real pilot can do it in a four engine heavy bomber with props

Something that really put this in context for me was they had to bomb from 60' over water at night

The wing span of a Lancaster is 102' 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Vulcan pilots flew under each other at 60'.
A Vulcans tail plane is...

[toxicpixie]

Never mind the Kessel Run, that's some serious flying!

[Subedai]

Now if Phil Taylor had been flying the F-104 Starfighter he would have hit the target every time. They fell out of the sky so often they were nicknamed 'lawn darts'.

[pierre the shy]

Flying a Lancaster down that trench and hitting a 2m square
target with a bouncing bomb would be impressive 

[toxicpixie]

I saw a documentary on the F-104 in West German service. It was apparently an astonishingly tricky aircraft to fly an maintain. I gather no one ever felt very comfortable in one...

Pierre - that's pretty much easier than the original dambusters mission!

[pierre the shy]

I saw a documentary on the F-104 in West German service. It was apparently an astonishingly tricky aircraft to fly an maintain. I gather no one ever felt very comfortable in one...

Pierre - that's pretty much easier than the original dambusters mission!

Yes guess it would be ~ "the force" would be with them...they. are the royal air force
after all

Sorry that's a bad pun

[getagrip]

Sorry that's a bad pun

Oh, don't let that stop you

It's practically an entrance fee around here

[Hertsblue]

I saw a documentary on the F-104 in West German service. It was apparently an astonishingly tricky aircraft to fly an maintain. I gather no one ever felt very comfortable in one...

It wasn't nicknamed "the widow-maker" for nothing. Mind you, the Germans did insist on hanging munitions on something that was designed as an interceptor. 

[toxicpixie]

Yeah, the program did mention that 110 dead pilots from the West Germans alone.

According to Wiki they lost a third of their aircraft to accidents, the Canadians nearly half.