On Aug 21, 5:48?pm, tomcervo wrote:
On Aug 21, 8:40?pm, Rob Arndt wrote:

The facts are that the Me Bf 109 is the gretest killing a/c in history
with the most kills and aces made.

However did they lose the war?

It lived on beyond its Third Reich 1935-45 timeframe too.

Nearly losing the war for the Israelis. Thank God for the Spitfire,
eh?

Get your history right Tom... the S-199s that Israel got did their job
well from May-Oct 1948 despite lack of numbers and poor Israeli
maintenance.

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaver...8/fighter1.htm

So, they were replaced with better Spits and Mustangs in the long run.
The Avia S-199 Czech surplus manufactures along with the inexperienced
Israeli pilots are definately not the same as German 109G and Ks
operated by Luftwaffe Experten... or are you that stupid???

Yet they performed well enough to halt many Arab attacks and were
Israels first fighters. So they have their place in history.

Nothing you can say can detract from that.

Rob

Rob