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Anyone ever hear of George "Buzz" Beurling? When caught by the Bf 109s, many pilots found themselves flying for their lives using all helpful manoeuvres. Canadian George "Buzz" Beurling developed an evasive action when he, upon being attacked from behind, pulled the stick extremely hard, causing the Spitfire to enter a violent stall, flick over and spin. The manoeuvre was so quick and rough that it was impossible to follow, but only very few pilots ever learned to use it. "Buzz" Beurling was as good a shooter as he was a pilot: he became the top ace of the 1942 Malta campaign with 27 victories to his credit. Rumours said that he once shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with only two bullets! http://spitfiresite.com/history/spit...e-of-malta.htm |
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"Jacques & Laurie" wrote in message . .. Question: Anyone ever hear of George "Buzz" Beurling? Yes I have. When caught by the Bf 109s, many pilots found themselves flying for their lives using all helpful manoeuvres. Canadian George "Buzz" Beurling developed an evasive action when he, upon being attacked from behind, pulled the stick extremely hard, causing the Spitfire to enter a violent stall, flick over and spin. The manoeuvre was so quick and rough that it was impossible to follow, but only very few pilots ever learned to use it. "Buzz" Beurling was as good a shooter as he was a pilot: he became the top ace of the 1942 Malta campaign with 27 victories to his credit. Rumours said that he once shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with only two bullets! Beurling was eventually creditted with 30+ victories. He spent time in Britain after his time on Malta. He did most of his combat while he was in the RAF. After his time on Malta the Canadian government decided that they wanted him in the RCAF, and they got their way. Seems to me he earned his decorations while with the RAF. He did not get along with the RCAF, and their strict way of attacking the enemy. It was much different fighting from Britain than from Malta. Thing got so bad that he was allowed to resign his commission in the RCAF and revert to civilian life. Very rare and very strange. I don't think that the claim that he used only two bullets to defeat an ME-109 is true. He certainly didn't make that claim. There is/was a mystery concerning his death in a small aircraft that crashed in Italy while he was on his way to Isreal to fly and fight some more. IIRC he is buried in Isreal. He was some times referred to as Screwball Beurling because the stongest swear word that he used was "screwball". He didn't drink booze or smoke. Very strange indeed. http://spitfiresite.com/history/spit...e-of-malta.htm |
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"Robert Sveinson" wrote in message ... "Jacques & Laurie" wrote in message . .. Question: Anyone ever hear of George "Buzz" Beurling? Yes I have. When caught by the Bf 109s, many pilots found themselves flying for their lives using all helpful manoeuvres. Canadian George "Buzz" Beurling developed an evasive action when he, upon being attacked from behind, pulled the stick extremely hard, causing the Spitfire to enter a violent stall, flick over and spin. The manoeuvre was so quick and rough that it was impossible to follow, but only very few pilots ever learned to use it. "Buzz" Beurling was as good a shooter as he was a pilot: he became the top ace of the 1942 Malta campaign with 27 victories to his credit. Rumours said that he once shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with only two bullets! Beurling was eventually creditted with 30+ victories. He spent time in Britain after his time on Malta. He did most of his combat while he was in the RAF. After his time on Malta the Canadian government decided that they wanted him in the RCAF, and they got their way. Seems to me he earned his decorations while with the RAF. He did not get along with the RCAF, and their strict way of attacking the enemy. It was much different fighting from Britain than from Malta. Thing got so bad that he was allowed to resign his commission in the RCAF and revert to civilian life. Very rare and very strange. I don't think that the claim that he used only two bullets to defeat an ME-109 is true. He certainly didn't make that claim. There is/was a mystery concerning his death in a small aircraft that crashed in Italy while he was on his way to Isreal to fly and fight some more. IIRC he is buried in Isreal. He was some times referred to as Screwball Beurling because the stongest swear word that he used was "screwball". He didn't drink booze or smoke. Very strange indeed. http://spitfiresite.com/history/spit...e-of-malta.htm Absolutely agree with you. Discipline, or the lack of it, got him into trouble most of the time and the RCAF thought that they were going to tame him as it were . . . NOT!! Nice to hear from you Jacques |
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"Jacques & Laurie" wrote in message
... "Robert Sveinson" wrote in message ... "Jacques & Laurie" wrote in message . .. Question: Anyone ever hear of George "Buzz" Beurling? Yes I have. When caught by the Bf 109s, many pilots found themselves flying for their lives using all helpful manoeuvres. Canadian George "Buzz" Beurling developed an evasive action when he, upon being attacked from behind, pulled the stick extremely hard, causing the Spitfire to enter a violent stall, flick over and spin. The manoeuvre was so quick and rough that it was impossible to follow, but only very few pilots ever learned to use it. "Buzz" Beurling was as good a shooter as he was a pilot: he became the top ace of the 1942 Malta campaign with 27 victories to his credit. Rumours said that he once shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with only two bullets! Beurling was eventually creditted with 30+ victories. He spent time in Britain after his time on Malta. He did most of his combat while he was in the RAF. After his time on Malta the Canadian government decided that they wanted him in the RCAF, and they got their way. Seems to me he earned his decorations while with the RAF. He did not get along with the RCAF, and their strict way of attacking the enemy. It was much different fighting from Britain than from Malta. Thing got so bad that he was allowed to resign his commission in the RCAF and revert to civilian life. Very rare and very strange. I don't think that the claim that he used only two bullets to defeat an ME-109 is true. He certainly didn't make that claim. There is/was a mystery concerning his death in a small aircraft that crashed in Italy while he was on his way to Isreal to fly and fight some more. IIRC he is buried in Isreal. He was some times referred to as Screwball Beurling because the stongest swear word that he used was "screwball". He didn't drink booze or smoke. Very strange indeed. http://spitfiresite.com/history/spit...e-of-malta.htm Absolutely agree with you. Discipline, or the lack of it, got him into trouble most of the time and the RCAF thought that they were going to tame him as it were . . . NOT!! He almost certainly kept his unit adjutant working overtime. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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Jacques & Laurie schrieb:
Question: Anyone ever hear of George "Buzz" Beurling? When caught by the Bf 109s, many pilots found themselves flying for their lives using all helpful manoeuvres. Canadian George "Buzz" Beurling developed an evasive action when he, upon being attacked from behind, pulled the stick extremely hard, causing the Spitfire to enter a violent stall, flick over and spin. The manoeuvre was so quick and rough that it was impossible to follow, but only very few pilots ever learned to use it. Im doing fine with "Sturmovik" and discovered the same action as very effective evasion, with a little disadvantage, that you loose lots of Energy. If you first step in the rudder, Stall can be provoked faster. Some Fighters have a little tendency of stalling in a flatspin with no possibility (for me) to regain control again, as the I-16 or the P47. The flight model is told to be the most accurate of all sims. If your oponent is aware enough (or just knows you and your special tricks) and just pulls up with a turn to watch, he can wait until you regain control and decide getaway direction and attack again with energy advantage, while meanwhile you had to keep most of your concentration to regain control from stall. Loose sight, loose fight. If it would have been a widespread procedure, it would have been well known by the german pilots and soon will have been given up I guess. "Buzz" Beurling was as good a shooter as he was a pilot: he became the top ace of the 1942 Malta campaign with 27 victories to his credit. Rumours said that he once shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 with only two bullets! The ability of hitting and the coolness not to fight witout advantage makes you the ace. http://spitfiresite.com/history/spit...e-of-malta.htm Thx for the intresting link. |
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