Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Gloster F.5/34: Almost the British Zero?" video.

  1. I'm more surprised that you still have milkmen. Poor mite is not going to be able to follow in daddy's foot steps. Reminds me of the old joke about a couple who have just moved to a different city. One morning just after they had moved the husband comes back into the kitchen, having just picked the milk bottles up of the doorstep, when he turns to his wife and says. 'that milkman must have one hell of a milk round.' 'Why do you say that,' asked his wife. 'Well,' said her husband. 'That's the same milkman we had where we used to live.' 'And that's 90 miles away.'
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  2.  @direktorpresident  Funnily that's what she said.
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  3. I just looked up both the Gloster F.5 and the Mitsubishi A6M and they are remarkably similar. The F.5 is a bit slower but only has a 9 cylinder engine compared to the 14 cylinders of the A6M. You have to wonder what difference the extra 5 cylinders would have made as he F.5 had a top speed of 316 MPH whereas the A6M could make 331 MPH. It may, like the A6M, have made an excellent naval aircraft, assuming it is not used with the British Pacific fleet. The US did have some difficulty recognising none America aircraft.
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