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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Memphis Belle
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Date: 25 Oct 90 14:55:34 GMT
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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

> From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
> *>Incidentally, the German aircraft in "633 Squadron" look like real
> *>Messerschmidts, but 108's, not 109's.  The Bf 108 was a light transport
> *>aircraft, not a fighter.  It looks a bit like a Bf 109, but with a
> 
> I haven't seen pictures of the Me108 "Taifun", but
> it supposedly had a pretty ellitpical wing like 
> the Spitfire. R.J. Mitchell was supposedly influenced
> by this. Taifuns were popular as personal transports,
> so I hear. But if Me109s are scarce, wouldn't 108s 
> be even scarcer?

A Bf-109 (even though more than 30,000 were made) isn't very useful
other than as a fighter.

A lot more people would find a Taifun (Bf-108) or a Bonanza or a
Navion to be useful.  So a larger percentage would be maintained
and saved over the years.

Also, the Taifun was built in France for several years as the Nord.

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