I will be away from the forum until Sunday evening...


Shevin Keedy said:
This was brief but an absolute humdinger:

Football War - Wikipedia https://share.google/gwtF7kHz3tKaB4u3w
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"In June 1969, both countries met in a two-leg 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The first game was held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras' capital, on 8 June 1969. The Salvadoran team was harassed by Honduran fans at their hotel the night before the match. Honduras won 1–0, causing Salvadoran fans to reportedly set fire to the stadium.

The second game was held in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital, on 15 June 1969. Salvadoran fans, seeking vengeance, rioted outside the Honduran team's hotel, leading to several deaths. At the match's start, a dirty rag was flown instead of the Honduran flag. It was won 3–0 by El Salvador. Anti-Salvadoran riots occurred across Honduras following the loss."

Hotel histrionics is nothing new, setting fire to stadiums is gladly not common, but an actual escalation to war some years later based on repatriations and land ownerships.

@Old Blue 2 "The Football War was the last conflict in which piston-engined fighters fought each other" << fascinating fact. Granted I suspect there's a few places that could possibly take that record today.
 

Shevin Keedy said:
This was brief but an absolute humdinger:

Football War - Wikipedia https://share.google/gwtF7kHz3tKaB4u3w
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This is all your fault.

So the football war saw the p51 Mustang used in combat. (this is 1969, the p51 had been developed and rolled out (~1942) in response in wwii to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Japanese Zero) that had been lord of the skies for a while until the yanks got serious. I'm probably wrong, but was the p51 initially based on the RR Merlin that was in the Spitfire? @Old Blue 2 because the Spitfire engines that did the majority of the work fighting the luftwaffe were mass produced in the u.s.
 
Everyone just needs a nice cup of tea.

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Rita_Poon said:
This is all your fault.

So the football war saw the p51 Mustang used in combat. (this is 1969, the p51 had been developed and rolled out (~1942) in response in wwii to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Japanese Zero) that had been lord of the skies for a while until the yanks got serious. I'm probably wrong, but was the p51 initially based on the RR Merlin that was in the Spitfire? @Old Blue 2 because the Spitfire engines that did the majority of the work fighting the luftwaffe were mass produced in the u.s.
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It had an American engine at first. Then Packard was granted a licence to build the Merlin, and put it in the Mustang, and the rest is history...
 
Old Blue 2 said:
It had an American engine at first. Then Packard was granted a licence to build the Merlin, and put it in the Mustang, and the rest is history...
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So the Merlin that was introduced (after development) in 33 and was then refined by 36 superseded what the americans could dream up nearly a decade later.

What a piece of kit!
 

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