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The Okay, hi everybody, so Alex Sell, with the Alexl podcast. Podcast number 110. 110, of course, there's Messia Smith BF 110, the disappointing twin-engined heavy fighter of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War or Zestora was the other name

for it, destroyer, but they thought it would be a compliment to the BF 109. Often, you know, people

say ME 109. It's not an ME-109. It's an MEBF-109. And the 1-10 was the BF-110 but in the end it was

conceived by Gearing and the Luftwaffe as a fighter but in the end it needed

fighter escort to operate successfully later on the war became a successful night

fighter. Jesus fucking Christ.

Is this World War II?

Yes.

Why didn't need an escort to refuel it?

Now just to protect it from other, from Spitfires and Horace.

It wasn't very like agile or anything.

No, it was a, it was a disappointment, really.

They thought it would be out of it.

Because of course, the definition of great World War II era fighter bomber, of course,

is the De Havilland Mosquito, twin mailing engines.

What number did that? Superb machine, it just called it. I mean, it went through many different marks. It was just called the mosquito. I've been to the factory, which was in. Hartfordshire. It develops as a private project by the have London. Okay, fascinating stuff. But you were just in Germany, though, weren't you as well?

Yeah, so I have to say I've said this before.

I don't know how I, you know, it doesn't exactly burnish my left wing credentials,

but I have a predilection to go on the sorts of cruises that are advertised before

midsummer murders on ICV3.

Not Viking.

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