On Aug 21, 9:24?pm, Rob Arndt wrote:
So, they were replaced with better Spits and Mustangs in the long run.
The Avia S-199 Czech surplus manufactures along with the inexperienced
Israeli pilots are definately not the same as German 109G and Ks
operated by Luftwaffe Experten... or are you that stupid???

Yet they performed well enough to halt many Arab attacks and were
Israels first fighters. So they have their place in history.

Nothing you can say can detract from that.

Rob

I don't need to: the Czechs said it all when they gave the S-199 the
nickname "Mule". Real ringing endorsement of its flying qualities.
Fortunately, the Israelis hired a squadron of ex-RAF and USAAF
volunteers who could fly anything.