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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:51:15 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:51:56 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:52:36 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:53:10 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:54:20 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:55:16 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 7:57:12 PM   
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RE: F6F-5 - 5/30/2009 8:03:25 PM   
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Great photos Nikademus! So there will be Oscar? btw I also think that Dora's camouflage scheme is a strange one. I've never seen any other 190s painted like that, looks more like field impromptu ala IJA.


It didn't look that strange to me.....hmm....now i'm almost wishing i'd picked up that book. The plane has a very very long history.

Yes...Oscar is coming. (popular request!)

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Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:04:43 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:05:36 PM   
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Place in history: The Avro Lancaster was the most successful British bomber aircraft of WWII. The four-engined aircraft was first flown in 1941 and was characterized by its twin-finned tail and large "glasshouse" canopy. It entered service in 1942 with 44 squadron of the RAF in 1942. Operating mostly at night, they delivered 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties against occupied Europe. For its time, the aircraft was fitted with advanced communications, navigation and radar systems. In April 1945, RAF Lancasters took part in Operation Manna to bring food to the starving peoples of occupied Holland. After the war, the Lancaster and a civilian version, the Lancastrian, were used in the Berlin Airlift.

This aircraft: Avro Lancaster TW911 was built as a B. Mk I (FE) to serve with the RAF's Tiger Force in the Far East, but it was completed too late to see operational service. The aircraft was converted for use as a flying test bed for the Armstrong Siddeley Python engine. The aircraft carried out extensive test flying before it was retired to Southend Aircraft Museum, UK in 1968.

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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:06:28 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:07:07 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:07:46 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:08:32 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:09:00 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:11:20 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:11:50 PM   
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RE: FW-190D-13 - 5/30/2009 8:12:19 PM   
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The famous "Yellow 10", the last of her kind.



I wonder if that's just on loan from the Museum of Flight of whether Paul Allen bought it?

It used t belong to the Champlain Fighter Museum and the MoF bought that entire collection about 8 years ago. I saw it in Arizona when it belonged to the Champlain FM.

I need to get up to that museum in Everett. I also want to get to the guys in Everett who are building brand new Me-262s.

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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:13:13 PM   
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RE: FW-190D-13 - 5/30/2009 8:14:05 PM   
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The famous "Yellow 10", the last of her kind.



I wonder if that's just on loan from the Museum of Flight of whether Paul Allen bought it?

It used t belong to the Champlain Fighter Museum and the MoF bought that entire collection about 8 years ago. I saw it in Arizona when it belonged to the Champlain FM.

I need to get up to that museum in Everett. I also want to get to the guys in Everett who are building brand new Me-262s.

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Pretty sure he owns it now. edit. GF verified (she talked to a volunteer extensively while i ran around like an idiot on cafeene snapping photos) Allen owns everything in that hanger.



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RE: FW-190D-13 - 5/30/2009 8:15:30 PM   
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RE: FW-190D-13 - 5/30/2009 8:16:02 PM   
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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:19:07 PM   
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WOW, cool stuff indead, do they have the whole plane or just what we see?

On a holiday trip one year with my GF at the time we happned apon a flying display over the Airfeild at Sydney (BC) theirs a small airmuseum their, and in the circute they had a BearCat a Hellcat, a Spitfire and two other planes that I cant recall at present, but we managed to sneak out onto the grass at the end of the main runway and these planes were flying right over our heads, it was a very cool day.

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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:35:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		just the nose section unfortunatley. He'd need another hanger if he did have the whole thing though!!! That would be awesome! Last week we were downtown and caught the yearly visit of a flyable B-17 over Puget Sound. I wish i had 400.00 to blow. I'd overcome my dislike for flying for that experience......as long as my parachute isn't as vintage as the plane.

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RE: Lancaster.....well sort of. - 5/30/2009 8:35:59 PM   
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he was CO of III./JG53 for a very long time (over two years), but to take over JG26 and paint a JG 53 emblem on his plane, must of went over very well with his men, even more so, when JG26 thought of themselfs as the Elite

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OSCAR! - 5/30/2009 9:00:34 PM   
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RE: OSCAR! - 5/30/2009 9:01:38 PM   
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Place in history: In 1940, the engineers at the Nakajima factory were convinced that planes with heavier armament and better protection were the way of the future. However, Japanese generals were influenced by their recent conquest of China and wanted a new fighter that was lightweight for ground support. Pilots who flew the Oscar thought it handled beautifully, but it was never a very effective fighter because of its slow top speed and limited fire-power. In spite of its drawbacks, the Oscar was used throughout the war in the Pacific, and were responsible for downing a large number of American planes. Ultimately, it was also the mainstay of the Japanese Army's "Special Attack" (Kamikaze) program.

This aircraft: Entering service in January 1943, this Oscar was sent to Truk Island in the Pacific Ocean as part of the 1st and 11th Sentai unit of the Japanese Air Force. Later it served on Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Shortly after the end of the war, this Oscar was found in dense jungle four miles from Vunakanau airfield on Rabaul. The plane had severe front-end damage from its final landing, but was repaired by Japanese soldiers with parts salvaged from a number of other Oscars.

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RE: OSCAR! - 5/30/2009 9:02:34 PM   
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RE: OSCAR! - 5/30/2009 9:03:07 PM   
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RE: OSCAR! - 5/30/2009 9:03:43 PM   
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