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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 10, 2013 8:36:50 GMT 12
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Post by beagle on Jan 10, 2013 10:19:19 GMT 12
I thought it looked much better than the original from 1945 actually.
I am trying to think what that british cargo plane is with the ramp down but tail wheel off the ground.
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Post by Bruce on Jan 10, 2013 11:54:11 GMT 12
The RAF used several captured German transports (Junkers Ju290s or Ju 252s) for moving enemy aircraft from Europe for evaluation immediately postwar. Nothing in the RAF inventory had a suitable rear loading door - the experience with the captured German transports started the allies thinking when it came to designing postwar military airlifters.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 10, 2013 13:50:06 GMT 12
252 is correct.If they'd made it a high wing and put on nose gear they would have had a C130.  |
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Post by beagle on Jan 10, 2013 14:51:07 GMT 12
the positions of the engines look different on each wing. or is the chch heat getting to me
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 10, 2013 15:17:10 GMT 12
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Post by beagle on Jan 10, 2013 15:48:51 GMT 12
gotcha
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Post by TS on Jan 10, 2013 19:36:40 GMT 12
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 10, 2013 20:11:45 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 10, 2013 20:26:37 GMT 12
The worst colour schemes on warbirds I have seen are the Charles Church Spitifre in Ford paint, the CAF Wildcat in mock FAA colours, and the pink P-40. Thankfully there are no longer in those colours.
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Post by Luther Moore on Jan 10, 2013 20:38:42 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 10, 2013 21:05:40 GMT 12
I that the personal transport enterage of the Doctor Teeth Band from the Muppets?
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 10, 2013 21:41:29 GMT 12
The Electric Mayhem, Dave ;-)
And bad news-good news on Sue Parrish's pink P-40: still pink, but now static.
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Post by Luther Moore on Jan 10, 2013 21:45:00 GMT 12
I that the personal transport enterage of the Doctor Teeth Band from the Muppets? Not sure, but the person who came up with that paint job is a Muppet. |
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Post by baz62 on Jan 11, 2013 11:58:37 GMT 12
The worst colour schemes on warbirds I have seen are the Charles Church Spitifre in Ford paint, the CAF Wildcat in mock FAA colours, and the pink P-40. Thankfully there are no longer in those colours. Which Spitfire was that Dave? Ford paint? Was it the two-blue Two seater? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 11, 2013 13:06:37 GMT 12
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 11, 2013 14:56:33 GMT 12
I believe that one is still around - repainted - and he was killed in his first "production line" Mk.V, I think it was EE602? EDIT Mk.Vc "EE606": www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1373034/ |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 11, 2013 15:45:30 GMT 12
OK. I knew he was sadly killed in a Spitfire. I didn't know he had several.
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 11, 2013 16:10:14 GMT 12
From what I know he set up a production line to restore/build them, however his death put an end to the programme. petera could perhaps fill us in on the story when he returns from Myanmar?
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Post by ams888 on Jan 18, 2013 19:57:08 GMT 12
This would have to be the WORST restoration paint job ever. Mike Spaulding spent $1.5M on this plane and then for some reason decided that he better combine a desert colour scheme with the markings of both Sqn. Leader Richard Cresswell and Geoffrey Atherton. What was he thinking?  |
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