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Post by planecrazy on Oct 20, 2020 12:07:04 GMT 12
Great pic's, love the Hudson topside shot!
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 20, 2020 12:49:54 GMT 12
Nice Col.........johnnyfalcon......damn right it is !
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Post by colford on Oct 20, 2020 13:08:30 GMT 12
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 20, 2020 15:29:27 GMT 12
Col, For some reason in both batches some are not opening.............very cool shots BTW
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Oct 20, 2020 16:48:48 GMT 12
Thanks Col. For me, the Hudson has to be the jewel in the Australian warbird community crown
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 20, 2020 16:54:54 GMT 12
They are all opening for me Ando. You computer really has issues with photos sometimes, doesn't it?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 20, 2020 16:56:12 GMT 12
Thanks Col. For me, the Hudson has to be the jewel in the Australian warbird community crown Indeed, the Hudson and the P-40's I reckon. The real workhorses of the Pacific campaign for the RAAF and RNZAF. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 21, 2020 7:50:15 GMT 12
Almost always mention the RNZAF in my commentary with either the Hudson, Wirraway or Boomerang. Would love to see the Boomerang with a Kiwi marked Corsair
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Post by planecrazy on Oct 21, 2020 9:03:30 GMT 12
RAAF Boomerang RNZAF Corsair in formation would be great, would love to see
an ANZAC P40 formation as well, probably possible in the future perhaps?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 21, 2020 11:03:00 GMT 12
Some RNZAF pilots I have met actually flew the Wirraway in Singapore with No. 21 Squadron RAAF. They would get attached to that squadron prior to going onto the Buffaloes (in 1941), because they needed experience in flying a low wing, enclosed cockpit, gear-retracting type before moving onto fighters in those days before the RNZAF replaced Vincents and Gordons with Harvards.
One of the chaps I met even got attacked in his Wirraway by a Zero, and managed to outfly it enough till the Zero ran out of ammo, and then the Japanese pilot flew up beside him, smiling, and waved before peeling off back to Thailand or wherever he'd come from.
Also several Kiwi pilots flew in the RAF's special X Flight, or was it Y Flight, or something like that, flying Wirraways in combat in the desperate defence of Singapore.
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 21, 2020 11:19:14 GMT 12
Y Flight Dave. I have actually seen a B & W pic of one of their aircraft which seemed (from memory) to have carried some type of nose art below the cockpit. Two great reads from the period detailing the mess that was....."Bloody Shambles" and also "Buffalos Over Singapore/Malaya (Just now cannot remember which)"
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Oct 21, 2020 16:16:18 GMT 12
RAAF Boomerang RNZAF Corsair in formation would be great, would love to see an ANZAC P40 formation as well, probably possible in the future perhaps? That used to be a regular occurrence on this side of the ditch with ZK-CAG and ZK-RMH |
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Post by Calum on Oct 28, 2020 13:35:59 GMT 12
Nice light , great shots Colin
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