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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #60 on: July 14, 2009, 11:53:09 AM »
They broke the mold when you came through, Veronica...  ;)

Gary... BDS - the Bouchard Dunnaway Smith Band... 2001 - 2005 ish... 2 cd's, one of them live

http://joebouchard.com/
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Mark, et al... The worlds only flying Vulcan is scheduled to be flying at the RIAT show this weekend, as will a B52... This years theme is NATO, so we get a Rafale and a Typhoon, but no F22 this year, and the 100th year of RN aviation... last time we went we had a B1 and the last non US appearance of Holloman's "Black Sheep" (stealth bombers), and of course, the Thunderbirds, but even they bow-down to the RED ARROWS... ... If I get any good shots I'll post some...

John... are you insinuating that I may have underlying issues... ?  ;D

some shots...

a rather fancy Greek "SLUF"...


posing with a B1...


a rather rare American bird...


another rather fancy Greek...


T'birds of another feather...


Arrows and Spit's...


I'm a sucker for "BIG" birds...


the end of another era...?


the "Red Arrows" started life in numerous teams and were yellow at the very start, flying Gnats belonging to a team called the "Yellowjackets"...


rather bizarely, the oldest flying Sabre-jet is based in the UK, so some T'bird crew could not resist a peek...
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #61 on: July 15, 2009, 12:10:18 AM »
Those greeks are fancy, thats for sure.
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #62 on: July 15, 2009, 04:41:55 AM »
We all have issues..


Love the Corsair II, another fav was the Crusader. Nice P-39 Airicobra, you dont see many of those.
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #63 on: July 15, 2009, 04:48:10 AM »
Quote from: Barklessdog on July 15, 2009, 04:41:55 AM
We all have issues..


Love the Corsair II, another fav was the Crusader. Nice P-39 Airicobra, you dont see many of those.
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Except in Russia where I presume a lot of them should still be spraying pesticides!!! Hardy little plane with great start capabilites at arctic temperatures (hence most of them being shipped to Russia as fighter-bombers), but pretty much hopeless in combat with a FW-190, Me BF 109 or Zero/Zeke.
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #64 on: July 16, 2009, 04:05:42 PM »
Uwe and John, et al... a flying bird, too, that Airacobra... shame she was not in the display, as it was for the USAF 60th...
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #65 on: July 16, 2009, 06:36:41 PM »
Those are great pics Ken ! Last week end my daughter and I went to the Geneseo Air show, held in Geneseo NY. It has been going on since '79 and in all those years I think I might have missed 5. Here is a F4U-4 leaving the flight line, you can get so close to the planes at this show, they are not roped off, I was right by the wing as she taxied out.
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« Reply #66 on: July 17, 2009, 03:48:20 AM »
That gull wing look of the Corsair is always an impressive sight. Ironic, that it didn't have great carrier take-off and landing capabilities at all which is why the Navy stuck mostly with the Hellcat while the Marine Corps used the Corsairs from island landing strips. But once in the air, it was a formidable fighter.
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« Reply #67 on: July 17, 2009, 04:21:34 AM »
The Brits cleared them for carrier duty right away and they loved 'em. The US eventually cleared them for carrier duty in '45 I think.
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« Reply #68 on: July 17, 2009, 04:50:53 AM »
Ha, we captured one of those Brit Corsairs when it got lost over Norway!

CAPTURED CORSAIR:
Corsair JT404 of 1841 squadron. Involved in anti-submarine patrol from HMS Formidable enroute to Scapa after Operation Mascot against the German Battleship Tirpitz, in company with Barracuda of Wing Leader Lt Cdr RS Baker-Falkner. Emergency landing in a field at Sorvag, Hameroy, near Bodo, Norway on 18 July 1944. The pilot Lt Mattholie taken POW and the aircraft captured intact with no damage. The german authorities made attempts to get the pilot to explain how to fold the wings so as to transport the aircraft to Narvik. Aircraft was ferried by boat for further investigation. It is not known if the Corsair was taken to Germany. This was probably the first Corsair captured by the Germans. Aircraft is listed at Rechlin for 1944 under repair.

No historic pic seems to exist though:


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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #69 on: July 17, 2009, 04:55:41 AM »
Thats ok  We captured a Fw 190 when a disoriented pilot landed at a Allied field thinking he was home!
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« Reply #70 on: July 17, 2009, 05:04:26 AM »
 :mrgreen: I think by May 1945 you had captured a few more!!!


"Oooops, wrong landing strip" was always a popular way to obtain "Beuteflugzeuge".  The first intact Thunderbolt the Luftwaffe got its hands on was "given" to it by a disoriented Tuskegee Airman in Italy.  
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #71 on: July 17, 2009, 06:08:35 AM »
I like the 'we' and  'you' parts here:)
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #72 on: July 17, 2009, 06:29:11 AM »
Quote from: Chris P. on July 17, 2009, 06:08:35 AM
I like the 'we' and  'you' parts here:)

This made me laugh too  8)
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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #73 on: July 17, 2009, 07:03:29 AM »
By all accounts "you" should give it back! You made a mockery of its beautiful "splinter" camouflage fin.  :-\

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Re: White Triumph
« Reply #74 on: July 17, 2009, 03:03:57 PM »
Nice one Scott, no chance of getting that close this weekend...!

Got a 3am start for a 6am arrival for a 730am gate for the RIAT show...  :o reputedely the worlds biggest military show...
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