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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Basvarken on July 05, 2009, 01:06:06 PM
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Somebody please grab this one. Price is still very low!
White Triumph with cracked headstock on Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/1977-GIBSON-LES-PAUL-TRIUMPH-BASS-GUITAR-MADE-IN-USA_W0QQitemZ260439490010QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item3ca3673dda&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1205%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50)
(http://i22.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/56/17/7193_3.JPG)
(http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/001/56/17/8a8d_3.JPG)
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I have been watching that one............................little short on $ though :sad:
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That'll make a nice add to someone's collection. That crack isn't bad at all!
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wow! 800$ for white (yellow in this case) Thriumph is a very good price. Even with that crack.
Seems like some good basses are being sold for very little money these days.
The financial crisis in the US must be really bad.
Too bad I only saw this one after the auction was finished.
He didn't ship outside the US anyway.
Also good I didn't see it because I just bought a new 1977 F***er Precision. I had some money because I sold my '68 EB-3. Sorry guys :).
Have to change my avatar now.
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had some money because I sold my '68 EB-3. Sorry guys :).
Have to change my avatar now.
Much sadness about selling the EB-3 :sad:
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You understand we are going to have you expelled because of that Barend?
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I am sorry for saying the F word. I except the concequences :).
But I still have my black G-3. From the 6 Gibsons that I have owned that is the only one that stayed.
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Can't we have a special avatar for barend where he is in striped clothing behind bars? Fender jail ender. :mrgreen:
You're under probation re that G-3. No silly moves now! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Yes, I realize that I have to watch my steps now. From now on I will move very carefully and will look at at least 10 Gibson basses on Ebay each day.
Please throw stones at me if I ever want sell my G-3.
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:mrgreen:
We'll put those fours screws that hold the Fender neck to good use too. Forever you will then be in close, bolt-on contact with your beloved alder (or ash).
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/24/article-0-05E63C6B0000044D-500_468x286.jpg)
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And what's next? Stealing his bike? Bombing hos city?
Uwe enjoying punishing a fellow Dutchman is a bit scary. Do you Germans never stop?
:mrgreen:
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Well Chris, the man is a defector...
It's nöt like we enjoy doing zis, but examples mu(s)st be set.
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The Great Defector. Great song by Irish (or Scottish?) band Bell X1. Go and listen to it!
(yep, this thread can go off topic into experimental US military aircrafts breaking the sound barrier in 3, 2, 1.. NOW!)
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Well Chris, the man is a defector...
Himmel, it's nöt like we enjoy doing zis, but examples mu(s)st be set.
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I do own a Cat o' Nine tails................ 8)
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How many bands are there named after US military aircraft???
U2
Bell X1
SR71
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Our EP was called '71' cos that was on the pic of the American Military Aircraft on the cover;) Nothing to do with the SR.
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"I do own a Cat o' Nine tails................"
Yes, Mark, you could be my Luftwaffenhelferin.
(http://www.coolaggregator.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/414dsc_5989a_3x4.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/21/article-1099442-02DE5108000005DC-953_468x313.jpg)
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"I do own a Cat o' Nine tails................"
Yes, Mark, you could be my Luftwaffenhelferin.
Jawohl! Mein Gibsongruppenfuhrer!
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:mrgreen:
We'll put those fours screws that hold the Fender neck to good use too. Forever you will then be in close, bolt-on contact with your beloved alder (or ash).
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/24/article-0-05E63C6B0000044D-500_468x286.jpg)
I would rather be crucified with a Gibson neck than a F****r neck. F****r necks are more stable with less chances of headstock break.
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All I said was that that Gibson was good enough for Jehovah... :o
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How many bands are there named after US military aircraft???
U2
Bell X1
SR71
Captain Lockhead & The Star Fighters
B-52's
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How many bands are there named after US military aircraft???
U2
Bell X1
SR71
My band!
The Nasty Habits was the name of a B-17G based at Deenenthorpe, U.K. 1944-45, I first saw the name and liked it while reading Roger Freeman's "The Mighty Eighth"
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I've done some undercover research to confirm Mark's allegations. The truth is: His B-17 was gunned down by German flak over Austria after which he took Geneva Convention quarters in Stalag Luft. With too much time on his hands there (though he made quite a career playing the female lead roles in the camp theater group, hence the nickname "camp sister"), he founded a POW band called like his crashed plane, quickly making the acquaintance of likewise downed RAF airman Nick Simper who had crashlanded with his DP Mk 1. You want evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9O3U-QIlig
See, all is well that ends well, no, not in anal sex, but in Deep Purple.
Uwe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0CbIwRd1Q
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Doh! How the hell did I forget the B-52s? They definitely altered my musical tastes in the early 80s.
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I've done some undercover research to confirm Mark's allegations. The truth is: His B-17 was gunned down by German flak over Austria after which he took Geneva Convention quarters in Stalag Luft. With too much time on his hands there (though he made quite a career playing the female lead roles in the camp theater group, hence the nickname "camp sister"), he founded a POW band called like his crashed plane, quickly making the acquaintance of likewise downed RAF airman Nick Simper who had crashlanded with his DP Mk 1. You want evidence:
See, all is well that ends well, no, not in anal sex, but in Deep Purple.
Uwe
Shhhhh..........Uwe!
I was the most popular "sister" in camp ;)
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I've posted this before...
ANYBODY VANT TO BUY A SCHTARFIGHTER...?
THEN BUY AN ACRE OF GROUND, UND VAIT...
(Bob Calvert)
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(http://i25.tinypic.com/ftzvhd.jpg)
We can't forget this classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-z64G3tvU
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Love it!
I count myself lucky to have seen B.O.C. way back in the day, they pulled that song off great live.
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I love BOC.No way of ever getting to see them unfortunately. Used to bash Some Enchanted Evening to death as a teenager on my record player and tape deck in my car.
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I saw them thrice. Twice after the drummer Bouchard brother had left and once after his bass playing brother had left too by which time they had become something of a cabaret act unfortunately.
But in their prime, BÖC were like no other US or UK hard rock band. Slightly demented thinking man's metal. The way those five musicians meshed, Bloom's sardonic voice and stage appearance, Buck Dharma's almost westcoastish fluid melodicism in his solos and songs, Allen Lanier's NYC existentialist cool, drummer boy Bouchard's songwriting and bass boy Bouchard's inventive and melodic bass playing, was very special.
They could go effortlessly from something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75bQlq4ewng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjl-FODymg&feature=related
to something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-_YONQnS8
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrd2xf5DIlU&feature=related
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krC6SY5b1A
Very varied (perhaps too varied which is why superstardom eluded them), yet no one ever sounded like them.
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I have been restricted to only 3 of their albums unfortunately.
S.E.E.
Cultosaurus Erectus
Agents of fortune
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Of their later works "Fire of unknown Origin" is their masterpiece, every song a winner, of the earlier stuff "Secret treaties", middle (S.E.E. period) period: Spectres, more a sophisticated pop than a hard rock album, but elegant and cool. Revölution by Night, which followed "Fire ...", is a strong follow up (if you ignore the electronic Simmons drums that are all over it, courtesy of their lighting manager suddenly becoming their drummer) though by then they were commercially in decline.
S.E.E has been lovingly remastered a few years ago with a multitude of extra live tracks.
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A fan here s well. I remember playing the black & white LP to death way back when.
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Actually, I have secret treaties in my car atm. Forgot about that one.
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I saw them at my very first concert back in '76 - yes, the summer of "Don't Fear the Reaper". That was all I knew about them at the time. I don't really remember how they were, I was just waiting for KISS to come on. DESTROYER with the full stage set! I later read that Peter's giant cat statues got ripped off that night.
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I saw them 3 times, right after Secret Treaties ( A fave album of mine!) and once more at Seattle's Paramount. One time on the University of Washington campus when UFO (with Schenker) opened for them.
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And a fave of mine from Iron Maiden............. ;D
Memphis Belle clips included.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoJ2ZRK3M34
And Aces High with Steve Harris playing a custom Thunderbird clone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GghCs_C65v0
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"ME-262" could almost pass for an old Alice Cooper song. I saw BOC on their very first tour. Buck Dharma was playing LEFT-handed at that time. The fact that he's switched since then could make him one of the best guitarists in rock.
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I never got to see them live but was attracted to them after I heard the On Your Feet Or On Your Knees live record. My high school band back in the late 1970's covered the version of Born To Be Wild on that live record as well as Sinful Love from Agents. I too like their later period stuff (Fire, Revolution and even Imaginos!).
My old High School friend now builds custom guitars and names them after BOC songs. The bass he made for me is called "Black Blade."
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I used to etch the BOC symbol on all my work tools - saw them dozens of times from '77 up until the "Monsters Of Rock" disaster gig - several set of pics - I've slowly been getting all the CD's and still have all the original vinyl, even some quad releases...
I think Joe Bouchard (now on guitar) plays with Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith these days...?
I still play the recordings excessively when the mood takes me...
Nugent did a song called "Tailgunner"
Slightly further off topic but Saxon's "747" song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8SE2m2GCeY
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Here ya go Kenny...........This just flew over my house ;)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/trains2009.jpg)
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(exceptionally nerdy voice with round "Harry Potter" glasses, broken, of course...) Hmmm... Air China Cargo... looks like it might be a 747-409F, might be wrong of course... ;D
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...........the camera's making him look farther away than he really is, in Des Moines we identfy landing aircraft by the tread pattern of the tires.
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Ah... a wide angle lens... 8)
In my apprentice days, my task whilst on "American Minors" (no, nothing illegal, before anyone chirps in!) was to climb up the wheels, step onto the oleo supports, drag myself up onto the door (trying to avoid the Skydrol, vainly) and change the internal failed lamps, as required... the inner pair of wheels have a stowage area great enough that I could only just reach the covers (and I'm just an inch shorter than you, Mark) - about 5 in each bay...
Another fun filled job I had was refilling any gearbox oil on P&W engines... once had to put in 18 quarts after we changed one in a blizzard, with the cans sticking to my hands; couldn't open the cans with my gloves on...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/US/1981JT9D.jpg)
Taking a JT9D for a spin...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/US/1981KminConcordespilotseate.jpg)
Wishing I could have flown on her...
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I think the "aircraft person" in you would enjoy living where I do, it's a constant parade.......
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I'd never get anything done, Mark... 8)
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After awhile you don't notice them so much............It's really the sound, or a different sound that causes me to look up and notice anymore.................DC-8's at 105% on takeoff, Hell Yeah!
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Growing up an Airforce Brat I used to love the sounds of the different aircraft. The C5A has a drone all its own and there is nothing like hearing a B52 going over your head. I can even remember the old F100, 104, 111's and F4's. Then there were the prop planes........
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i grew up on air force bases around new zealand.i remember an airshow at whenuapai, must have been about 1966 ,an f104 starfighter flew overhead at about 100 feet i nearly filled my 8 year old pants.what a noise. probably why i put together my bi amp bass rig of the apocolypse in later life.
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I'm guilty too. I grew up in Katherine Northern Territory at Tindal air base . Australias main northern Airbase. Used to climb around on top of C130's, F111's Sky Hawks and even a canberra Bomber such was Australia's military security in the mid 70's.
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Heathrow's flight path was my birthright... Boeing 707's, 727's and 737's, DC8's, Convair CV880's and 990's, Comet's and Caravelle's, and then the props/turboprops... Viscounts', Vanguards, an occasional DC7 or Connie although they were getting rare in the 60's... the first Pan-Am 747 in '69... and Concorde being a brand-new bird when I started with British Airways in 1976...
The only way you can experience what Concorde (oh why oh why did you Americans "cry-shy" of such a beautiful bird...? just because she was not American...? :sad:) was like, both visually and physically (and 4 Olympus engines at 110% with afterburners was a physical experience...!) whilst standing at the end of the runway is to try and talk to a friendly USAF buddy and watch a B1...
Ohhh, that smell... 8)
I have and always will have aviation fuel in my veins and the smell of burnt kerosine will forever turn my head... just could not stand working on "bits" of aircraft in the centre of a hanger with no daylight...
My treat as a kid was the occasional Vulcan doing "touch-and-go's" whilst visiting family on the home Island, no afterburners but a "howl" all of their own...
(http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/vulcan1.jpg)
... and they would low-fly in "radar avoidance" exercises, a couple of hundred feet above the house... no "tyre-tread" for recognition, Mark... ;)
ps
a work buddy (ex RAF engine fitter) used to service RAF Phantoms and WGAF Starfighters (his fave, for the "sound" as well...!). Last flying Starfighter I saw was WGAF and a Belgium AF at Biggin Hill in the early 70's...
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That is a cool pic!
A recently deceased motorcycle buddy of mine, who was an engineer for BSA/Triumph in the late '60s and early '70s, lied about his age and flew F4 Corsairs in Korea when he was 17.
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Ohhh, that smell...
I have and always will have aviation fuel in my veins and the smell of burnt kerosine will forever turn my head... just could not stand working on "bits" of aircraft in the centre of a hanger with no daylight...
This explains a lot!
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The Vulcan pic brings back some memories of the airshow at McChord AFB in Tacoma, Wa. that I went to several times as a child...........Thanks!
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Neil Smith is a big-time realtor in Connecticut these days (I think he got the old Alice Cooper mansion, which later burned down). Dunaway has The Dennis Dunaway Project, but no Joe Bouchard. I've got their Bones From The Yard release of a few years back.
Dunaway and Smith were featured as the rhythm section for Buck Dharma's Flat Out solo release.
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Mark, does being the only aviation fuel-hungry, warbird-loving and model train collecting drag queen ON EARTH ever make you feel, well, different from the other girls? :mrgreen:
We wouldn't want you any other way. :rimshot:
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We wouldn't want you any other way. :rimshot:
Hear hear :)
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Mark, does being the only aviation fuel-hungry, warbird-loving and model train collecting drag queen ON EARTH ever make you feel, well, different from the other girls? :mrgreen:
We wouldn't want you any other way. :rimshot:
Ahhh........Yes,
I'm all of that and more, you forgot the Thunderbirds. They are, (quoting Twilight) "my own personal brand of heroine".
I'm quite different than my "sisters" ;D
Thank You, Herr Moderator and All ;)
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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/ (http://joebouchard.com/)
a link to Mr Bouchards site...
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...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1050.jpg)
a rather fancy Greek "SLUF"...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1034.jpg)
posing with a B1...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1086.jpg)
a rather rare American bird...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1100.jpg)
another rather fancy Greek...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1152.jpg)
T'birds of another feather...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various2004.jpg)
Arrows and Spit's...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various2073.jpg)
I'm a sucker for "BIG" birds...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1221.jpg)
the end of another era...?
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1018.jpg)
the "Red Arrows" started life in numerous teams and were yellow at the very start, flying Gnats belonging to a team called the "Yellowjackets"...
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/AVIATION/2007various1223.jpg)
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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Those greeks are fancy, thats for sure.
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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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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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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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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. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/2009GeneseoAirShow063.jpg)
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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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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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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:
(http://combat-asylum.com/uploads/downloads/images/2008/05/4019_f4u.jpg)
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Thats ok We captured a Fw 190 when a disoriented pilot landed at a Allied field thinking he was home!
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: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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I like the 'we' and 'you' parts here:)
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I like the 'we' and 'you' parts here:)
This made me laugh too 8)
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By all accounts "you" should give it back! You made a mockery of its beautiful "splinter" camouflage fin. :-\
(http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8020-7/capturedfw190_red.jpg)
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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...