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Offline Reschke

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« Reply #75 on: February 26, 2004, 08:35:44 PM »
I gotta love my F4U-1A....The paint scheme and all specifically for "The Jolly Rogers"





Also the 262 and the A-10 but most of all I have always loved seeing F-4 Phantoms and hearing them scream by overhead.
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Offline Higgins

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« Reply #76 on: February 27, 2004, 08:29:31 AM »
I have a cd of "Black 6" that was made after it was first restored and flown.  It has start-up, run-up, taxi, take-off, flight, ect outside the plane and then recordings of cockpit sounds during the same flight.  It also has about 15 min talk about the known history,  restoration ect of the plane.   At the time it was the only Bf-109 currently flight worthy in the world.  I know someone was restoring an E model for flight during the perioud though.

A year or so after I bought this cd I saw in the news that the plane was crashed.  I think it was ground-looped if I remember right, maybe not.  Anyhow I heard it was going to be re-restored and put up in a museum not to be flown again.  Grunhertz is the first person I've seen mention the plane since then.

If I can dig up the cd and someone wants a copy let me know.  Someone in my squad ripped it and used the flight files for FB and AH sounds.  

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« Reply #77 on: February 27, 2004, 10:28:49 AM »
Spit XIV ->most beutiful
FW190A5-> most lethal looking
Mosquito
ME410 Hornisse
Tigercat

F86Sabre

Hawker Hunter

F4 Phantom

Rafale
Su-27


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Offline FBYeoman

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fine! call my P47N ugly, but nothing beats this for stealth
« Reply #78 on: February 27, 2004, 11:32:18 PM »

Offline manticor

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« Reply #79 on: March 01, 2004, 04:05:02 PM »
the mig 29 baby!!!!  HOOOOAH!!!


Offline manticor

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« Reply #80 on: March 01, 2004, 04:09:34 PM »
no wait this is :)



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Re: fine! call my P47N ugly, but nothing beats this for stealth
« Reply #81 on: March 01, 2004, 08:43:17 PM »
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Ahh. He did discover the landing gear in the design. Although he did the rabbit-ear fold  wrong -- you take them all the way to the point at the front of the plane. And you don't cut off any paper at the rear; that's all wing surface. You just make the wingtip folds a little further in, with the rear angled a little in, so you get a venturi effect, then fold them in half back out, which gives you a built-in elevator compensation.

Back in high school, with a throw from a basketball court, I lost one of those over an auditorium that was more than 100 yards away; it was airborne for at least two minutes before we lost sight of it.

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« Reply #82 on: March 10, 2004, 04:00:22 PM »
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One plane that seems to catch everyones imagination for some reason is the PBY Catalina.   I would think that might be in the transport class/flying boat.    I dont know that it would be useful in AH but It would be on my neat to see list.


maybe as a carrier based amphibious troop transport ......

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« Reply #83 on: March 11, 2004, 03:05:01 AM »
as long as we're just talkin' about looks in this thread, this aircraft is pure poetry in motion...