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Offline betty

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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2011, 05:29:21 PM »
awesome!! ty for sharing waffle!!!  :rock :salute
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2011, 05:36:05 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on October 06, 2011, 09:15:48 AM
Junkers 290 "Alles Kaput", 


Interesting story about this plane it was booby trapped with several pounds of explosive hidden in the wing by the Germans.


When it was finally scrapped & in the process of dismantling it they found the charge.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_290
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2011, 06:47:01 PM »
Quote from: lyric1 on October 06, 2011, 05:36:05 PM
Interesting story about this plane it was booby trapped with several pounds of explosive hidden in the wing by the Germans.


When it was finally scrapped & in the process of dismantling it they found the charge.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_290
Why would they do such a thing? Kinda sad most of the amazing german tech was scrapped. Also I didn't see any 109s.
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2011, 07:48:15 PM »
I don't see why they scrapped that stuff. Is it like someone said: "yeah, none of this will be historically important in 50 years. Crush it, Dave!"
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2011, 07:55:37 PM »
Quote from: Raptor05121 on October 06, 2011, 07:48:15 PM
I don't see why they scrapped that stuff. Is it like someone said: "yeah, none of this will be historically important in 50 years. Crush it, Dave!"
Most likely.

Some one had to pay for the up keep & storage or do you sell it for a few bucks for scrap metal.

Scrap yard won that battle.
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Offline donna43

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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2011, 08:42:36 PM »
Quote from: Slate on October 06, 2011, 09:22:39 AM
 Great film. :salute  Amazing all the German stuff they captured and transported back to the US. Missiles V1 and V2 (That sucker was BIG). What those Gyro/copters were I don't know.

That one with the open cockpit was used on the U-Boats to get a better view of the horizon for spotting ships.
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2011, 09:18:04 PM »
That helicopter in the film was Flettner FL 282 "Kolibri".

The one used with the U-boats is Focke-Angelis FA-330 below.


Saw it at Duxford in person. Certainly wouldn't like to be the pilot when the U-boat needs to dive fast...
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2011, 09:21:04 PM »
Great video!
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2011, 09:44:26 PM »
Quote from: lyric1 on October 06, 2011, 05:36:05 PM
Interesting story about this plane it was booby trapped with several pounds of explosive hidden in the wing by the Germans.


When it was finally scrapped & in the process of dismantling it they found the charge.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_290


At garber, one of the guys was unbolting a bolt on the DO335 and asked for someone else to hold a wrench on the "other side" of the bolt because all were just turning around and around without loosening.

The other guy got access and said "dude, these bolts have wires coming out of them".

I was climbing the other side to put a wrench on the bolts on other side so he could zip them off faster with an impact and noticed the other guys were quickly walking away so I did the same.

The bolts were still wired in to the egress system.
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Offline jedi25

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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2011, 10:40:47 PM »

Holy crap...great find Waffle and thanks for sharing this awesome amazing video..

Did you guys the copters..WOW













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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2011, 10:53:44 PM »
Quote from: Raptor05121 on October 06, 2011, 07:48:15 PM
I don't see why they scrapped that stuff. Is it like someone said: "yeah, none of this will be historically important in 50 years. Crush it, Dave!"

I'd imagine most folks at the time were thinking 'its over' and lets get on with our lives.  You could ask that question regarding all kinds of stuff that we'd like to have had the chance to see.  I've always wondered why at least one of the Pearl Harbor battleships wasn't saved.  Consider they used Saratoga as a target.  Talk about a historic carrier.  Enterprise as well went to the scrap yard.

A lot of those birds did survive though.
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2011, 12:32:15 AM »
 :salute kool i wonder if all those folks where amazed at the aircraft there? i missed likly missed it, but what happened to those planes and things after the show?
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2011, 08:36:56 AM »
A lot of the captured stuff is on display at Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport in Virginia.  I have been ther 4 or 5 times, they also have a Space Shuttle and are soon to get a second one.  So many things to see there.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/objectsondisplay.cfm?type=all&loc=uhc
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2011, 10:27:36 AM »
Very cool!  Thanks for sharing! :salute
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Re: Airshow video (1945)
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2011, 10:44:01 AM »
What version Me-262 was that with only 2 guns in the nose?

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