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Title: RARE AIRCRAFT
Post by: RATTFINK on September 18, 2008, 10:27:33 AM

Enjoy!  :salute

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/UNITED%20STATES.htm

Title: Re: RARE AIRCRAFT
Post by: OntosMk1 on September 18, 2008, 10:50:41 AM

awesome find Ratfink!!!  :salute

Title: Re: RARE AIRCRAFT
Post by: zuii on September 18, 2008, 11:41:25 AM

AMAZING! love the 51 with cannons!  that would be ,,,,hmm  fun!

Title: Re: RARE AIRCRAFT
Post by: lyric1 on September 19, 2008, 07:14:44 AM

This is the very same b17 that they are rebuilding here in Urbana Ohio. (http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5633/aa22uv3.th.jpg) (http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aa22uv3.jpg)    http://www.b17project.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Title: Re: RARE AIRCRAFT
Post by: MiloMorai on September 19, 2008, 07:29:03 AM

Quote from: zuii on September 18, 2008, 11:41:25 AM

AMAZING! love the 51 with cannons!  that would be ,,,,hmm  fun!

The RAF received 93 and the USAAF 55 of the P-51/Mustang IA. It was in this a/c that Flt Lt Hollis of Pasadena Calif became the 1st Mustang ace on June 11 1943. Many were still flying til well after D-Day. The 55 American P-51s were fitted with cameras and assigned to the MTO.