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Title: strange planes
Post by: nastee on September 16, 1999, 10:50:00 PM
I was going through the USAF Museum web-page and came across this german Helicopter. Yes i said helicopter used in WW2. It was a Focke-Achgelis FA-330 "sandpiper".
It was not armed, it was used as a scout mostly on subs. they would connect it with a cable and telephone. pretty cool
~nastee~
Title: strange planes
Post by: nastee on September 17, 1999, 10:48:00 PM
If interested check out the USAF wright-Patterson museum page http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/pursuit.htm (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/pursuit.htm)
 http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/bomber2.htm (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/bomber2.htm)
 http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/bomber3.htm (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/bomber3.htm)

lots of cool stuff in here
Title: strange planes
Post by: Boroda on September 19, 1999, 01:48:00 PM
Nastee, USAF museum pages have too much lies to consider them a reliable source of information.

What really made me angry was the following quote: "During the Korean War, gunners on the "Command Decision" shot down five Soviet-built MiG-15 jet fighters.".

Damn, NO MiG-15 were shot down by B-29 gunners in Korea AT ALL!!! More to say: B-29s ballistic calculators were UNABLE to track targets as fast as MiG-15s!!!

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