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October 21, 2020 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Your Favourite Control Column Stick/Yoke/Grip! #766259

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Hello Swifterr

See it remained unsold on Ebay. Would you mind contacting me at either airmanual@hotmail.com or aircraftgunsights@gmail.com. I may very well be interested.

Enjoy your day,

Laurent

By: Swifterr – 5th October 2020 at 06:53 – Edited 5th October 2020 at 06:55

Gentlemen: In case any members of this forum are interested, I’ve decided to sell what is probably the rarest control wheel in my collection. It’s from a WWII vintage Saab B-18b, a twin-engine mediium bomber. This control wheel takes many cues from the design of German WWII bombers like the HE-111 and JU-88. This is the link to the auction on US Ebay:

March 29, 2018 at 3:03 am in reply to: Seen On Ebay 2018 #818837

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Bargain of the year?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-Aircraft-Spade-Grip-/323155805201?hash=item4b3d964411%3Ag%3ADiQAAOSwRlhar-To&nma=true&si=agTxNGNEHufimmXlJ5A17kOMACc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

November 30, 2017 at 4:24 am in reply to: Mitsubishi Betty Reconstruction In Japan #799646

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And very interesting to learn that Mr Harada is now restoring a KI-43 Oscar. Will be one of the very very few preserved/restored once done.

Understand most of it comes from Australia (recovered by the RAAF from PNG in the early 80s.

Laurent

June 15, 2017 at 5:00 am in reply to: "Tony" in NZ – Jerry Yagen's Ki-61 arrives #814195

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Thanks for the info and photos.

BTW, there are still more that could be recovered before it’s too late.

Laurent

June 14, 2017 at 3:25 am in reply to: "Tony" in NZ – Jerry Yagen's Ki-61 arrives #814641

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Hello.

Project or projects ? See at least two fuselages + major parts of a third one.

Laurent

December 30, 2015 at 5:11 am in reply to: Seen On Ebay (2015) #879910

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Belgian Hurricane or Battle ?

October 23, 2015 at 10:23 am in reply to: How Low Can You Go (2015) #847492

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Probably not the lowest you will see but the beauty of the plane involved more than compensate.

Laurent

https://youtu.be/yFPgur_cUmA

April 25, 2015 at 8:02 am in reply to: Holy crap they've got a Harrier live #926468

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Be good if you could post the video for those many of us not on Facebook to see. Otherwise we have no idea what you are talking about. Thanks.

Somebody surely having some fun taxying Harrier XV808 on the grass. When or where i have no idea.

Laurent

April 9, 2015 at 2:24 pm in reply to: What surviving aircraft would be candidates for the RAF Museum #856110

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British irony 😀

Moggy

Aaaah. That famous British humour!

I would also vote for the Maryland. Even if i personnally find it would look even nicer in French colors.

April 9, 2015 at 2:00 pm in reply to: What surviving aircraft would be candidates for the RAF Museum #856221

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Only when we get some real ex-RAF professionals in charge instead of some museum expert.

Moggy

Do you seriously think so?

Us, poor belgians, have had ex Belgian Air Force Colonels in charge of the air & space section of our national army museum for decades. Result : surely one of, if not the most poorly managed air museum in the whole world.

April 8, 2015 at 10:31 am in reply to: SPITFIRE Gun sight, For Sale deserves its own thread #857577

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Why so? Every day we all see hundreds if not thousands of wrongly described items for sale on Ebay.

This one is simply a Navy AA gyro sight (made by the canadians if i remember correctly) and definitely not an aircraft sight.

Best,

Laurent

August 28, 2014 at 6:43 pm in reply to: B-50D Superfortress Parts #895605

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An unusual piece to find at an aviation crash site is this item marked SODA KING SPECIAL (a company now based in South Africa). Did bombers of SAC have this type of thing fitted as standard for crews to use on long range missions?

Rob

Company name is misleading. This is defintely not part of a soda maker machine but simply a part of a life jacket: this cylinder contains a small CO2 bottle used to inflate the maewest if needed.

Laurent

July 12, 2014 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Reggiane 2000 recovered from the sea #861410

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The Flikr album below has a few nice shots of the Reggiane before recovery. Interesting.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53747418@N02/sets/72157631109101240/

Any updates of what happened since recovery.

Laurent

May 27, 2014 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Mk I gunsight #904720

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Hello Enrique,

Guess you’re speaking of the Type I Mark I standard RAF gunsight.

The stadiametric system used in this gunsight (range and span dials) did not change the diameter of the reticle ring but only the space between the inner points of the two horizontal lines of the reticle.

So no panic, your gunsight is not broken.

Laurent

April 7, 2014 at 8:41 pm in reply to: Seafire III PR236 – Photo(s) ? #931570

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Post weekend bump.

Peter, everybody ! Any photo of PR236 to share ?

Cordially,

Laurent
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