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April 2, 2011 at 6:09 pm in reply to: Female Aviators #2365212

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As an aside, Norway’s first female military pilot, lt.col. Siri Skare, was killed in Afghanistan yesterday. She was one of the seven UN workers slain in the riots caused by the burning of the Quaran by an US “pastor”. Skare got her wings in 1984, and went on to fly P-3 Orions with 333 Sqn. She also flew C-130s with 335 Sqn. I’m sick to my stomach today…

March 26, 2010 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Things to do in Norway #1135644

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Herdla Museum, maybe? 45 kilometers nw of Bergen, Luftwaffe air base during WWII. Not much hardware on display, though, except for the 88mm FlaK.
There is also a bird sanctuary out there.
In English: http://www.museumsnett.no/herdlamuseum/english.html
In Norwegian, more detailed (try running it through google translate): http://www.museumsnett.no/herdlamuseum/

November 13, 2006 at 1:04 am in reply to: FW 190 from the deep #1310035

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Update, new pictures:
http://www.luftwaffe.no/wreck2/index.htm

October 26, 2006 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Who know this one #1331109

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http://www.comandosupremo.com/Ca135.html

October 25, 2006 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Who know this one #1331788

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Caproni-Bergamaschi ca.135

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/ca135.html

September 30, 2006 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Most beautiful jet #1270666

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May 25, 2006 at 3:12 pm in reply to: SR-71 scrapyard survivors #1269956

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This is a list of the survivors and where they are located.
http://www.visi.com/~jweeks/sr71/index.html

May 23, 2006 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Sqadron 77 or 106 ? #1272983

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don’t know, but on lostbombers.co.uk both planes are listed with KN-?

May 22, 2006 at 8:24 pm in reply to: Spit in Norway – early 90's, and Gladiator #1274605

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I took this (and some others, but this is the only one I scanned) at an airshow in the 80’s, think it was at Jarlsberg but not quite sure, it was also visited by a P-40.

Is that Brian Smith, btw?

May 22, 2006 at 12:21 am in reply to: Cold war prototypes that didn't make it #2562573

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Seen Saunders-Roe SR.A1 mentioned, but I think SR.57 and SR.177 deserves mentioning as well.

May 17, 2006 at 2:23 pm in reply to: STAR AIRCREW #1281681

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I don’t know about his WWII service, but postwar Glenn Ford was a member of the US Navy Reserves…retiring as a Captain in the late 60s/early 70s.
BTW: He just celebrated his 90th birthday.

” In 1941, months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ford joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary, where he was on duty some evenings and occasional weekends. Already a movie star, he asked for “regular duty”, to be treated as one of the guys, not a celebrity. He later put his acting career on hold to fight in World War II, serving in the U.S. Marines from 1943-45 and seeing action in the Pacific. When he was discharged he signed up with the U.S. Naval Reserves, where he served for decades, rising to the rank of captain.”

May 15, 2006 at 10:29 pm in reply to: STAR AIRCREW #1284361

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-Jackie Coogan (Chaplin’s The Kid) flew gliders in CBI.
-Ed McMahon (Tonight Show sidekick to Johnny Carson) got Marines wings in -44, and also flew 85 missions in Korea.
-Gene Autry flew C-47 in CBI
-Brian Keith was a Marine rear gunner
-Tyrone Power was a Marine pilot
-James Doohan (Scotty on Star Trek) lost a finger on the shores of Normandy, retrained as a pilot and flew as an Artillery Observer for RCAF
-Donald Pleasance was a bomber crew with RAF, and ended up as a POW
-Dennis Weaver (McCloud) flew F4U’s
Non-aircrew:
James Arness (sheriff Matt Dillon) was wounded at Anzio.
Jason Robards was a Navy radioman.
Henry Fonda served in the Navy on a destroyer
Ernest Borgnine was a Navy gunner from 35-45
Charles Durning was in the Army’s 1st Div.
George C. Scott was a Marine sgt.
Glenn Ford also served with the Marines
Lee Marvin, too.
Rod Twilight Zone Serling was a parachutist
David Niven was a Lt.col with the Commandos in Normandy

May 1, 2006 at 4:51 pm in reply to: What's this? #1306285

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There is one surviving P-64, and this isn’t it.

It’s an SNJ-4 built to resemble a P-64, according to a post in another forum, quoting a picture caption from Classic Wings from a CAF show at Midland 2005. It was in regards to a post about a french rebuild, that wasn’t a P-64 either.

April 15, 2006 at 9:48 pm in reply to: Help : Looking for a book #2594293

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Could it be one of the Illustrated Directory books? They were palm sized, in both paper back and hard cover, but had lots of pages (and the pages in my copies haven’t fallen out yet).

The ones I have in that series are Modern American Weapons and Modern Soviet Weapons.

The “coffe-table”-sized Salamander I have with chapters like Israeli-Arab conflict, is called War in the air, but I can’t find any of the Illustrated Directories named that… closest find on Amazon.uk is Illustrated Directory of Fighters by Mike Spick.

January 25, 2006 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Fairey Barracuda #1416143

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LOL! If that were the case, no Bara would have ever left the drawing board!

Ugly? This beauty? Nah 🙂
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