Has anyone got any pics of the Piston engined Orlik?

What The…

OK before things get a little nasty I think this discussion about Australians being racist should stop.

As an Australian I’m not racist despite what d’clacy and Canpark seem to think or say, and nor are the majority of Australians.

I suggest that which every country you come from be it European, American or Asian, none of us have a perfect record when it comes to the treatment of other nationalities. Look at the colonial rules enforced by many European countries (UK, Portugal, spain, France etc), The American treatment of African slaves and the treatment of one Asian country vs another (Japan v China, Indonesia v East Timor etc).

The White Australia policy is a thing of the past like the slavery in most countries (unfortunately not all). Learn from history but don’t let it rule us.

Now lets get back to the important things.

Oh by the way before you ask, I have a French father and Scottish mother and I was born in a British Military Hospital in Malaysia, and my wife is Polish. So as you can see I have an interesting view on this.

Not a Yak-200?

My Flights

Civil

Airbus A310
Airbus A320
BAe 146
Boeing 727
Boeing 737
Boeing 767
Cessna 150
Cessna 180
Cessna 402
Cessna Caravan
DHC-6 Twin Otter
Fokker F27
Fokker F28
Shorts 360
Sweringen Metro
Mil Mi-26
Sikorsky S-76A+/S-76A++
Bell 212
Bell 412

Military

Aerospatial AS.320B (Aust Army)
Alenia G.222 (Italian AF)
Bell UH-1H (RAAF/Aust Army)
Boeing 707 (RAAF)
Boeing E-3C (USAF)
DHC DHC-4A Caribou (RAAF)
Douglas Dakota (RAAF)
Hs 748-228 (RAAF)
Kavanagh Balloon (RAAF)
C-130A (RAAF)
C-130E (RAAF)
C-130H (Flown in RAAF, USAF ANG, RTAF)
AESL CT-4A (RAAF)
Pilatus PC-6 Porter (Aust Army)
Pilatus PC-9A (RAAF – Only yesterday:D
PZL 104 Wilga (ex Pol Army)
Sikoesky S-70A-9 Blackhawk (Aust Army)
Westland Seaking Mk 50

Werribee B-24

P.S. Great shots Spite, How goes the old boys building the B-24 Lib down your way)

Thanks, as for the gentlemen and the B-24 I’ll just fill everyone else in for a sec.

There is a collection of Ex RAAF WW2 gentlemen about 5 minutes from were I live rebuilding a B-24J resplendant in RAAF markings.

These guys and their support staff of equally great wives love what they are doing and if you go in (for a small coin donation) they will let you (carefully) romp around their bird of which they are very proud.

Imagine then their degree of upsetness when some low life breaks in and steals all their tools. The local community then rallied and got them new ones.

Then a few months ago same thing this time lathes and the like. Once again the community rallies and gets them replacements.

Then…the roof collapses on their hanger 🙁 fortunately damage fairly minor but now they are looking for a new home.

How ever these people are nothing if not indomitable and they declare they will succeed (and I think they will). I’ll see if I have some pics and contact details.

Has anyone got any pics of the Mirage F2?

Belgrade Museum

Sorry to go off topic Guys but….

Having never been there myself I exist on scrounging other’s pics but in answer to your question Ozplane, yes and here are some pics. They have some corkers

Spitfire
Hurricane
Texan
Storch
F-86
F-84

And a heap more (do people want me to start a new thread with them?)

To those who took the pics, thanks very much. Please add to the tread and identify yourselves, they are appreciated.

I just posted a couple of pics of the one in the Yugoslav Museum on the Sturgeon thread. Didn’t notice this one going….doh