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October 2, 2004 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Comparing WWII fighter victories #1414640

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I know the Corsair’s kill tally is from ALL services of all nations and is limited to WW2, so I would assume that the same is true for the rest of the types…did’nt know the Jug finished that high, but it makes sense…and of course the Hellcat is right where it should be, at the top of the class with a 19 to 1 kill ratio…the advantage of being an easy to fly, easy to land fighter transported by carrier right into the middle of the HOTTEST battles…

Mark

October 2, 2004 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Corsair sets speed record #1414648

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Appreciated, Crazymainer…looks like Makanna’s dates are wrong, as it WAS Oct.1 1940 that the record flight took place and it was a speed of 405 Miles and hour, not 404 (source…which I HOPE is right…”F4U Corsair” by Nick Veronico and John and Donna Campbell)…and even TECHNICALLY speaking, this was the XF4U that was doing the flying at this time, so not exactly a production plane…

Hmmmm…that’ll teach ME to post again…

Mark

October 2, 2004 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Corsair sets speed record #1415522

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the calendar quotes Friday, Oct 1 1939 as the day the Corsair became the first American fighter plane to break the 400 mile an hour mark…says nothing about seaplanes or being the first AIRPLANE, period, to do it…just first American fighter.

Mark

October 2, 2004 at 3:48 am in reply to: OK Lets Start that Andy thread now #1416081

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Yes, ol Bill Greenwood informed us at Breckenridge that the meat may LOOK like steak, but if you went out behind Bill Arnot’s hangar at Breckenridge, there were a pile of Armadillo shells on the ground…it was at about this time that Phil Makanna (who was sitting across from us) started eating his ‘steak’ a WHOLE lot slower and finally just moved on to the baked beans…:)

Mark

October 2, 2004 at 3:42 am in reply to: Corsair sets speed record #1416092

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Steve Bakke’s -5, which was also at the Corsair gathering…bet that was a fun ride.

Yes, the 400 MPH flight to break the record was in level flight…the U-bird topped out that day at 404 mph.

The F4U-5 like Bakke’s above (or Read’s) later topped out at altitude at 469 mph. Technology at work!

Mark

October 2, 2004 at 2:50 am in reply to: Corsair sets speed record #1416116

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Ah, ol’ Mr. Snodgrass sure gets that thing up and moving, does’nt he? Sure did some great and low passes at the Corsair gathering with it…and wait till you see what he does on the Corsair Experience DVD…

Mark

October 1, 2004 at 9:51 pm in reply to: Obscure TV warbird appearances? #1416313

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Do cartoons count? If so, we have the ghostly sequence on board a B-17 that gets shot down and the only survivor bails out onto an island filled with ghostly fighter pilots bent on killing him…then there’s the ever classic animated TV series ‘Gargoyles’ where the ‘goyles find themselves transported back to London during the blitz…some NOT TOO BAD animated air battles and the Gargoyles taking out German Messers alongside their British counterparts in Spits…kinda interesting…

Mark

October 1, 2004 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Location of Hurricane Z5227 (2004) #1416318

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Wonder if it’s the one Ray Middleton is restoring for Lone Star museum here in Ft. Collins? Probably not…but we have one here that is close to completion…

Mark

October 1, 2004 at 3:14 am in reply to: bits n bobs #1417807

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Hey….pssst….I think you were being followed….

Mark

September 30, 2004 at 7:16 pm in reply to: Obscure TV warbird appearances? #1418624

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No, reckon not…last warbird ad I saw was….hmmmm…..In Print, actually!

Mark

September 30, 2004 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Alternative Battle of Britain Film Quotes #1418628

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I wonder….would it be possible…heh heh….James, you gave me an idea…I wonder if we could recite the WHOLE of the lines, word for word, from the movie ‘Battle of Britain’? Guess we need a starting point, so I’ll supply the VERY first line at the beginning of the movie…

Hurricane flies above retreating French people and British troops….”Who the ‘ell’s he trying to kid…?”

September 30, 2004 at 7:06 pm in reply to: how was 2004 for you #1418651

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Not great…went to NO airshows (wish Colorado would get it in gear and get some going in Denver again) 1 fly-in, which was enjoyable, saw the Collings bombers on their stop through, and DID just have an air to air session with a Mustang and two T-6’s this last weekend…but other than that aviation wise it was a bust…

Now on OTHER fronts it was a GREAT summer…

Mark

September 30, 2004 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Obscure TV warbird appearances? #1418654

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I don’t wear dentures….

Sorry.

Mark

September 30, 2004 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Alternative Battle of Britain Film Quotes #1419010

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I simply GOTTA go back and watch the movie again…I don’t remember ANY of this…:)

You guys put together that screening with all those new lines, it’ll resemble a Rocky Horror picture show crowd only in military kit and flying goggles…kind of a ‘Biggles fights the Battle of Britain’ thing…could be fun..

Mark

September 30, 2004 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Obscure TV warbird appearances? #1419051

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Oh, I got a BUNCH of these memorized…

Fantasy Island-fateuring a bunch of ‘Black Sheep Squadron’ footage, a guy gets into combat flying Corsairs and winds up meeting his father, or some silly thing like that…

Highway to Heaven-The old Michael Landon TV series, this particluar episode was filmed in Morro Bay, CA and actually showed the fishing boat I was living on at the time (filmed in 1986), the episode closed out with a guy making his trip to heaven on board a B-25.

Airwolf-remember when the Chopper in Airwolf fought a Corsair that was flown by the bad guy? The Corsair lost, of course…to a chopper that was 250 miles an hour slower…

I know I remember more…juts gotta jog the ol’ memory..

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