Would have got very exciting if there was a cable break

If my memory serves me correctly isn’t the HARS one an ex US military Connie, certainly not an ex-QANTAS bird.

After reading the posts so far in this thread, I couldn’t help wondering if it would have been better to have faster bombers and no guns as I understand the Mosquito was in some varients.

By the way my uncle was a WAG on B24’s operating out of northern Australia and attacking Jap targets in Indonesia and New Guinea.

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Some people get a bit hung up on collecting aeroplanes, guess its addictive like collecting stamps.

A static museum really only needs to have something that faithfully looks like the aircraft it perports to be, if people are never going to get up close. Just my view and one that I have often aired in this forum. Some big or complex aeroplanes are too expensive to keep in flying condition and a museum is a logical home for such aircraft.

The fact that a particular aeroplane was the one that did a particular flight means little to me, its the pepson, not the thing that needs to be celebrated.

If you are going to build a faithful replica, then you might as well go the next step and make it fly and then you can have all the fun of flying something that behaves exactly as an original (because in essence it is the same).

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out of interest what year was she built?

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Ross

Gooday All

The luminous bits are in fact little glass tubes filled with “something that glows” which I think may be radioactive and hence dangerious. If I want to overhaul say a P8 what can I use for the luminious bits.

Of course, its likely that if they were to be fitted to …. say in a Tiger Moth, then its unlikely to fly at night and the additional purpose of these “bits” is to be highly visible as white lines during the day.

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Ross,

with only two BA Swallows surviving in Australia and a total of 10 world wide, its certainly not common or numerous, not like those garden variety Proctors that just about everyone has in their hangar smiles.

common in my hangar, been there for years, the wing span is too big and I have to walk around it all the time. What is it – over 40 feet? big thick wing.

Stinson Reliant is common as well, NOW – that’s one hell of an aeroplane, Austers used to be common, but the steel aeroplane has gone down to Victoria, Tigers too common to mention.

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