rall did’t lose a wingman in combat?
the last i read the only confirmed ace to never lose a wingman in was saburo sakai with 65 1/2 victories and the highest surviving ace of the ijnaf and the last few kills with only one eye
paul
i don’t know how the zero is overated as[unlike the 109] there weren’t that many built[barely 10.000] and while the navy never allowed the engine to be upgraded those that aposed it even when it was obsolete in a good pilots hands it was still considered dangerous [sakai was jumped by 15 hellcats and escaped with no bullet holes].the biggest problem was the lack of experenced pilots.
paul
i8 started about 30 years ago was building mainly 148th but moved into a smaller house so am build 172 now mainly jaoanese and raaf
3 oz beaufighters
1 oz a20
3 boomerangs
raaf museum mustang
several zeros
ran seafury
n1k1 rex
n1k3 george
ki46 dinahs
ki84 frank
ki43 oscar
2 raaf spitires
and about 50 unbuilt kits
and about 100 zoids
i have been working on a dh hornet racer with griffons for about 2 years .
paul [night shift is killing my modelling]
hi guys
i agree with the idea’s that have been said here and if i had more garage room i would offer to store any parts that could be saved in victoria australia.
i only wanted point out the problems with identity of the resulting aircraft.even now we have at least two aircraft claiming to be the same seafury tg114 [september fury and argonaut] and a seeminly intact airframe that may have multiple identities[australain war memorial seafury-vx730-vw232-tf925] the race car thing is personal experence in dealing with cam’s here downunder .
the provance b.s. is somthing that may take some education to overcome in the short term as some owners like to think that no mater what you do to the wreck that it is still a peace of history.
mark v i stand corrected on the 2 seat spitfire.
paul :confused:
hi setter
this is an interesting subject that brings up a lot good points and i agree with a lot of what you say especially with regards to provance [ the former charles church 2 seat spitfire project that started as a replicar but after his death the new owner had to have a real identaty that came from a firewall from a scrapyard].
but in the historic race car world if new major parts are made for a historic car during resoration if the original can’t be used then it has to be scrapped so as a second car can’t be identified as the original [frank gardiner’s fibre glass xk 120 original body was scrapped during the cars resoration].having said that i belive that like you that the left over parts should be used in static restorations but which should wear the original identity.
regards paul
nice photos spitful i was there on friday and saturday did the avenger get shot down on sunday it was saved on friday by the p40 [which put a great display on both days] .
did the b52 do a flypast on sunday .
paul
if only the us hadn’t kept changing their mind what version of the r 2800 was availible
but even with the late change of engine it was still a first class piston fighter.
it would have been even better if it got the promised griffon 120 with three stage supercharger
paul
ps does any one know why they changed the arnament from 4 x20mm cannons to 6 x 50 cals
1 westland wirlwind
2 ki46-2 [is this the type that is going be restored setter please]
3 2 ca15’s 1griffon 1the way it was meant to be r 2800 powered
paul
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