i knew they had long range but……this is ridiculous!!!!!!!!
kind of reminds of the us marine that claimed that is wasn’t a b29 that carried the a bomb that hit Hiroshima!!! he claimed it was a british plane as none of theirs could lift it :rolleyes:

aren’t there three in 40’s original paint?
R 6915 IWM
P 7973Australian war memorial
P 9306 museum of science and industry Chicago

thanks for that..i hadn’t heard much about since it arrived a couple of years ago

i think i can burst a bubble here….bob is no longer based at point cook..and i doubt his collection is there either,most(if not all)private operator have been moved on in the last few years as “work” happens on some of the hangars that they were based in,so i don’t think a call to the base would offer much information:dev2:

was a long time ago…but knowing my dad…an airfix a6m2
funnily enough….

i’m still building them…though this is the new tooling one

i doubt there is much truth to Glynn’s mossie going to the uk…it’s an au built t43…and i doubt he has too much of a funding problem(though i could be wrong) after the yagen boost for use of his molds..and who know 1 or 2 more yet…and in a few interviews he wanted to fly her to her birthplace in Australia one she up and running..never a mention of the uk.

i for one think it was worth while,i’d never seen one fly(except for a very faint memory of a large dark triangle over Melbourne when i was very small…mum said it was a vulcan..her favorite plane).
and she was a major highlight of my uk trip last year!!
so i thank you all involved with getting her up there..surely one of the greatest achievements in warbird history,and have a safe farewell tour next year.

sort of reminds me of stories told to me by my father(may not be totally true…but some part’s are) at the end of ww11 the Australian war memorial sent out parties to recover 1 of each type of plane flown by the Japanese against us.
(i know for sure that a ki21 and ki54 were recovered..there are pics to show them in Canberra) but after a change of direction in the hierarchy of the memorial..the war in the pacific didn’t count as the “real” war happened in Europe.
all the pacific aircraft were sold for scrap…including the first raaf beaufort to do 100 missions..and almost the only wirraway to shoot down an enemy plane!!
the only survivors of this travesty are the ki54 fuselage and the ki 43 that is now part of the flying heritage museum(and a20-103).
what a collection of enemy planes we could have had if not for short sightedness!!!!