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  • June 28, 2005 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Must have that photo. #1419489
    italian harvard
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    my two €cents:

    picture collecting has become an increasing business lately, but 1.010 €uros for a print is nonsense.. I theorically would have spent the same amount for a negative, but not for a print.. I’ve spent WAY more for rare Luftwaffe watches, but under a mere economical point of view there’s a market for them, while a print… chapeau to the seller though, who surely at first made money with the magazines to publish it, and then sold it on ebay 😉

    Alex

    June 27, 2005 at 10:46 pm in reply to: One for the Restorers… #1420574
    italian harvard
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    my goodness, that must have eaten a lotta time to finish, innit?
    U probably posted it before, but u have a sorta history of your restoration and/or a website? I’m always fascinated by such projects with a lot of work behind 🙂
    Will we be able to talk about it at Legends? 🙂

    Alex

    June 27, 2005 at 9:50 pm in reply to: One for the Restorers… #1420634
    italian harvard
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    so u had a butcher working on her before u bought her uh? 😉

    Alex

    June 27, 2005 at 8:39 pm in reply to: One for the Restorers… #1420804
    italian harvard
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    This reminds me of my first restoration job as a volunteer with the italian association called GAVS. I took part to the first steps of the project, an original Spad VII who needed a general overhaul for static display. Once we started removing the canvas over the upper wing we found the following:

    1) a set of ribs remade with thick plywood!!!
    2) balls of newspaper pages from 1962!!!

    ah, vintage restorers! :rolleyes:

    Alex

    June 27, 2005 at 7:03 pm in reply to: If you won the Lottery what 'Warbird' would you attempt to buy and why? #1421002
    italian harvard
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    Well, I’d love to have one of the following:

    Macchi 205
    Fiat G.55
    Bf109
    FW190

    Considering that the last 2 could be made new from Flugwerk at a “reasonable” price, I guess it’s just a matter of winning that darn lottery 😀

    Alex

    P.S.

    The highest amount won with the most famous italian lottery, called “Superenalotto”, is something like 110.000.000 € ….. I have shivers only thinking about it!!! U could buy the whole “Duxford package”, grass included! 😀 😀 😀

    June 26, 2005 at 9:48 pm in reply to: My first air to air #1422738
    italian harvard
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    ah, I almost forgot….

    DAKADAKADAKADAKDAKA!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀

    Alex

    June 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm in reply to: My first air to air #1422748
    italian harvard
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    Stieglitz, that Viima is simply awesome, u r a really lucky chap to fly with such machines 🙂
    A curiosity: the Siemens Halske engine is the same used on my friend’s Fokker Dr.I replica. A really nice engine, but I always thought it’s too delicate to be used on aeroplanes 😉

    Alex

    June 24, 2005 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Don't you just hate it when people do this? #1424565
    italian harvard
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    ehehehe really? didnt know about it, but ben affleck’s sight has never looked that smart, innit? 😉
    U know other details? how many kicks he needed to “educate” him? 😀

    Alex

    June 24, 2005 at 8:56 pm in reply to: North Weald Air Britain Fly in 19 June 05 photos #1424570
    italian harvard
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    yep, the rotten B-25 is a sad sight 🙁
    If i’m not wrong it was for sale, isnt it? anyway it should be desmantled and used at least as spares..

    Alex

    June 24, 2005 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Crazymainer latest Test #1424766
    italian harvard
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    How about a Parks P1, or P2, as owned and barnstormed by Richard Bach, and described in ‘Nothing by chance’ – great book, by the way.

    I was thinking exactly the same!!!
    According to him that plane was a bitch!! 😉

    Alex

    June 24, 2005 at 6:04 pm in reply to: "Dead" bodies as props? #1424782
    italian harvard
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    :D:D:D:D:D:D
    u know, when at first I read the title of the topic I thought “dead bodies as props? I wonder how u would attach them to the propeller hub!” aaah, my english comprehension is so naive sometimes :rolleyes:

    June 24, 2005 at 5:10 pm in reply to: "Dead" bodies as props? #1424834
    italian harvard
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    oh come on!! This ain’t no christian sunday parade, it’s a battlefield re-enactment! what do u expect to find there? ponies and lambs? :rolleyes:

    Alex

    June 24, 2005 at 5:04 pm in reply to: Don't you just hate it when people do this? #1424957
    italian harvard
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    another point I forgot about spotters: many of them are selfish.
    Ok, u paid the ticket (like the others did), u have the right to take all the pics u want(like the others do..), but please, leave at home your darn portable ladders! There are other ppl behind yr arse that would like to shoot a video or take an “amateur picture”, the fact that u r a pro (or u think u r..) doesnt allow u to behave like an a$$.

    Alex

    June 22, 2005 at 10:42 pm in reply to: Don't you just hate it when people do this? #1427667
    italian harvard
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    yep, just when u take the Rearwin out for a ride 😀 😀 😀 😀
    U’d better fly in the Legends weekend then!! 😀 😀 😀 😀

    A

    June 22, 2005 at 10:40 pm in reply to: Rearwin for Melvyn #1427670
    italian harvard
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    yeah, I know the feeling.. I went crazy when I had to make the order for our nuts & bolts.. i still have nightmares of conversion tables and AN measures!!
    Dont know Matco though..

    Alex

    P.S.
    We’d better turn this chat into a PM thing 😉

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