My friend has a swastica arm band that his friend gave to him shortly before he died, the man that gave it to him was, Adolf Hitler, as he was a runner at the games held in Germany in the late thirties (37?) and everybody got one; bit like a crackerjack pencil!! ,but a sobering thought, that AH was only two touches away.

..talkin about feticism uh? :rolleyes:

lol nice one about the rabbit, never thought of it 😀

Alex

The only other plane with a rotary engine that i’ve seen before is the french Dr.I, and I dont remember the pilot bossing the throttle so hard.. is there a reason why? If there is, it honestly escapes to me..

Alex

uh, lost this one!
Yeah, that’s Skipper, a P-40 recovered in the sea on the Anzio area some 20 years ago now! It received a thoroughly treatment to stop the corrosion caused by salt water, and while cleaning it the original colors and insignas came out. Some of the “make up” they did might scare the purists (i.e. average modern rivets used on some panels..) but at least she’s up and it’s a big witness of those days..
Once the recovery was done the pilot of the time was invited here in italy and he could rejoin his machine: needless to say the first thing he asked was if they found out what caused the engine seizure!! Ah, pilots :rolleyes: 😉
I have a vague remember about the cause of the ditching, same for the pilot info after he ditched it, but i dont wanna start speculation 😉

Alex

interesting topic, but if u dont mind i’d like to veer it to another direction..

What’s the sense in collecting aviation bits that could be useful for restorations and are instead jelously kept by private owners?
Example: IIRC one of the most difficult gauges to find is the flap (or gear?) gauge for the Spitfire. Now u think it’s fair to have it in your home collection and havin a spit that could be completely original if it had it? I dunno if u follow my point here, but I find dull to have an airplane bit at home that could be useful for a restoration and it’s instead sittin in my case covered with dust..
All the “aviation things” that i have here have a meaning, both because are gifts or come from my plane.
A hand pump in a case can be a nice conversation topic, but seeing it back where it belongs to (spit cockpit for instance) would give it a different meaning and value 🙂

just my 2 €urocents

Alex

Never!! you dont say, well bless me 😀

eheheh 😀

what is for sure is that if groundloopin a Tiger Moth is a s*it in yr pants experience, doing it with a T-6 must feel way way worse!!! The plane is so rocksteady and stable when taxiing that the last thing u expect it to do is a ground loop!
As I said eariler there are some planes that tend to groundloop more than others for various factors, the C-45 is one of them. My restoration buddy (who was instructor on the T-6 family) once was seating in the the back seat of a 45 while his airfield commander, who wanted to fly it at all costs, ground looped it while giving full throttle for take off! There must have been a lot of bad smell in that cockpit after that unexpected number..

Alex

Perhaps this is ‘Standard Crosswind technique’ in Italy!

Still, could be worse

ah ah, really funny… :rolleyes:

all the taildraggers can do a groundloop, some of them are more inclined to do it than others. The T-6 was a trainer, and not one of the easiest ones, especially for a pilot with 0 hours. It is still used today as a trainer for advanced warbirds, and that’s why sometimes here and there ground loops on T-6 pop out. Bless the good ol’ T-6, nicknamed here in Italy “family father”, cuz he always brought its pilots back home, often in really critical conditions.

Alex

bad cabin pressurization? 😉

Alex