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  • January 5, 2018 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #782162
    Kuno
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    Interesting point, John. I read several times statements of “bring it home”, meaning the UK… where the aircraft actually never has been…

    As far as I am aware of, the rule in Egypt is that antiquities are not to be exportet. This is apparently vlaid for old cars and I would wonder if a different rule would apply to wrecked aircraft of WW2 then.

    December 29, 2017 at 10:34 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #786197
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    The el-Alamein museum is very close to the shore of the Mediterranean. Climatic conditions make it necessary that the tanks and trucks displayed in the open get a thick layer of protective paint avery few years…

    May 22, 2017 at 5:34 am in reply to: Do. 335 replica – any news? #823602
    Kuno
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    I have just been at that place a few weeks ago – the Do 335 looks very much the same as in above photos. Apparently there was no visible progress on the subject.

    May 1, 2017 at 8:05 am in reply to: DC3 landing on a beach for new film #833904
    Kuno
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    apparently not the first landing on that beach:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uzpDy3n3Vs

    April 22, 2017 at 5:33 am in reply to: Twin Pioneer Survivors #836810
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    The above mentioned wreck of a Twin Pioneer in Sion / Sitten, Switzerland does apparently still exist. You can see it on last years photos in Google Earth. Also obvious that the recent use of the aircraft to train the local fire fighters did not help to keep it “healthy”… it is still not clear to me, why the aircraft, which was once displayed (in the open) in the “Swiss Museum of Transport” has been removed from there and abandoned.

    April 13, 2017 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Visit to Museo del Aire at Cuatro Vientos near Madrid. #839381
    Kuno
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    I went there last summer – the He 111 were the aircraft I wanted to see most. What a disapointment when I was told that they are locked away fro restauration (same as the Do 24). Still a very interesting museum with many types you wotn see anywhere else…

    …and it was the first time for me to see “Buchons” with the correct paint scheme on, not desparately pretending to be a “Nazi fighter” 😉

    January 22, 2017 at 7:51 am in reply to: Lysanders in the film Allied #812834
    Kuno
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    Wow – did not imagine that the set of the final scene really looked like this. My impression was that it was on a real airfield with a real dozen of Lysanders…

    January 3, 2017 at 2:16 pm in reply to: The Wind Rises. #820980
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    Bought it on DvD some time ago. I definitely liked the style of the drawigns… but not the story.

    December 14, 2016 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Willy Messerschmitt & Kurt Tank #827473
    Kuno
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    Thanks for your replies. I tend to believe that the very prominent names were not looked after because -as rightly said above- there were teams developping the aircraft and because them getting “new jobs offered” would probably not have met what people in the “Allied Countries” wpuld have expected…

    …but I do not really think that it was the first question, if somebody made moeny, used slave labour or was a member of the Nazi-party. And whilst I do not really believe in German “Wonder-weapons” I would still dare to say that a lot of the German aerodynamical research was more than valuable for all those Nations and manufacturers who could obtain it 😉

    December 13, 2016 at 5:57 am in reply to: Willy Messerschmitt & Kurt Tank #827704
    Kuno
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    I did not list the UK because I was not aware that they also “collected” Germans after the war.

    Anyhow . both Tank and Messerschmitt continued to desing aircraft in Argentine, Spain, India and Egypt (although with a fairly limited success).

    October 7, 2016 at 5:59 am in reply to: Airpower 2016, Zeltweg #450757
    Kuno
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    Thanks a lot for showing these magnificent photos 🙂

    August 27, 2016 at 7:25 pm in reply to: General Discussion #264845
    Kuno
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    Suggest it is used for surveying – placed on a tripod and “targeted” by the man behind the theodolite.

    August 14, 2016 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #16 #2169984
    Kuno
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    Dassault Flamant…

    June 13, 2016 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Pampa's thread about Dutch Fokkers #852827
    Kuno
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    …not to be forgotten: The T-6 disguised as “Zero”.

    June 8, 2016 at 9:49 pm in reply to: La Ferté Alais 2016. #452508
    Kuno
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    @ Araman – since I had to leave the site at 14:00 on Sunday to travel back home…. I would be curious if one of the aircraft which was not there on Saturday due to bad weather in Switzerland showed up on Sunday afternoon? And about the B-17 in the hangar… a rollout was actually announced in the programme but did not haben on Saturday – did they do it on Sunday then?

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