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March 19, 2003 at 7:10 pm in reply to: More WW2 aircraft in New Guinea #2088368

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New Guinea B26

B 26 from 1944 in New Guinea

The Green Hornet… look at all those mission marks!

I will try to read the pilot’s name with my magnifying glass tonite and post the name later.

March 19, 2003 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Lady Be Good, B24 lost in desert #2088379

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Better ending that I remembered. thought he was left! Good!

P40 posted.

March 19, 2003 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Lady Be Good, B24 lost in desert #2088383

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Not Flown CFS2

Sorry geedee, that was not me.

I just joined this forum this week.

I have been reading Fly Past for years and years, but more so in the last 2 or 3.

Do you recall a brief article about a spitfire under restoration in Texas? It is near me, but I have not exactly located it yet…

I am about to post several WW2 pic’s from my father in law in New Guinea 1944… b24, b26, p47 and p40…

I remember that movie pretty well… they were playing baseball.

March 19, 2003 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Lady Be Good, B24 lost in desert #2088394

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LBG, Soul Survivor

Geedee,

Greetings from TX….

Soul Survivor? Was that about a B25 crew that crashlanded in the desert? They found all the bodies but one guy who was under the fallen tail section? And “he” got left behind when the other remains were recovered? If it was, I did not make the connection to LBG, but it is clearly there!

Images of LBG remains in last Fly Past, I think. Pretty well busted up, in Libya.

March 18, 2003 at 11:54 pm in reply to: TBM Avenger in Houston Texas #2088555

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Wilga

Ant, thanks for the continued thoughts on this one.

I think it is the Wilga…. the rear window and fuselage are right. I just don’t recall the landing gear…..

I am now motivated for another look see with my digital camera. It is really a beauty of a plane. Very nice green n brown cammy with red and white polish markings… Nicely hangared…

Will keep you posted!

March 18, 2003 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Airbourne Lifeboats #2088624

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Lanc lifeboats

The latest (?) FlyPast has an article on Lancasters. In it, it describes lifeboat missions and a test drop.

I don’t recall the boats ever pictured as fitting IN the bombbay…

The chutes would detach upon landing in the water.

No info on your other questions. But the article in FP may discuss. I don’t have it handy…

March 17, 2003 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot #2088721

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Clipper procurement?

I think it is called “procurement”… one of the oldest professions..

You should talk, with a name like “Snapper”…. chuckle…

😀

BTW, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting editorial last week by Winston Churchill’s son…. He said his grandpa (Winston) had invented Iraq…. 😉

March 17, 2003 at 11:15 pm in reply to: TBM Avenger in Houston Texas #2088723

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Interior of Avenger.

Looking in from right rear side hatch. Looking up at turret gunner seat and cockpit up front…

March 17, 2003 at 11:08 pm in reply to: Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot #2088733

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Alastair,

Thank you kindly….

My dad flew B 17s in WW2 (Deenthorpe) and flew for Pan Am for 36 yrs out of Miami (hence the Buffett influence…Key West, you know..) so I love planes!!!!

I remember as a kid, Miami International Airport had a “Corrosion Corner” with a Stratocruiser, a few C46’s, several trimotor NORTHROP C-125 RAIDERs, Corsair, etc…. Ah…. if we only knew…

I will post an interior shot of the Avenger on that string….

March 17, 2003 at 10:43 pm in reply to: Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot #2088738

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Jimmy Barf fett?

Harrumph!

haha

I can take it! My daughter calls him Jimmy Barf-it….

But she knows the words better than me…

But Jimmy has hopefully to you, a redeming quality… He is an avid pilot… He has 4 current aircraft including a vintage Stearman and an Albatross (the seaplane!) which he flies often…

He was just interviewed Jan 22 for a Pan American Airlines documentary, since he loves China Clippers, and vintage planes…

http://www.panamdoc.com/newstories/newstory013.html

Ck out the PAA documentary site, it has a lot of (non buffett) neat stuff in it!!!!

BTW, it is still St Patrick’s Day over here…. whoops, that Irish, sorry… 😉

And … it is pay $10 to drink as much as you want and listen to Buffett… chuckle…

Peace, amigo! I love the bagpipes too!!!!!

PS Ck out my TBM3 Avenger in Houston pic’s…. under Flypast forums… Maybe that will make up for my Buffett references…

March 17, 2003 at 10:27 pm in reply to: Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot #2088743

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B29, Slim Pickens vs Col Tibbets

Slim will be glad to hear that.

You know, a little nukie never hurt anybody…

Oui?!

Sacre` blu, what was that le boooom?

Apocalypso — Tune by Jimmy Buffett

They say this universe is bound to blow
But I say we crank up the calypso control
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso

Now I’m no dancer as dancers go
But this is one step that you need to know
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso
We’ll be dancing when we go

March 17, 2003 at 10:05 pm in reply to: Fantasy Airshow – Imagination Run Riot #2088751

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Meanwhile, that lone B-29 continues to circle overhead, pilotless….

March 17, 2003 at 9:11 pm in reply to: TBM Avenger in Houston Texas #2088755

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Another angle from last week….

March 17, 2003 at 9:02 pm in reply to: TBM Avenger in Houston Texas #2088761

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pregnant Avenger?

You sure would not want to lose a wheel on takeoff with that hanging under you!

A belly landing in that would really be a belly landing!

Thanks!

Once I figure out how to get images in a note, I will upload some of my photos from last week at Hooks…

It was such a surprise to see the Avenger! I spotted the tip of the tail behind some utility company trucks… I recognized it, and said, “We have to go check this out!!!”

Badabing, there she was, big wings outstreched, basking in the spring sunshine!

Not a bad finish to a lunch at the airport grill!!

March 17, 2003 at 8:15 pm in reply to: TBM Avenger in Houston Texas #2088779

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PZL Wilga!! Bingo!

Ant,

Good guess!!!!! I think that was it… I don’t recall the landing gear being quite like that, and I thought the radial engine may have been more exposed… But I cannot recall exactly, as it was back in the corner of a hanger a couple down from the Avenger!

I wish I had used my digital camera vs my 35mm with black and white for this plane…. I would have instant pic’s.

Thanks! I had been puzzled….
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