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20 dec 2011,
start of the one year count down to the end of the mayan calendar.
20 dec 2012
If they are right, you better do it in the next two years, or you won’t be doing it ..:dev2:
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Jerry
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My opinion, great they are staying where they are.
If exported and restored to flying condition,we would just to hear in the future that they crashed and were destroyed.
The first blenhiem/bolingbroke that went to the UK was wrecked,the only flying mossie that was in the UK was destroyed many years ago.
I think …..
well done calgary an awesome decision, and the right one.
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Jerry
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records can be buried, but there are sometimes eyewitnesses.
I was once told in the 70’s about a luftwaffe aircraft crash, apparently certain people rushed over to the crash to hang the aircrew, but on arrival at the crash site, the german aircrew were found to have been killed in the crash.
sometimes all myths are not myths.
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Jerry
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Maybe I am getting confused
I thought the do-17P had bmw 132 engines, which were a modified P&W hornet engine,and it was the do-17Z with the bramo 323 engines.
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jerry
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I could be wrong…….
…. but I thought the dornier’s engine were just a german produced pratt & whitney engine under licence.
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Jerry
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I recall that the dornier was actually on a recce of St Eval airfield & area.
As the airfield had been bombed at 2100hrs on the 26th and 0410 hrs on the 27th.
I seem to recall from research, the a/c was chased from there,before being shot down.
I think the local paper archives has these photos also.
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Jerry
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Thanks for the reply, So it may not be coastal cmd.
not sure why but i have always thought of it as a drop tank, maybe it isn’t.
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Jerry
Hi John,
Thanks for the i/d…….I can see it now…:o
Rapide it is then.
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Jerry
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Can’t scan at the moment, so took photos,the tank can be seen ok.
Anyone know what the aircraft in the first photo is, ( long shot is maybe a York ? as there is a york photo )
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Jerry
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1) hopefully it all does find good homes.
2) who knows what is in the piles….
Makes me wonder what else is still waiting to be found around the world…….
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Jerry
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Many thanks for the reply & info.
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Jerry
I am with Creaking Door has to be captured RAF type, probably late 1939, Battle of France example?
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I would tend to agree, but the first captured spitfires were not until mid 1940.
probably it would have been one of the rechlin examples or maybe a zircus rosarius spitfire.
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Jerry
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Personally I think there is a lot left to be found in germany.
In 1999, a factory I did a generator service at, still had all the ‘moulds/dies’ to make BF-110 wings, the factory owner didn’t throw them out just stored them, ‘as they may be useful in the future’.
Saying that there is still plenty of stuff over this side of the pond.
Two years ago I did a beakdown call on two gen sets, the prime power diesel engines were ex 1940’s U boat.. they were still great & sounded great.
It was the 60’s build UK generators that had failed electrically.
And about a year ago there was a scrapyard, (about 1 hour from me), literally full of big a/c parts…. still trying to find out where it moved to …..
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Jerry
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quote ….a resounding “Niet!”…..
An official government denial..:rolleyes:
Then it must be true then…:D
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Jerry
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a rough translation
JARL is an association which aims to achieve the 3 / 4 scale replica of a De Havilland Mosquito
A realisation crazy! by a group of retired pilots and all who have a passion for life in the aerospace … The Aviators!
Build a plane that no longer exists and who has marked our history with the goal to fly, is a superb technical and human challenge, also social, because it helps foster a spirit of group of technicians and engineers across the age and skills that we can not let go.
Since 1995, we are working to plan the project, break it up, streamline it and make subsets of the puzzle … at least 30,000 hours of labour.
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Jery