The Pakistanis have been very good in consolidating their vintage collections for display in the Karachi Museum. If any attacker survivors were there, I dont think they will get wasted away in storage. Its a pretty good call to say no Attackers survive (atleast intact)

I will settle for a vultee vengeance in a river bed:D

The spitfire had to pick an unfortunate time to turn up in the river bed. “Operation Parakram” was on (Another eye to eye confrontatino with our neighbours) and there was a Missile Squadron nearby (stationed temporarily). The Missile squadron chaps went to pulling it out with hammer and tongs 🙂

if the mobilisation was not there, they would probalby have sent in a technical team and hopefullly they may have extracted it in one piece – instead of the three

You seem to be mistaken, lying or wearing a tinfoil hat.

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mistaken, but not lying, not wearing a tin foil hat…..

not enough? here is another 🙂

I absolutely love the MiG-28 with the retractable tail fin in the first opening act.. 😀

that said, the movie educated me in more ways than one on what modern aircombat was all about.

It might be distressing for some – the video above shows the death of a person whom we may not know personally but still shared a passion that most on the board have.

However I personally believe that there are lessons to be learned and lives to be saved out of every tragedy. The Video will hopefully benefit a lot of us ‘amateurs’ in learning about the seriousness of warbird flying.

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Did someone say accidents come in threes?

First the News Choppers accident
then the mustang crash
Now this

AP) — A biplane stunt pilot died after he crashed in front of thousands of spectators during a Dayton, Ohio, air show Saturday, a day after another pilot was killed during an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

WHIO-TV reported pilot Jim LeRoy of Billings, Montana, died on the way to the hospital after his S2S Bulldog biplane crashed at the end of a runway at Dayton International Airport in Ohio.

The plane was one of two making loop-the-loops with smoke trailing as part of Dayton’s annual air show. It slammed into the runway across a field from spectators and caught fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/28/airshow.roundup.ap/index.html

Pity,

Not even anything lurking in scrapyards etc.? Like Afghanistan you would expect thing to have survived. Who knows, perhaps any Halifax remains somewhere…… We can dream can we.

Cheers

Cees

Unfortunately the PAF of the 50s and 60s had a pretty unimpressive record of historical aviation preservation. I am quite sure they scrapped all Tempests, Halifaxes, Furies , Attackers . This was rather surprising as some of the types were operated well into the late 50s. The only ac from that era that survived were lone examples of a Viking , a Tigermoth and an Auster and a few Harvards.

If they had any vintage airframe lying around somewhere it would be in the PAF museum by now.

Fortunately the PAF of today is much more active in this field. An example of thier interest is the procurement of the A-26 Invader whcih was lying derelict at Karachi airport to be restored and put up on display at the PAF Museum.

So any derelicts lying around within the PAF’s area of responsibility, they would be well looked after. But we can always hope that some scrap dealer decided to keep one of the airframes as a souvenir in his backyard 😀

Can anybody who got taxying shots of the port side of the two HAL built Su-30 check them to see what c/ns were painted on the side (if any).

Thanks

Zoot, can you look into these photos of SB105 and 106 and let me know which picture and where would be the best place to see the c/n? I will look up the higher res pics and see

http://media.bharat-rakshak.com/aero/AeroIndia2007/Walkarounds/SuMKIWalk