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May 20, 2005 at 7:01 pm in reply to: La Ferte Alais 2005, 2 quick videos #1385481

LaurentB
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Hi All,

Thanks again for the kind words.

Regarding the One-O-Nine, since some where interested, I made another capture of the incident showing it at quarter speed and true speed, but it seems the quality is not better, despite different settings. Anyway, my aim was just to provide people with some footage of this nice airshow, and not to focus on this incident, so I will make no more attempt to have something better.
http://p51d20na.club.fr/109slowclip.mpg

The P-51 and Spit movies I posted earlier had some interference noise, so I made new ones (they are both a bit longer also):

http://p51d20na.club.fr/pr19_lfa.wmv

http://p51d20na.club.fr/362rules_lfa.wmv

Memorial Flight’s Fokker DR1
http://p51d20na.club.fr/fokker_lfa.wmv

Some crazy flying with a Piper Cub
http://p51d20na.club.fr/crazycub_lfa.wmv

A very early Messerschmitt
http://p51d20na.club.fr/early-messerschmitt_lfa.wmv

War on the Eastern Front, very realistic …..regarding the mud :diablo:
(and I got a little bit frightened by explosions during the Ju-52 flypast, those were too realistic…)
http://p51d20na.club.fr/eastern-front_lfa.wmv

Winged Majesty
http://p51d20na.club.fr/b-17_lfa.wmv

I hope you will like them.

Laurent – you should make a DVD of these videos: I’m drooling over the Griffon Spit! 🙂

Well, I recently bought a DVD writer for my computer, so once I understand how to make everything work fine, I will certainly make one. I will let you know if you are interested by a copy.

Laurent

May 18, 2005 at 9:32 pm in reply to: La Ferte Alais 2005, 2 quick videos #1389121

LaurentB
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..anyway a higher resolution videoclip from 0:40 to 0:60 would help a bit, is it possible to have it Laurent?

I will work on that tomorrow afternoon, a little bit late right now for me.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Here are two more, depicting some more classic stuff:

A contrarotating blue thing:
http://p51d20na.club.fr/pr19.wmv
(Mark 12, if you use Windows Media Player, you can copy the address, and you should have something like “open url” in WMP, you click, paste and you should be able to see)

and a Merlin powered beauty
http://p51d20na.club.fr/362rules.wmv

I will try to put some more tomorrow evening

Laurent

May 17, 2005 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Swiss Mustangs #1392991

LaurentB
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Happy Birthday Martin,

I hope you had very nice presents 😀

Cheers,

Laurent

May 5, 2005 at 6:12 am in reply to: Empire of the Sun – some trivia #1416473

LaurentB
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Hello,

An old issue of Warbirds Worldwide (n°2) confirms it was Ray Hanna who did the flypast, at S.Spielberg request.

Laurent

May 4, 2005 at 7:10 am in reply to: 366th bomb squadron, Chevelston England april 1944 #1418357

LaurentB
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Hello,

It seems your uncle’s father was flying in B-17G 42-39829, flown by Capt Copley, and shot down by flak. 1 evader, 1 KIA, and 9 POWs (11 crew members?). Missing Air Crew Report #4276. This info come from Roger Freeman’s big book “The B-17 Flying Fortress Story”

In fact, I started my search on this very useful website, as it provides a searchable MACR database:
http://www.armyairforces.com/dbmacr.asp
and they even tell you hpw to obtain the full report from the National Archives (they also have a very helpful forum, by the way)

The 366th lost another plane that day, 42-97097, and 6 crew were killed while the other 4 were made POW. MACR #4277. Name of the pilot was Knight (no rank given).

HTH,

Laurent

May 4, 2005 at 6:48 am in reply to: Any Corsair buffs here? Help needed please :) #1418364

LaurentB
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Some more drawings here:
http://www.f4ucorsair.com/tdata/blueprints.html

from this website
http://f4ucorsair.com/

HTH,

Laurent

April 25, 2005 at 7:34 am in reply to: Parts I.D. – Help! #1433310

LaurentB
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Hello Mike,

First seat is pilot/co-pilot seat on B-24s, no problem on that.

Second seat, no idea.

Armored glass could be the one you find in Grumman Avengers turret, but I am not totally sure.

HTH,

Laurent

April 22, 2005 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Cosford Liberator and Hastings Outside #1341479

LaurentB
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Nice pics, Kilvy. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Laurent

April 12, 2005 at 7:51 pm in reply to: 1944 Newspaper #1358838

LaurentB
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Hello,

From the 479th FG history book I checked in, it seems the plane was P-51B 43-7157, coded J2*7, and flown by 2nd Lt Robert b. Hymans, who was listed MIA at the time, and whose remains were recoverd in 1997 (or 1998), 2 miles east of Shoebury Ness. He crashed during a training flight, cause unknown.

HTH,

Laurent

March 16, 2005 at 6:33 pm in reply to: ID needed for Hurricane relic #1398139

LaurentB
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Hello,

Could it be that?

HTH,

Laurent

March 6, 2005 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Serial number Wanted #1418451

LaurentB
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Hello,

There was a 3 pages story about an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain featuring this picture (and another showing the right side in an old american magazine (Airfoil n°5, 1987), and the author said that the S/N was oversprayed, but painted on very small characters on the tail, and also confirms those are private pictures taken in a clandestine manner, so it is unlikely they were censored. Unfortunately, the author did not give the S/N for this plane.

Laurent

February 25, 2005 at 6:23 pm in reply to: The P-51 Big Beautiful Doll at IWM in London! #1433626

LaurentB
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The differences between LaurentB & MikeH’s pics are quite interesting. It’s good to see that money has been spent on the museum.

In fact, I have made a mistake dating my picture 1999, it was July 1995 in fact.

Here is a picture taken in March 1999:

with the rudder removed and the tail covered, while some work was done on the walls.

Laurent

February 24, 2005 at 8:27 pm in reply to: The P-51 Big Beautiful Doll at IWM in London! #1434466

LaurentB
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Nice pics, Thanks for sharing, Mike

Looks like the middle pic is upside down.

Laurent

February 24, 2005 at 6:46 pm in reply to: The P-51 Big Beautiful Doll at IWM in London! #1434526

LaurentB
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the Lambeth P-51D would have been another flyer.

But it is flying Martin, see 😀

Seems like they removed the oil and coolant radiators (to save weight?), is the engine still inside?

Laurent

February 18, 2005 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Forum Members, Who Are we? #1356123

LaurentB
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That was me in June 2001, “flying” NX664
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