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Showing posts with label Warbirds. Show all posts
2023-10-13
[airfix.com] Airfix and Corgi Aerodrome pay a visit to a trio of Warbirds at the Rolls Royce Heritage Flight hangar
Libellés :
airfix.com,
Preservation,
Warbirds
2022-08-12
[Jean-Pierre Touzeau] Spitfire Mk XIV RM927 (ex Belgian Air Force) . Le nouveau pensionnaire à la Ferté-Alais
Merci Jean-Pierre
2018-06-20
[Video] Lightning Strikes Chino
Libellés :
planeoffame.org,
Video,
Warbirds
2017-07-09
[wrecksnwrelics] "Berlin Express" Canopy shatters during display
Forwarded message - From: Glidingbob
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Subject: [wrecksnwrelics] "Berlin Express" Canopy shatters during display
Berlin Express lost its canopy in flight yesterday during the display. It shattered for some unknown reason and damaged the tail section. It's down safe and sound. This pic was posted on the UK Airshow Review by TKK 140 at the moment it shattered....pieces everywhere and it looks like a large piece about to hit the horizontal! In the second pic, you can see the clear blown Malcolm Hood and the thick leading edge it has.
Just glad no one was hurt and the plane landed safely….Good thing this didn't happen during the flight over!!!!! Would have been a cold flight!
In this video, you can see the shards blow out….enlarge the video to full screen with the broken square in the lower right corner of the small black screen.
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2016-06-23
Video : a little bit noisy but ...
Thx to Laurent for sharing
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Enjoy the Skyraider/3350 duet! Chuck and Stuart firing up the 5 and 6 for Warbirds Over Addison. Both of these aircraft should be flying at the Kaboom Town fireworks and airshow, July 3rd at Addison Airport. For the best seats in the house, become a member of the museum and join us for the show! Only 300 seats available for this even!. Call 972-380-8800 ex 100 to reserve yours today! www.cavflight.org
2016-05-23
Stunning, pin-sharp images of the final 55 airworthy Spitfires
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Libellés :
Picture taking,
Warbirds
2016-03-12
[GAR] Historic Aviation Nostalgia – Blackbushe 1978-1984
Elliott Marsh posted: "Paul Filmer's trip down memory lane continues as he looks back at the many vintage aircraft that visited Blackbushe in the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst Blackbushe was not the closest airfield to where I grew up, it was the most interesting airport in a wide ar"
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Libellés :
Blackbushe,
GAR,
Warbirds
[GAR ] GAR – Huw Hopkins – Spitfire at 80
Huw Hopkins posted: "On 5 March 1936 the Spitfire took to the sky for the first time at Eastleigh Airport. 80 years on, Huw Hopkins provides a pictorial look at Europe's airworthy Spitfire population. The Spitfire - the British icon recognised by small children and the el"
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2016-02-29
Video: "Melun Villaroche"
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Libellés :
Aircraft restoration,
Museum,
Video,
Warbirds
2015-09-03
Listen: WWII Aircraft Engines - Mitchell, Mustang, Tomahawk, Hellcat, Zero, etc. Enjoy the introductory chorus to some of the most influential aircraft of WWII, including the P-51 Mustang and Spitfire's Merlin V-12, Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3's Daimler-Benz 601, BMW-801 powered F
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2015-08-10
New in Belgium : Have a ride in a P-51 Mustang, a real WW2 warbird
Found at the Overboelare open Deuren
http://www.vintage-dream-factory.be
See more on SCAT VII
this is no more a dream, you can do it !
http://www.vintage-dream-factory.be
See more on SCAT VII
this is no more a dream, you can do it !
2015-05-29
Video: "Meeting de La Ferté-Alais : zoom sur le P-51 Mustang"
2015-05-11
Video: "Arsenal of Democracy Flyover"
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2014-06-23
3D printing in the warbird industry
ZincVIZ Aviation – Warbird Magazine Article
Posted on May 29, 2014
ZincVIZ Aviation was featured in a four page article in Warbird Magazine – Digest 54, highlighting 3d digital modeling and part creation.
2014-04-06
[vintage-and-warbirds] 778 'Rosie the Riveters' show up to set world record - and save bomber plant
Forwarded message - From: Steve Link <
Way Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hosted by the Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group.
Libellés :
Rosie the riveter,
vintage and warbird,
Warbirds
2014-04-01
[vintage-and-warbirds] Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
Forwarded message - From: SIRIUS
Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
March 24, 2014
Associated Press
The next time the American military transport plane known as Whiskey 7 drops
its paratroopers over Normandy, France, it will be for a commemoration
instead of an invasion.
Seventy years after taking part in D-Day, the plane now housed at the
National Warplane Museum in western New York is being prepared to recreate
its role in the mission, when it dropped troops behind enemy lines under
German fire.
At the invitation of the French government, the restored Douglas C-47 will
fly in for 70th anniversary festivities and again release paratroopers over
the original jump zone at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
"There are very few of these planes still flying and this plane was very
significant on D-Day," said Erin Vitale, chairwoman of the Return to
Normandy Project. "It dropped people that were some of the first into
Sainte-Mere-Eglise and liberated that town."
Museum officials say the twin-prop Whiskey 7, so named because of its W-7
squadron marking, is one of several C-47s scheduled to be part of the D-Day
anniversary, with jumpers made up of active and retired military personnel.
But it is believed to be the only one flying from the United States.
The plane will fly to France by way of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland,
Scotland, and Germany, each leg 5-½ to 7 hours. Vitale compared it to trying
to drive a 70-year-old car across the country without a breakdown. "It's
going to be a huge challenge."
Among the 21 men it carried in 1944 was 20-year-old Leslie Palmer Cruise
Jr., who also will make the return trip to France, his fifth, and be
reunited with the craft -- once it's on the ground. He is flying
commercially from his Horsham, Pa., home outside Philadelphia.
"With me, it's almost, sometimes, like yesterday," Cruise, now 89, said by
phone, recalling his first combat mission. "It really never leaves you."
Although the C-47 looks much the same today as it did on June 6, 1944, it
looked very different when it arrived at the museum as a donation eight
years ago. It had been converted to a corporate passenger plane.
"We had to take an executive interior out," said the museum's president, W.
Austin Wadsworth. "It had a dry bar, lounge seats, a table with a nice map
of the Bahamas in there. It was beautiful."
The museum's restoration of the historic plane to its original condition has
been a roughly $180,000 project so far. Most of the money went toward two
rebuilt engines and the rest to parts, equipment, and service. The museum is
trying to raise a total of $250,000 for the restoration and return to
Normandy.
One upgrade it did allow was the installation of two GPS systems to keep the
aircraft on course.
"The avionics in the airplane are modern. We're not going to go with what
they had in 1943," Wadsworth said. "They would have had probably a radio
beacon receiver and a lot of dead reckoning."
There is still no autopilot, said Wadsworth's daughter, Naomi, who will be
among five pilots -- one including her brother, Craig -- taking turns at the
controls on the way to Europe. That's fine with her, she said.
"It's history. It's real flying," she said. "With a lot of the computerized,
mechanized things that you see in the airliners today, the airplane
basically flies itself....This is not a situation where you can be asleep at
the wheel. You really have to pay attention."
Said her father, also a pilot: "You don't just grab something and push it.
There's a kind of feel to everything you do in these old birds. It doesn't
have a soul obviously, but you don't just tell it what to do. You ask it."
Cruise still remembers being squashed between other paratroopers seated on
pan seats as the plane left England's Cottesmore Airdrome. He was weighed
down with probably 100 pounds of gear, including an M-1 rifle that was
carried in three pieces, 30-caliber rifle ammo, a first-aid pack, grenade,
K-rations, and his New Testament in his left pocket, over his heart.
"We could hear the louder roar as each plane following the leader
accelerated down the runway and lifted into the air," he wrote in an account
of the mission. "Our turn came and the quivering craft gathered momentum
along the path right behind the plane in front."
The airplane's engines were so loud he had to shout even to talk with the
paratrooper next to him, he said, and the scenery through its square windows
looked like shadows in the dark. Over the English Channel, a colonel pointed
downward.
"In the partial darkness below, we could make out silhouetted shapes of
ships and there must have been thousands of them all sizes and kinds,"
Cruise wrote. "If we had any doubts before about the certainty of the
invasion, they were dispelled now."
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Restored WWII plane to return to Normandy for D-Day anniversary
March 24, 2014
Associated Press
The next time the American military transport plane known as Whiskey 7 drops
its paratroopers over Normandy, France, it will be for a commemoration
instead of an invasion.
Seventy years after taking part in D-Day, the plane now housed at the
National Warplane Museum in western New York is being prepared to recreate
its role in the mission, when it dropped troops behind enemy lines under
German fire.
At the invitation of the French government, the restored Douglas C-47 will
fly in for 70th anniversary festivities and again release paratroopers over
the original jump zone at Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
"There are very few of these planes still flying and this plane was very
significant on D-Day," said Erin Vitale, chairwoman of the Return to
Normandy Project. "It dropped people that were some of the first into
Sainte-Mere-Eglise and liberated that town."
Museum officials say the twin-prop Whiskey 7, so named because of its W-7
squadron marking, is one of several C-47s scheduled to be part of the D-Day
anniversary, with jumpers made up of active and retired military personnel.
But it is believed to be the only one flying from the United States.
The plane will fly to France by way of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland,
Scotland, and Germany, each leg 5-½ to 7 hours. Vitale compared it to trying
to drive a 70-year-old car across the country without a breakdown. "It's
going to be a huge challenge."
Among the 21 men it carried in 1944 was 20-year-old Leslie Palmer Cruise
Jr., who also will make the return trip to France, his fifth, and be
reunited with the craft -- once it's on the ground. He is flying
commercially from his Horsham, Pa., home outside Philadelphia.
"With me, it's almost, sometimes, like yesterday," Cruise, now 89, said by
phone, recalling his first combat mission. "It really never leaves you."
Although the C-47 looks much the same today as it did on June 6, 1944, it
looked very different when it arrived at the museum as a donation eight
years ago. It had been converted to a corporate passenger plane.
"We had to take an executive interior out," said the museum's president, W.
Austin Wadsworth. "It had a dry bar, lounge seats, a table with a nice map
of the Bahamas in there. It was beautiful."
The museum's restoration of the historic plane to its original condition has
been a roughly $180,000 project so far. Most of the money went toward two
rebuilt engines and the rest to parts, equipment, and service. The museum is
trying to raise a total of $250,000 for the restoration and return to
Normandy.
One upgrade it did allow was the installation of two GPS systems to keep the
aircraft on course.
"The avionics in the airplane are modern. We're not going to go with what
they had in 1943," Wadsworth said. "They would have had probably a radio
beacon receiver and a lot of dead reckoning."
There is still no autopilot, said Wadsworth's daughter, Naomi, who will be
among five pilots -- one including her brother, Craig -- taking turns at the
controls on the way to Europe. That's fine with her, she said.
"It's history. It's real flying," she said. "With a lot of the computerized,
mechanized things that you see in the airliners today, the airplane
basically flies itself....This is not a situation where you can be asleep at
the wheel. You really have to pay attention."
Said her father, also a pilot: "You don't just grab something and push it.
There's a kind of feel to everything you do in these old birds. It doesn't
have a soul obviously, but you don't just tell it what to do. You ask it."
Cruise still remembers being squashed between other paratroopers seated on
pan seats as the plane left England's Cottesmore Airdrome. He was weighed
down with probably 100 pounds of gear, including an M-1 rifle that was
carried in three pieces, 30-caliber rifle ammo, a first-aid pack, grenade,
K-rations, and his New Testament in his left pocket, over his heart.
"We could hear the louder roar as each plane following the leader
accelerated down the runway and lifted into the air," he wrote in an account
of the mission. "Our turn came and the quivering craft gathered momentum
along the path right behind the plane in front."
The airplane's engines were so loud he had to shout even to talk with the
paratrooper next to him, he said, and the scenery through its square windows
looked like shadows in the dark. Over the English Channel, a colonel pointed
downward.
"In the partial darkness below, we could make out silhouetted shapes of
ships and there must have been thousands of them all sizes and kinds,"
Cruise wrote. "If we had any doubts before about the certainty of the
invasion, they were dispelled now."
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Hosted by the Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group.Yahoo Groups Links
Libellés :
D-Day,
Douglas C-47,
Event,
Warbirds
2014-01-22
Warbirds News : UPDATE Dakotas Over Normandy Well Underway
Warbirds News shared a link.
UPDATE Dakotas Over Normandy Well Underway
warbirdsnews.com
For the 70th commemoration of the renowned D-day Invasion, which is to take place in June 2014, a group of parachutists called the Round Canopy Parachuting Team, has set its goals at assembling as many as possible still still flying Douglas C-47 Dakota’s at the airport of Cherbourg,
Maupertus.Founded in 2009 and with our main activities in Europe and the
United States, the Round Canopy Parachuting Team is a foundation aimed
at conducting parachuting activities with an emphasis on World War II
style round canopy jumps and at conducting memorial services to honor
Allied soldiers
Libellés :
Douglas C-47,
Warbirds
2013-07-31
[vintage-and-warbirds] Buried secrets: The REAL story of the Nazi warplanes found in an Indiana field
Forwarded message From: SIRIUS
This is from March 2012, but I hope still of some interest.
Jeff
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Buried secrets: The REAL story of the Nazi warplanes found in an Indiana
field
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109029/The-story-secret-Nazi-airplanes-buried-Indiana-field.html
or go to: http://tinyurl.com/kcsyh3v
This is from March 2012, but I hope still of some interest.
Jeff
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Buried secrets: The REAL story of the Nazi warplanes found in an Indiana
field
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109029/The-story-secret-Nazi-airplanes-buried-Indiana-field.html
or go to: http://tinyurl.com/kcsyh3v
2013-01-26
[vintage-and-warbirds] North American Dates Set for Mosquito
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North American Dates Set for Mosquito
AVwebFlash
Januaryt 7, 2013
The only flying De Havilland Mosquito will have a busy schedule in North
America this summer, according to its owner Jerry Yagen of the Fighter
Factory. As we reported earlier (http://tinyurl.com/b879vp8), the
reconstructed Mosquito, which flew for the first time in September, has made
several public appearances in New Zealand where AVspecs, the company that
did the restoration, is based.
Sometime this spring, the aircraft, which was originally built in Canada,
will be shipped to North America and Yagen said it will be at a lot of
airshows this coming season, including his own Warbirds Over the Beach
(http://tinyurl.com/al9wxml) in Virginia Beach May 17-19.
It will also make an appearance not far from the factory where it was built.
The Mosquito will headline the Hamilton Air Show June 15-16. Hamilton is
about 30 miles west of Toronto, where the original aircraft was built. In
addition to its solo performance, the Mosquito will join a formation flight
of warbirds that will include the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's
Lancaster bomber along with a Spitfire and a Hurricane. There will also be a
gathering of Mosquito pilots.
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North American Dates Set for Mosquito
AVwebFlash
Januaryt 7, 2013
The only flying De Havilland Mosquito will have a busy schedule in North
America this summer, according to its owner Jerry Yagen of the Fighter
Factory. As we reported earlier (http://tinyurl.com/b879vp8), the
reconstructed Mosquito, which flew for the first time in September, has made
several public appearances in New Zealand where AVspecs, the company that
did the restoration, is based.
Sometime this spring, the aircraft, which was originally built in Canada,
will be shipped to North America and Yagen said it will be at a lot of
airshows this coming season, including his own Warbirds Over the Beach
(http://tinyurl.com/al9wxml) in Virginia Beach May 17-19.
It will also make an appearance not far from the factory where it was built.
The Mosquito will headline the Hamilton Air Show June 15-16. Hamilton is
about 30 miles west of Toronto, where the original aircraft was built. In
addition to its solo performance, the Mosquito will join a formation flight
of warbirds that will include the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's
Lancaster bomber along with a Spitfire and a Hurricane. There will also be a
gathering of Mosquito pilots.
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Warbirds
2012-04-19
[vintage-and-warbirds] Key publishing Forum P-40 found in the Sahara
Forwarded message From: Steve Link
A couple of interesting links in this posting..one about a P-40 found in the
Sahara and the other further down about Bill Lancaster who was Lost in the
Sahara After Attempting to Break the England-Cape Town Flight Speed Record.
The P-40 is just too much!
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116221
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Sahara and the other further down about Bill Lancaster who was Lost in the
Sahara After Attempting to Break the England-Cape Town Flight Speed Record.
The P-40 is just too much!
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116221
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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