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Showing posts with label Warbirds. Show all posts

2011-12-29

Fwd: Interesting Stuff


Thx Jean-Luc,
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ailes et Plumes

This about a ME 262 that was manufactured NEW from scratch in Everett, WA.  The pilot was in the German Air Force at one time.

Here is an update on Me262 "WHITE 3".
 After the successful completion of the flight test program and some bureaucratic and weather delays, I ferried the airplane from Paine Field, Washington to Suffolk County Airport in Virginia.  For the last two test flights we had converted it to the two-seat configuration, which allowed our lead mechanic Mike Anderson to come along as crew chief/navigator on this 2,500 mile trip. As our FAA- operating limitations mandated 'Day VFR only', and the max altitude of 18 000ft not exactly optimal for range, it took us four days and six refueling stops across the continent to reach our destination, with "WHITE 3" performing flawlessly.
 ATC doesn't have a computer code yet for the Me262, and controllers frequently asked me for the type of airplane. They usually couldn't wait then to pass the information on to 'their' airliners on the same frequency, e.g. "Delta 123, you have a MESSERSCHMITT!! at your ten o'clock, five miles". One of the many funny replies: "Are we being invaded?"...

After receiving its new airworthiness certificate and operating limitations (the initial ones were valid only for flight test and repositioning), I'll be flying "WHITE 3" from its maintenance base in Suffolk County to its final destination, a small airport south of Virginia Beach with a 5,000 ft grass runway, where it will join - as the first jet - the world's largest collection of privately owned warbirds in the "Military Aviation Museum."

I am sure you'll be able to follow the operation of this airplane in the future on YouTube and in aviation magazines.

Cheers,

Wolf Czaia

Jim Larsen took the picture of "White 3" with Mt. Baker in the background.

2011-10-14

A rare Spitfire Mark I takes to the skies once more

Hello,
This link will not only please our friends who flew this mythic aircraft.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/goodwood-revival/8753919/A-rare-Spitfire-Mark-I-takes-to-the-skies-once-more.html

It is regarded by purists as the true Supermarine Spitfire and now a rare Mark I has been rebuilt and is once again flying over England.
The order came through on May 23, 1940 for Flight Officer Peter Cazenove to head for RAF Hornchurch, Essex in his aircraft for a briefing before heading for France to intercept German bombers. His flight into enemy territory, however, didn't last long. He was shot down 55 minutes after taking off from Hornchurch, and crash-landed on a beach near Calais. Forty years later, his Supermarine Spitfire P9374 re-emerged from the muddy coastline, and now it has been painstakingly rebuilt by the Aircraft Restoration Company. In the year that the Supermarine Spitfire is marking its 75th anniversary, The Telegraph took a seat in the cockpit to experience flying in one of the Second World War's most celebrated aircraft.

Via Emem:

2011-10-12

[vintage-and-warbirds] An Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik flew last week !

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik
Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [vintage-and-warbirds] An Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik flew last week !

 
Who would have thought this possible? Well, wonders still do occur!

Stumbled upon this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jphYnNJQAnw

My Russian is a bit "rusty" to say the least, but this Ilyushin IL-2
Shturmovik must have flown only a few days before October the 7th 2011.

Watch and enjoy!

Regards
Erik Jan

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