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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
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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
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Way Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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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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
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
============================
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
============================
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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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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2012-04-19
[vintage-and-warbirds] Key publishing Forum P-40 found in the Sahara
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
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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
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[vintage-and-warbirds] Doolittle Raiders Reunion 2012
Pictures start here..about 4 pages of really nice shots...
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40921&star t=75> &t=40921&start=75
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2012-04-14
[vintage-and-warbirds] Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK - Telegraph
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Link
From: Steve Link
This is every warbird hunters dream!!!! From Tom Beamer..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9203822/Spitfires-buried-in-Burma-during-war-to-be-returned-to-UK.html
urma-during-war-to-be-returned-to-UK.html
Or http://tinyurl.com/cxuqgt9
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9203822/Spitfires-buried-in-Burma-during-war-to-be-returned-to-UK.html
urma-during-war-to-be-returned-to-UK.html
Or http://tinyurl.com/cxuqgt9
more at
Thx to Jean-Marc for details
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2011-12-29
Fwd: Interesting Stuff
Thx Jean-Luc,
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ailes et Plumes
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ailes et Plumes
 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/
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 !
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
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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2011-07-06
The Vintage Aviator Airshow in New Zealand
If you are into WWI aircraft you're surely will like these movies:
YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow Part 1
YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow Part 2
YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow - Part 3
Best regards,
Daniel
YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow Part 1 YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow Part 2 YouTube - The Vintage Aviator Airshow - Part 3Best regards,
Daniel
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