Forwarded message From: Pâques Nadine
Accident d'ULM à Buzet: deux morts
Les deux passagers d'un ULM (ultra léger motorisé) ont perdu la vie dans le crash de leur aéronef à Buzet (Pont-à-Celles), dimanche en fin de journée.
Thx Nadine
Visit us at www.belgian-wings.be http://www.facebook.com/groups/Belgianwings http://www.sv4b.be/ http://www.wingsofmemory.be/Eng.htm www.belgianaviationnews.be Many happy landings
2012-10-24
FLYING ZONE OCTOBRE 2012
Forwarded message From: Serge NEMRY
Hello, www.flying-zone.be est en ligne
Au sommaire
Sanicole Airshow
349 Squadron,70 years
TailWheel Meet
Special Aviation Award 2012
A-400M
Green Blade
Remembrance Day
Un 787-8 pour LAN au Chili
Remise des Ailes à Beauvechain
Liège Airport ,dernières photos
Un tour du monde aéronautique en photos
Bonne lecture,
Serge NEMRYwww.flying-zone.be
serge.nemry1@hotmail.com
Hello, www.flying-zone.be est en ligne
Au sommaire
Sanicole Airshow
349 Squadron,70 years
TailWheel Meet
Special Aviation Award 2012
A-400M
Green Blade
Remembrance Day
Un 787-8 pour LAN au Chili
Remise des Ailes à Beauvechain
Liège Airport ,dernières photos
Un tour du monde aéronautique en photos
Bonne lecture,
Serge NEMRYwww.flying-zone.be
serge.nemry1@hotmail.com
Release of new book: Uncovering the F-104G Starfighter
Forwarded message From: Didier Waelkens
It took us 2 years of photographing more than 40 different Starfighters all
around Europe, selecting the 'right' photos out of several thousands
digital pictures to give you a nice and variated overview of all parts,
designing a layout that we can be proud of and making informative captions
that fit perfectly in the remaining space. Just call it a work of pride and
passion for the Starfighter! This is truely a new bible for this famous
fighter.
And as almost half of the 2000 Starfighters that flew above Europe in the
'60s, '70s and '80s were of the German Luftwaffe or Marine, we decided to
release this book also with german captions. Only a limited number of this
version is printed, so for those interested in a german version: get them
while they are available...
After a superlong marathon this weekend I managed to finish the scale
drawings and dropped off the fold-out pages with the drawings yesterday
morning at the printer, so they can be binded with the picture pages (which
were already printed last week) the coming days this week, as the target
date of release is already this weekend!
Normal price of this book is 34.75 euro, quite cheap if you consider that a
tank full of gas will cost you more and will give you less pleasure, but to
make it even more interesting for you: I give a special discount of 20% on
the price of the book for those who order & pay for it before the end of
this month.
OR you can select for getting 10% discount PLUS a free German or Belgian
Starfighter decal (only the main sheet, with the squadron markings and , in
scale 1/72 or 1/48, worth 7.50 or 10.00 euro) OR you can select for two
free German or Belgian Starfighter decals (idem)!
Just let me know your preference while you order and I'll take care of it...
For shop owners I will give also a discount for all orders done by the end
of this month
Have a look on my website for several preview pages and more info of this
book...
Best Regards
Danny Coremans
DACO Products
http://ultra.glo.be/daco
PS 1: I might have a very limited quantity of F-16 books back available
soon, but I still need to find out at the bookbinder if he's willing to
process such a low quantity. But for those still interested in getting a
copy of this long-sold-out title: let me know your interest...
PS 2: To make space for this Starfighter book, I'm giving a discounted
price on the F/A-18 A/B/C/D and US Navy F-4 Phantom books: both are now
only 29.75 euro instead of 34.75 euro. Take advantage of it!
PS 3: no news yet of the tooling company regarding the Starfighter
improvement set. In August they promised me I will have test-shots
available next month for the IPMS UK Telford model show, but since then
they have been very silent to me...
News from DACO :
Hello
With this newsletter I would like to announce the release of my next book
in the range "Uncovering the..": The Lockheed (T)F-104G Starfighter.
Teamed up with Peter Gordts to do the captions (not easy to find the
necessary information of a fighter jet that did its last flight more than
25 years ago, but we succeded), this book has 160 pages full with detailed
pictures (I can truly state we uncovered everything... ) and very accurate
scale drawings (we measured the whole aircraft for these drawings) & the
cockpit diagrams (drawn by Willy Peeters) printed on 1 meter large fold-out
pages.
With this newsletter I would like to announce the release of my next book
in the range "Uncovering the..": The Lockheed (T)F-104G Starfighter.
Teamed up with Peter Gordts to do the captions (not easy to find the
necessary information of a fighter jet that did its last flight more than
25 years ago, but we succeded), this book has 160 pages full with detailed
pictures (I can truly state we uncovered everything... ) and very accurate
scale drawings (we measured the whole aircraft for these drawings) & the
cockpit diagrams (drawn by Willy Peeters) printed on 1 meter large fold-out
pages.
It took us 2 years of photographing more than 40 different Starfighters all
around Europe, selecting the 'right' photos out of several thousands
digital pictures to give you a nice and variated overview of all parts,
designing a layout that we can be proud of and making informative captions
that fit perfectly in the remaining space. Just call it a work of pride and
passion for the Starfighter! This is truely a new bible for this famous
fighter.
And as almost half of the 2000 Starfighters that flew above Europe in the
'60s, '70s and '80s were of the German Luftwaffe or Marine, we decided to
release this book also with german captions. Only a limited number of this
version is printed, so for those interested in a german version: get them
while they are available...
After a superlong marathon this weekend I managed to finish the scale
drawings and dropped off the fold-out pages with the drawings yesterday
morning at the printer, so they can be binded with the picture pages (which
were already printed last week) the coming days this week, as the target
date of release is already this weekend!
Normal price of this book is 34.75 euro, quite cheap if you consider that a
tank full of gas will cost you more and will give you less pleasure, but to
make it even more interesting for you: I give a special discount of 20% on
the price of the book for those who order & pay for it before the end of
this month.
OR you can select for getting 10% discount PLUS a free German or Belgian
Starfighter decal (only the main sheet, with the squadron markings and , in
scale 1/72 or 1/48, worth 7.50 or 10.00 euro) OR you can select for two
free German or Belgian Starfighter decals (idem)!
Just let me know your preference while you order and I'll take care of it...
For shop owners I will give also a discount for all orders done by the end
of this month
Have a look on my website for several preview pages and more info of this
book...
Best Regards
Danny Coremans
DACO Products
http://ultra.glo.be/daco
PS 1: I might have a very limited quantity of F-16 books back available
soon, but I still need to find out at the bookbinder if he's willing to
process such a low quantity. But for those still interested in getting a
copy of this long-sold-out title: let me know your interest...
PS 2: To make space for this Starfighter book, I'm giving a discounted
price on the F/A-18 A/B/C/D and US Navy F-4 Phantom books: both are now
only 29.75 euro instead of 34.75 euro. Take advantage of it!
PS 3: no news yet of the tooling company regarding the Starfighter
improvement set. In August they promised me I will have test-shots
available next month for the IPMS UK Telford model show, but since then
they have been very silent to me...
Belgians in RAF and SAAF 1940 1945 News: Photo album: Musée du Souvenir 40 - 45 - Malèves -...
You are invited to view bamf bamrs's photo album: Musée du Souvenir 40 - 45 - Malèves - Sainte - Marie - Mehdi Schneyders Tagged ...
2012-10-22
[vintage-and-warbirds] Out from the cold: 70 years after crashing in Canada, WWII plane finds its way to Casa Grande
Another miracle from Canada
Forwarded message From: SIRIUS
Out from the cold: 70 years after crashing in Canada, WWII plane finds its
way to Casa Grande
By SHELLEY RIDENOUR
Assignment Editor
Casa Grande Dispatch
Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:21 am
A new beginning to a 70-year-old story unfolded last week in Casa Grande
amid a crane, tugs, forklifts, and lots of moving parts.
Exactly 70 years to the day that a Douglas A-20 Havoc crashed as members of
the U.S. Army Air Corps were flying over Labrador, Canada, two semitrailers
loaded with that disassembled A-20 pulled up at the GossHawk Unlimited shop
and hangar near Casa Grande Municipal Airport.
"It's taken 70 years to get this here," said Bob Mester, a director of
Underwater Admirality Sciences, as he watched parts being unloaded from the
trailers and hauled inside the giant building owned by Dave Goss, president
of Goss Hawk.
The A-20's nearly 3,000-mile journey to Arizona was filled with bumps,
probably like those experienced by the pilot who was forced to crash-land it
on Oct. 10, 1942.
The World War II bomber ran out of fuel on that fateful day, on a mission
that no one associated with the recovery effort has been able to pin down.
The pilot, known only as Capt. Secord, crash-landed the plane. The crew was
rescued three days later by personnel from the Royal Canadian Air Force Base
at Goose Bay, but the plane had to be abandoned. No available records
indicate how many people were on the plane, but Mester and Mark Allen and
others have speculated no more than three crew members were aboard, and
possibly only two, because the A-20s were flown by a single pilot.
It's believed the plane hit tail-first, based on damage to the underbelly.
The nose of the plane was torn away and much was embedded in the bog where
it landed, according to a report written by Michael Deal of the Memorial
University archaeology department.
The plane sat largely undisturbed for almost 70 years until Mester and his
business partner, Allen, learned of it in 1998. It took six years for the
men to get permission to remove the plane.
Mester and Allen gained ownership of the aircraft after the U.S. Air Force
waived ownership and subsequently secured permission from Canadian officials
to recover it.
While that process was far from simple, there were still plenty of
challenges ahead, Allen said.
The plane was 85 miles from Goose Bay in Labrador, in a remote portion of
the Little Mecatina River. It was about 600 miles north of Maine. There are
no roads in or out, Allen said. The nearest is 120 miles away. The site was
accessible only by helicopter.
As Allen and Mester began contacting private helicopter companies in Canada
about their recovery effort, they faced two big stumbling blocks -- the
going rate to rent a helicopter was $6,500 an hour and essentially no firm
was interested in the job.
"We couldn't get anyone to call us back," Mester said.
Fortunately, the Canadian Air Force literally came to the rescue.
"Had they not come to the rescue, the plane would still be there," Allen
said.
Leaders of 444 Combat Squadron, 5 Wing Goose Bay, heard of the recovery
effort and told Mester and Allen they found the project "interesting and
would help us out if we weren't on a time schedule," Allen said. "We said,
'Great.' "
The squadron treated the operation as a training exercise.
Allen and Mester were eventually able to hire some private companies, too.
In all, 56 helicopter flights were made during four years to get the parts
out.
The soggy bog where the plane was sitting prevented the helicopter pilots
from setting the aircraft down because of potential damage to its skids. So,
the pilots figured out a way to haul in pallets and build a landing spot for
the chopper, Allen said.
The A-20 was in such good shape it could be taken apart fairly easily,
Mester said. "It had spent 66 years in a deep freeze up north and that
maintained it well."
But, it wasn't as simple as grabbing parts of the plane with a forklift or a
crane, the two men said, because none of that equipment could be hauled in
for the recovery effort.
Everything had to be disassembled into pieces small enough to move around by
hand, some with the assistance of giant inflatable bags, and then loaded
onto the helicopter or dangled from a wire from the helicopter and hauled
out.
Then there was the bog. Workers stood in water and muck that was mid-calf to
knee-deep all day long.
"It was like spending 12 hours on a StairMaster," Mester said. "When I tried
to get up on the second day, my legs said, 'go ahead, we're staying in
bed.'"
The "first lift", of 44,000 pounds, occurred on Aug. 21, 2004.
Work occurred for the next five years, as weather allowed, with the final
piece -- the starboard wing -- flown out in November 2009.
One of the last flights out, on Aug. 27, 2009, was a day Mester won't soon
forget. It was snowing and the temperature was 28 degrees.
The weather was less than ideal on many days, the two men from the Seattle
area said. The first year of the effort, the river didn't thaw out until
early August and by Sept. 1 it was snowing again, leaving a super-short
window to work in.
Mester also remembers a day one October when the wind was blowing between 50
and 55 mph as they tried to take the tail feathers apart.
"We had to tie them down to disassemble them," he said.
Then there were the bears.
At least they weren't grizzlies, Mester said.
For whatever reason, black bears liked congregating around the plane, he
said. So much, in fact, the bears had created two trails in and out of the
remote site.
Daily, the workers had to shoo the bears away before starting their work, he
said.
The parts were ferried out of the bog and stored at the Air Force base in
Goose Bay until earlier this month, when the items were hauled to Casa
Grande.
For now, the parts will sit in Goss's shop until a buyer is found to finance
the restoration effort.
Whether Goss will do the restoration will be determined by the buyer. The
new owner may end up hiring Goss or another contractor. In the latter case,
the plane would be hauled to another site for repairs.
Goss specializes in restoring antique aircraft. His firm, which he moved
from Mesa to Casa Grande in 2006, doesn't do regular aviation work, "just
history," he said.
Mester and Allen found their way to Goss's shop by recommendations from
other clients.
It's tough to guess how long the actual restoration effort might take,
Mester said. But, a safe bet is four to eight years from the time the new
owner gives the go-ahead.
While Mester and Allen are passionate about finding and recovering planes
and ships, restoring their finds is not their goal. They get the items out
and let experts take over the restoration efforts.
"That's an art form," Mester said, especially when the plane is 70-plus
years old, as is the A-20.
Recovery projects don't pay the bills, Allen said.
"It's done out of respect for history and a sense of adventure," he said.
About the only thing Mester and Allen ask of the new owner is to get a ride
on the plane once the restoration is completed.
There are no A-20s flying now. One other A-20 is in the process of being
restored. Fewer than 10 are in museums around the world.
The planes were heavily used in the Pacific Theater during WWII. About 7,000
A-20s were built in the 1930s. This particular plane was one of 63 A-20s
ordered by the U.S. Army Air Corps from Douglas Aircraft Co. in 1939. It and
two other planes were modified as prototypes of reconnaissance aircraft.
This is believed to be the No. 2 unit of the three, based on the discovery
of "F-3 #2" markings painted on the interior sides of the speed rings from
the No. 2 engine.
See also
http://www.trivalleycentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/out-from-the-cold-years-after-crashing-in-canada-wwii/article_8ea2055e-1937-11e2-88e3-0019bb2963f4.html
way to Casa Grande
By SHELLEY RIDENOUR
Assignment Editor
Casa Grande Dispatch
Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:21 am
A new beginning to a 70-year-old story unfolded last week in Casa Grande
amid a crane, tugs, forklifts, and lots of moving parts.
Exactly 70 years to the day that a Douglas A-20 Havoc crashed as members of
the U.S. Army Air Corps were flying over Labrador, Canada, two semitrailers
loaded with that disassembled A-20 pulled up at the GossHawk Unlimited shop
and hangar near Casa Grande Municipal Airport.
"It's taken 70 years to get this here," said Bob Mester, a director of
Underwater Admirality Sciences, as he watched parts being unloaded from the
trailers and hauled inside the giant building owned by Dave Goss, president
of Goss Hawk.
The A-20's nearly 3,000-mile journey to Arizona was filled with bumps,
probably like those experienced by the pilot who was forced to crash-land it
on Oct. 10, 1942.
The World War II bomber ran out of fuel on that fateful day, on a mission
that no one associated with the recovery effort has been able to pin down.
The pilot, known only as Capt. Secord, crash-landed the plane. The crew was
rescued three days later by personnel from the Royal Canadian Air Force Base
at Goose Bay, but the plane had to be abandoned. No available records
indicate how many people were on the plane, but Mester and Mark Allen and
others have speculated no more than three crew members were aboard, and
possibly only two, because the A-20s were flown by a single pilot.
It's believed the plane hit tail-first, based on damage to the underbelly.
The nose of the plane was torn away and much was embedded in the bog where
it landed, according to a report written by Michael Deal of the Memorial
University archaeology department.
The plane sat largely undisturbed for almost 70 years until Mester and his
business partner, Allen, learned of it in 1998. It took six years for the
men to get permission to remove the plane.
Mester and Allen gained ownership of the aircraft after the U.S. Air Force
waived ownership and subsequently secured permission from Canadian officials
to recover it.
While that process was far from simple, there were still plenty of
challenges ahead, Allen said.
The plane was 85 miles from Goose Bay in Labrador, in a remote portion of
the Little Mecatina River. It was about 600 miles north of Maine. There are
no roads in or out, Allen said. The nearest is 120 miles away. The site was
accessible only by helicopter.
As Allen and Mester began contacting private helicopter companies in Canada
about their recovery effort, they faced two big stumbling blocks -- the
going rate to rent a helicopter was $6,500 an hour and essentially no firm
was interested in the job.
"We couldn't get anyone to call us back," Mester said.
Fortunately, the Canadian Air Force literally came to the rescue.
"Had they not come to the rescue, the plane would still be there," Allen
said.
Leaders of 444 Combat Squadron, 5 Wing Goose Bay, heard of the recovery
effort and told Mester and Allen they found the project "interesting and
would help us out if we weren't on a time schedule," Allen said. "We said,
'Great.' "
The squadron treated the operation as a training exercise.
Allen and Mester were eventually able to hire some private companies, too.
In all, 56 helicopter flights were made during four years to get the parts
out.
The soggy bog where the plane was sitting prevented the helicopter pilots
from setting the aircraft down because of potential damage to its skids. So,
the pilots figured out a way to haul in pallets and build a landing spot for
the chopper, Allen said.
The A-20 was in such good shape it could be taken apart fairly easily,
Mester said. "It had spent 66 years in a deep freeze up north and that
maintained it well."
But, it wasn't as simple as grabbing parts of the plane with a forklift or a
crane, the two men said, because none of that equipment could be hauled in
for the recovery effort.
Everything had to be disassembled into pieces small enough to move around by
hand, some with the assistance of giant inflatable bags, and then loaded
onto the helicopter or dangled from a wire from the helicopter and hauled
out.
Then there was the bog. Workers stood in water and muck that was mid-calf to
knee-deep all day long.
"It was like spending 12 hours on a StairMaster," Mester said. "When I tried
to get up on the second day, my legs said, 'go ahead, we're staying in
bed.'"
The "first lift", of 44,000 pounds, occurred on Aug. 21, 2004.
Work occurred for the next five years, as weather allowed, with the final
piece -- the starboard wing -- flown out in November 2009.
One of the last flights out, on Aug. 27, 2009, was a day Mester won't soon
forget. It was snowing and the temperature was 28 degrees.
The weather was less than ideal on many days, the two men from the Seattle
area said. The first year of the effort, the river didn't thaw out until
early August and by Sept. 1 it was snowing again, leaving a super-short
window to work in.
Mester also remembers a day one October when the wind was blowing between 50
and 55 mph as they tried to take the tail feathers apart.
"We had to tie them down to disassemble them," he said.
Then there were the bears.
At least they weren't grizzlies, Mester said.
For whatever reason, black bears liked congregating around the plane, he
said. So much, in fact, the bears had created two trails in and out of the
remote site.
Daily, the workers had to shoo the bears away before starting their work, he
said.
The parts were ferried out of the bog and stored at the Air Force base in
Goose Bay until earlier this month, when the items were hauled to Casa
Grande.
For now, the parts will sit in Goss's shop until a buyer is found to finance
the restoration effort.
Whether Goss will do the restoration will be determined by the buyer. The
new owner may end up hiring Goss or another contractor. In the latter case,
the plane would be hauled to another site for repairs.
Goss specializes in restoring antique aircraft. His firm, which he moved
from Mesa to Casa Grande in 2006, doesn't do regular aviation work, "just
history," he said.
Mester and Allen found their way to Goss's shop by recommendations from
other clients.
It's tough to guess how long the actual restoration effort might take,
Mester said. But, a safe bet is four to eight years from the time the new
owner gives the go-ahead.
While Mester and Allen are passionate about finding and recovering planes
and ships, restoring their finds is not their goal. They get the items out
and let experts take over the restoration efforts.
"That's an art form," Mester said, especially when the plane is 70-plus
years old, as is the A-20.
Recovery projects don't pay the bills, Allen said.
"It's done out of respect for history and a sense of adventure," he said.
About the only thing Mester and Allen ask of the new owner is to get a ride
on the plane once the restoration is completed.
There are no A-20s flying now. One other A-20 is in the process of being
restored. Fewer than 10 are in museums around the world.
The planes were heavily used in the Pacific Theater during WWII. About 7,000
A-20s were built in the 1930s. This particular plane was one of 63 A-20s
ordered by the U.S. Army Air Corps from Douglas Aircraft Co. in 1939. It and
two other planes were modified as prototypes of reconnaissance aircraft.
This is believed to be the No. 2 unit of the three, based on the discovery
of "F-3 #2" markings painted on the interior sides of the speed rings from
the No. 2 engine.
See also
http://www.trivalleycentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/area_news/out-from-the-cold-years-after-crashing-in-canada-wwii/article_8ea2055e-1937-11e2-88e3-0019bb2963f4.html
_
[vintage-and-warbirds] A British icon that could be yours for £1.7m: Restored World War II Hurricane goes up for auction
Forwarded message From: SIRIUS <siriusproductions@sympatico.ca>Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:48 PM
A British icon that could be yours for £1.7m: Restored World War II
Hurricane goes up for auction
-- Hurricane from 1942 going under the hammer in December in Weybridge
-- Plane in Canada during WWII and "protected East Coast from U-boat
activity"
Full story, 15 photos, and a video:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219840/Restored-12-gun-Hurricane-fighter-expected-fetch-1-7m-Bonhams-auction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
or go to: http://tinyurl.com/9ysu665
Video : Le Mont Blanc
Forwarded message From: ailesetplumesDate: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Le Mont Blanc
Subject: Le Mont Blanc
Calendrier Ailes Historiques du Rhin 2013
Forwarded message From: Eric JANSSONNE
Haguenau le 21/10/2012, Alsace
Ami(e)s de l'aviation,
Nous vous proposons notre calendrier (voir fichier joint) pour vos cadeaux de fin d'année ou pour votre propre plaisir.
Vous pouvez le commander sous : aileshistoriquesdurhin@gmail.com
Et consulter notre site internet pour y découvrir les autres produits de la boutique : http://www.aileshistoriquesdurhin.fr
Vous pouvez aussi transmettre ce message à vos connaissances.
Merci d'avance pour votre soutien.
Meilleures salutations
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Président " Les Ailes Historiques du Rhin "
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