Aircraft preservation : Fairey Barracuda : The jigsaw bomber: Aircraft enthusiasts rebuilding 'extinct' WWII plane from decades worth of scrap

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The jigsaw bomber: Aircraft enthusiasts rebuilding 'extinct' WWII plane from decades worth of scrap metal

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More than 2,500 Fairey Barracudas were built during the Forties.

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The torpedo bomber won some of the most pivotal victories of the Second World War, including the crippling of the Tirpitz, the Nazis' most fearsome battleship.

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However, despite the planes' loyal and honourable service, no complete version has been preserved after they were all shot down, scrapped or crashed.

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But now British aviation enthusiasts are ready to bring the extinct WWII bomber back from the grave, by rebuilding it from salvaged pieces of scrap.

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Canadian vintage wings : Flying the Stringbag to Oshkosh

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Friday, July 29th, 2011. Imagine a foursome of golfers at the Huron Pines Golf and Country Club near remote Blind River, Ontario, about to tee-off from the 18th on a wet afternoon. The skies are dank and glowering, the air humid and close, the waters from the Mississagi River run the length of the fairway. As the fourth man addresses his ball, the others stop talking and the sounds of nature take the place of the gossip and cursing.  Waggling his club head, he hears the raven's croak in the pitch pine behind the tee box, a cicada buzzing like a downed power line and an unidentified sound that stops him mid-backstroke. Far above, out of the eastern sky, comes a clattering relic from some distant time and place. Against the heavy, gray belly of cloud, the black silhouette of a large, war-like biplane moves with great effort and great noise towards the west, picking its way through the mists.

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