Planes
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Sorta planes, one of my buddies now training in Dubai saw this
DDay era roundel and invasion stripes!
Needs sharks teeth like a p 40
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@Machpants said in Planes:
More appropriate to the roundel
I had a client who was trained to fly those in preparation for huge losses on d-day . That never happened though and he never got to actually fly in combat , still he got to fang around the sky in one of those beasts for a few months before he went home to his old job selling cars.
They were Richie McCaws grandads ride for the latter part of the war flying out of Tangmere. If anyone has a link to the clip of him blowing up the German train with rockets I’d be stoked if you posted it .
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@Donsteppa said in Planes:
@jegga I'm surprised there are any left for a museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Vickers_Viscount
The poms built the Comet too which had the unfortunate issue of breaking up in mid air
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If you've read the book Devotion you'll know this guys story, I think theres a movie in the works about it. Here's his background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr.
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Looks like we will buy new Hercules aircraft instead of changing to another manufacturer. Good solid option
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Yeah, lots of air forces use the J now. As such a small operator we are really better to buy sightly less than new stuff. Otherwise we have to sort the teething bugs out without the clout too push it.
I got 'shot down' by a hind during a survival extraction exercise in Red Flag, Embarrassing!
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Looks like we will buy new Hercules aircraft instead of changing to another manufacturer. Good solid option
Holy crap, that's over $400,000,000.00 for each aircraft. The price must include a huge amount of spares and technical support and backup.
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de Havilland Comet - Wikipedia
