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Combat Warplanes / Re: First of the heavies
« on: October 19, 2007, 11:55:02 AM »
A couple of images from the list Safo_test posted.

Sikorsky Ilia and the Zeppelin Staaken R-VI

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies
« on: October 19, 2007, 09:17:55 AM »
Great list and some excellent films listed  :-ok

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Combat Warplanes / Re: The Avro Vulcan
« on: October 18, 2007, 02:30:00 PM »
The Vulcan flys again.

The massive delta-winged Vulcan bomber has taken to the skies for the first time in 14 years, the foremost of Britain's fleet of nuclear bombers, flew for the last time in 1993.

Read more : Sky News  :-clap :-love

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Albatros C.III
« on: October 18, 2007, 01:18:28 PM »
A couple of images

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Combat Warplanes / Re: First of the heavies
« on: October 15, 2007, 01:53:50 PM »

Serials of the Curtiss B-2 Condor

Curtiss B-2 Condor

28-398/399   
     28-398 DELIVERED 6/10/29, SURVEYED 10/3/34,  MARCH FIELD
     28-399 DELIVERED 8/10/29, SURVEYED 8/15/34,  MARCH FIELD
29-028/037    
     29-028 DELIVERED 10/10/29, WRECKED 12/4/29 (TWO KILLED), LANGLEY FIELD
     29-029 DELIVERED 11/2/29, SURVEYED 10/3/34, MARCH FIELD
     29-030 DELIVERED 10/17/29, CONVERTED TO B-2A 10/6/31, SURVEYED 12/22/33, MARCH FIELD
     29-031 DELIVERED  11/28/29, SURVEYED 8/6/34, MARCH FIELD
     29-032 DELIVERED 12/9/29, SURVEYED 8/6/34, MARCH FIELD
     29-033 DELIVERED 12/14/29, SURVEYED 8/6/34, MARCH FIELD
     29-034 DELIVERED 12/22/29, SURVEYED 6/17/35, MARCH FIELD
     29-035 DELIVERED 12/26/29, SURVEYED 5/23/33, MARCH FIELD
     29-036 DELIVERED 1/4/30, SURVEYED 7/22/36, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS
     29-037 DELIVERED 1/16/30, SURVEYED 9/29/34, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies
« on: October 12, 2007, 11:01:34 AM »
And what about "Russians is coming" , maybe I miss correct name of movie. This is about Soviet submarine stuck at the coast in North America and in movie is appeared F-101  :-think

The Russians are Comming, - When a Soviet submarine captain comes up for a look at America (off the coast of a small island in Massachusetts) he runs aground. He sends his two English speaking crewmen to procure a boat with enough power to pull them off. The 2 English speakers, along with 7 other Russian sailors, don't exactly blend in and the town is convinced that they are being invaded.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Warplanes in Movies
« on: October 12, 2007, 09:10:06 AM »
Then there was Ice Station Zebra, in one shot it was said that Russian Migs were about to attack, but they showed English Electric Ligthnings.
Dambusters - Lancasters
633 Sqn - Mosquitos
Mosquito Squadron
Catch 22 - B25

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Warplane Art / Re: Machtrainer- almost ready
« on: October 08, 2007, 04:17:12 PM »
 :-clap :-eek

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Gloster Meteor
« on: October 08, 2007, 01:18:01 PM »
Have a look at this site about Alexander P. de Seversky and the P-47

http://home.att.net/~historyzone/Seversky-Republic.html

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Gloster Meteor
« on: October 08, 2007, 12:48:16 PM »
In 1917, a pilot in the Imperial Russian Navy, Alexander P. de Seversky, proposed increasing the range of combat aircraft by refueling them in flight. De Seversky soon emigrated to the United States and became an engineer in the War Department. He applied for and received the first patent for air-to-air refueling in 1921.

The first actual transfer of fuel from one aircraft to another was little more than a stunt. On November 12, 1921, wingwalker Wesley May climbed from a Lincoln Standard to a Curtiss JN-4 airplane with a can of fuel strapped to his back. When he reached the JN-4, he poured the fuel into its gas tank. Needless to say, this was not the most practical way of refueling an airplane in flight.

In 1923, the U.S. Army undertook tests at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, to test a more practical way to lower a hose from one airplane to refuel another in flight. In its tests, a DH-4B biplane outfitted as a tanker and equipped with a 50-foot (15-meter) length of hose and a quick-acting shutoff valve would fly above the receiver and lower the hose. The person in the rear seat of the receiver aircraft would grab the hose and connect it to the aircraft. If the hose became detached, the valve would immediately cut off the flow, preventing it from spraying fuel over the receiving aircraft and its pilot.

Source - http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Evolution_of_Technology/refueling/Tech22.htm


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Combat Warplanes / Re: Gloster Meteor
« on: October 07, 2007, 07:56:56 PM »
Meteor F.4s were also used to evaluate in-flight refueling schemes, which were never implemented in production Meteors.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Tornados
« on: October 06, 2007, 07:55:52 PM »
Great link Wingman81, also excellent image, looks like a 'Tiger Meet' shot

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Warplane Art / Re: Italian Paratroopers
« on: October 03, 2007, 01:54:36 PM »
Very good links my friend  :-ok

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Warplane Art / Re: Italian Paratroopers
« on: October 02, 2007, 03:43:01 PM »
Leo I will do some research  :-think

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Unknow aircraft?
« on: October 01, 2007, 02:05:01 PM »
Thank you all for the great information and images  :-ok :-obey

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