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Cool video, but without any stealth technology, and open tail pipes, not hard to miss. It may be more nimble in a demo flight, but my money would still be on the F-22 Raptor. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif
Not only could it sneak up on this plane, I would take any USAF pilot over a Russian or Chinese pilot. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif
One other thing about the Raptor, with it's stealth design it will replace the F-117 and the F-15. Worth the investment.

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These are pictures of my Uncle when he raced his mustang at Reno. He blew his engine racing and oil covered his canopy a few of hundred feet off the ground. Luckley he caught site of the edge of the runway out of a small spot on the side of the canopy that was clear and was able to dead stick the thing down. Everyone on the ground though he was a goner.

He said his prayers that night after he changed his underwear.

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Just because you can afford to buy a new GT500 does not mean you should be allowed to drive one...the pictures speak for themselves.

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Yes he hit a parked Twin Cessna at a HIGH rate of speed and did Hundreds of Thousands worth of damage to the aircraft.

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Here is an amazing compulation of aircraft videos. Watch the site as these change frequently.

airplane videos

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Ouch---Since they're crashing cars into planes now---Leave it to the Brits to set up wild Pinks races---this is nuts but https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif---I couldn't get this link up so you're gonna have to dial yourself....http://www.fighterpilotuniversity.co...hter-Drag-Race.........

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Here you go Joe
Eurofighter drag race

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I was hoping you might be able to help.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Check this out! It's a piece on the Boeing 777 engine development program ( GE 90 115B Jet Engine )......

Nuch

GE 90 115B Engine

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And here is a 777 Build

Mike

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Bird Strike on a Canadair Challenger 604 ( I think ? Looks to new in the cock-house to be a 601 )
I bet this got there attention. I have had to deal with the aftermath of a few birdie strikes, but never anything this gross https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/tongue.gif

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Look closly at the bent up fan blades, hell of a meat grinder, most of it probably went through the bypass duct https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

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Mike

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NO FREE RIDES! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

That was a gnats a** away from a major catostrophy. Fortunate crew. Probably more than one bird impacted. Did they ID the breed? 'Spect they had a significant decompression. What altitude were they at when the incident occurred?

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Sam
I do not know the specifics of the incident. My guess is it my have been on climb out. I think a head on with even a large bird might have been deflected ?? If they were climbing fast when they impacted the poor birdie that might explain the structural damage. JMO. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif
Would not have been alot of cabin differential pressure during initial climbout.

Mike

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Looking at the air inlet gives new meaning to the expression "Your goose is cooked". I might give up chicken fingers for a while. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif
I loved the 777 vid, Mike. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif I rode in coach trans-Atlantic in one (for about 10 or 11 hours each way). Only difference between a 777 and a 737 is the number of seats. A sardine by any other name... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

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These replica P-38's sound like the clone a lot of us here would love to have!.
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~ Pete

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I'm part way through a book on WW2 Bomber Command, 6 Group specifically and the more I learn, the more I understand how we truly are such the fortunate generation!.

Take the time to thank a Veteran...before it's too late!.

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~ Pete

Here's one amazing story some may know already...worth rereading if you do..

Andrew Charles Mynarski was born in Winnipeg, October 14, 1916, the son of Polish immigrants. He was a north-end boy who attended King Edward and Isaac Newton Elementary Schools and St. John's Technical School, but at 16, when his father died, he left school to help support his family. In November 1941, Mynarski enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and trained in Calgary and Edmonton before being posted to No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School at MacDonald, Manitoba, where he trained as a mid-upper air-gunner, earning his AG Wing in 1942. He was sent overseas in December 1942 and, after training in England, was posted to 419 "Moose" Squadron, a heavy bomber squadron that was part of 6 Group, the Canadian arm of RAF Bomber Command.

Moose Squadron flew out of the RAF station at Middleton St. George, near Darlington in north England. Mynarski was part of a seven-man crew on the Lancaster Bomber A for Able, with pilot Art de Breyne from St. Lambert, Québec, Jack Friday of Port Arthur, Ontario, Jim Kelly of Winnipeg, Bob Bodie of Vancouver, Roy Vigars of Guildfand, England and Flight Lt. Pat Brophy of Port Arthur. A cook at the base, Mrs. Berriman, told the story that when the Canadians returned from missions, the first thing they would ask for was a slice of her lemon meringue pie. Her daughter recalls: "When they flew back in, my mom had to have it ready for them. The Canadians really loved it, much more than the English."

On the night of June 12, 1944 a few days after D-Day, the Lanc and its crew took off on their thirteenth sortie for the railway yard at Cambrai in an attempt to disrupt German supply lines. For bomber crews in World War II life expectancy was measured in months.

In the recollection of Mynarski's friend Pat Brophy in a famous December 1965 Reader's Digest story, "The Thirteenth Mission," Mynarski was "a quiet, chunky fellow with a boyish grin." Brophy, an officer, and Mynarski, an NCO, lived in different quarters but they became fast friends. After missions or evenings on the town the two men had a routine: Brophy would say, "So long Irish"; Mynarski would exaggerate a salute and reply "Good night, sir!" As the friends sat on the grass beside their bomber waiting to take off for France, Mynarski found a four-leaf clover and said "Here, Pat. You take it." It proved to be a prophetic act.

On the way to Cambrai a German JU-88 streaked under the Lancaster and let fly. Explosions rocked the aircraft. At 13 minutes past midnight, June 13, Captain de Breyne gave the signal to bail out. In the tail turret, however, the hydraulic system had been destroyed and Brophy was trapped. Just as Mynarski was about to jump to safety he saw Brophy struggling to get free. On his hands and knees Mynarski crawled to the tail and frantically attempted with an axe and then his bare hands to release his friend. By this time flames were engulfing the aircraft and Brophy screamed, "Go back, Andrew! Get out!"

Reluctantly, Mynarski crawled back to the escape hatch, and standing up in his burning clothes saluted his old friend as he had so many times before. Brophy recalled, "At the same time, just before he jumped, he said something. And though I couldn't hear, I knew it was, 'Good night, sir!'"

Amazingly, as the Lancaster hurtled toward the earth it hit a tree and the blow snapped Brophy's turret open and he was thrown free, unharmed. The French resistance rescued Brophy and three of his companions; two of the surviving crew had been taken prisoner. He later learned that a French farmer had spoken of a parachutist who had landed alive but died of severe burns.

Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, age 27, was the first member of the RCAF to be decorated with the Victoria Cross. His example is a testament both to courage and to friendship. Fortitude, endurance, loyalty and bravery are virtues that should inspire us all, but, as Gwynne Dyer writes in War, they are a fundamental necessity in the military. Combat is horrifying and to persevere requires a bond of trust. Sir John Hackett, a well- known British General, makes the point that military action is group action: "The success of armies depends to a high degree on the coherence of the group and the coherence of the group depends on the degree of trust and confidence of its members in each other." Soldiers fight because of loyalty to close friends. Mynarski demonstrated bravery and loyalty of almost superhuman proportions.

Most importantly, he demonstrated these virtues on behalf of a friend. William Bennett in the Book of Virtues writes that, "in the best friendships we see, in perhaps its purest form, a moral paradigm for all human relations." Having friends and being a friend means that you begin by sharing mutual interests and taking pleasure in each other's company. But deeper friendship moves from acquaintanceship and affection to frankness, sharing, and assistance, as Mynarski exemplified, to the point of self-sacrifice.

I think it is this aspect of the Mynarski story that has had such an impact. Brave soldiers must die in war, but this man died trying to save a friend. It is an example that unites generations: near the former base in Middleton the children of the primary schools joined with many others across England and Canada to raise more than 76,000 pounds for a statue to Andrew Mynarski at Durham Tees Valley Airport. The sculptor of the statue visited Mynarski's grave at Meharicourt Cemetery, France, and left a message from the school children: "We will never forget our hero." On June 4, 2005, Colleen Bacon, Pat Brophy's daughter, unveiled the statue as a permanent memorial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that friendships are gifts and expressions from God. That was certainly the view of Pat Brophy. He concluded his 1965 article about Andrew Mynarski with these words: "I'll always believe that a divine providence intervened to save me because of what I had seen – so the world might know of a gallant man who laid down his life for a friend."

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Here is a picture of the Andrew Charles Mynarski Lancaster that flys out of the Warplane Hertiage collection. I have seen this plane many times and let me tell you it is outstanding! it is only one of two that fly in the world and it came off of a pedestal in Godderich Ont and put back into flying condition by volunteers [image]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0may072003.jpg[/image] The small history on the plane

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Do you know if this is the same Lancaster that used to be located at the Anoka County Airport Museum in Minnesota until about 7-10 years ago? I thought that airplane was one of the two remaining as well so it could be the same or the other one. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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British Lancaster bomber

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This was the Lanc that flew in from Canada last year for the Mustang show. Same plane? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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This was the Lanc that flew in from Canada last year for the Mustang show. Same plane? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Yes it is the same plane,

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Here is some history on the Lancaster from Hamilton

The Lancaster, C-GVRA, owned and operated by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWH), was one of the 422 Mk X models built at Victory Aircraft in Canada between 1943 and 1945. It saw service with the No. 107 Rescue Unit at Torbay, Newfoundland, as a maritime patrol/search and rescue aircraft until retired by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1964.

Lancasters are powered by four Rolls-Royce or Packard-built Merlin engines and was the only aircraft capable of carrying the 22,000-pound Grand Slam bomb.

Between 1942 and VE Day (May 8, 1945), Lancasters participated in 156,000 sorties and delivered two-thirds of Bomber Command’s total bomb weight. The Lancaster won a place for itself in history with the daring and precise bombing raids on the Mohne and Eder dams in May 1943 and with the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz, in a well-defended Norwegian fjord. Of the 7,366 Lancasters built during World War II, only two are still flying today.

The CWH Lancaster was acquired from the Goderich Legion in 1977, with assistance from the Sully Foundation. Following a lengthy restoration, it flew again on September 24, 1988. The aircraft is painted in the wartime RCAF markings of the 419 Squadron, unit code VR-A aircraft in which P/O Andrew Mynarski of Winnipeg was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for attempting to rescue the trapped rear gunner from his blazing turret.

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Great pics and that B24 shot is sure an a amazing part of Willow Run history before Novas were rolling out the door!.
Cool too how the B24's are already numbered in the pic...it'd be interesting to run a few and see what history they took part in next?.
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Wasn't Willow Run where Tuckers were built too?.
Also anyone note what that Tucker sold for at the August RM Monterey auction...$1,017,500?!

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Tuckers were built in Chicago, at an old bomber plant.
Mr. Tucker was from Ypsilanti, where the Willow Run plant is.

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I dont think that Novas ever rolled out the door at Willow Run .............it was a Ford plant. Anyway more pictures.. [image]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...7/79464-vi.jpg[/image] [image]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...Factory27b.jpg[/image]

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Some B24's at Willow Run

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That's an interesting paint scheme on these B-24's. Is this a work-in-progress paint scheme, or some attempt at
camoflague? Notice the row to the far right is all olive drab.

Nuch

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Willow Run is the name of the area just east of Ypsi. You're correct about the Ford plant building bombers, but not only did GM build Novas in Willow Run, they had a Hydromatic plant just accross the street. Willow Run airfield was adjacent to the palnt, and was the precursor to DTW, or Detroit Metro as it was called back in the 60's. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/scholar.gif

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That's an interesting paint scheme on these B-24's. Is this a work-in-progress paint scheme, or some attempt at
camoflague? Notice the row to the far right is all olive drab.

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These are B24E's built by Ford at the then Ford owned Willow Run plant. The paint scheme is not a work in progress but rather an attempt at camouflaging. I cannot tell by the B/W photo but these are likely Marine or Desert destined planes based on the camouflage so as to make it harder to see them from below against the bright sun or grey clouds.

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US built aircobras for the Russian airforce A total of 4719 P-39s were sent to the Soviet Union [image]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...427/Soviet.jpg[/image]

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Some B24's at Willow Run

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That's an interesting paint scheme on these B-24's. Is this a work-in-progress paint scheme, or some attempt at
camoflague? Notice the row to the far right is all olive drab.

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The airplanes with the white paint are probably Navy PB4Ys, the navy patrol/bomber version of the Air Corps B-24. The top (darker color) would be standard navy Medium Blue as found on other navy planes such as PBYs and Wildcats in 1941-42 before the "tri-color" scheme of two shades of blue with white undersides came into use. The round insignia less the red-ball center denotes 1942-early '43, before the "bars" were added to each side of the insignia. This navy version of the B-24 is the same type of airplane that Joe Kennedy, JFK's older brother, died flying later in the war. It was an older war-weary version such as these and was packed with explosives and was to be flown to the German's V-1 and V-2 development and launching site at Peenemunde where Kennedy and his copilot were to bail-out as the explosives-laden PB4Y flew on the crash into the launch sites. The airplane exploded in flight before they got out of English airspace.

The overall Olive Drab (with gray undersides) airplanes are Air Corps B-24s, built alongside the navy birds (or vice-versa).

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"...This navy version of the B-24 is the same type of airplane that Joe Kennedy, JFK's older brother, died flying later in the war. It was an older war-weary version such as these and was packed with explosives and was to be flown to the German's V-1 and V-2 development and launching site at Peenemunde where Kennedy and his copilot were to bail-out as the explosives-laden PB4Y flew on the crash into the launch sites. The airplane exploded in flight before they got out of English airspace..."
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Thanks for posting this Bill..
Simply incredible what missions these guys were handed also what so many would willingly volunteer for!.

In the book on Bomber Command I mentioned reading, a couple of nights ago I read about Peenemunde being the target for two nights in Aug. of '43..
Almost 600 Bombers were sent on this mission plus squadrons of the speedy plywood construction Mosquitos sent to Berlin as a diversion to draw the German fighters away from the true target..
Included in this mission were 57 aircraft and crews of the Canadian 6-Group who were happy to be flying at higher and safer altitudes in their new Lancasters (12 didn't return).
Statistics weren't a happy thing in those days especially for rear tail gunners who's average lifespan was less than 5 weeks!.

If you know a Veteran or have the opportunity to, shake his hand and salute him and his lost brothers w/ thanks for their sacrifices and the freedom our generation has grown up with!.

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~ Pete

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Pete, check out Google Earth and you can see the Peenemunde site and remnants of the buzz-bomb and missile operations from WWII. People have attachd current photos of the site that are fascinating.

-Bill

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It's truly amazing! Almost 600 bombers were sent to destroy
one target. Modern stealth aircraft can accomplish the same
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Great images - thanks for posting them.

Nuch

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And "Mossies" sound great too.

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"Dead Stick Takeoff"

Check out this video, sent to me by an FAA buddy of mine. Nice energy management.

I think you guys will enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z985xdXW-3w

Phil Woj.

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And "Mossies" sound great too.

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I love Mosquitos too and they're a rare bird now as their wood construction contributed largely to what few airframes remained being worthy of restoration..

About 10 years ago I remember reading about the recovery of an abandoned Mossie in Northern Canada...here's a link to the story of how it all happened the day it went down in 1956..

http://www.mossie.org/windsor/mossie_down.htm

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~ Pete

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"Dead Stick Takeoff"

Check out this video, sent to me by an FAA buddy of mine. Nice energy management.

I think you guys will enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z985xdXW-3w

Phil Woj.

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Mike