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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ANDY M</div><div class="ubbcode-body">More info here: http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/har...sh-1201447290/

I think Bill makes a good point about no fire = no gas. Even the best pilots can forget something on the check list. Remember John Denver? He ran out of gas doing aerobatics, but unfortunately he was too high to glide, and he just augured in. </div></div>

Here on the local news they interviewed one of the people that removed him from the plane. He said they decided to get him out because it was leaking fuel. One of the authorities said it was leaking at the rate of about 1 gallon per minute. The one guy who was one of the first on the scene also turned out to be spinal surgeon (a doctor on a golf course!?!). He and the other few guys he was with stabilized his neck and got him out. Harrison has been upgraded last I heard. He's doing ok. Hey, he came back just fine after being frozen in carbonite...

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Those Kinner engines have been known to quit on take-off

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A Thunder Mustang w/RFI V-12 Falconer engine went down here in San Antonio recently -- report was the engine quit also ...

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This just in.......latest pic of the Harrison Ford crash.....remember, you saw it here first! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ps1ybgmfyu.jpg

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Randy -- looks like they ran out of the &quot;Force&quot; ...

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Neat video of the worlds only flying FW-190D-9. Some neat shots with a P51D and P-47 as well as others.

http://worldwarwings.com/worlds-only...-fw-190-flying

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Neat video of the worlds only flying FW-190D-9. Some neat shots with a P51D and P-47 as well as others.

http://worldwarwings.com/worlds-only...-fw-190-flying </div></div>

Paul Allen's 190 is an A-model, not a D-9. The A has the BMW radial engine and the D-9 was an inverted Junkers Jumo V-12 engine and was used, in part, to defend Me-262s as they came in to land, since the 262s were low and slow and very vulnerable to pursuing Allied fighters.

I've watched the Allen 190 fly a couple times and it sounds great. Similar to an F4U Corsair as it idles on the ramp and then its own distinct BMW radial sound as it flies overhead. I took my son for a ride on the CAF B-29 &quot;FIFI&quot; last summer and when we climbed out after shutdown Paul Allen's Fw-190 flew overhead. (Flight was at Everett where Allen's museum is located.) As it roared overhead I said, &quot;Wrong theater of operations pal!&quot; (B-29 was Pacific and 190 was European theater.)

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Duh! I of all people should know that as my brother rewired the complete airplane! He also wired Doug Champlin's FW-190 D-13.


&quot;Jeff Nelson of Custom Connections, left, and Dave Goss, owner of Gosshawk airplane restorers, work to reassemble the world's only flying German Focke-Wulf 190 A-5.&quot;

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None the less you 427 guys ... pretty damn awesome to hear old war birds doing their thing.

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Then you will like the sounds of this one.

whistling P51