Future and Forthcoming Warbirds (4 Viewers)
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Combat
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These are great and it's particularly nice to see KC doing some of the more obscure planes. I have to admit to being a little surprised that they sell so quickly at those prices and wonder if this is a small group of collectors who can afford several or a larger group who buy one or two? Regardless, kudos to KC for making them available.
Pierre
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Hi Doug-
I think now it is a large group who buys one or two ...or more as when you get one, you're hooked. I know they're pricey but everyone worths every penny. I actually have only one in display (space problem) and everytime I see it, I am proud (yes, proud
) to be the owner of it. Even my wife finds it beautiful (let me tell you... that's the ultimate test ).Pierre.
Rob
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Rob,
That's Andy grand scheme. He throws out a list of great planes and knows that a sap like me will then look for photos and then gets all of us to salivate and he then goes and buys a chateau in France
Perhaps as he sips a drop of finest Vino in France he will cast his mind back and think 'Whatever happened to Brad and Rob'!!
Rob
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Rob
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Damian,i fear it might be too late my friend there is one plane that shall remain nameless that i reaaaaaaaally want!
Rob
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Their is some nice looking models their , I was looking at the shot brad
posted of that particular wellington last night .Heres the guff from the
website describing some of that particular planes history. I know K and C
may not make that particular plane but it would be sweet if they did
On the night of the 7th / 8th of July 1941 Wellington L7818 of No 75 (NZ) Squadron took part in a raid on the town of Münster. While returning from the raid the aircraft was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 110 over the Zuider Zee, the rear-gunner was wounded, the aircraft suffered heavy damage, and the starboard wing set ablaze. The crew were preparing to abandon the aircraft but sergeant James 'Jimmy' Ward who was a second pilot in the Wellington volunteered to go out on the wing and try to smother the flames with a cockpit cover which had served in the plane as a cushion. Attached to a rope and with the help of the navigator, he climbed through the narrow astro-hatch - far from easy in flying gear, even on the ground - put on his parachute, kicked holes in the Wellington's covering of fabric to get foot and hand-holds on the geodetic lattices, and descended three foot to the wing with the aircraft flying at several thousand feet, and at over one hundred miles per hour. He then worked his way along to behind the engine, and, despite the fierce slipstream from the propeller, managed while lying down to smother the fire. Isolated from the leaking petrol pipe, this later burnt itself out. Ward was exhausted and suffering from extreme cold returned to the astro-hatch with great difficulty: "the hardest of the lot," he wrote, "was getting my right leg in. In the end the navigator reached out and pulled it in." Despite all the damage, the aircraft got home to a make an emergency landing at Newmarket.
This deed performed by Ward, a young schoolmaster before the war, earned him the Victoria Cross, sadly, Sergeant Ward was killed on a Hamburg raid only ten weeks later - before he received his Victoria Cross.
posted of that particular wellington last night .Heres the guff from the
website describing some of that particular planes history. I know K and C
may not make that particular plane but it would be sweet if they did
On the night of the 7th / 8th of July 1941 Wellington L7818 of No 75 (NZ) Squadron took part in a raid on the town of Münster. While returning from the raid the aircraft was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 110 over the Zuider Zee, the rear-gunner was wounded, the aircraft suffered heavy damage, and the starboard wing set ablaze. The crew were preparing to abandon the aircraft but sergeant James 'Jimmy' Ward who was a second pilot in the Wellington volunteered to go out on the wing and try to smother the flames with a cockpit cover which had served in the plane as a cushion. Attached to a rope and with the help of the navigator, he climbed through the narrow astro-hatch - far from easy in flying gear, even on the ground - put on his parachute, kicked holes in the Wellington's covering of fabric to get foot and hand-holds on the geodetic lattices, and descended three foot to the wing with the aircraft flying at several thousand feet, and at over one hundred miles per hour. He then worked his way along to behind the engine, and, despite the fierce slipstream from the propeller, managed while lying down to smother the fire. Isolated from the leaking petrol pipe, this later burnt itself out. Ward was exhausted and suffering from extreme cold returned to the astro-hatch with great difficulty: "the hardest of the lot," he wrote, "was getting my right leg in. In the end the navigator reached out and pulled it in." Despite all the damage, the aircraft got home to a make an emergency landing at Newmarket.
This deed performed by Ward, a young schoolmaster before the war, earned him the Victoria Cross, sadly, Sergeant Ward was killed on a Hamburg raid only ten weeks later - before he received his Victoria Cross.
Rob
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My god what bravery,its men like that that won the war for us all.Thanks for posting that Rob,an amazing story.
Rob
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As we of most nations do ,from the safety of our homes, daily whine and moan about our piddling this and that, for 100's of years the real heroes of any generation have and continue to fight our battles,only to be forgotton,ignored and dispised....Thanks for letting us know about at least one of the forgotton..Michael
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That's a sweet looking plane. Interesting that the Germans could never develop a long range strategic bomber like the B-17. A lot of hybrid fighter-bombers that were not really suited to either role. The Luftwaffe was really designed as a ground support mechanism for the army - like artillery. That's one reason they lost the battle of britain.