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Bata's LockheedElectra A10 returns home to Czechoslovakia
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 Joined: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:30 pm Posts: 1251 Location: UP A GUMTREE Has thanked: 1969 times Been thanked: 1697 times 
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Our hanger neighbor in # 85 ...Don has had a big hand in this restoration project !
a couple of times he showed me around & inside the project in the last couple of years ... a very big job ... incredible detail! It was exciting to see it flying around KEWK during its airworthy trials this spring! Don will be speaking to our local EAA Chap88 group about this project in the coming months! WOW! http://www.praguepost.com/travel2/48011 ... flies-home _________________  |
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 Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7161 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8678 times
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Thanks! I love it when they bring old aircraft back to life!
Here is one that is currently on going.. http://www.b17alliancegroup.com/the-art ... story.html _________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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| Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:55 am |
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 Site Admin  Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10142 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21970 times Been thanked: 6255 times
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Yeah, I get really sad when I see old planes getting cut up
 Great to see them continue flying     _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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| Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:02 am |
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Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7161 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8678 times
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The "Dixie" wing of the commemorative air force is located close to here, right next to Aircraft Spruce,
http://www.commemorativeairforce.org/ They always need volunteers, I wish I had more time, also the Army heritage foundation is not too far away, http://www.armyav.org/the-hangar.html they are the ones with the Cobra's that I rode in, again they always need help, if I was retired I would be busier than I am now.... This place is just down the road too. http://barnstormersworkshop.com/ I found a huge old radial engine mount out in my woods, I took it to them and they said it looks like it was from a DC-3, I want to use it for a table base. A few years ago Delta Airlines donated time, space and equipment to repaint one of the p-51's from CAF.. here is a picture of the P-51 in the run up hole just after paint. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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Site Admin Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10142 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21970 times Been thanked: 6255 times
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We had a fleet of F111 skyhawkes and the military did a deal to get new planes, FA18's, but they had to 'remove from service'.... permanently out F111's
 So out of the 34 planes, 13 were donated to various (gubbamint sponsored) museums.... and 22 were BURIED somewhere   They took out any secret stuff, avionics, weapons.... cut a trench in a land fill, piled them in side by side and on top of each other..... and pushed fucking dirt on them with a D9   perfectly serviceable planes 28 of them SAD!! Brings a tear to the eye just thinking about it http://www.warbirdsonline.com.au/2013/0 ... osal-news/ http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews ... 6204896564 _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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| Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:14 am |
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Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7161 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8678 times
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What a shame, the F-111 and F/B-111 were bad ass.
_________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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| Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:18 am |
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Site Admin Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10142 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21970 times Been thanked: 6255 times
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elwood wrote: What a shame, the F-111 and F/B-111 were bad ass. Yeah, at every major event, the F111's would fly over and do dump and burns   ..... no more I am afraid _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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