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Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
on: May 24, 2009, 02:08:06 AM

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 02:09:09 AM
Impressive work on an impressive piece of history!

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #2 on: May 24, 2009, 02:13:15 AM
I love the flying fortress to me its one of the best looking WWII planes ever flew.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #3 on: May 24, 2009, 02:23:56 AM
I wish our airforce still used planes like that.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #4 on: May 24, 2009, 02:25:53 AM
Wonderful  :salute:
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #5 on: May 24, 2009, 02:28:09 AM
But I do love modern design aircraft, have anyone seen the Beech starship private jet? Commercial flop but it looks darn good.

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #6 on: May 24, 2009, 02:38:18 AM
This is my favourite WWII plane:

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #8 on: May 24, 2009, 03:40:52 AM
I've always been a Hurricane fan myself.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane#Flying_the_Hurricane

By no means as pretty as the Spitfire it was certainly an excellent plane.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #9 on: May 24, 2009, 03:45:53 AM
Quote from: Gareth on May 24, 2009, 03:40:52 AM
I've always been a Hurricane fan myself.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane#Flying_the_Hurricane

By no means as pretty as the Spitfire it was certainly an excellent plane.


Agreed. The two planes that stopped you and me speaking German, and looking good whist they did it.

Coincidentally, I caught a bit of a documentary earlier about Concorde, the crash, the project to try and het the air worthiness certificate reinstated and the eventual decision to retire the fleet. One of my ambitions that I'll never realise now, but surely most would agree that Concorde was a thing of beauty.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #10 on: May 24, 2009, 03:52:33 AM
Quote from: DaveK on May 24, 2009, 02:38:18 AM
This is my favourite WWII plane:

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Spitfire!

It played a great role in the Battle of Britain. Its one of my favorite WWII planes.

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #11 on: May 24, 2009, 04:13:25 AM
Here is my favorite WWII plane.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #12 on: May 24, 2009, 04:42:03 AM
Quote from: stressmaster5000 on May 24, 2009, 04:13:25 AM
Here is my favorite WWII plane.
I love the Mustang, a pure fighter.  But the Corsair is so pretty.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #13 on: May 24, 2009, 05:26:44 AM
+1 on the Corsair...but to me the real war winners were these two prosaic,hard working birds. The DC-3/C-47/Dakota...and the AT-6/SNJ/Harvard
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #14 on: May 24, 2009, 09:28:18 AM
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Here is my favorite WWII plane.
Mustang fan too :salute:
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #15 on: May 24, 2009, 10:38:04 AM
+1 on the Mustang.  Although I'd happily have any of them.  :D
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #16 on: May 24, 2009, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Benner on May 24, 2009, 10:38:04 AM
+1 on the Mustang.  Although I'd happily have any of them.  :D
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #17 on: May 24, 2009, 11:20:42 AM
Quote from: Mike, Lord of the Spammers! on May 24, 2009, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Benner on May 24, 2009, 10:38:04 AM
+1 on the Mustang.  Although I'd happily have any of them.  :D
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #18 on: May 24, 2009, 11:33:32 AM
Quote from: Mike, Lord of the Spammers! on May 24, 2009, 09:28:18 AM
Quote from: stressmaster5000 on May 24, 2009, 04:13:25 AM
Here is my favorite WWII plane.
Mustang fan too :salute:

Mustang fan here as well :salute:

But I understand cgk...the the Corsair is nice :tu:
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #19 on: May 24, 2009, 11:45:13 AM
Quote from: cgk on May 24, 2009, 04:42:03 AM
Quote from: stressmaster5000 on May 24, 2009, 04:13:25 AM
Here is my favorite WWII plane.
I love the Mustang, a pure fighter.  But the Corsair is so pretty.


Another Corsair fan here.  it's a plane that looked 'purposeful' to say the least.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #20 on: May 24, 2009, 11:50:21 AM
Nice one, but my fav is the P38 Lightning.

Like the ME 262 too, very impressive for the time.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #21 on: May 24, 2009, 07:11:44 PM
Gratuitous Corsair pic :salute:
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #22 on: May 24, 2009, 07:20:36 PM
With those lines and humps in its wings, if there were ever such a thing as a "muscle plane", it would be the Corsair... :D

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #23 on: May 24, 2009, 07:26:50 PM
If I had seen that coming at me on a strafing run,beyond a shadow of a doubt,I'd need a change of pants.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #24 on: May 24, 2009, 09:34:54 PM
My favorite WWII plane is the P-38.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_Lightning

I think the reason that is is that one of my granddad's friends was a P-38 mechanic during the war and as such was a huge fan. He was always telling me stories and often bought me toy P-38's and a model or 2 of them.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #25 on: May 25, 2009, 01:49:57 AM
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall;
 Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none:
 And some condemned for a fault alone." -William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 6, line 169

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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #26 on: May 25, 2009, 05:48:11 PM
Quote from: DaveK on May 24, 2009, 02:38:18 AM
This is my favourite WWII plane:

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Gotta agree with Dave there.   The Spitfire is such a beautiful aircraft.  It and the Lancaster are my favourite aircraft.


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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #27 on: May 25, 2009, 07:38:58 PM
Well if we're talking absolute favourites, then mine would be the Mossie :)
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #28 on: May 25, 2009, 09:03:18 PM
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Well if we're talking absolute favourites, then mine would be the Mossie :)
I'll see your Mossie,and raise you a Hornet. One of the all time most graceful aircraft ever.
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Re: Polishing a WWII Flying Fortress
Reply #29 on: May 25, 2009, 09:08:16 PM
I had airfix models of all these planes when I was younger.  This thread is making me want to dig them out from the attic :)

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