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Donny Fenn1
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Mustangs go for between 2.5 and 5 million, Corsairs for a little more, Sea Fury/Fury, Hurricane and Spitfire around the same. If you want to stray from name brand aircraft and go to Russian you can save some money.
Thanx for the clarification.
I can't afford the gas to fly one, let alone buy one.
DE 413 Samuel B Roberts
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With sonar specialist Jeremie Morizet, I piloted the submersible Limiting Factor to the wreck of the Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413). Resting at 6,895 meters, it is now the deepest shipwreck ever located and surveyed. It was indeed the "destroyer escort that fought like a battleship."
It is impossible to overstate the courage and determination of the Captains and Crews of the Roberts and Johnson and the others in that suicidal attack on the Japanese Fleet. "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is a great read. Saved tens of thousand of lives. Lives up to the finest traditions of any Navy anywhere in history.
A lot like HMS Glowworm and the Admiral Hipper. That is how destroyers were intended to fight in those days. It could be argued that V.Adm. Mikawa could have left his cruisers at home and just gone into soon-to-be Iron Bottom Sound with destroyers and done as much damage. That is what almost happened in the same area later at the Battle of Tassafaronga: the US destroyers flubbed it, but the Japanese destroyers did not. Getting up close as the USS Johnson did and aiming for the enemies C & C centers like the bridge can be very effective. For example HMAS Sydney and the German raider Atlantis: the Sydney took shells onto the bridge at the outset and was then basically staggering blind: a bunch of turrets and guns fighting independently. Getting up under the guns of the Japanese heavy cruiser meant only their secondary guns could bear and I suspect many of those were AA guns that also could not depress far enough to hit a close-in enemy. And the shorter the range, the more effective small calibre guns are, which told more for the US destroyer. The Japanese torpedoes were mighty weapons, but also very vulnerable. A Japanese surface raider in the Indian Ocean(?) went up against some old British freighter that had an ancient 4.7" gun onboard. A lucky hit struck the Japanese torpedo launcher setting off the warheads which blew the stern of the raider clean off, sinking her soon after.
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Dark Alley Dan
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The first of 35,000 - ME-109 V1, WNr 758, the very first prototype:
Powered by the RR Kestrel engine, making just north of 600 HP.
By the end of the war, she had mutated into the K model. No pics of an intact one to be found on the internet, but here's WNr 332884 a K-4 in what today would be considered an "eminently rebuildable condition:
Daimler Benz DB601D maning nearly 2000 HP. Pressurized cockpit. Performance was said to be "spirited".
Powered by the RR Kestrel engine, making just north of 600 HP.
By the end of the war, she had mutated into the K model. No pics of an intact one to be found on the internet, but here's WNr 332884 a K-4 in what today would be considered an "eminently rebuildable condition:
Daimler Benz DB601D maning nearly 2000 HP. Pressurized cockpit. Performance was said to be "spirited".
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Dark Alley Dan
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One of mankind's finest creations is the Beech Staggerwing. It has no "bad angles". There is no way to take a picture of it that doesn't make it ###y as hell. Such a beautiful thing, and because it was popular in the early '40's, it was naturally drafted into service. The USAAF called theirs a "UC-43 Traveller", The Navy called it the "GB-1" or "GB-2".
In Fleet Air Arm and RAF service, it was the Traveller Mk. I or Mk. II:
An extraordinarily pretty bird.
In Fleet Air Arm and RAF service, it was the Traveller Mk. I or Mk. II:
An extraordinarily pretty bird.
Dark Alley Dan
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That's cool. Obviously some concerns would be expressed by a modern-day range officer... 
Late in WW2, the 109G was adapted in limited numbers as a trainer - the result was the ME109 G-12.
An "advanced trainer" by just about any standard. There's a 109G modified to -12 standard flying today:
Recently for sale. Comes with Merlin conversion if you want to save hours on the DB powerplant...
And if you have to ask, it's out of your price range.
Late in WW2, the 109G was adapted in limited numbers as a trainer - the result was the ME109 G-12.
An "advanced trainer" by just about any standard. There's a 109G modified to -12 standard flying today:
Recently for sale. Comes with Merlin conversion if you want to save hours on the DB powerplant...
And if you have to ask, it's out of your price range.
Dark Alley Dan
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That's a steely-eyed BREN gunner.
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Dark Alley Dan
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The Consolidated B-32 Dominator - the "backup" in case the B-29 turned out to be a total turd.
Not a bad lookiing bird. Muck slicker looking than the B-24.
They couldn't get the pressurization to work reliably, so limited to low and medium altitude missions. Last USAAF aircraft to be in combat in WW2. One hundred and eighteen made, all gone within a few years of the end of the war.
The XB-32 and a random B29 on a fire dump. So end all things.
Not a bad lookiing bird. Muck slicker looking than the B-24.
They couldn't get the pressurization to work reliably, so limited to low and medium altitude missions. Last USAAF aircraft to be in combat in WW2. One hundred and eighteen made, all gone within a few years of the end of the war.
The XB-32 and a random B29 on a fire dump. So end all things.
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