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The preserved WWI battlefield at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Monument in Beaumont-Hamel, France, part of the grounds on which the Newfoundland Regiment made its unsuccessful attack on July 1, 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.
 
Could be worse, Here's COLOSSUS at Bletchley, grinding Adolf's Enigma codes...

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The existence of the Colossus machines was kept secret until the mid-1970s; the machines and the plans for building them had previously been destroyed in the 1960s as part of the effort to maintain the secrecy of the project. This deprived most of those involved with Colossus of the credit for pioneering electronic digital computing during their lifetimes. A functioning rebuild of a Mark 2 Colossus was completed in 2008 by Tony Sale and some volunteers; it is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
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Cottage Hill Bill said:
,,,, In those days the Blues and Thunderbirds did lots of combined shows. The Blues went to Eglin every spring for Armed Forces day, big open house at Eglin and airshow, fire power demonstrations. (Eglin has been home base for AF weapons development for many years). Thunderbirds would come to NAS Pensacola for fall homecoming show of the Blues. Then the bean counters got involved so combined shows are very rare today. I work at NASP, Blues practice every Tues. & Wed., just have to look out the window to watch.
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I worked in Moose Jaw in the 90s and was on the phone to a photocopy company when 431 did a fly-by in training. 'Wait a sec'. Ah' that's nice.' sez I, and explained what I'd just watched. You could hear the groan of envy on the line!
 
CV32 said:
XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration Project

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Lots of photos and detail at the link.

Recent Facebook video here
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And to think, that restoration has been going on for several decades. I remember when they found the twin tail section and I believe the special wing spars in an aluminum scrap pile. There was a story on that in one of the aviation publications. I always wondered what happened to the project. The fellows that started it must be getting pretty long in the tooth by now.
 
CV32 said:
XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration Project

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Lots of photos and detail at the link.

Recent Facebook video here
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This year at Oshkosh, they say. It'd be something pretty special to see.

And as long as we're talking handsome twin-boom American aircraft, we are pretty much obliged to yet again reference Mr. Hughes' XF-11.

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One of the prettiest airplanes ever made, at least to my eye.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
This year at Oshkosh, they say. It'd be something pretty special to see.

And as long as we're talking handsome twin-boom American aircraft, we are pretty much obliged to yet again reference Mr. Hughes' XF-11.

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One of the prettiest airplanes ever made, at least to my eye.
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Was that the one that HH was almost killed in?
 
"One way flights now available from the airfield direct to the golf course..."

Poor old Hughes. That crash, and the metric crapload of painkillers they put him on, combined with pre-exiting mental health issues and a situation where no one dared put the brakes on him, really put him over the top. But the man really could build pretty airplanes...

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The Constellations (G model) would land in Gander in the 50s on the TransAtlantic route. Beautiful airplanes, and seemed to out number the DC7s.

And the US Navy flew those Super Connie radar picket planes out of Argentia, too.

That twin engined plane is even better looking than the P38, but by 1946 they were looking for new jet fighters. It would look nice with a pair of jet engines.

It had a 101 foot wingspan. As a recon plane, it looks like a piston engined U2.
 
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Flew across the Pacific in a Super Constellation in 1966.

All day to Hawaii from California.

Next day, all day to Pago Pago, originally called Pango Pango.

The following day, lunch at Nadi and the flight finished at Christchurch for supper.
 
That particular L-1049G, which served with Portugal's TAP airlines on a flight between Lisbon and London, was later converted to a restaurant/bar (on the ground, of course). Not a piece of info that would be apparent from the photo. More here.
 
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