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[Dark Alley Dan]

Damn good investment, had someone jumped on that for 4K GBP:

https://www.controller.com/listing/...marine-spitfire-mkxi-piston-military-aircraft

This one's going for 3.6M GBP. It's a Mk XI, but everyone selling a Mk. IX has the price as "On Request"...

 

[diopter]

In Their defence, I don't see inserted magasines and assume the chambers are empty.

 

[bearhunter]

^^^ 4000 Pounds Sterling was a helluva chunk of change back in 1965....

I'd bet no guns, though...

$20k Canadian. You could buy a small acerage with a house for that back then.

That same acreage and house now wouldn't even be a down payment on that lovely plane with a spare NIL hours engine.

Several people could comfortably retire on what that Spit would net now.

 

[bearhunter]

In Their defence, I don't see inserted magasines and assume the chambers are empty.

I've seen that done and it works very well but it does leave arc spots.

 

[grelmar]

There was a 1979 British TV series called "Danger UXB" about bomb disposal techs in London. I remember watching it back in the day.


When the germans became aware of the bomb disposal efforts they would intentionally booby trap bombs to try to kill the British techs.

I remember that show, I watched it in the 80's on "ACCESS" to bide my time when "World at War" wasn't on.

 

[fingers284]

Hell of a pilot, not much of a human being.

Just finished reading Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner. Remarkable book. If you want some insight into the German mindset after the war, it's worth your time. Ms. Reitsch may not have been alone in her beliefs, but she was in the minority. Germans were quick to move on afterwards, and damned few pined for the Glorious Days of "marching ever eastward to a bold new world without the verminous Slavs."

Poeple that can be easily brain washed into a frame of mind are probably just as easily brain washed out of that frame of mind.

 

[diopter]

 

[Rob]

26-inch thick armor from a Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. US Navy Museum.

 

[bearhunter]

Those look cheap today but you could by a very nice, for the time, house on a good lot for the price of the PT26 in the 50s

 

[55recce]

At the end of the war surplus aircraft (Canso, P40, Bolingbroke) were lined up at RCAF Patricia Bay (Victoria International Airport). You could buy one for $50 as long as you took it off base the same day and did not fly it. Several were purchased, the wings cut off and taken away on rafts. At the BC Aviation museum we have a Bolingbroke reconstructed from some of these parts that were used on a farm on Saltspring Island https://bcam.net/bristol-bolingbroke-mark-iv/

Come visit on a Monday or a Thursday and I'll give you a behind the scenes tour.

 

[I Dont Care About You]

I remember years ago, seeing a P40 stuck up on a pole on someone's property on Vancouver Island. I've long wondered what happened to that plane. It'd be worth quite a lot today.

 

[55recce]

The P40 was on a pole just south of Duncan and was made of some original parts and a lot of scrap. I heard it eventually went to the US for restoration. The guy who did the initial work was an interesting character...
https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/featu...ote-saying-he-was-boarding-an-alien-spaceship

 

[*lawrence]

There's an older fighter jet in the front parking lot of an antique mall in Cowichan Bay on the highway these days.

Looks a little sad.

 

[55recce]

CT33 near Chemainus. Missing a bunch of parts. We have a complete one you can sit in at the BC aviation museum

 

[ipscgraz]

The look in his eyes.

Colourised photograph of German General Anton Doestler, about to be executed for the crime of murdering 15 US PoWs, December 1 1945.

 

[*lawrence]

CT33 near Chemainus. Missing a bunch of parts. We have a complete one you can sit in at the BC aviation museum

Right! I had the town wrong.... wasn't sure what the jet was

 

[Chas]

The P40 was on a pole just south of Duncan and was made of some original parts and a lot of scrap. I heard it eventually went to the US for restoration. The guy who did the initial work was an interesting character...
https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/featu...ote-saying-he-was-boarding-an-alien-spaceship

watch the video in the link - ,amazing how he did it and what he used...

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/mechanic-genius-restores-a-vintage-kittyhawk-plane-in-his-backyard

 

[Rob]

The look in his eyes.

 

[cement head]

Pay back time .

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Yeah, we had the whole "victor writes history and adjudicates crimes" convo a few pages back. No need to ramble back over that again, is there?

Lancaster FM213 is operated by the CWH as one of two flying Lancs left in the world.

There's some history here:

One wonders if the only people interested in this sort of thing are an increasingly aged group of history-conscious old farts like me. I met two young women a week ago who had absolutely no idea of who George Armstrong Custer was, or what kind of day he had on June 25, 1876. ZERO conception. Never heard of the guy. Never heard of the Little Big Horn. Granted, it's a pretty esoteric reference some 160 years later, but still - never heard of Custer's Last Stand? There will come a day when the work of Bomber Command fades into obscurity. Kinda glad I won't be here for that.