Wow (US W11 finds)
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Where in the He11 are all these barns and attics located!!?? Plinker wants a find!!
.....Oh yea nice find Dudley
.....Oh yea nice find Dudley
yes, but it's a DIFFERENT set of rules for flying a 'moth than your standard aircraft- so it's not entirely unexpected- that aircraft is presicely WHY graduates of the empire air training program were such good pilots- but you had to be instructed on how to fly that thing, and i'm surprised that he DIED out of the experience- their CRASHABILITY WAS EXCELLENT( crashability- the ability to crash an aircraft and walk away)
Yea;sad that your pal died......but when I think about it....What a way to go! I can only think of one other way that would be preferable to passing behind the stick of an aircraft like that!.......that's 80yrs old and piloting a much newer,younger,faster ride
I can only think of one other way that would be preferable to passing behind the stick of an aircraft like that!.......that's 80yrs old and piloting a much newer,younger,faster ride
Funny you should mention that. When I was a kid, a Sopwith Camel was found hanging from the rafters in a barn just outside Hillsborough, New Brunswick. Presumably someone had bought it war surplus for personal use in the 1920's.
Weird things sometimes DO happen
Funny you should mention that. When I was a kid, a Sopwith Camel was found hanging from the rafters in a barn just outside Hillsborough, New Brunswick. Presumably someone had bought it war surplus for personal use in the 1920's.
Weird things sometimes DO happen
if it was the prairies, i could understand it- a lot of trainers were used to checking fence lines after the war, ( they couldn't use fighters) and were hoisted up into the loft or buried beneath a haystack when the fabric went bad- the fighters and bombers were typically de- activated- that meant sawing through the main spar and removing the engines- a "civilian couldn't posess a "war machine"- but the trainers were just slow enough to do fence work- and the flying clubs got the harvards
After the war my granfather and his brothers bought a few old trainers fron the bombing and gunnery school 2 km away. My great grandfather was a bit worried that they'd end up killing themselves if they ever got it them running as they were still teens. He ended up selling them.
