Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

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jhfozzy

1,345 posts

189 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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irocfan said:
By coincidence I'm currently (re)reading "The Guinness history of air warfare" and I'm pretty sure that picture is in it.

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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B17's waiting to be melted down frown


perdu

4,884 posts

198 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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I immediately started playing spot the Liberators

great shot

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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perdu said:
I immediately started playing spot the Liberators

great shot
hehe I did not see it before , but as soon as I looked at it after reading your post there it was like a sore thumb biggrin

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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What would you do with 7,000 obsolete and unwanted bombers?

Is that Kingman?

MartG

20,621 posts

203 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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Eric Mc said:
What would you do with 7,000 obsolete and unwanted bombers?

Is that Kingman?
Well they could have saved a few more for museums.....

ceebmoj

1,898 posts

260 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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MartG said:
Eric Mc said:
What would you do with 7,000 obsolete and unwanted bombers?

Is that Kingman?
Well they could have saved a few more for museums.....
could you buy one at the time, if so how much where they?

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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MartG said:
Eric Mc said:
What would you do with 7,000 obsolete and unwanted bombers?

Is that Kingman?
Well they could have saved a few more for museums.....
I don't think that would have been a high priority back then. There weren't that many aviation museums in 1945.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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ceebmoj said:
could you buy one at the time, if so how much where they?
You could but most were bought by the recycling industry as there was profit to be made in buying the aircraft and breaking it up for smelting

Tango13

8,395 posts

175 months

Thursday 16th October 2014
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Eric Mc said:
ceebmoj said:
could you buy one at the time, if so how much where they?
You could but most were bought by the recycling industry as there was profit to be made in buying the aircraft and breaking it up for smelting
Some of the scrap metal dealers made a profit just by selling the fuel in the tanks, the metal in the airframe was the icing on the cake.

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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here is another often overlooked aircraft smile


pacman1

7,318 posts

192 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Shouldn't it be black?

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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pacman1 said:
Shouldn't it be black?
that's one of the reasons it was always overlooked hehe

pacman1

7,318 posts

192 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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laugh

blueg33

35,576 posts

223 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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P61? I had forgotten all about those.

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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blueg33 said:
P61? I had forgotten all about those.
I was right smile

Lost soul

8,712 posts

181 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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MartG

20,621 posts

203 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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Whoops !


Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Saturday 25th October 2014
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I hope there was no one in the car.

blueg33

35,576 posts

223 months

Sunday 26th October 2014
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MartG said:
Whoops !

What aircraft is that? Contrarotating prop looks to be a different period to the car? But I guess its late 1940's or early 1950's
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