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06-04-2009, 03:04 AM
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NO! I want to take a F-14 back in time so I can get those Zero's with sidewinders. The hard part will be getting them on fire first so the heat-seeking missiles will work! Mmmm! M-61! 
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06-04-2009, 11:59 AM
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La-9 in the weeds with the "Able Dog"...recipe for fun!
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06-04-2009, 01:24 PM
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My father's a subscriber to international world air power review and they have a couple of features centered on classic warbirds or certain conflicts in each issue. A few issues back (maybe couple of years ago,since it's a quarterly edition) i was reading one about Corsairs in Korea.
It said that after WWII a lot of prop fighters were stripped of some pieces of armor to make them faster and more useful in military maneuvers against jets, or easier to maintain for air national guard units. When the Corsairs reached Korea, none of them had armor protection for the oil carrying ring tube around the engine. This infuriated the crews but was never fixed, effectively turning one of the most reliable and sturdy ground attack fighters into something that would start leaking oil at the first sign of shrapnel. It's also interesting to note that either by design (P51) or by negligence (Corsair), none of the US air arms had a suitably rugged propeller driven ground pounder in service during the early stages of the Korean war. Mothballing the P47s had started even before WWII came to an end, so when Korea came up the only thing they had that could be quickly brought to flyable condition was stocks of P51s with vulnerable liquid cooled engines. I guess casualties would have been far lower if they had P47s and if the Corsairs had all their armor plates on. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see the whinning about the Corsair if it's modelled according to the Korean "modifications" 
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06-04-2009, 07:01 PM
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Like this one I'm going to build soon...
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