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06-02-2010, 08:52 PM
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RAF podcasts
free podcasts from the RAF museum...in it are:
Who Won The Battle of Britain Phases of the Battle of Britain The RAF in 1939 Robert Stanford Tuck A biography of Robert Stanford Tuck, a Battle of Britain Fighter Ace. Douglas Bader: Fighter, Pilot Introduction to the Battle of Britain enjoy
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06-03-2010, 01:22 AM
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amazing story of 2 B17s in a mid air collision
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Last edited by bobbysocks; 06-03-2010 at 01:25 AM.
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06-03-2010, 10:49 AM
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06-07-2010, 12:21 AM
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P-39 Airacobra recovered from Mart- Jarv lake Northern Russia
http://warrelics.eu/forum/armour-wea...rn-russia-522/
the best pics and most of the story is here but here are some other facts and tidbits It was a journey that began christmas morning, 1943 in Wheatfield. A P-39 Airacobra, one of the 30,000 planes produced here in Western New York for the war effort, rolls from the hanger and takes off, headed west. She was one of 10,000 planes, many from here in Western New York, that were sent to Russia. It was also a bit of WNY technology turned the tide against the Nazi's. The P-39 was known as the "flying cannon". She was a force in the air. It was equipped with 2 machine guns in the wings, two more in the nose, a 37 mm cannon in the nose and a state of the art radio system. But on a mission in 1944, this plane disappeared Fast forward 60 years to July 2004. A fisherman on Lake Mart-Yavr in arctic Russia spotted something under the water. A British warbird recovery team was called in and what they found was absolutely astounding. The plane was recovered intact. The pilots remains, and medals were still in the cockpit, so was the plane's logbook. That history has come full circle. Representatives of The Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum went to Great Britain and bought the plane. The head conservationist at the Imperial War Museum in Britian told them this is a tremendous acquisition. Not only what was found, but also where it would be going. It is now being rehabbed in the very building in which it was built, the former Bell Aviation plant. It is also a treasure-trove of tributes to the plane's history and the people who made it. An even more significant find came after one of the former Rosie the Riviters called up and said "do you know we used to write our names and addresses on parts of the planes?" Sure enough, clear as a bell, they found the names Helen Rose on one piece, and Elenor Barbaritano on another. They were written in pencil, preserved like they were written this morning. .............. After more than 60 years, historians found this place and lifted the aircraft from the lake (surprisingly enough, but the aircraft was well preserved). They buried the pilot and even found canned pork.
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06-07-2010, 08:42 PM
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you have heard of the famous "Ah HA!" moments...this is a "Holy S#!T!!!" moment...survived by a crap load of luck and skill... (you wont feel so bad about stalling and pancaking in after you see this ).
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06-07-2010, 09:59 PM
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another "HS" moment...this harrier jock brought her in a little rough...
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/06/wa...-land-his-jet/
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06-08-2010, 12:35 AM
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Original Duxford Diary
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06-08-2010, 09:33 AM
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Bletchly Park
From Yahoo News
More than a million Second World War documents are to be made available to the public for the first time. Files from Bletchley Park, the UK's wartime code-breaking headquarters, are to be digitised and put online in a large-scale project expected to take up to five years to complete. Undercover mathematicians and military operatives produced high-level intelligence at the Milton Keynes base during the war, providing crucial assistance to the Allied effort. The work of the Bletchley Park staff, which included cracking supposedly unbreakable German codes generated by the Enigma and Lorenz machines, has been credited with curtailing the length of the war by up to two years. The Bletchley archive currently exists entirely in paper format and much of it is difficult to view, making it inaccessible to the general public. Until now, only limited access to the archive has been granted to academics and educators under strict supervision. Following an initial digitisation phase lasting around a year the documents, including communication transcripts, memoranda and photographs, will be made available for access using a combination of paid-for and free content. The project is the result of a collaboration between Hewlett Packard (HP) and the Bletchley Park Trust, which runs Bletchley Park's National Codes Centre and its museum and educational facilities. Simon Greenish, director of Bletchley Park Trust, said: "This will help preserve and considerably increase access to the historic fragile materials, as well as enable researchers to see and study documents from the code-breaking work that took place during World War Two. There can be few archives which contain material that had such a profound impact on the world at the time and which is still relevant today." Norman Richardson, vice president and general manager of HP Imaging and Printing Group UK, said: "The Bletchley Park archive contains hundreds of thousands of documents tracing some of the most significant historical milestones of the 20th century, including some of the events that defined the outcome of World War Two. "Our collaboration with Bletchley Park will not only ensure the preservation of this hugely significant archive but will also allow it to be made accessible and searchable digitally for the first time, untapping the value of this content for the benefit of audiences all over the world. We are hugely proud to be working with Bletchley Park and its team of volunteers to make this exciting project a reality."
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06-09-2010, 11:48 PM
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speaking of duxford...gonna have to make this airshow some day.
http://friends-of-tfc.blogspot.com/2...ends-2010.html
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