The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on May 18, 2016, 08:03:39 PM
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A friend emailed this video to me .
If you ever wondered what happened to the aircraft of WW II, well here's the answer .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJk1jqzjYU
Kingman Arizona, is about 180 miles, 240 km northwest of Phoenix, or 100 miles, 130 km southeast of Las Vegas .
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Awesome video Bob. It brought a tear to my eyes.I spent a number of years in uniform doing historical photographic documentation for the Air Force and I always felt really small around these machines when I thought about the kids who manned them so we could enjoy the freedoms we enjoy now. Makes me sad to see how we have squandered their legacy.
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Awesome video Bob. It brought a tear to my eyes.I spent a number of years in uniform doing historical photographic documentation for the Air Force and I always felt really small around these machines when I thought about the kids who manned them so we could enjoy the freedoms we enjoy now. Makes me sad to see how we have squandered their legacy.
Agree with your sentiments, I also just feel sorry because I am an aeroplane nut.
When I was a kid in the 60s in a place called Townsville, the RAAF was busy dismantling its fleet of Avro Lincoln bombers - these were a post war development of the Lancaster and predictably none have survived anywhere in the world.
Anyway, I used to bicycle halfway across town so I could hang off the fence and watch these beautiful aircraft being wrecked, I was fascinated but also very sad.
I cheered up somewhat a few years ago as not all was lost. The Lincoln was powered by 4 Rolls Royce Merlin engines, RR had done a lot of work so that each engine was in its own self-contained "power egg" which allowed very rapid engine swaps on the flight line. That same facility allowed one of the workers engaged in the wrecking process to spirit an entire "power egg" away, he also managed to make off with a complete instrument panel. Apparently the theft was not noticed.
A number of decades later the "thief" was of advanced years and about to enter a nursing home and the engine and other bits were still in his back yard shed. He contacted the Airforce with a view to coming clean however they were actually overjoyed and no action was taken against him. The instrument panel is now in the Airforce museum and the "power egg" is on display in the Brisbane museum. I can't imagine what he thought he was going to do with a 30 litre 12 cylinder engine and four bladed propeller, but as luck would have it they remained in his shed under oiled rags and survived in perfect condition.
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I have a friend in vic how own a Lincoln merlin and another person how has a Packard merlin.
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All respect and honors due to the flight and ground crews that won superiority of the air over the Axis powers during WWII. Avoiding the boneyard for a few additional years were many of Boeing's mighty B-29s that saw service during the so called "police action" in Korea.
Those aluminum ingots were ultimately turned into appliances, pots & pans, automobile and truck parts, newer aircraft and thousands of other bits that fueled the tremendous growth of post-war 1950s America.
The legacy of these young men and their Flying Fortresses, a very few still with us, will never pass away as long as there are those willing to remind us.
Me late old man flew in these birds and others like 'em.
I'm reminded of the WWII song, "Bless Them All". [smiley=beer.gif]
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When I went to IWM Duxford last year I was lucky enough to see Sally B, (one of the movie Memphis Belles) taken from the hanger and then flying off from the main runway. Bloody great noise!
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I have a friend in vic how own a Lincoln merlin and another person how has a Packard merlin.
They are certainly still "around". The guy in NZ who built a "new-build" mosquito a couple of tears back was able to buy two of the correct merlins, props, and ancillaries from a collector in Melbourne.
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I lived in Oklahoma for a few years and the local airport had a flying, restored B-25 that was kept there. Even though I lived about 3 miles away I could tell every time they fired it up. There is nothing like the sound of a big piston aircraft engine. They had an Airshow one summer and had a fly over with 2 B-17's and 2 B-25's. I can only imagine what it must have sounded like when they were taking off in massive waves of hundreds of planes.
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I am a member of Nhill Aviation Heritage centre. We have 3 people building up an avro anson from scrap and looking at buying a wirriway.
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I am a member of Nhill Aviation Heritage centre. We have 3 people building up an avro anson from scrap and looking at buying a wirriway.
Were you the guys who got an honourable mention from the chap who rebuilt an Anson in NZ? He mentioned that he got a lot of potentially flight worthy equipment from a group in Australia building a static example.
The last time I was as Cloncurry airfield there was a frame that people told me was an Anson off to the side of the field - that was believable as Cloncurry was once a significant RAAF base and RFDS centre.
What are you going to do about wings?
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What are you going to do about wings?
I am not sure what the wings will be. I know the spars are steel not wood. the plan is to get it up to taxing. I can't answer the N.Z question. if you are interested they have a facebook page.
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Really nice video. Some of that nose art is fantastic.
Those old bombers are something to see. I went to a "War Bird" air show a couple of years ago, and they had a B-17, a B-29, and about six B-25. It was amazing to see the B-17 and B-19 lumber into the air on take-off.
My favorites are still the fighters, especially the P-38. Have yet to see a p-38 in the air, but have seen a number of P-51.
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The Shuttleworth Collection have a flying Anson Skippyc. They have the largest collection of flying vintage aeroplanes in the world and years of restoration experience, if your Aviation Heritage Centre contact them I'm sure they'd have someone who could advise about the wings.
http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-collection/
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The Shuttleworth Collection have a flying Anson Skippyc. They have the largest collection of flying vintage aeroplanes in the world and years of restoration experience, if your Aviation Heritage Centre contact them I'm sure they'd have someone who could advise about the wings.
http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-collection/
I'll pass that on Tony, But i bet they have sussed it out as well. Australia won't airworthy ansons anymore so its taxi only.
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I'll pass that on Tony, But i bet they have sussed it out as well. Australia won't airworthy ansons anymore so its taxi only.
Not quite correct - they will if they have the later metal wings (or scratch built metal wings like the "Brain & Brown" example (VH-BAF, now rebuilt as ZK-RRA
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Tony Where is that plane kept.
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Tony Where is that plane kept.
Reid Family, Nelson - composite Mk I with Mk XIX wings, airworthy as MH120/ZK-RRA
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=ZK-RRA