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18-10-2007, 12:06 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Nowhere near comprehensive re survivors but the two Camden Beaus are rarely seen so it's a pleasure to run your eyes over these few pics! http://www.warbirdregistry.org/beauf...rregistry.html Hopefully post more detail of survivors in a sec. I can think of another four off the top of my head!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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18-10-2007, 01:00 PM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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18-10-2007, 01:11 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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18-10-2007, 01:12 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Great article/find Andy. A well written description - too often one just reads something along the lines of "put on gear, dived down, found wreck of aircraft. Don't know what it wasbut looked old".
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18-10-2007, 01:22 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Very good article! It is always interesting to read about the various crash sites, but this one combines a good story with good scenery!
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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18-10-2007, 01:24 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | And ends with Andy wondering how hard it'd be to recover an aircraft in his "backyard" rather than in Russia! Now to find the winner of the $15 million the other day...
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18-10-2007, 01:41 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | This is the survivor list from Wikipedia. It does not include the aircraft owned by HARS in Sydney or Guy Black (?) in the UK. Ooh, and the South Africans have one too! The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio has completed the restoration of a rare Beaufighter Mk I. The aircraft is displayed as the USAAF Beaufighter flown by Capt. Harold Augspurger, commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, who shot down an He 111 carrying German staff officers in September 1944. The Beaufighter went on display on 18 October 2006. The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, London, UK has a Beaufighter TF X on display along with a Bristol Hercules engine. The Canada Aviation Museum presently is storing Beaufighter TF X RAF serial RD867 for future restoration. The museum aircraft is a semi-complete RAF restoration with no engines, cowlings or internal components, received in exchange for a Bristol Bolingbroke on 10 September 1969. A privately owned Beaufighter is currently undergoing a lengthy restoration in the UK. Its owner hopes to eventually restore it to flying condition. (Edit- this is The Fighter Collection one presently up for sale) There are two Beaufighter Mk XXI aircraft on static display in museums in Australia, one at Moorabbin[2] and the other at Camden. The Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England has a Beaufighter cockpit section on public display. Its identity is thought possibly to be T5298.
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18-10-2007, 01:45 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | The Canadian Aviation Museum one. Click on the additional photos button down the bottom! http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/c...ghterTFX.shtml
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18-10-2007, 01:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Recent discovery: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...06/ai_n9002453 There was another in 1995: http://www.pacificghosts.com.au/pria...overy.asp?id=6
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18-10-2007, 01:51 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Forgot about this. Not sure if South Africa still has a Beau. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...01/ai_n8929238
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