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10-10-2007, 07:15 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Hawker Tempest Another lovely aircraft and to kick off this thread I've posted a fantastic video. It appears to be a recognition guide fromthe war for RAF crews. Turn it up load for roar of the engine (and the clipped accent of the narrator is priceless): http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=BKq51L...elated&search=
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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10-10-2007, 07:17 PM
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__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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10-10-2007, 07:33 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Hawker Tempest gun camera
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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10-10-2007, 07:48 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Another amazing video - this one is an instructional one on starting, taking off etc: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQZjk...elated&search=
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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10-10-2007, 10:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Good stuff Kyt.
__________________ 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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10-10-2007, 11:35 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Phwoar! On the first vid, did you notice the swing being corrected right at the start? Sabre had some serious, serious torque. Hadn't come across that website, Kyt, thanks! Not many Tempests still survive unfortunately. I can think of two or three under restoration to fly but there are several static and stored...including some from India! Kermit Weeks has a Sabre-engined girl in Florida but I think she's only on static display. He has at least another one (possibly being restored with another) under resto to fly in UK. The original owner who started the restos was murdered about 10 years ago and I think they changed hands a couple times before KW go them/it. PPS rings a bell, hang on a tick... A quote from 2001 on Key Publishing forum: I last saw something about it a few months ago and by the looks of things there was still a long way to go!The fuselage had yet to be started on,with the original wartime comouflage scheme and code letters still in situ in pristine condition,even down to the hurridly-applied(and slightly wonky)D-Day stripes. I do know that the RAF museum aided PPS in fabricating a new set of cowling panels(very complex on a Tempest),so restoration work has atleast begun. I love the wonky D-Day stripes comment. Must be original! RAFM has one I think. However, looks like they have two: From Key Publishing last year: I know of three apart from the two at Hendon - two Mk II's under restoration by Tempest Two Ltd, and a Mk V under restoration by Personal Plane Services in Buckinghamshire Of course, after posting all that, you could just go here! http://www.hawkertempest.se/today.htm The really exciting thing is we'll most likely see a Sabre and a Centaurus-engined Tempest flying in the relatively near future. Oh to hear one!
__________________ 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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