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12-10-2007, 09:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Some old photos of mine - WWII aviation Just got some idle moments and found an old CD with a few pics of mine taken over the years. Might even dig some prints out and scan them. First up, some pics from the RAAF Museum, Point Cook. 1. I don't think the Spit is on display there anymore. It's a "Mk IX" but I believe had a bit of Mk V in her as well. Static display only. One of the highlights of my visit washelping push her out of the hangar (this is all back in 2000). 2. The Walrus is now complete and stunning. 3. The museum's airworthy Australian-built Mustang. 4. CAC Wirraway with friends.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 09:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Judy Pay's Old Aeroplane Company of Tyabb, Victoria, had the Royal Australian Navy Historic Flight's previously airworthy Firefly in their main hangar. I think it is now back at the Navy's museum. To get an idea of the size of a Firefly, that's an upside down Tiger Moth fuse next to it! Judy Pay is the owner of the P-40F that did engine runs recently. The second pic if the Kittyhawk as just a fuselage.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 09:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Some pics from Flying Legends at Duxford in 1999. By the looks of these, I need to dig them out and scan them again. The first Spit pic is not a great shot but check out the French-based Lysander climbing out in the background!
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 02:18 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Well done Andy. Good set of photos.
__________________ 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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12-10-2007, 02:58 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Sweet pictures Andy - keep'em coming. Quote:
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13-10-2007, 12:09 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I shall endeavour to find out.
__________________ 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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13-10-2007, 01:35 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Some very nice photos there!
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