Blackboxr1200S
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Avro Lancasters at the assembly plant in Cheshire, 1943
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Blackboxr1200S
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P-51D Mustang
P-39 Airacobra
F8F Bearcat
F6F Hellcat
For those interested...
don't look at me... I only copied from the internet.
Pa12
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I thought it might have been Avro here in Toronto. They built 430 lancs.
Dumpster D
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Whatever happened to the Lanc they took off the Post by the waterfront downtown Toronto by the Exhibition? That was decades ago and it was supposedly being restored? Homeless people had been climbing up into it and sleeping inside of it apparently?
Someone I knew was a photographer and was apparently hired to take some photos of the rebuild, but I never heard anything that became of that project. Curious to know.
Pa12
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Last I heard it was in pieces and stored at Edenvale airport. The full scale arrow replica is there too. The flying Lancaster at warplane heritage was originally on a pedestal at goderich airport.
Dumpster D
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I guess they don't have the budget to restore the Lanc.
They recently pulled a test model Arrow from the Lake a few years ago, wonder how it's holding up.
Read a fantastic book about some of the Test pilots who flew the Arrow. One of them had been a Polish Spitfire pilot, who would do an upside down flyby in the Arrow to show all the loose bolts that had fallen out and fell to the bottom of the canopy so the ground crew could see all the parts. He made them smooth all the rivets out when the aircraft was banking to the left at speed and they didn't believe him that it was the rivets causing the issue. He was apparently proven right.
Pa12
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The lanc from lakeshore is in a pretty sorry state. Can’t see anyone in this country having the funds to restore it. Even the one in Hamilton has almost bankrupted warplane heritage after a couple engine overhauls.
Have to seen the full size arrow replica? I was surprised by the size of it. Huge.
flyincowboy
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A very sad day for this A26
flyincowboy
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A Chinese Nationalist soldier guards a row of Curtiss P-40.
flyincowboy
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress 42-24592 Dauntless Dotty.
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HMS Eagle delivered Spitfires to Malta, NOV42.
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mosquito malta 1943.
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A36 APACHE
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Dark fleece B3
flyincowboy
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TESTING MOONSHINE RIDGEWELL 1943
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An original Japanese 'Raiden' at the Smithsonian before restoration
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The Bf-109 cockpit was very tiny, but it worked
flyincowboy
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Pilots from the American Volunteer Group sit in front of a P-40 airplane in Kunming, China,
flyincowboy
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Spitfire MKVa in May, 1941
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HERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR RIGHT WING
