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Quib, you should make a trip to The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, in Rhinebeck, NY! Very much like this Shuttleworth collection, only here in the US. Then wander over to Geneseo while you're there. There's some very cool old planes in Rhinebeck, but not as many of them are flyers. http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/Quote:
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Originally Posted by rondog
Maybe some day!!!!
Poor mans P-51 baby.Quote:
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Mark LaRue pained his Air Corps green. I like the silver more, but I am biased...
You should research The Champlin Fighter Museum, which was an awesome private collection of WWI & WWII warbirds in Mesa, AZ. It's closed now, and I think the planes all went to a museum in Seattle. But some beautiful airplanes! I'm not sure how rare the FW-190D-12, with a V12 engine is, but they had one.Quote:
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I've got to see these someday, because the man that built the collection, Doug Champlin, was from my hometown in Enid, OK. He was a multimillionaire, an heir of the Champlin Petroleum Co. When I was a teenager, I used to ride my Honda out to his hanger at the airport to drool over his Wildcat and Corsair, they let people come in freely. He also revived the manufacturing of Great Lakes high performance biplanes, don't know if those are still being made, but they were very cool, and I could roam the hangar where they were made. I actually remember the fuselage of that Focke-Wulf sitting outside on one side of the hangar, and someone telling me how rare it was because it was a V12 and not a radial.
Doug also founded Champlin Firearms, who builds high-end custom rifles and shotguns. They're still in business at the Enid airport. I also used to hang around the gun shop when I was 14-15, and they were all very good to me. Showed me every step they did to build 5-digit custom firearms, some incredible guns. Mostly big game safari rifles and awesome trap/skeet shotguns.
But that warbird collection, it's unreal.
Cool childhood memories, Rondog!
If you can deal with the crowd and the aviation overload there is always the EAA convention at Oshkosh. More Warbirds, Antiques, and Classics flying there than anywhere else in the world. At least during the convention.
Here, I found some old photos of that Focke-Wulf FW-190D-13.....like I said, last time I saw it in person it was just a fuselage laying in the dirt next to a hangar. Notice it has exhaust stacks for a V12, not a radial. I hear this was known as the "Dora" model, the "long-nosed Dora" is what I was told.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d13reffw_5.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...13reffw_02.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...d13reffw_4.jpg
Oooooh, a startup video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCKd3CHQzUY
I don't know if this video in in this thread already, apologies if it is. Pretty cool film from 1963 of a C-130 landing and taking off from an aircraft carrier. I think they did 29 test landings/takeoffs, but I don't know if it was ever done again or is done today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGy2ppViCck
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps88de4426.jpg
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps383afb38.jpg
K-loader couldn't go high enough. So fueling was asked to add fuel into the aircraft to help it sit a lil bit lower for the K-loader to unload a Boeing 777 engine for United Airlines.
Don't see this everyday.. thought I'd share [Beer]
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Nice!