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JimInOz
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seen today 馃榾 ((( First I thought : a Fiat G91))) but the nose...

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Artist's impression of an F-86D?
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Omegafanman
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Playing catch up...... These from September last year.

https://omegaforums.net/posts/2394118/ Omegafanman
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Do not tempt me. (Actually I do not really have the room for even a small model.) And I still want an Envoy/Oxford.

There is also an article here https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/secret-mosquito-180967119/ which is more technical, although the larger images do not load for me. I was curious how many might still be flyable. Seems this project has be around for a while.

What I always find fascinating is how many women built and flew these planes as part of the manufacture. I suspect over regulation and perceived "public safety." makes a lot of this sort...
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Kermit Weeks pokes his head into a hanger and finds.....

 
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18 September 1961...
As often during the aftermath of a passenger aircraft, the victims' wrist watches are found standing still at the time of crash, which together with the HF radio messages, radar data and the speed of the aircraft, helps investigators to make a clear image of what happened...
Sadly the crashof this Swedish DC-6 "Albertina" remains an interesting & fascinating mystery...
340 pages Book by Susan Williams: Who Killed Hammarskjold?
. Re-enactement Nat Geo
 
Scarecrow Boat
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There is this thread. Things get interesting and very fitting for this thread, on page 2 馃憤
https://omegaforums.net/threads/wth-is-this-speedmaster.175464/ Cover Image
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Someone on a local forum posted this which he saw on Facebook, can't be real or is it? DON bezel, Charles
Laevens with the captain title and callsign gulfstream and the US naval test pilot emblem...
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C47 transport in D-Day livery... Grenchen airport September 2024
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Lovely pic. Also just in time for the 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the Allied attempt to ultimately capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem. Still the largest airborne operation in history.
 
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Where's the fire?
Spin the globe and point a finger, its basically every where these days, except northern Europe, they are litterally drowning in rain, I am afraid.

I would like to know were too.
 
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The problem is often the neglected condition of the cars here: hell, if they start burning in this forest fire area whith very diffucult access for the fire brigade.
 
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