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Post by SteveM on Dec 28, 2022 13:53:12 GMT
Fueltank-tastic AG, fuel pipes look great.
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 14:23:54 GMT
Thank you Steve. Yes the drop tanks add so much to the typical of look of this imo most beautiful US fighter plane.
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 14:30:50 GMT
Excellent, Guy! A silver Pony with a full tank loadout is a sight to behold. Thank you Ian. The eldest people in our village maybe remember its look as one came down 100 meters from where I live.
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 15:04:14 GMT
Absolutely splendiferous Guybro.......beautiful work
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Post by Ian H. on Dec 28, 2022 15:18:03 GMT
Excellent, Guy! A silver Pony with a full tank loadout is a sight to behold. Thank you Ian. The eldest people in our village maybe remember its look as one came down 100 meters from where I live. Drop tanks raining down from the heavens is an aspect of aerial combat that lots of folks don't think about. When you have six or seven fighter groups jettisoning at the same time, that's a lot of objects cart-wheeling towards the ground.
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 15:26:43 GMT
Thank you Ian. The eldest people in our village maybe remember its look as one came down 100 meters from where I live. Drop tanks raining down from the heavens is an aspect of aerial combat that lots of folks don't think about. When you have six or seven fighter groups jettisoning at the same time, that's a lot of objects cart-wheeling towards the ground. It was the whole Mustang that came down Ian.
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 16:22:15 GMT
The prop tips are bright yellow now. The back side tips are a tomorrow's job as is the landing gear. The photo was made by cold artificial light.
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 16:38:18 GMT
I have an abundance of crashed aircraft from WWII right on my doorstep........i live a 2 minute walk from the Thames Estuary which the German aircraft used as a motorway to follow it right into the heart of London on bombing raids, at night the moon light the Thames up so it was a shimmering path. Loads of aircraft were downed into the Estuary..... Here`s a couple appropriate for you Guybro.....these was a few miles from me `There was also a P-51 recovered from the mud off Southend C. 1996 complete with the pilot. It had been found by a local fisherman who noticed the 0.50 Cals sticking up out of the mud. This story was covered by After the Battle magazine.` On December 27, 1944 he was piloting his P-51K-5-NT Mustang #44-11659 "San'tone Sweetheart" when he was lost due to bad weather. He crashed in the Thames Estuary on the North Sea near Clacton-on-Sea. Here`s a quick list of some others within a 10 mile radius of me......there is one off of Foulness i have actually seen the props/nacelle and part wing.....not sure if H111 or JU-88 . March 1916: Zepplin L15 shotdown crashing East of Southend Pier (My godmothers farther was one of the gunners to take it dowm he recived a medal and a section of the frame as reward sadly after they was lent to a museum they lost both items) Thursday 15th August 1940: Hurricane shot down by Bf110 Sunday 18th August 1940: Unknown German Bomber seen to crash off Shoeburyness, Hawker Hurricane crashed in to Esturay pilot safe. Wednesday 25th September 1940: Ju88 shot down during raid on Southed, crashing into Estuary. Saturday 4th January 1941: Amy Johnson's Airspeed Oxford V3540 only the rudder was found at the time but an experdition found what could be the remains of the aircraft last year. Monday 3rd February 1941: Twin Engined Germon Bomber crashed 1mile off Southend Pier Sunday 27th July 1941: German bomber shot down Thursday 13th August 1941: German bomber shot down Sunday 9th October 1942: 603sqn Spitfire Wednesday 3rd March 1943: Ju88 downded by Shoebrness AA site Tuesday 21st March 1943: Ju88 crashed just off Thorpe Bay seafront Sunday 30th May 1943: Spitfire crash at North Foreland Tuesday 17th August 1943: 91BG Boeing B17 shot down crashing off North Foreland Sunday 12th December 1943: Unknown German bomber shotdown crashing mid Estuary Monday 19th June 1944 6:20pm: Two B-17 bombers of the 379th Bomb Group collided in mid-air. The aircraft were flying back to base at Kimboltton, Huntingdon after a raid on a rocket site in occupied France 44-6133 captained by Lt A J Ramacitti was flying "tail end Charlie" this aircraft was seen to develop engine problems and lose height colliding with 42-97942 flown by Lt L L Burns. Ramacitti's aircraft was seen to hit Burns's aircraft just behind the pilot's compartment; they locked together for an instant before falling away. The first aircraft (Ramacitti's) was then seen to drop in to a power dive at around 8500ft before its wings were torn off by the stress and it crashing in to a minefield from where it could not be disturbed. The second aircraft (Burns's) seed to be under control although it was rapidly losing height, it was at this point a number of the crew were seen bailing out. The aircraft was then seen to cross Canvey Point and make a left hand turn and head for towards the foreshore between Southend Pier and Canvey Point as if the pilot was to attempt to land the stricken aircraft on the mud. As the aircraft came down it took an angle of 45degrees and crashed nose first on to the mud and exploded burning with an intense heat leaving behind a deep hole. In total eleven crewmembers were killed. A few parts of wreckage can still be found because of the constant tidal action. Saturday 29th June 1944: Southend bombed by large number of Incendiaries five Germans were shot down. October 1944: V2 rocket falls 60 yards west of the pier. (I know it not a plane just included it as intrest) 1949:Geoffrey de Havilland, Chief Test Pilot of the firm bearing his name is killed after his DH108 Tailless aircraft blows up in mid air and crashes in the Thames Estuary. The Southend Lifeboat "Greater London" find oil patches on the surface of the water where the fuselage is later discover resting, but there was no trace of the pilot. Also a Propeller from a Vickers Wellington has been recovered along with a section of wing spar & undercarriage from a Messerchmitt Bf110 (there was a photo in a Flypast back in the early 1980's with the remains of Bell Whalf at leigh on sea Another V2 rocket hit was on the Southend Pier Pavilion passing through the roof then the floor before embedding its self in the mud below with out exploding. there were some photos published in a book soon after the war the only time they were published. Apparently this is just a few...........there`s lots more.
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 16:42:13 GMT
Those yellow tips set her off beautifully Guybro
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 16:57:27 GMT
O my, the place was without a doubt constantly in the eye of the storm. Man I come over with my metal detector!😅
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 17:10:08 GMT
If only we could drain the Thames!! When German aircraft were returning from bombing London many were Flak damaged and dropped their munitions into the Estuary to make the aircraft lighter and more of a chance of getting home. The amount of ordnance out there is amazing......many a time a 500 or a 1000lb`s have been dragged up or uncovered just off shore. I used to dispose of them with the DEOD`s teams when i worked for the MoD.......used to load them into my lorry and i`d drive out a mile off-shore to the `dirty area` as it was called and the trainee bomb disposal guys would rig them rady for blowing up.
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Post by Ian H. on Dec 28, 2022 17:17:14 GMT
Great bit of history, Boots!
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 28, 2022 17:27:33 GMT
I love stories like this.
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 18:02:09 GMT
I got plenty of `em
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Post by jkb on Dec 28, 2022 19:22:34 GMT
As previously stated excellent build so far. Boots. That's enough material for a book 😁😎
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Post by PorcoRosso on Dec 28, 2022 19:35:38 GMT
Looking better each time, Guy. Boots, I love all that local history.
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Post by Boots on Dec 28, 2022 20:09:18 GMT
I`ve got plenty of interesting stuff to share from where i am, being a military area there is plenty of remnants from way back to the 1800`s maybe even earlier, i have loads of pics that i may put up for interest one day. BTW.....did you know that the trench dogs in WW1 were trained at the Old Ranges just up the road from me!!
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 29, 2022 8:22:46 GMT
So much history a grasp away.
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Post by Snipersmudge on Dec 29, 2022 10:14:27 GMT
God that's good!!
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Post by Armorguy on Dec 29, 2022 15:21:49 GMT
Thank you Pete!
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