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06-30-2008, 01:14 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chambersburg
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| Do-335 at Udvar-Hazy Having been transferred to PA from TX, I took advantage of being 72 miles from Dulles and went back to NASM Udvar-Hazy, specifically to see their Do-335. I won't use up bandwidth posting the photo's yet, which are decidedly average given the bad lighting and the way the old bird is packed into a tight space, but there you are. What struck me was the wing - and I can't explain why it would be a big deal or why I had never thought about it, but it looked for all the world like a Do-17 wing. Anyway, if someone would like to see what I was able to photograph, I will be happy to do so. The "Uhu" fuselage was still displayed, along with one DB-603 engine. |
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06-30-2008, 01:19 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Prescott Arizona USA
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| Does a duck like water.... |
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06-30-2008, 02:33 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Go ahead and post the pics. I would love to see them. Last time I went to the museum, neither was on display at the time.
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06-30-2008, 08:28 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Love to see them 2Adler! Where in PA are you now?
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07-02-2008, 01:56 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Yes! let's see 'em! 
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07-02-2008, 08:20 AM
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| Self explanatory photo's, included a bonus of the P-61 on display, including the tail feathers which show the many lives the old girl had led before this point. As I said, the Do-335 is really crammed in, and make no mistakes, it is a very large aircraft! The Uhu, on the other hand, looked as though it was a tight fit for a 6 ft pilot, it is a very trim aircraft. |
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07-02-2008, 08:34 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Prescott Arizona USA
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| And these pic's are bad..??? Thanks love the pic's..And yes she way a BBW...  |
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07-02-2008, 10:15 AM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| The pics of the Pfiel look better than mine when I took them a few years ago. All shadows. I have a book about the restoration of that Fw 190 'Weiss 7'. When completed, the Fw 190F-8 was missing its ETC 501 bomb rack and one couldn't be found nor were there any tech drawings. Then they found one recovered from a Fw 190 found in Norway. It was a plane flown by Lt. Rudi Linz of 12./JG 5 and was shot down on 9 Feb. 1945 attacking a group of RAF Beayfighters that were attacking a German convoy in a Norwegian fjord. Recovered in the 1980s the ETC 501 was carried 10 miles down a Norwegian moutainside on the shoulder of one of the recovery members. Its the only piece of the current plane whose history is known and documented. "Fw 190: Workhorse of the Luftwaffe" by Jay P. Spenser - NASM and Smithsonian Publishing
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07-03-2008, 04:37 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Last time I was at the museum was in 2005 and those 3 were not on display. Too bad...
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07-03-2008, 09:44 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Great pics! Thanks for sharing.. 
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07-05-2008, 08:51 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Vila Real
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| wonderfull pics thank you for sharing them
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07-05-2008, 09:16 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Great stuff Two Eagles....
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07-05-2008, 12:26 PM
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| “Archive”  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wisconsin
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| Great pictures there twoeagles, the last picture with the P-61, is that a V-163 flying pancake I see there rear part of plane in yellow?
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07-05-2008, 04:16 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Northrop N1M flying wing demonstrator used in YB-35 development.
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07-05-2008, 05:39 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Yeah I got pics of that one when I was there. It really is a great museum. I am going to have to make another trip soon to go and see it again.
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