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10-11-2009, 03:49 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| F7F Upclose This guy was parked behind my plane at Reno. Sorry its taken so long to get these formatted and posted. Enjoy!
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10-11-2009, 03:52 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Wiltshire, UK
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| That is one impressive bit of kit, thanks for posting. I miss the Tiger we had here for a number of years...always led the final mass fly-by at Flying Legends. Looks so big from the side but so darn sleek when full frontal (errrr, can I say that ?)
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10-11-2009, 04:14 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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10-11-2009, 04:41 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| Really good closeups, especially of the line-routing... 
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10-11-2009, 05:28 PM
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| Good lookin' warbird Joe! Thanks for the pics. Would have loved to see the Tigercat see combat in WW II. TO
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10-11-2009, 05:45 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| I would like to raise to a toast to the [origional] engineers who figured out all the hydraulics and mechanical connections to make the whole thing work! 
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10-11-2009, 06:15 PM
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| Hunny 
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10-11-2009, 06:48 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chambersburg
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| What's not to love? |
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10-11-2009, 06:55 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Nice ones, Joe!
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10-11-2009, 07:31 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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10-12-2009, 06:38 AM
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10-12-2009, 08:51 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Great pics Joe! Thanks for sharing them. Quote:
Ditto, the mechanics are always the overlooked ones.
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10-12-2009, 05:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Excellent photos!
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10-12-2009, 06:12 PM
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| Awesome pics! What is that a picture of in the 3rd one?
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10-12-2009, 06:12 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2009 Location: Hamlet, NC, US
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| Very nice pics! That aircraft is remarkably well preserved. |
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