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Aircraft Pictures Discuss Rare Planes in the World War II - Aviation forums; Here are some rare planes at a museum that I have recently visited. They have the only Dora left. It ...

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    Rare Planes

    Here are some rare planes at a museum that I have recently visited.
    They have the only Dora left. It is flyable, but they don't fly it for fear of crashing.

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    SWEET PICS! Thanks.

    Is that a Ki-84?

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    Surely if you went to that museum you took more pics. Where did you stay while in the area?

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    The museum is the Flying Heritage Collection in Evertte, WA. It is owned by Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, so he has plenty of cash to spend on warbirds. The museum has:
    Spitfire mk.Vc
    I-16 type 24 "rata"
    JN-4D Jenny
    P-51D
    U-2/Po-2
    P-40c
    Fi 156-c2
    A6M3-22
    Bf 109E-3
    Hurricane mk.XIIb
    P-47d
    F6F
    Ki-43 Oscar
    Me.163 Komet
    Fw 190D-13 DORA
    Lancaster noese
    V-1
    Piloted V-1

    All the planes are flyable or near-flyable.
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    How cool is that Oscar!!

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    Cool pics! Love the Dora.


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    WHAT? No Corsair???? What a crappy museum!!!!!! ha ha ha.

    Man, his planes look like they just came off the assembly line.

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    nice!


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    It's great that someone has acquired these aircraft and put them back into
    flyable condition. All it takes is money and time.

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    Real airplanes have round engines and two wings !

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    Beautiful birds!

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    Great shots got any more?

    Dont shoot him...... It will just make him angry.

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    That Bf 109 looks fantastic!!


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    Great pics. Does anyone know if the Germans ever put the manned Buzz Bomb into operational service? I've heard conflicting reports on whether they actually used them or not.


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    I don't think they were ever made operational. From what I've read Hanna Reitsch was the only test pilot to fly one and live through it.

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    Real airplanes have round engines and two wings !

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    Pretty poor suicide machine design if the only pilots to die in it were the test pilots:\


    A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.

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