 | movies?| Aviation Videos Discuss movies? in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by Royzee617
Why does Mr Wildcat sign off with a Wirraway (?) or is it a Boomerang... and not ... |
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04-20-2005, 01:43 PM
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#31 | | Master of Ewes
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Originally Posted by Royzee617 Why does Mr Wildcat sign off with a Wirraway (?) or is it a Boomerang... and not the Grumman Martlett etc? | yet you do not question the siggys of others??
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04-20-2005, 03:56 PM
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#32 | | He who does not skim
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04-20-2005, 04:10 PM
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04-20-2005, 04:20 PM
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#34 | | He who does not skim
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If Canada had built our own design during WWII, I'd probably use it.
But we didn't so I can't.  | |
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04-20-2005, 04:33 PM
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Country: | Oh, but the post war Arrow (btw one of the main designers was a Pole) compensates it. 
Poland built some planes before the war, so my next siggy will be one of them. I'm searching for some interesting shots 
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04-20-2005, 04:41 PM
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#36 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | The chief test pilot on that project was of Polish descent too, I believe. Janusz Zurakowski.
It's a real shame it couldn't go into production. It will always be remembered with both great fondness and sadness in this country.
I will now observe a moment of silence.
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04-20-2005, 04:51 PM
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yes, Żurakowski was involved too. As far as I know there were many Polish engineers both in Canada and USA involved in aviation industry. One designed a gun bay of F4 Phantom, another was participating in the works on f14 Tomcat, etc etc. In NAM war there was one Polish pilot flying f105 Thunderchief with a white eagle painted on the fuselage. I think his name was Kutyna. Later he was in NORAD centre.
Not to mention Gabby, American of Polish descent 
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04-20-2005, 04:59 PM
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04-21-2005, 02:52 AM
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#39 | | Master of Ewes
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04-21-2005, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Brunner Hey, I've just reached 100 posts, beer to everyone | I still haven't got that beer yet! 
Anyway back on subject, some more movies to look out for are - Captains of the clouds(one for Nonskimmer!), A wing and a prayer, I wanted wings, Airforce, wings of eagles and Appiontment in London.
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04-21-2005, 02:30 PM
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Hey, I didn't know most of these movies, really  I will have to go and do some shopping on EBay or something, because it's almost impossible to get this kind of stuff in my country
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04-21-2005, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Wildcat ...Captains of the clouds(one for Nonskimmer!) | Ha! Good one! James Cagney as a Canuck bush pilot! | |
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04-23-2005, 06:20 PM
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Country:  | I just saw Fighter Squadron, an old movie from 1948 about the Air force in britain pre- d-day. Pretty much all p-47s. Pretty cool, they use lots of color guncam footage. This could go in the crazy captured planes conversation, the me-109s were p-51's in german paint schemes. A pretty good movie overall.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group 
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04-23-2005, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Royzee617 I recall Memphis Belle's director (?) Puttnam on TV saying he'd wanted to do a film about Bomber Command but no one would back it... | Damn ! I hope it's not the same thing with book publishers...  | |
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