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05-21-2009, 04:41 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow
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|  Rare WWII aircraft to be restored
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05-21-2009, 04:45 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United Kingdom
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| Great news! Thanks for posting! |
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05-21-2009, 04:47 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Missouri
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| Cool! or should I say "Bloody good show" (using my faux English accent). |
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05-21-2009, 04:50 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: St.john's Newfoundland
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| Very, very nice..... |
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05-21-2009, 04:50 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United Kingdom
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| Just noticed v2 very appropriate siggy  |
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05-21-2009, 04:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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  | That is pretty sweet.
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05-21-2009, 04:58 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Sweet, their restoring a Defiant!
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05-21-2009, 04:58 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ankeny, Iowa
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| Cool, I will have to read up on that plane. Not one I am familiar with! Awesome news though.
__________________ Bryon O P-61 Black Widow-Mistress of the Night! "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George S. Patton "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government." "Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." |
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05-21-2009, 05:18 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Very interesting, thanks V2. That's the Defiant from the Battle of Britain Hall at the RAF Museum. There is actually another one in the UK, near Birmingham, which is mainly a faithfull replica, correct in every detail. Someone posted a link on the forum about it recently.
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05-21-2009, 05:50 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2009
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| Run down to find the bits of Defiants. The Boulton Paul Association The replica is at Boulton Pauls factory at Wolverhampton. Not sure what the progress is those piccies were taken in 2000 |
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05-21-2009, 05:54 PM
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| The Boulton Paul Association - Wolverhampton - Staffordshire - England - United Kindom Just down the road and I didn't know it existed |
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05-21-2009, 06:46 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| Very nice! Always good to see another plane coming back to life.
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05-21-2009, 07:55 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Plymouth
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| Cool, I used to live there as well!
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05-21-2009, 08:07 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United Kingdom
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You live in Plymouth! What area? | |
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05-21-2009, 08:12 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Plymouth
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| I live in the Mutley area. Spent 17 years living in Rochester as well
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