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Good stuff Les, Adler I expect you saw a fair bit of what that Blackhawk has been through...
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Some good ones there, Dan. The fourth one down is a right place, right time shot. I want to get a rightplace/time shot, but don't really want it to be a crash.
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
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True Eric. The B-1 is a pretty expensive landing gear failure by the looks of things...
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The pics of the Hawk and the B1 is nasty sh*t, but les the pic with the Mi-24 with the chin gun is the ATE a South African company that upgraded them to be for a export customer. They look cool this way.
The plane that crash with the sparks flying what happend there and where did that happen?
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