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02-26-2009, 01:13 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dordrecht
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| History of ww2aircraft.net Found this while googling. A little nostalgia for the "older ones among us" 2002 (no user count): Aircraft of World War II 2003 (67 users, 40 posts) Aircraft of World War II Note the user count, says 67  Jan 2004 (127 users, 269) Aircraft of World War II Dec 2004 (439 users, 40436 posts (!) http://web.archive.org/web/200501010...2aircraft.net/ Jan 2006: 2114 users, 132848 posts Aircraft of World War II - WWII Aircraft, WWII Aviation, and More Jan 2007: no user count http://web.archive.org/web/200701012...2aircraft.net/
__________________  "To attack 36 aircraft on your own was rather much" - Jan Linzel, D.XXI pilot. |
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02-26-2009, 01:32 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Cool stuff Marcel...!
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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02-26-2009, 02:57 PM
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| Siggy Master   Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| With Jan here. 
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02-26-2009, 04:04 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| Ah, cool stuff
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02-26-2009, 05:10 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| THX for the links Marcel! The family is groving up 
__________________  Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. |
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02-26-2009, 05:23 PM
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| Older Than Dirt  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Good Info, Marcel.... Thanks for posting... Charles
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02-26-2009, 05:37 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA.
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| Very interesting. I didn't realize the site is this old.  |
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02-26-2009, 09:18 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Plainwell, MI
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| Thanks Marcel!! I guess for January 2007 there was no count because this board broke the counter. And could it be that that is why no data since then??? Bill G. |
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02-27-2009, 03:10 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 3,625
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__________________  "Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity." - Hitman! - The Technical Guide for the Independent Contractor. |
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02-27-2009, 05:41 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| We still have a couple of old hares from 2004 with us, kinda cool watchin the board progress and mature into what it is now.... Good stuff Marcel...
__________________  My IL2 Video Tribute to My Grandfather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtzN5RuNNJk My 1/32nd Rendition of His Corsair: http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/2-p...3-a-20416.html |
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02-27-2009, 06:40 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| If only some would mature with the forum....
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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02-27-2009, 07:07 AM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr | ||
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02-27-2009, 11:52 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Yeap I joined back in 2004. This site helped me get through the end of a deployment to Iraq. I discovered it while surfing the net on my spare time. 3 months later I got to come home!
__________________  fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" |
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02-27-2009, 12:12 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Nice history lesson Marcel! Thanks! TO
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03-01-2009, 04:16 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Adelaide
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| wow, what a newbie I am!!
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