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02-13-2004, 07:31 PM
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02-14-2004, 09:26 AM
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Country:  | nice pic, took i while to load, but i got there, btw, i like the idea of the baggage compartment 
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05-10-2004, 12:01 PM
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Country:  | thats a great cutaway  ill just post here so lightning guy can have look at it, though he probably has seen loads of cutaways before of lightnings 
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05-10-2004, 12:43 PM
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| I've seen several. The baggage compartment wasn't all that big, but was useful for smuggling contraband (like scotch) into forward areas. More useful was the nose. I read that if the Lightning didn't carry ammo it could smuggle something like 4 cases of Aussie scotch up to the forward bases. These planes would inturn be escorted by Lightnings with a full ammo load.
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05-10-2004, 05:56 PM
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05-10-2004, 11:03 PM
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| Not just the Yanks. The Brits modified the bob racks on Spits to fly kegs of beer into Normandy. | |
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05-10-2004, 11:29 PM
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| And the Germans. They used their gas tanks as kegs flown by fighters and such. | |
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05-11-2004, 05:56 AM
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Country: | i supprised the brittish didn't smuggle tea insted of scotch..........
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05-11-2004, 11:11 AM
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| Adolf Galland once flew his Bf-109 to a high level party. He was carrying champagne and lobster with him.
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05-11-2004, 12:08 PM
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Yes, everyone still does it now. I've heard plenty of stories of smuggling stuff through now, like under panels in fighters, they don't get checked 
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05-11-2004, 03:50 PM
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05-11-2004, 09:02 PM
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| What if the last B-36 had its bomb bay turned into a huge keg? The "Coalition" (Allies sounds sooo much better!) could use it as a super long-range morale booster! It's a crazy plan but it would work! | |
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05-11-2004, 10:26 PM
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| That would be an aweful lot of beer.
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05-12-2004, 01:04 PM
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05-13-2004, 10:05 AM
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or, if a lancaster carried a 22,000lb pinata hanging below it on a few heavy duty chains, and a hurricane and a spit had to shoot at it to break it open to release the sweets hang on, maybe thats why the lancaster is at the BBMF
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