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01-31-2005, 09:49 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| ill find some | 
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01-31-2005, 09:58 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| $350... I don't know whether to dream fondly of buying a mint-condition bomber for that amount, or to be sick at the incredible wasteful purposes people put them to 
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01-31-2005, 10:01 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
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| no seriously it is in the museum and everything, the archives, i live right by a old training base, lots of lancs were there | |
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01-31-2005, 10:02 PM
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| heres the hurricane found in a barn | |
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01-31-2005, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy $350... I don't know whether to dream fondly of buying a mint-condition bomber for that amount, or to be sick at the incredible wasteful purposes people put them to | heres an example of what the bombers were used for after the war, a cattle shelter, this is the lancaster that is now in the nanton museum
heres the site with a complete history of this lanc. its pretty intresting www.lancastermuseum.ca | |
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01-31-2005, 11:08 PM
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#21 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  | Those are some great pictures. Man, what a way to treat 'em!
At least that Lanc is getting a fitting home. Thanks for the link. | |
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02-01-2005, 01:43 PM
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#22 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | i can't beleive it, a couple in England own a actual lancaster cockpit with original fittings but now they have to sell it (didn't say why) and the only serious bid they've had is from a german company, they want to blow it up for a film.............
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02-04-2005, 12:07 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| theres a a good chunk of a mock lancaster in this museum, cockpit, and fusalge, it was used in a movie. A lancs cockpit isnt very big, the whole lancaster inside is pretty small and crude. I wouldnt want to be one of the crew in a lancaster. | |
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02-04-2005, 10:11 AM
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#24 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | I wouldnt want to be in any bomber. Fighter on the other hand...
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02-04-2005, 01:31 PM
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| true that... a B-17 isnt bad inside though, and it has lots of guns. What fighter would you want to be in? | |
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02-04-2005, 03:24 PM
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Country: | P-38, Or maybe FW-190D-9
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02-04-2005, 03:39 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by mosquitoman Are there any B-26 Marauders left? I haven't heard about any anywhere | Yes there is one in South Florida and I'm not sure but I think there is one in Seattle. If there are two they are both flyable. Sorry I can't be more definitive I saw them in two seperate documentarys just recently and about the same time I heard that one of the places had monetary problems so it could be one that got a new owner.
I'd go with a P-38 too. | |
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02-04-2005, 03:48 PM
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Country: | The L model though, of course 
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02-04-2005, 05:03 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
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| id go with a P-51-h or a later variant spit. | |
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02-04-2005, 05:05 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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| Are there any B-26 Marauders left? I haven't heard about any anywhere
there is one in alaska that crashed over the alaska highway. IT wasnt recovred until 1972 and what there was left of it wasnt pretty the whole nose was smashed off no engines ect... they restored it to flying condition. | |
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