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Oshkosh Northwestern - Witness: Signs of trouble prior to fatal warbird crash... |
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07-27-2007, 06:40 PM
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07-27-2007, 06:47 PM
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Country: | Unfu*kinbelieveable... Wonder if any vid clips will surface.... My sincere respect goes out to the family...
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07-27-2007, 06:52 PM
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Country: | I bet there will be video of it. I know some guys got some pictures today.
Here is a video with the eyewitnesses and shots of the scene. Oshkosh Northwestern
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07-27-2007, 06:56 PM
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Country: | More video, including footage of a 1999 collision between a Corsair and a Bearcat at the end of the clip Mediacenter - WFRV Green Bay: Northeast Wisconsin News, Weather and Sports
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07-27-2007, 07:36 PM
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Country: | Such a same, seems like lots of crashes this year. I saw the one that had the landing gear collapse. News is actually wrong. They missed the collision last year of a TBF colliding with a private plane killing one in the private plane.
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07-27-2007, 07:43 PM
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Country: | This is really sad, not only for the warbirds lost but for the families as well. My condolences to all the families though I understand it might be one. That hurts even more.
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07-27-2007, 08:05 PM
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Country:  | You have the wrong Precious Metal. Sadly this was Precious Metal II | |
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07-27-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Yak11Fan  You have the wrong Precious Metal. Sadly this was Precious Metal II | Are you sure, the mustang at the EAA did NOT say Precious Metal II. As of yesterday that was the only one I saw there. How do you tell the difference?
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07-27-2007, 09:37 PM
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#24 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country: | Unless Precious Metal II has the green wings too, then the picture that Micdrow posted is the right one. The news pages have a particularly disturbing photo of the accident. Fox news had it on their page an hour or so ago. You could clearly see the bright green of the wing's underside.
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07-27-2007, 09:41 PM
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07-27-2007, 09:58 PM
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07-28-2007, 12:28 AM
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| Precious Metal is a Reno Racer with a Rolls Royce Gryphon engine and contra-rotating propellers.
Precious Metal II, which crashed at Oshkosh, was a P-51A or an A-36 painted to look like The Reno Racer for the Movie "Thunder over Reno" complete with green wings. | |
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07-28-2007, 12:36 AM
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07-28-2007, 02:30 AM
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07-28-2007, 05:18 AM
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