 | P-51 Mustang crashes on Highway 20| Warbird Displays Discuss P-51 Mustang crashes on Highway 20 in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by timshatz
I had read about 10 years back (memory is fuzzy) that there was a company in ... |
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12-29-2006, 01:05 PM
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#16 | | Master of Ewes
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Originally Posted by timshatz  I had read about 10 years back (memory is fuzzy) that there was a company in Brazil that was making Composite Spitfires. Complete with engine on the same level (regarding shape and output) as the Merlin. They had pictures and whatnot along with the story. They were making them for the same reason we discuss it here, there are a limited number in the world and there seems to be a market. | over here John Isaac used to, i think he still might, make 70% scale reproductions of the Hawker Hind and 60% scale reproductions of the Spitfire, i've yet to see a picture of his spitfires but his hinds look great, how cool would it be to own one!
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12-29-2006, 03:54 PM
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#17 | | He who does not skim
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12-29-2006, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Nonskimmer I'm with Tim and evan. Keep 'em flying. | Got to agree with that, even if that means preventing most of them doing acrobatics.
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12-29-2006, 06:26 PM
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Save that for the computer games and Movies (with CGI planes, of course.)
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#20 | | "Shooter"
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12-30-2006, 10:35 AM
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#21 | | Master of Ewes
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12-30-2006, 10:54 AM
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#22 | | "Shooter"
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12-30-2006, 03:41 PM
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#23 | | Master of Ewes
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but you know evan Canada isn't that far from America
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12-30-2006, 10:09 PM
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#24 | | "Shooter"
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The Canadian Lanc was at OshKosh this year. I plan on going in the next couple of years back to OshKosh. Maybe I can catch it then.
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