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    Machpants
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    An ex Tornado guy has brought all the bits from various sources, and set up the sim. It's a no visual sim, just the cockpits (was always night IMC 😉 ) used mostly for emergency training but some other stuff, too. He's added a VR headset to it, so you can have a play.

    https://www.facebook.com/f3simulator

    Nice bloke, written a good book too, for spotters rather than general public

    Tornado F3: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor: Gledhill, David: 9781781553077: Amazon.com: Books
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    Sorta planes, one of my buddies now training in Dubai saw this

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    DDay era roundel and invasion stripes!

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    Hooroo
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    @Machpants Coin!

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    @Hooroo yeahDubai is the place for this sort of thing, real gold leaf lambos etc

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    @Hooroo yeahDubai is the place for this sort of thing, real gold leaf lambos etc

    If you have it you may as well spend it and good on them. I would (Just not gold nor Lambo)

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    In Napier you can't go anywhere without tripping over one of those.

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    @JC Sacre Bleu!

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    Sorta planes, one of my buddies now training in Dubai saw this

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    DDay era roundel and invasion stripes!

    Needs sharks teeth like a p 40

    ![alt text](image 1e942c15-7521-4990-8016-71386a7f01f5-image.jpeg url)http://warbirdsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/P40-Warhawk.jpg

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    More appropriate to the roundel

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    love these cockpit videos

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    More appropriate to the roundel

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    I had a client who was trained to fly those in preparation for huge losses on d-day . That never happened though and he never got to actually fly in combat , still he got to fang around the sky in one of those beasts for a few months before he went home to his old job selling cars.

    They were Richie McCaws grandads ride for the latter part of the war flying out of Tangmere. If anyone has a link to the clip of him blowing up the German train with rockets I’d be stoked if you posted it .

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    @Nevorian yeah. My vids re a bit crap compared with a handheld handycam! Sadly never had a go pro in my day

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    The P40 is going to be doing live firing of its 6 .50cal guns at Wanaka again in 2020.

    Test firing on the Friday and part of the show on Saturday.

    Only Airshow in the world that has a Kittyhawk firing armaments.
    This from 2008

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    Vickers viscounts aren’t in the news much these days

    Stuff
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    @jegga I'm surprised there are any left for a museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Vickers_Viscount

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    @Donsteppa said in Planes:

    @jegga I'm surprised there are any left for a museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Vickers_Viscount

    The poms built the Comet too which had the unfortunate issue of breaking up in mid air

    de Havilland Comet - Wikipedia

    de Havilland Comet - Wikipedia
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    @jegga yeah, rectangular windows. Became the basis for the Nimrod MPA.

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    If you've read the book Devotion you'll know this guys story, I think theres a movie in the works about it. Here's his background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr.

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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117712266/us-signs-off-2-billion-sale-of-five-hercules-airplanes-to-new-zealand

    Looks like we will buy new Hercules aircraft instead of changing to another manufacturer. Good solid option

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