Marie, or the figure in white?That diagram under the cockpit of the Corsair looks like a female I use to go out with whilst stationed at Wigram
Well, that'll teach your for continuously breaking in to the Waafry.That diagram under the cockpit of the Corsair looks like a female I use to go out with whilst stationed at Wigram
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The City of Irvine Neglects and Destroys PV-1 Ventura
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This aircraft was broken up possible for scrap value. If the clowns in the local Government authority in the City of Irvine just a wee bit of market research they would have realized that they would have got more for a partially restored Ventura than a broken up pile of metal.
There is a PV-2 Harpoon still flying in the US. Video from 2015 EAA Oshkosk.The idiocy of councils.
I think that there is still a PV-1 Ventura and a possibly a PV-2 Harpoon flying in the US.
The original was referred to as the Devils Sledge as I would imagine you join the devil if you stuffed up the landing.There are plans to build an airworthy replica of a Messerschmitt Me-163 ‘Komet’. The ‘Sippel Me-163’ is a full scale replica, with the exact dimensions of the original: 5,9 meters in length and with a wingspan of 9,3 meters. Unlike the original Me-163, Sippel, the man behind the project, has decided to use modern honeycomb and composite material for the construction of his new plane. This brings a gigantic reduction in weight: the original weighed some 1900 kilograms while the replica weighs only 240 kilograms.
This tremendous reduction in weight enables the replica to fly by the power of a normal jet engine, instead of a bi-propellant liquid-fuelled rocket motor, increasing the range and safe operation significantly.
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The Me-163 ‘Komet’ will fly again
The Me-163 ‘Komet’ will fly again German aviation magazine Flug Revue, Klassiker der Luftfahrt, have revealed an ambitious project to build an airworthy replica of a Messerschmitt ...www.scramble.nl