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njlauren -> RE: Oh! For Cool! (8/3/2013 1:11:34 PM)
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I went to an airshow several years ago that featured a number of cool aircraft, including a B17, a C47 dakota that had flown during the Berlin Airlift, and they had a flight demonstration of a P51 mustang that holy cow was it loud (I hear it is because the tips of the propellers actually go supersonic). I always hold a special place in my heart with the P51, the plane that went from design board to production in like 90 days and ended up becoming a legend. I actually got to see all three of the big planes of the allies at that show, they actually had a Mustang, a Hurricane and a Spitfire there, which from what I hear is rare,though only the Mustang flew. There also was an ME 109 there, that I heard a humorous, but probably apocryphal story about, supposedly a rich guy bought it and restored it, and it had working machine guns, which the FAA was none too thrilled about, and showed up one day at the hanger it was stored in and told him to have someone disable the gun by welding the barrel shut or something or remove them from the plane entirely, or they were seizing it....kind of can't blame them, I think the ME 109 had 20mm caliber rounds in the wings.
Though I read one source that said it was the best fighter of WWII, and it definitely wasn't, the Spitfire and Hurricane shot down a lot of them, and when the Mustang went into service the Luftwaffe was wiped out in about 6 months effectively.....
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