Posted on 11/22/2015 5:27:36 AM PST by WhiskeyX
This video contains images of military aircraft shot down, missing during the World War II and found nowadays. Some aircraft have been restored and can fly again!
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I enjoy watching those old planes at airshows. The Confederate Air Force supplies a lot of them.
Are we allowed to say that in Obama's ideological enhanced age of politically correctness?
Now the Commemorative AF. ??
The one that really gets to me was the P38 dug out from very deep vertical ice tunnels in Greenland i think, brought out piece by piece from guns to wings.
The P51 has always been my favorite plane. I love seeing it at Air Shows leading the pack.
Sometime in the late ‘80’s I was hunting in France and came across a WW II German plane in the edge of the woods adjacent to a cornfield. It was covered with briers and scrub, nose down and tail in the air. It was evident that the farmer had left it undisturbed all those years because the corn rows made a bend around the location of the plane.Don’t remember the model, but it was a fighter.
FW 109 more than likely.
You could very well be correct. I remember the markings and wondered about the fate of the pilot. It was in the Limousin region in France....Haute Vienne, I think. Not all that far from Bordeaux....and the sub pens.
Just googled FW 109 and I believe you are correct! Thanks.
Sorry, but that reminded me of John "Manny Ortiz" Kerry.
It was a pretty common aircraft for Germany in France.
Thing is so few ww2 equipment remains for historical purposes, such as the Tiger tanks.
Too many wanted to destroy everything Nazi adorned rightfully so. Just the way it was when nations were ruled by real un pc correct men.
Ohhh no.
I stand corrected, the water cooled ones were easier to bring down. The FW 190 was an air cooled radial. Little bit more rugged.ME 109 was water cooled. Bit more to sensitive to high velocity rounds.
Germany used both.
The FW190’s biggest problem was high attitude performance.
In some cases, like the Tiger Tanks, wasn’t it also because there were so few made?
I know France outlawed selling Nazi items over the internet, but some things can still be found at private dealers in most “Market Day” places in France.
Robert Atkins tried to be a pilot but they fired him because he kept removing the carbs.
The FW 190 also rectified the main problem with ME 109 - the very narrow track landing gear was highly unstable. Supposedly, more 109s were lost to take-off and landing crashes due to the gear than were shot down in battle.
Reminds me of the screwed up deployment of the P38, politics neutered it, prototype crashes for a political show, then they make terrible decisions of its supercharger and engines for the European theater, it finally emerged in the Pacific triumphantly but if it had been put to use in Europe well before the P51 it could have saved hundreds of bomber pilots.
Stupid politicians thinking of being Generals for votes and campaign donations.
Like the Warthog, an obvious effective weapon, we need ten thousand of them built to go after ISIS.
Two stage superchargers were apparently hard to engineer.
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