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To: yooling

Nice video...I didn't think there was any flying condition 262's.

the ME262 and ME 109 really were cool looking.. and although I love the look and the power of the Mustang. My favorite WWII warbird was the enemic P-40 as used by Chenault and the flying tigers.


13 posted on 05/23/2006 9:01:20 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
They are repro's.

http://www.stormbirds.com

The back story on these planes is pretty remarkable.

19 posted on 05/23/2006 9:07:03 AM PDT by yooling (I don't have anything nice to say...)
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To: Vaquero

> I didn't think there was any flying condition 262's.

There probably aren't.
This aircraft is one of several from new production,
based on reverse-engineering during a static restoration
of an original, and other research. See:
http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html

They even gave them serial numbers starting where
Willy left off. The engines, however, are modern,
and I suspect they used different materials where
German wartime production used dangerous ones (like
dissimilar metals that would promote corrosion).


22 posted on 05/23/2006 9:11:40 AM PDT by Boundless (Democrats: symbolic solutions to metaphorical problems)
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