Photo of the week
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I did research the pilot, but found no details.
Hard too say if fatal or not, the human body can take a lot of punishment.
Regards Duggy. -
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Thanks for those, specially the F-4 i did not knew it!
PS: With the new site and everything else, what is going to happen with the Duggy's reference lounge pictures that were on the other site? -
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Due too the fact, we lost a lot of posts, when we upgraded forums.
Some of these I have posted before, but deserve showing.
Anyway this week a factory fresh P-51H
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An early one, too, (P-51H-1-NA) with the short tail! My guess is it's a NAA publicity shot since it looks a lot like similar ones taken of other Mustangs.
P-51H serial numbers started with 44-64160, so 44-64164 would be only the 5th one made! -
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Odd fact about this plane. Instead of being named for a person, there's a person named for this plane!!
Swoosie Kurtz, daughter of USAAF Colonel Frank Kurtz. Col Kurtz helped put the original Swoose together from parts of two planes during the dark early days in the Philippines with the 19th BG. He later commanded the 463rd Bomb Group in Italy and flew a plane named...what else, The Swoose (1944 Model)!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoosie_Kurtz
