Photo of the week
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Thanks Harry.
She has been skinned in this form, by some guy called "Mexichawa" over at M4T.
He is also active on "WIX" & probably knows a lot more than me, ( from what I can gather) on this subject.
But it would be nice if it got the A&A touch.
HINT
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American troops overran Augsburg on the 29th of April 1945 and on 1 May a specially assembled team, led by Colonel Harold E. Watson, moved into the Messerschmitt office building. Known as "Watson?s Whizzers", they had been sent there to retrieve valuable technology and equipment and ferry it back to the U.S. by ship. When they reached the test aerodrome of Lechfeld, they found several Me 262?s in varying condition. One of them was the A-1a/U4. Colonel Watson named the aircraft "Wilma Jeanne" after his wife and later it was renamed "Happy Hunter II". Messerschmitt Chief Test Pilot Karl Baur piloted the aircraft on a few test flights and the American team test-fired the gun on the ground target range and was surprised by the highly efficient hydraulic recoil-damping system which hardly even made the 262 move during firing.
Eventually it was decided that V083 would be flown to Cherbourg, France and then taken to America by HMS Reaper along with several other airframes for further evaluation. Messerschmitt test pilot Ludwig "Willi" Hofmann was chosen to pilot the aircraft on the ferry flight but during the flight, a turbine blade broke and Hofmann had to bail out, thus losing this valuable aircraft. Hofmann broke a leg but was otherwise in good condition after the event. He was paradoxically accused of sabotage but if that had been the case, it sure would have been a risky plot. -
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As its a long weekend here in Canada.
They give us this day off, as it cuts down on the number of suicides.(No Joke)
Not many people realize during the "BOB" we were also attacked by the Italians.
Anyway an interesting shot of a Fiat G-50 of 20 Gruppo in Belgium Oct1940
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... very nice pic Duggy, with the mech with hands in the engine while it is running ...
Very bad Italian paint quality by the way ...
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Always seems a shame to me that some people think that it is necessary to "dress-up" historic aircraft with spurious schemes that the air-frame never carried. Particularly since Hurricane PZ865 is a distinguished aircraft in its own right. Not only as "the last of the many" but in its civil guise, acting as the Kestrel's chase aircraft, providing a direct link between the aircraft of WWII and those of much more recent conflicts in the Falklands, the Gulf and elsewhere. Either of these schemes are far more interesting than any "false history" paint job. A significant historical aircraft like this needs no such dumbing down.
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