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    ww2 buried planes in Australia

    here is a link to what they found when they pumped out quarry at Archerfield, hope it is ok with the mods The Archerfield Quarry - full of World War 2 equipment In the early 70s I was a "brat" that lived in a RAAF married quarter at 167 Kerry Rd whilst my dad did his engineering degree for his...
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    ww2 buried planes in Australia

    As a young lad I often swam in that quarry at Archerfield on a hot QLD summer day in the early 70s, and the stories were there was a lot of yank hardware at the bottom, and it was true, because a couple of years ago they drained it. quite a few 50cals were found, lots of junk but no warbirds or...
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    Dogfight Over Bordeaux

    with the performance of the me262 it is theoretically possible to exceed the speed of sound in a full power steep dive, however it has been proven the tail structure would suffer catastrophic failure doing so. Similar reports have surfaced of hearing sonic booms with the me163 but the jury is...
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    Somthing wrong at the Ubisoft forums

    Ive had a few problems in the last week, clicked on the cached link in google and it loaded, but took a while. Now it seems ok. weird
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    What is your Favorite Campaign

    DCG campaign for mods written by Stonehouse for Neil Lowes Darwin map Very challenging, the Japs have a heap of carriers and me being ex 75SQN I can relate to it plus I love how Jap fighters explode :D
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    Planes you wish were in IL-2

    Most of the ones I wanted when I heard 1946 was coming out are either being done or are done, it was so disappointing after buying the game (it wasnt cheap in Australia when it came out, I paid $70 for it) and finding the fighters and bombers i expected in 46 not to be there, just some weird...
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    Hammered but Home Screenshots!

    Somehow I got her home. In real life I dont think this would have been possible What happened was that I was bounced on take off by a zero, I had just lifted off at the end of the strip when I was bounced, the outer part of the wing departed, spinning me around in the direction of the strip...
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