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    The urban legend of the "He 277" being a "cover designation". It REALLY existed!

    Dear Colin1: The PIPE here...THANKS for the forum editing tip, it's just that's getting a bit late for dinner in New England "right now", so I've got to hit the kitchen for the meal...! Yours Sincerely, The PIPE...!
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    The urban legend of the "He 277" being a "cover designation". It REALLY existed!

    Dear Fellow WW II Aircraft Fans: The PIPE Here...and one of the very best books I've ever obtained for my personal library of historic aviation books is the English language edition of a book first published in 1989, and authored by Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel, on the most "enigmatic"...
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    Engine quastion about He-177

    Dear DerAdleristGelandet Njaco: The PIPE Here again...it's at page 53 of the Griehl-Dressel book on the Gruesome Griffin that the mention of ol'Fat Hermann THINKING that the Griffin WAS actually a "seperately engined" four-engined heavy, with the folliwing text in the book...I quote: "In...
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    2010 Olympic Ice Hockey

    Dear PBFoot and Fellow Hockey Fans: The PIPE Here...needless to say, where I'm a :thumbright: HUUUGE Boston BRUINS fan, not only was this year's New Year's Day one of the best in recent memory (2010 Winter Classic at FENWAY PARK on TV) with the B's edging the Flyers 2 - 1 in overtime (Recchi...
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    Engine quastion about He-177

    Dear Rousseau and Other "Grauerliche-Greif" Fans: The PIPE Here...and over the years, I've become quite a "student" of the virtually COMPLETE failure of the Third Reich to have a truly usable heavy bomber for their Luftwaffe, for most of World War II. The initial Dornier Do 19 and Junkers...
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    The Synchronized Machine Gun.

    Dear Bruno: The PIPE Here again...happy holidays, by the way, as a BIIG sporting event in my neck of the woods takes place on New Year's Day, as mentioned at 2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic - Flyers v. Bruins , with my favorite sports team taking part against a huuge rival of theirs from...
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    The Synchronized Machine Gun.

    Dear JerryW HoHun: The PIPE Here again...and where I'm interested in eventually, and VERY accurately (for the very first time, anywhere), as an RC Giant (1/4th sized) Scale flying model, replicating Leutnant Kurt Wintgens' Fokker M.5K/MG, with IdFlieg serial number E.5/15, the very first...
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    Whats your favorite aircraft from WWI??

    Dear Fellow WW I Av-Fans: The PIPE here, a regular denizen of TheAerodrome.com, which is to WW I aviation what THIS forum is to the conflagration of a war "that former Austrian-born lance corporal in WW I"...among others...started almost a generation later. I am a HUUUGE fan of WW I...
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    Luftwaffe Cannons and Machineguns topic.

    Dear CharlesBronson: The PIPE Here...been viewing the Luftwaffe Guns thread for quite some time now, and there's a LOT of differing weapons and "mounts" to look at here 8-) !!! Just a few questions, though... 1. On the WEIGHT of a complete BK 7,5 autocannon installation (weapon and...
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    Worst aircraft of WW2?

    Dear Fellow WW II Av-Fans: The PIPE Here, with my very FIRST post at WW2aircraft.net...!!! For a long, LONG time, I've been fascinated by what I started out calling "Stuck-Ugly" (it got "stuck" with an "ugly" appearance), and then came up with a somewhat more appropriate sobriquet...which...
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