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Zippythehog
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Box art doesn't look right to me. Looks cold. Batsman is bundled up. Why are the cowl flaps open?
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...and where on Earth are they? I don't think they're in Kansas anymore Toto...
Donivanp
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Not to be to literal, there ain't no carriers within a thousand miles of Kansas.
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British operations in the North Atlantic , Brrrr but the Aussie markings ????
MIflyer
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Atlantis Model Company is having a 20% off Memorial Day sale. Add a code "SAVE20" at checkout.
IIRC , these aren't the Aussie markings. The FAA used them in 1944 when stared addopting the American practice of removing of the red colour in the national markings for the planes servicing in the FFA squadrons in the Pacific and the Far East Fleets.
the pic source: Asisbiz Fleet Air Arm Corsair 6C SubLt John R Baker HMS Illustrious off Andamans Islands 21st Jun 1944-IWM A24710
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Thank you ! - dr 1 ace
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Atlantis reissues the old Aurora kit, planned release is 4 Jul 2025.
I will have to think about getting one of those. Never worked on them much but I rode around in those things a few times.
I will have to think about getting one of those. Never worked on them much but I rode around in those things a few times.
Donivanp
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Worked a couple tramps A's at Dover. The AN/APN 47 Doppler navigation radar antenna was right under the toilet. How quaint. I may have to hit that up.
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USAF has a C-141 that brought home many POWs from the Hanoi Hilton. Signatures of the freed aircrew are preserved on the junction box, lav, and elsewhere.
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USAF Museum at Dayton OH
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Yes. You knew what I meant.
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My AFROTC summer camp was at Charleston AFB. We went on a couple of Combat Airlift Missions where they flew low in formation over SC and then dropped a small bundle over North Field, a closed former AFB. Flying with the doors open in the back was kinda different.
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When the C-141 production completed Lockheed proposed a bomber version and asked the USAF what it wanted to do with the tooling, which was Air Force property. Lockheed offered to store the tooling for a price, but it was Obvious to everyone that the C-5A was the wave of the future so the tooling was destroyed. Boy, what a mistake they made! The C-5A cost so much that the USAF could not buy as many as they wanted, but it was too late to buy more 141's. Lockheed soon realized they could have sold quite a few 141's to foreign countries had they retained the capability to produce them. Of course eventually the C-5B went into production, over a decade later, and the C-141B modification upped the airlift capability of that fleet. But the C-141A was a real handy airplane, rather like a jet C-130, and very reliable. Seeing three of then tucked into a tight V-formation, zigging and zagging down low was an unusual sight.
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Kongo....! 
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