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MIflyer said:
"At first we had only P-47's with cardboard drop tanks - quickly replaced by metal tanks -..."
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Cardboard or paper fuel tanks actually are a good idea, given that the concept is the drop them on enemy territory. The Germans recycled the aluminium from the aircraft they shot down.

Bombs Away: Are You a Member of the Fight(er) Club?

Have fun with this one. I suppose you idiots did not know that a Spitfire was a "fighter jet".

By the way, I got ten out of ten. :)
 
Howard Gibson said:
Cardboard or paper fuel tanks actually are a good idea, given that the concept is the drop them on enemy territory. The Germans recycled the aluminium from the aircraft they shot down.

Bombs Away: Are You a Member of the Fight(er) Club?

Have fun with this one. I suppose you idiots did not know that a Spitfire was a "fighter jet".

By the way, I got ten out of ten. :)
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wow...today I learned the Nazi jet Me262 was equipped with the world's first jet engine...
 
A very minor error - but I saw this in a 2020 Smithsonian Air & Space 75th Anniversary edition magazine. There was to be an Arsenal of Democracy Flyover in Washington with 70 warbirds participating and the magazine provided tear-out "Spotters Silhouette Cards" to help readers on the ground identify the aircraft as they passed over.
Did a Lancaster participate?
However, the silhouette is of an Avro Lincoln...

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MIflyer said:
There was a NZAF unit with P-51's in the area, while the USAF managed to scrape up about 20 P-51's that were being used as hacks or target tugs or were just sitting in storage around the Pacific area. Reference: Warren Thompson's book on P-51's in Korea.
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Nah, there wasn't. The RNZAF did not operate P-51s in Korea. The RAAF did, but not the Kiwis. The Kiwi Mustangs arrived toward the very end of WW2 and were packed away as they were not needed, being eventually reactivated in 1951 for the Territorial Air Force units, but none saw service in Korea.

There's those "errors" we are talking about in books 'n stuff.
 
GrauGeist said:
Caidin had a passion for fiction - the "Six Million Dollar Man" is actually based on one of his Cyborg stories.
So I suspect in Martin's case, he knew that tall-tales sell. The downside to this, is that history is history and to embroider on it sows confusion and pollutes later generations, who don't have a direct line to those who were there, that could discount the tall-tales for what they are: bullshit.

The surprising thing about Caidin, is that he was quite an accomplished pilot, but then again, so was Gene Roddenberry.

But Roddenberry made it very clear that his writings stood in the realm of the imagined.
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Off topic, but I think one of Caidin's best works is the book Marooned. In the book the Marooned astronaut is on the last flight of Project Mercury. In the movie, which is a must see, it revolves around the Apollo/Skylab, and the cancelled Dynasoar program
 
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In 1980 a fellow club member and I were on our way to Wilmington, Ohio to fly our models in the Academy of Model Aeronautics nationals. I was riding shotgun (passenger front) while were driving in a valley and in the distance I saw a speck which looked like a Ju 52. I asked my friend to look at it and as it got closer, coming toward us, sure enough it was a Ju 52 chugging along. We had just read in a magazine that Caiden had purchased the trimotor in Britain and it was being sent to the U.S. It had been used in the Battle of Britain movie.
 
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