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**vandyke** · 29-10-2006, 07:53

Originally Posted by PartTimePongo

Well if Vandyke had included the whole view , showing all the other blimmin 2 cans lined up , I wouldn't have thought the thing was tail sitting. Though another arrser did opine that it's actually flying....

There was only 2 one over the grass and another over by one of the hangers. i believe it is flying. if you click on the link and look at all the parked planes you can see a shadow, but not on the one in the pic. so i guess it is airborne

**Mighty_doh_nut** · 29-10-2006, 09:08

Originally Posted by PartTimePongo

Well if Vandyke had included the whole view , showing all the other blimmin 2 cans lined up

It matters not whats parked up around it...

It would still be a Tucano if it was surrounded by a fleet of pink Globemasters and the Thunderbirds.

Good job you weren't teaching aircraft recce to the land forces during the Falklands campaign old boy....... :D :D :D

Whats this?

and this

**cloudbuster** · 29-10-2006, 09:11

P-38 and an early mark of Beaufighter.
Chengdo J10

It's a quiet Sunday and I've no excuse for being sad.

**Mighty_doh_nut** · 29-10-2006, 09:15

Spot on Mr Cloudbuster, anyone would think you used to take those Reccy journals home instead of playboy :D

I bet you read Pooleys en route supplements cover to cover too :D

**cloudbuster** · 29-10-2006, 09:17

Once a spotter..........

BTW, its really easy if you check the properties..............

**Mighty_doh_nut** · 29-10-2006, 09:25

Originally Posted by cloudbuster

BTW, its really easy if you check the properties..............

But in the words of Gladys night 'Cheats never prosper'

As the super Etendards approached the Task Force in 1982 they didn't have ability to click properties...... You can tell you were part of Sumo flight :D

**cloudbuster** · 29-10-2006, 09:29

All through my career, from basic, through groundcrewmans, aircrewmans, pillocks and conversions, cadres and other sundry stuff, the watchword was always the same;

If you can get away with it.............

Especially the APC. :D

**polar69** · 29-10-2006, 10:05

Beaufighter......possibly the nicest looking warbird in the world ever

apart from the Mossie

**geo7863** · 29-10-2006, 14:33

Originally Posted by PartTimePongo

Zlin-142 , I've flown one, nice ship , considering the origins ......

right and wrong mate... it was a trick question its ME in a zlin 142 about to embark on my first solo..and they are very nice to fly methinks, but then again I have only flown three types of zlin and a couple of cessna 172's, so I am a sprog when it comes to comparisons

**geo7863** · 29-10-2006, 14:35

Originally Posted by crabtastic

Originally Posted by geo7863

anyone know what this is?

More to the point, where do they keep it buried when it's not flying? It looks like it has been pulled staight out of the rainforest on Guadalcanal.

No mate its now kept in a hangar in Moscow, the czechs religiously service the aircraft, its paint job was a bit poor cos all the aircraft owned by the czech national aeroclub were undergoing brand new paint jobs, and this one was being sold to a club in Moscow so they didnt bother painting it.