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    Could be... You want to come up with a name?
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    Quote Originally Posted by pongo6863 View Post
    Could be... You want to come up with a name?
    If it's Civvy a 'Commercial' if it's RAF a 'Vernon' (Not the Hardest of names for an aircraft)

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    Hole in one! I said it was easy.

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    Vickers Vernon - not the most attractive machine...
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    What's this Bomber?

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    B-17? Dangly bomb-doors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue-sophist View Post
    B-17? Dangly bomb-doors.
    Looks a bit like that don't it? But it i'nt. Wrong side of the Ocean.

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    I'm not sure that's a bomber per se could it be something like a Yak-9?
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    Quote Originally Posted by pongo6863 View Post
    I'm not sure that's a bomber per se could it be something like a Yak-9?
    Any particular Yak 9? And they do look like bombs to me

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    Ah ha, we're getting warm! Wasn't there a mod to allow PTAB 2kg anti tank bombs to be dropped? Yak-9D?
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    I'm not going to demand the alphabet

    It's a Yak 9B, tactical bomber, one of many modifications

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    Not just little bombs neither
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