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:bow: Thanks for looking gentlemen ...digging out some more ;)

Great Shots ...what a pointy aircraft.

:hesaid: :thumbup:

:hesaid: Beautiful work.

I do love PR Spitfires. Very nice indeed

:hesaid: so uncomplicated but ...complicated ...wow

It's made of "Operation Bodenplatte" There aren't many left who can tell us anything about the original. My reference is Eric "Winkle" Brown who wrote a book "The Famous Aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, he flew all of these machines himself and was an experienced pilot who was in Germany before WW2. udging from what he wrote, it's fair to say that the replica is good. The engine start-up ceremony is simpler than in the Me 2626. The machine is a bit under powered, especially with a full bomb load or with conversion kits and a dive to the target is not recommended. The...

Somewhere I have the last first day cover signed by the DC-8 crew after the AirRace

I do love me the Flying Iron Spitfire :thumbup:

Wow ..... amazing.

Love them all JK :thumbup: This link mentions a C-45 flight to NZ , by the late Joe Cowan. Hard to find anything else , other links I found just go dead. The article linked to the Cowan website, is called "From dead cow to dairy flat" would be great reading , but I cant open anything. Edit: Just found this .

thank you! btw, I updated this paint, to include antiglare panels and prop warnings: jk4942 by JanKees Blom , on Flickr jk4943 by JanKees Blom , on Flickr jk4948 by JanKees Blom , on Flickr

Superb ...that scenery is stunning .

Beautiful work JK :rockon:

"unfortunately not a Mike Ward original." Doesn't matter Mike , at least your keeping it alive :rockon:

Sir, great shots of one of my favourite FAA aircraft. I have a liking for "different" looking types.

Agree, the panelling effect on engine nacelle and below cockpit looks overdone. But those crew figures are extraordinary.

Ask this Hans Jochen Marseille and other Pilots of I/JG 27... ^_^ Good enought, good or outstanding, is a question of other available aircraft in the theater. If you have flown a Gloster Gladiator or something like this in North Africa only months before or a Polikarpow I-153 in the USSR this was a great aircraft.

D & D , Thanks for looking. Deane B ....tell me more..." my real Fletcher cockpit !!" I have the cockpit of ZK-CKA. I am restoring it as well as maintaining it as a flight simulator. It was this one