NZFF

WW-1 plus a few later shots

The German planes showed a marked appreciation of aerodynamics, compared to say an SE5A (speaking as a newbie observer of WWI machinery)
I thought you screened an Albatross but my recent Omaka dose of expertise says it is a Pfalz D.III!
Didn't know this, a year ago.
They had some cool paint jobs too.

Thank you, Charl ....another one of my loves, those beautiful old birds. Is that an airworthy airframe?

They're all great pics. The WW1 ones are great. I think that the Fokker DVII with the LO! marking was flown by Ernst Udet.
The standouts for me are the Hurricane....and the Dora. Great aircraft for protecting the 262s while taking off and landing.

Thanks for looking mate.... have to agree, that 8-gun wing on the Cane is impressive aye.

Splitpin wrote:Thank you, Charl ....another one of my loves, those beautiful old birds. Is that an airworthy airframe?

Yes I saw it at Omaka, where it was restored in 1999, according to the information board.
It was originally purpose-built for the movie The Blue Max, as none had survived.

Marty, charl mentioned in another thread that there were 20 Zettabytes of data stored on this planet. Here be some of them.

http://impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Blue_Max

http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Those_ ... 11_minutes

I remember reading that in 'Those Magnificent Men etc.' some of the replicas used suitably disguised Volkswagen engines.

ATB
Mike

Mike

Don't spend all night there
It's a very useful site. A few years back it was fun to search for something Mr Google would not find - I was pleased to draw a blank after searching for 'purple spotted haggis' (which by itself created something for Google to find) so I tried it again and got heaps of hits. These days you can ask almost anything; the only problem is to sort the honest answers from the rubbish ones.
Cheers
Mike

I like Swiss Airline DC-3 screenshot!!!

Regards,

Aharon