Le Bourget Air Museum Pics

F3V · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:43 pm

Hello All,

B17news · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:08 pm

Those are excllent pictures, thanks for sharing!
B

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:16 pm

Wonderful photographs.... many thanks for sharing. you have a very good eye.

All the best,
Richard

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:23 pm

Love the photos! The B-26 Marauder looks great.

F3V · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:26 pm

The visit of C-47 was unconvincing, the sound of motors was so strong as the plane vibrated, I thought that it was going to take off!!! I have about 400 photographs to be seen, I shall not miss to show you of other one soon :wink:

F3V · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:30 pm

Me and the Big Boy

Project Warbird · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:48 pm

Great pics- Thanks for sharing. Love the pics of the P-47.

Tigercat · **Joined:** Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:54 am **Posts:** 288

Man........I would love to have that B-26 sitting in my back yard, or waiting to take me for a spin out at the local airport.........I sure wish there were more of them around!! :wink:

Ted

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

Nice pictures, thanks a lot! I gotta ask though, is that carpet or gravel on the floor underneath the fighters? It looks weird.

pfschgo · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:23 pm

Been there myself. The B 26 is ezpecially nice...very complete, and big!
Paul

n5151ts · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:44 pm

those are airplanes and they should be flying---

gary1954 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:03 pm

Yup, I have to agree it would be nice to have all of them in the air, like the Martin B-26 I have never ever never seen in the air, but with so few of them flying and not too many proficient in flying them.....how long would the inventory last

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:14 pm

Thanks for sharing! Those are absolutely beautiful!!!

kevin

F3V · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:23 pm

JDK · **Posted:** Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:34 pm

Great photo survey, and an excellent selection of shots, thanks F3V.

n5151ts wrote:

those are airplanes and they should be flying---

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... 7&start=20

In this case the rarity of the Yak 9 and Marauder mitigate against flying them. May I point out there was a B-26 flying, in the US, we are now poorer that airframe and, more importantly, several irreplaceable people.

The 'Fw 190' is a French built example. Remember the stories of worker sabotage?

The Polikarpov - well, a chap in New Zealand didn't bang on on chat forums, he got a new production run of two types and got those back into the air. Of course, not being P-51s, they didn't sell as well as they might have.

If you really want to fly one of the others, get your checkbook out. There's examples available if you aren't just blowing smoke.

Concorde - I'll fly, if you pay the bills.

It's an old line, and boring. Like it or not, we have national museums who preserve aircraft for future generations, statically. These aren't 'airplanes', they are (mostly) ex- military aircraft designed for war. Flying them would only be part of 'using' them. The rest isn't normally permitted - for long.

Regards,

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