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Pretty cool stuff!

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aircradft-r ... today.html

Good work.

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Moreno Aguiari
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Awesome!

One of my favorite aircraft... If I could only get my hands on a project!

Few people realize how massive this bird is. Too cool!


TS

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Taylor Stevenson

Wonder if he will go back to banner towing with it??

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Well .....when you have flown one..........you've flown half of em. Can't believe I had a chance to buy one (had the money in my pocket) a flyer by the way, and turned it down. I wanted Big Iron!!! Well heck that's one big airplane!

Tell me again how big it is? I was standing by the pick up poles when he snagged his banner with it to advertise for the museum down Miami beach.

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Long Live the N3N-3 "The Last US Military Bi-Plane" 1940-1959
Badmouthing Stearmans on WIX since 2005

Definitely marks the transition from the big prewar O-Birds to the smaller grasshoppers of the L-series.

Old Paul Mantz, later Tallmantz bird. It was used to film many movies as it turned out to be an excellent camera platform.



Nice to see it flying again and in such fine shape.

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Scott Thompson
Aero Vintage Books
http://www.aerovintage.com
WIX Subscriber Since July 2017

Much Coolness!


There was an TV show that ran briefly in the late '70s callled "Spencer's Pilots." One episode featured what I think was an L-1 (I assume Kermit's) having some sort of emergency, and the landing gear falling off in flight. I was only a kid, but as I recall It looked like the pilot intentionally jettisoned the gear at about a hundred feet. Not sure how he got it down..slid in on the grass maybe?

SN

<edit> Found some of the show on Youtube (dubbed in German.) This clip heavily features the L-1, although it doesn't include the wheels-falling-off scene I remember. N-number confirms it's the same aircraft now owned by Mr. Weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myDlyQxNKdA

Warbirds News: Basically, you only post link to your website ? Right ? And always open new topic to be sure to give you the maximum of visibility ?
One other topic was already open about this subjet, why don't you post there ?

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This one I had on my list of "Jail Birds" airplanes shackled and forbidden to fly, at least for a lifetime or two. It has been under restoration since the 1970's. Hard to understand why they are so rare. There are more Waco Gliders in existence than L-1's. Shouldnt there be several in the Alaskan Bush?

I think I counted 7 when I was writing up a news piece a while back. 6 in the US, one in the UK

Somewhere in my vast, totally disorganized photo archives, I have pics of an L-1 that I shot at Breckenridge some time probably in the late 1980s. As I recall, it was painted overall silver and it had the red "meatball" in the center of the star of the national insignia. During the show, much to the delight of the crowd, the L-1 performed a ve-e-e-e-e-e-ery slow flowby, almost standing still (of course, the typical west Texas wind, blowing at probably 30 MPH, makes that kind of thing a lot easier to accomplish).

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

I think that's the ex-CAF one that went to the Anchorage Museum

L-1 in Burma
http://imageevent.com/okbueno/mopic?p=4 ... =4&s=0&z=2

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I heard that it was used in the making of Waldo Pepper...