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The TAM Museum in Brazil is finally open. Good to see some long lost warbirds are out in public view again.

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Thanks for the heads-up, James.

I still get sick seeing that F4U as a static though. :(

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wow, very cool collection, thanks for the pics.

are the main wheels on the P-47 standard, or something from a later aircraft? They look like something from an early jet, possibly.

Must be hard to take flash photos with all that shiny paint though :?

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Good layout with room to grow & fresh looking aircraft.

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Dan K wrote:
I still get sick seeing that F4U as a static though. :(


Wow! That really is a nice one! :shock:
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Nice to see the Ex David Price/MoF spitfire again, my dad made a new cowling for it in 1992,
Shot was taken before getting repainted
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Wow! That really is a nice one!
Sorry, I don't mean to piss & moan. It's just hard for me to watch a flyable birdcage get turned into another pigeon perch.

http://www.warbirds.co.nz/images/tbm-f4u.jpg

Now tell me this isn't a beautiful scene.

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Wow! I'm extremely impressed with the look of the completed museum. Certainly a top notch operation.

I do agree that a Stateside investor would do himself well to work a trade for that Corsair though. Since Brazil has no real historical affiliation with the type, a clean F4U-4 model might do them just as well. Anything to get that early model back in the air!

This collection was originally supposed to be a flying museum. With the death of its founder, I figure those intensions have probably passed though.

What's the story on the excellent looking Bf-109?

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on the '109, from preserved axis aircraft:

"Under assembly at Museu Asas De Um Sonho. It is said to consist of a newly built fuselage that has been fitted with original wings of unknown identity."

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Which P-47 is that and what is the Bu # of the Corsair? hanks

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Corsair is Bu # 17995

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Corsair is F4U-1A BuNo. 17995 (built 14 Aug 1943), ex-N9028S, ex-ZK-FUI (New Zealand).

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2, serial unknown, painted in identical color scheme of aircraft used by German ace Hans-Joachim Marseille.

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The Thunderbolt is believed to be WWII veteran P-47D-25-RE, 42-26760.

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Wow! Look how well lit everything is!
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The lighting is great. I wish museums here in the states would take a lesson from this and brighten up their facilities. The Natl Museum of the USAF is one of them that needs to turn some lights on!!

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