What Warbirds Would You Have Saved?

Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:44 am

fotobass wrote:Richtofen's Triplane

That's a good one...

Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:48 am

How about Dave's Dream-the B-29 that dropped the A-bomb on Bikini atol. I'll bet the National Atomic Museum would like to have that plane. Didn't get scrapped until the 1960's...

Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:11 am

2 Do 336 Arrows
One to fly and one to look at.

Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:02 pm

I agree with that one . DO-335 and one or two FW-200's a couple pf P-61's a typhoon or two a couple of TA-152 would be very nice.

Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:47 pm

What about Erich Hartmann's Me-109?

Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:18 pm

Ahem.

fotobass wrote:Hartmann's 109.
Galland's 262.
Richtofen's Triplane
Bong's P-38 (what happened to that, anyway?)
John Glenn's F-86.
An AVG P-40.
Zeamer's B-17...just as she landed.

Foto the Ignored (Thanks Mudge)

Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:26 pm

hmm... how'd I forget the Avro Arrow.... mind you, I'd save one of each... the Avro Arrow Mk I and the MkII (Pratt and Whitney powered and Orendo powered, respectively)

Oh, and there are so many great planes that would have been great to save... so I'll second all of them. Hmm... I can't remember, did anyone mention a Dehavilland Sea Hornet or the Australian CA-15.

cheers,

David

Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:00 pm

A DH Hornet
A Short Stirling
A production-spec Westland Wyvern
A TDB Devastator
An Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
A Dornier Do-17
A Henschel Hs-129
A Henschel Hs-126
A Handley Page Hampden

All operational aircraft (in many cases with significant combat history) with no complete survivors.

And last of all, as others have already said......

The magnificent Boeing 314 Clipper.

Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:48 am

Richtofen's Triplane...

Pardon my ignorance, but I seem to remember reading ages ago that there was a red and green Fokker Dr. 1 of Richtofen's on display in Berlin until bombing raids levelled it. Anybody else heard of it? I've still got the book at the house...somewhere...

Oh and while I'm at it, throw my vote in with the Typhoon and Mosquito.

Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:15 am

Punisher05 wrote:Richtofen's Triplane...

Pardon my ignorance, but I seem to remember reading ages ago that there was a red and green Fokker Dr. 1 of Richtofen's on display in Berlin until bombing raids levelled it. Anybody else heard of it? I've still got the book at the house...somewhere...

I remember reading the same thing...years ago...with a picture of the plane. It may have been in a Jablonski (sp?) book (author of Air War).

Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:27 am

Hartmann's 109 already been said? Whoops. My bad.

I guess great minds think alike, but some (like mine) just go a bit slower than others...

Better get my eyes checked *before* my next medical.

Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:45 am

caldwels spitfire
bobby gibbs p40
bill newtons a20 the only raaf pilot to win the vc in the pacific
and i cant figive my self for forgeting any dh hornet :shock:

paul

Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:14 am

Punisher05 wrote:Richtofen's Triplane...

Pardon my ignorance, but I seem to remember reading ages ago that there was a red and green Fokker Dr. 1 of Richtofen's on display in Berlin until bombing raids levelled it. Anybody else heard of it? I've still got the book at the house...somewhere...

Yes, that's true. And the good and wise leader of te country at the time refused to allow it to be moved out of Berlin for safe keeping. Thanks, 'Dolf...