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airnutz
 Post subject: Russian Lake P-39
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Here's something to make our mouths water...
http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/news/ne ... ssia05.htm

Also was reading something else yesterday informing us that the Buffalo,
BW 388, residing in the Gulf of Finland is unfortunately in Russian waters,
which adds complication to its recovery...

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 Post subject: Re: Russian Lake P-39
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airnutz wrote:
Here's something to make our mouths water...
http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/news/ne ... ssia05.htm


Sad to think though that the poor pilot was still sitting in the cockpit...... :(
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Well he is no longer missing and received a full military funeral.

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DaveM2 wrote:
Well he is no longer missing and received a full military funeral.

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Absoltuely, another one crossed of a long list.
Lt Ivan Baranovsky, missing since Nov 19th, 1944.


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airnutz
 Post subject: P-39 Pilot
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Firebird, I tend to view the pilot being found a bit more optimistically..
at least he was found to ..I assume..be buried with full honours. The sad
thing about the WW2 and the Stalin period..is that the pilot may have no
family living to inform of his finding. Guess we'll have to see what
Aeroplane Monthly reports.

Also, saw on a site a few days ago of a Hurricane found in Russia with
the mummified pilot still in it...he was in far better condition than the
Hurri!

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airnutz
 Post subject: Russia P-39
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..well now the secrets out! I am a pathetically slow typist..6 minutes for
a "paragraph of reply".

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"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
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Full story and more pics out in a few weeks in the next Classic Wings, some interesting finds in the gun bays !

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Wow, looks like new! :D
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 Post subject: Russ P-39
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Yeah...Chris...she's Purdy ain't she?...just how we want to find one!

Flush 'er out..go thru the systems..re-engine..preserve..fire 'er up, and
fly her. In her original paint, with Lt. Ivan Baranovsky's legend
heralded at the cockpit. I have a similar regimen scheduled for a retired
neighbors '69 Jaguar 2place Coupe, this Spring. I'd much rather be
involved in the P-39...although I'll be be able to drive the Jag!

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Mr Airnutz,
That Jag will be nothing but cubic agony!you must be a masochist or into self defeatism.Quit before its too late and go for the P-39!You WILL thank me later on.

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 Post subject: Just Say No
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Agent 86,
Thanx for the warning..but I have been a Brit-car-masochist for ages
now! All you warn is true...and then some!! It's sort of kin to being
fancied by Bodicea. She's a looker and spirited...bad things will happen,
but the "good-stuff" is just too attractive to say no! An XKE coupe...

...the light is so pretty...must go towards the light..so beautiful :shock:

www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ghosts/characters/bodicea.shtml

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"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
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I know what you mean about pommie cars - owned them and Italian stuff all my life.Morgans, Lotus , TWR etc. I must be mad because I sold all my car stuff to sort of retire from it and just concentrate on having a nice time looking at old aircraft but when I was in the UK last year I saw an Aston and bought it. It arrived just before christmas and fingers crossed it hasn't let me down yet and what a blast on the highway.

I have been trying to impersonate James Bond at every Cafe in Brisbane ever since but my secretary says it will only start attracting women when I lose 3 stone , drop 10 years and develop a pleseant personality!!!!

Oh Well

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setter wrote:
I have been trying to impersonate James Bond at every Cafe in Brisbane ever since but my secretary says it will only start attracting women when I lose 3 stone , drop 10 years and develop a pleaeant personality!!!!
Yeah, but you don't want the type of women that would appreciate a pleasant personality. 8)
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Ahhhh so you know the Banger sister do you .........

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Yeah, but you don't want the type of women that would appreciate a pleasant personality.


What type would appreciate an unpleasant one? I suppose the kind which likes to get even?
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