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j8m1 shusui.......... sword stroke translated japanese

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Started slogging through NASM's aircraft catalog.
This rare or exotic enough?
Aichi B7A2 Ryusei (Shooting Star) GRACE...Long term Storage (whatever that means)
http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emu ... ntrecord=6

Here is that Me209 again, displayed at Krakow, Poland, in June last year.

Not a museum to miss if you are within striking distance.

PeterA

another NASM, Horten Ho 229 V3, they have bits and pieces of several Horton models
http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emu ... record=144

Is that the only Do-335 Pfeil?

"Long Term Storage" means bury it until eveyone who knows about it is dead.

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[quote="Canso42"]Is that the only Do-335 Pfeil?
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Yes

Peter,

I certainly saw one, dismantled and crated. The museum published a book about their collection and they do mention having two of them in it although I have not seen the second one.

The only one I saw used to be stored in the old storage area, minus the wings and engine. It is now in the new storage building, right next to the B-25, right on the wall. The engine used to be displayed separately.

The fuselage is now held on a metal I-beam frame and the wings are in a wodden support next to it, as is the tail elevator assembly with its typical twin rudders. The rudders bear the serial "120086" right under the swastika with a black 3 hand painted above it and on the fuselase as well.

It's unfortunate I have not yet published these pics as I would post a link to them. I should be doing that within the next month I guess... hope...

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Michel C
Thousands of a/c pics at Passion-Aviation

This in private UK storage March 2007.

PeterA

The Cosford museum has rather a large range of German missiles. (OK that's stretching the definition of aircraft!)

I remember reading some time ago that the NASM had enough aviation material in storage for somewhere over 100 years worth of work. Time and personnel are probably what is needed. I do hope they get the Ta152 and the Horten into shape soon.

The have a second Do335? Maybe it was used as a spares source for the first restoration.

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"They done it, they done it, damned if they ain't flew." December 17, 1903

wow!!! that's a pretty powerful statement it should carry for miles!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

That must be this one.

I wish I had taken it in colour.

PeterA

There is, and has been, only one surviving Dornier 335.

Nr240102 Do 335A-02.

There is, apparently a static replica under construction, using original tail,
undercarriage & nose section: "107" on tail, in Germany.

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Is it just me, or has anyone else had the thought that a Ar 234 would be really fun to build a replica of and fly?

Ryan

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the nasm also has the only j7w1 shinden to fly
http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijna/j7w.htm

they also have parts of a j5ni tenrai
are these exotic enough