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Warbirdnerd
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Paul Allen's F6F is inching towards a return to the sky!
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GOODY! Another R-2800 beating up KPAE, it could only get better if either P.A. or John Sessions would buy a DC-6. I've always said you could make $99 Million dollars if you could bottle the sounds of a DC-6 taxiing and sell it to kids driving CAMAROS BLOOPATA-BLOOPATA-BLOOPATA :D

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gr8, kool, fantastic! :drink3:

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Awesome news! Does anyone know the story with this airframe? I saw pictures of it years ago looking beautiful in its '00' markings, but I'm guessing it needed re-restoring to bring it up to collection standards? Thanks in advance!

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Most excellent news for sure. This one has been dormant for much too long, IMHO.
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The Hellcat is officially my favorite Navy airplane. Is there a link to Paul Allen's FB page?

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JohnCFord wrote:
The Hellcat is officially my favorite Navy airplane. Is there a link to Paul Allen's FB page?

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Here you go...
http://www.facebook.com/flyingheritagecollection
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GOODY! Another R-2800 beating up KPAE, it could only get better if either P.A. or John Sessions would buy a DC-6. I've always said you could make $99 Million dollars if you could bottle the sounds of a DC-6 taxiing and sell it to kids driving CAMAROS BLOOPATA-BLOOPATA-BLOOPATA :D


It's not a DC-6, but John does have a DC-3 on its way this year.
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The Inspector
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Yeah, Merrill Wien (of the late Wien Air Alaska) and his son flew it into KPAE about 3 years ago on it's way to someplace in British Columbia to be gone through (DAVEYMAC 82, you on this??) it had a radar extended nose and other aftermarket mods, not sure what it will show back up with.

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Here is a recent photo of John's DC-3. It was taken last fall by Nathan McGrew, AKA BigNate on WIX...
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Here is a recent photo of John's DC-3. It was taken last fall by Nathan McGrew, AKA BigNate on WIX...
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Is it me or does it look like a photo of a model DC-3?

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krislhull wrote:
Here is a recent photo of John's DC-3. It was taken last fall by Nathan McGrew, AKA BigNate on WIX...
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nice model kit! :wink: :wink: :wink:

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Its a really cool effect you can do to photos called tilt shift. Here, somebody's made a do it yourself web app for this:
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

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First thing I thought, wow cool model! :drink3:

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If this is the Hellcat I think it is I fuelled it up at Sussex County Airport in Delaware around 1993-ish. It was flown over from a private airstrip before flying out the next day. I never knew where it went.

I took a few shots of her sitting on the ramp. I was on nightshift that night and the canopy was unlocked....so.....well yeah I sat in it for about 10 minutes looking around. :P


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