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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 10426363)

Yes.

I grew up near Eglin AFB. There was a monument to Doolittle in Valparaiso, Fl which was moved to the Air Force Museum on hwy 85 just outside Ft Walton Beach. I was always told that out on the Eglin reservation there was an area called "Little Tokyo" where they practiced the raid. Growing up there where I did, when we lived in Valparaiso our house was directly in the flight pattern for one of the runways and I learned to identify many types of aircraft, great place to grow up!!!

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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 10426363)

Yes.

The last raider alive passed last week.

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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer (Post 10426089)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555202405.JPG

Looking at this, I began to wonder what happened. At first glance, you'd think the BMW ran up the back of the 'Vette, but because of where that palm tree is, I don't think that's it.

Did the 'Vette run up from behind and scoop the BMW up and over to the trunk of the tree?

Or did some [insert your preferred "poor driver" scapegoat here] get in the BMW, put it in reverse, rev the engine, and drop the clutch, backing over the nose of the 'Vette?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555411878.jpg

Grumman F9F Panther
The WWII Fighter Gun Debate: Fighters of the Korean War
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555465772.jpg

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This F9F-2 is being loaded with bombs on a carrier off the Korean coast. The nose cone has been extended forward to make the ammunition boxes accessible. Although the F9F was outclassed, the first jet-versus-jet combat ended when a F9F-2 shot down a MiG-15. There is some irony in the fact that the J42 engine was a version of the Rolls-Royce Nene, just like the VK-1 of the MiG-15.

Westland Lysander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lysander
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555466673.jpg

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British Army air co-operation aircraft were named after mythical or historical military leaders; in this case the Spartan admiral Lysander was chosen.

Bell XFL Airabonita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XFL_Airabonita
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555467813.jpg

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The Bell XFL Airabonita was an experimental carrier-based interceptor aircraft developed for the United States Navy by Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York. It was similar to and a parallel development of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ land-based P-39 Airacobra, differing mainly in the use of a tailwheel undercarriage in place of the P-39's tricycle gear. Only one prototype was manufactured.

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Originally Posted by dlockhart (Post 10429705)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1555477930.jpg

Funny, that is considered a "factory error" when packaged wrong and people collect those.

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