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WWII Rare Aircraft
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:40 pm
by Bob K
http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/index.html
These appear to be mostly experimental or prototypes. I'm not that much of a student of WWII aircraft, but found this site pretty interesting.
Re: WWII Rare Aircraft
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:09 pm
by Jered
They have the flying pancake!
Re: WWII Rare Aircraft
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:17 pm
by drice
Just looking at the pics of the US stuff is prettty interesting. I've seen quite a few of them before, and have flown RC models of several, including the Flying FlapJack in 1/4 scale.
But the one that caught my eye was the "BELL XP-63 PINBALL MANNED AERIAL TARGET"
Excuse me??? MANNED AERIAL TARGET???
Who volunteers to fly that one?
Re: WWII Rare Aircraft
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:59 pm
by randy
drice wrote:Just looking at the pics of the US stuff is prettty interesting. I've seen quite a few of them before, and have flown RC models of several, including the Flying FlapJack in 1/4 scale.
But the one that caught my eye was the "BELL XP-63 PINBALL MANNED AERIAL TARGET"
Excuse me??? MANNED AERIAL TARGET???
Who volunteers to fly that one?
Whomever is at the top of the Operations Officer's shit list that day.
Re: WWII Rare Aircraft
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:32 am
by JAG2955
The Pinball was a heavily armored P-63, and it was shot at by gunners using frangible bullets.
Nevertheless, I sure wouldn't volunteer for that duty.