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Re: Favorite Interwar / WW I aircraft
Posted by Joe Scheil on Sun Dec 15, 2002 09:22:23 PM
In reply top Favorite Interwar / WW I aircraft posted by Chris Martin on Sun Dec 15, 2002 03:16:57 PM
: What's your favorite pre-1939 aircraft? Impossible to determine..but interested in the He-51, Hawker Fury, Boeing FB-5, A5M Claude and P-26...How about the P-6E Hawk?
Your favorite pre-39 to have seen flown? The Hughes H-1
Your favorite pre-39 to fly (Hope I get some replies to th
at one...)? Does the DC-3 or PBY count?
As for why they are under represented or "ignored". They are not very common, and most are extinct. Very few collectors even have big parts of them and engines and rottables are nonexistent. TFC has that Hawker, Planes of Fame the P-26 and Seversky, but there is very little between the wars. None of it "won the war" and most was scrapped during. History is written by the survivors, and extant aircraft facilitate the process. Look at how the Blenheim book revived the forgotten bomber...
As for the most important prewar/WWII needing restoration, I propose the B-17 C 40-3097 "The Swoose" ..
JOE