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Re: Another 262 Survivor??
Posted by Mikael O on Fri May 02, 2003 01:57:38 AM
In reply top Re: Another 262 Survivor?? posted by Dave on Fri May 02, 2003 12:03:26 AM
Gaahhh, I get depressed every time I hear about it!!!!
A clear case for the WIX warbird offense tribunal :-)
/Mike
: :
: : Yep, and V&V also cited an "incomplete" Henschel 129...
: of
: : which a photo eventually turned up that showed it to be
: j
: : ust the extreme nose. (Albeit, an interesting artifact s
: ti
: : ll...)
:
: I saw the Hs129 cockpit a few years ago in Sydney , what a
: beast the whole aircraft would have been !. You can see a
: few photos on the Preserved Axis Aircraft site. Cockpit i
: nstruments were being cleaned and the pilots armoured seat
: was just finished at the time of my visit.
: There was a Hs129 wreck discovered in Sth.Russia in 1995 .
: . unfortunately those who found it had no idea what they h
: ad and took it to the local scrap merchant ;-((
:
: regards
: Dave
: