The recent Channel 4 Documentary 'Fighting the Red Barron'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8mf9fbP44

enjoy!

hmmm kinda reminds me of my CTA landings...

these is hysterical...how real men shoot skeet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On6M8IC1K-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAiXR...eature=related

That's what I call sports bud. Hillarious! I want one of those 84 mm Carl Gustavs!

Those clay pigeon shooting vids were brilliant. They reminded me of one of my fav Clarkson videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SimNDBl4J-0

Continuing the top gear clips.... Here's a merlin powered car!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxF...=youtube_gdata

he's 100% right. america lost the entire concept of sportscar after about 62.


but keeping on the same scheme.... real men cut down trees like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8jn...eature=related

B17E swamp ghost found in new guinea
 

i love these kinds of stories...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,4765119.story

and here's an album of the recovery pics...

http://news.webshots.com/album/552562680RaMyMb

the russian boys will love this one. wild game footage of a russian bomber flying ( sort of ) with one wing. the other ac in this game is pretty interesting...must be pc.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8Uqytf0U8

take a ride in a B-17. video and views from just about every vantage point in the ac. pretty cool. ( in black and white tho..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-yTZm7gI

or a B-24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-PM...eature=related

or a lancaster...

http://www.blip.tv/file/278997


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VywhF...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygsrs_m3WY0

think this one is the dambusters memorial flight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEg2...eature=related

WOW, that Lancaster run was awsome :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Tha was all BUT a leveled flight.

Only wish there were sound on it, would love to hear the pilots dialog there.

first flight of a spit mk-19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdT7_...eature=related

good footage and great sound of the last flying mk 11 spithttp://www.flyingmachinestv.co.uk/SpitPL965.wmv

sometimes you find some pretty cool stuff underwater...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wKCl...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBELF...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS08Y...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53iFA...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hot81...eature=related

a few more... i would love to find something like this ( only in way better shape ) some dive.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn886...eature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJFbx...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLllq...eature=related

a t-bolt. notice someone scalped the machineguns out of the wings...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2FTh...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgDs...eature=related

WWII news and related broadcasts...from rumors of war to VE day

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1939

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1940

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1941

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1942

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1943

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1944

http://www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1945

P 51 mustang manuals. just about every manual you could want...all you need now is the plane.


http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/oth...uals-9051.html

High Flight
 

wow...came across this while looking for something else. this was the standard sign off for television back in the 60s and 70s. very nostalgic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTlWC...eature=related

Remains of WWII aircrew lost in Burma to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery
By Edward Colimore

Inquirer Staff Writer

Gini Doolittle never knew her cousin, but her family talked so often of his mysterious disappearance that she felt a close bond.

Lt. Joseph Auld was their "lost hero," she said, a pilot who "flew the hump" over the Himalayas during World War II until he and his aircraft disappeared in 1944.

Doolittle spent hours paging through an album of photos showing Auld and her father, Charles Wilderman, a technical sergeant and radio operator who flew similar missions from India to Burma and China.

Later, Doolittle, a professor at Rowan University, came to know Auld better through a diary he left behind.

She never expected his remains to be recovered, much less that he and others in his crew would be celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery 66 years after their deaths.

The airmen will be remembered July 15 in funeral services at the Old Post Chapel, just outside the cemetery gate. A caisson will then take their remains to a grave site where they will honored in patriotic ceremonies and by a fighter-jet flyover.

"I opened a package at my house in September, and inside was a spiral-bound report that said [the Army had] identified him," said Doolittle, 64, of Sicklerville. "I was speechless."

Doolittle was likewise stunned to meet a brother of one of the six others on Auld's C-47. She and Robert Frantz of Lindenwold met at a survivors meeting held by the Defense Department.

"Imagine my surprise to be seated with a relative of another crew member," she said. "He lived just a few miles away."

Frantz, 72, last saw his big brother, Tech. Sgt. Clarence E. Frantz, just before the latter was deployed in 1942, and he has treasured his memories and photos.

To find his plane "means a lot to me," Frantz said. "It's still emotional."



Powerful memories
Doolittle remembered the exotic tales her father told when she was a girl about his wartime experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater. Fighting there didn't get the headlines the campaigns in Europe and the Pacific did.

"My father talked about tigers walking through the camps, about the poverty and lack of respect for human life," she said. "I never realized how brave he was until the last 15 years."

Doolittle recalled seeing her late father's leather flight jacket, sunglasses, and large military-issue canvas suitcase.

Conversations about his service invariably led to stories of Auld, her second cousin, who disappeared at age 26. "It kept him alive over the years," she said. "He was always in the back of my mind.

"In the 1950s, I went to a movie set in India, and my grandmother said, 'Your father and Joey were there during the war,' " she recalled.

Doolittle went to college, married, had twins, and earned her doctorate in 1996. She teaches educational leadership in Rowan's doctoral program.

But Auld was often on her mind, especially one day in May 2004 as she marked papers at her kitchen table while half-listening to the television.

Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes was reporting on Defense Department efforts to recover the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in long-ago conflicts and said a plane had been discovered west of Myitkyina in Burma, now Myanmar.

"That can't be my cousin's plane," Doolittle remembered thinking. The next month "I got a phone message on my answering machine. . . . It was the Army. They wanted to talk to me about my cousin."

Without offering much detail, officials asked her for a blood sample to analyze DNA. By January 2005, Doolittle had received a detailed report on the crash site.

The next year, she visited a family survivors meeting hosted by the Joint POW/MIA Account Command, where she hoped to learn more about her cousin.

She sat next to Frantz and recognized his last name. A Frantz had been among the crew that went down with Auld.

"Are you related to him?" she asked.

He told her that he was the youngest brother of the 24-year-old radio operator.

The Defense Department "had a report about the crash site," said Frantz, who served in the Navy and Army. On hearing the details, "I lost it. I went outside to get myself together."



Discovery in 2001
On the morning of May 23, 1944, Lt. Auld and Sgt. Frantz and the rest of their crew took off for Burma from an airfield in Dinjan, India. They were carrying much-needed ordnance to the Allies, who were trying to drive the Japanese out of Myitkyina.

The weather was not cooperating - monsoon season had begun early. It was raining, and visibility was poor.

The two-engine cargo plane plunged into the bed of a stream that trickled down into the foothills of the Himalayas, according to the official reports. Some of the ordnance exploded on impact, sending pieces of the aircraft across the lush jungle, where it was scavenged by local tribal people.

Fifty-seven years later, in 2001, reports about the wreckage made their way to the Joint POW/MIA Account Command in Hawaii, which began a full site investigation in January 2003.

Amid the decaying debris - which included the plane's nose section, emblazoned with a picture of a flying mule - were bone fragments and teeth. DNA from two teeth was matched to Doolittle's DNA.

"My DNA connected to him!" Doolittle said. "Matching the teeth was very emotional. It makes it real. Here were remnants that connected me to his life."

Doolittle and Frantz plan to attend the July 15 funeral service, then head to their loved ones' graves.

Auld's name will appear on an individual headstone at Arlington National Cemetery because his remains were identified. Frantz's were not, so his name will appear on a stone bearing the names of all the other crew.

Robert Frantz said he would wear his Army uniform to honor his brother.

"I was 7 years old when my brother disappeared," Frantz said. "We thought we would never know what happened to him. This has brought it all back into focus. It's had an impact on my life."

Many relatives and friends are expected to turn out for the ceremonies.

Auld, Frantz, and their crew "took a huge risk," Doolittle said. "They are heroes, and now they're home."

Cool yet short

In Russian, but cool footage

cool vids SA. ya know, the thing that impresses me the most about this stuff is...we view it and class it in "our" frame of mind...according to 'OUR" age. but the "MEN" flying these planes and doing all of this...weren't even 30...hell most werent even 20 freaking 5! I am talking both axis and allies...god bless them all.

i should of put this on before,i watch it a lot,i love the reaction of the crowd,im guessing there was some red arrows virgins there that day
love the gypo break at around 11 mins,and how close to the bridge?
puts a lump in my throat,enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGO1...eature=channel

An epic Dogfight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4nekiHFww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0bXW3PLGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4kG_...eature=related

Just one Ive just found on my phone taken at a recent classic show in Carlisle. Points for correct identities!!!
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/82fbdf2d.jpg

gilly, i thought they were lining up for a drag race :grin: ok im guessing a p 47 engine, a b 17 ( but its probably a lanc motor), and a merlin. would be an interesting race tho....

R-2800 nearest?

um first one looks like a bristol centaurus,2nd a merlin,give up on the last one...another bristol ?

USSR had it so anyone who was 16+ could become a pilot. But most were 20 or so, and not many young people joined the Red Air Force, but joined the Red Army on the ground.

I'm guessing the very far engine is a Pratt & Whitney R2800 or a Wright Cyclone? But it looks like a R2800 more I think. The middle engine looks to be a Rolls Royce Merlin or maybe a Griffon. But it doesn't look right to me? The second I'm guessing is a Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp? It's not very big, and looks fairly similar?

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13326

Little Grand Slam for you all!

something you guys in the uk might be interested in. found this exploring a link balders002 gave me. these guys hunt down ac wrecks and dig them up. if i were a few thousand miles closer i might try to join. check it out.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lait/site/index.htm

and this is really cool. a sci-fi airshow!

http://www.scifiairshow.com/guided-tour.html

mystery of the river
 

I remember hearing this story long ago and it seems to resurface now and then. back in 1956 a B 25 bomber was flying in Pittsburgh, Pa ( 25 miles from my house ) and crashed into the Mon river (Monongahela river ). it sank to the bottom and was never seen again. not that it wasnt searched for...just vanished! into thin air...um, er water that is. where did she go?

http://www.caterpillarclub.org/b25/b25.htm

http://www.sennex.com/b25/

Couple of amusing 'motivational' pics I've found
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/a1019bb7.jpg
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/4740fc7c.jpg

where r the guys we met at duxford this year
im sure gilly is one of them if so ~S~
Jinzo checking in to say hi and looksharp got his copy of il2 for ps3 n will be on soon for a lesson in flying on the pad.
will be waiting for one of you guys to come to the pc version so i can whip ya back side with a tea towel

Yo mate you found us!!

THIS is the cockpit we need!!!
 

have fun with this! only thing missing is the k-14 gunsite with a 109 dead center eating tracers.... ahhh i love a 51 no matter what model.

http://www.stclairphoto-imaging.com/...g/P51_swf.html

free desktop warbird calender
 

has some nice snaps of some of you favorite planes...all free.

http://www.warbirddepot.com/desktop_calendars.asp

andif you want som other downloadable pics of ww2 warbirds thry this..

http://www.warbirddepot.com/desktop_wallpapers.asp

rare archive footage of two Frenchmen, Jacques Andrieux and Roland Le Blond, who escaped their homeland and became part of 130 Squadron at Perranporth.

nice color film

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news...l/article.html

Crash of SB-17G 44-85746 in the Olympic National Forest, Washington State.

On January 19, 1952, SB-17G 44-85746 was returning to McChord Field from a search and
rescue mission of its own. Ironically, the crew was searching for survivors of a Korean plane
which crashed off the Queen Charlotte Islands. On their flight back to base, the the SB-17 crew encountered
heavy winds which pushed them off-course, directing them west of the designated flight path and
over high mountains in the Olympic National Forest. The crew encountered heavy blizzard
conditions and lost radio contact. Not knowing their exact location, they had no way of knowing
their altitude was too low for the surrounding terrain. Three of the eight crewmen were killed, two
of the survivors were seriously injured when the SB-17 impacted with the mountain range. Please
keep in mind the loss of life when considering the following pictures.

http://home.sprintmail.com/~kawatson/opff.htm

Nice vid here about the great film production designer Ken Adam. This guy designed the James Bond sets for loads of the older films such as You Only Live Twice, Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. He also designed the War Room for Dr Strangelove. Ken escaped Nazi Germany in 1934 and flew with the RAF during the war. He was the only German national to fly against the Nazis. If he had been captured he would have faced execution.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_u...&v=T-Cyp7bIZOM

its just showing recommended videos dk

I posted on Iphone, must have screwed up
Sorry here is the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Cyp7bIZOM

typhoons ,nice ,he did some great stuff,you only live twice was a great set.
on a bond theme,great intro apart from yellow ski outfit,but it was the 70s, everybody sing along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-pAS...eature=related

Since I couldn't get on yesterday, and yesterday was really the opening of the whole conflict, here's a video I found that had some very famous pictures from the Spanish Civil War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeXO2EJh7U

Not a video but I didnt want to create a new thread for this. Pretty cool browser based Star Wars dogfight game:

http://www.starwars.com/games/playnow/trench_run/

newsflash
 

this just in...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86Gl...eature=related

Cheers mate, coffee all over my desk!!

that is very sad. the comment by his guest and survivor, "he's never done this before." ????

It's a piss take Bobby. It's a comedian/ satirist who shows the stupidity of the UK. This particular one was about the media. Try youtubing Brasseye, especially the one about 'Cake', the new drug with a pill about a foot wide!!!

heres the full version :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8X38...eature=related

originally, i was going to ask if this was for real but figured doing so may insult of offend someone. the rocket launcher, and throwing a head out the window sounded incredulous but these days ya never quite know...

Il2 found in mud. going to need a translator for this but interesting to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_atyl...eature=related

and a couple tanks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olUey...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJky...eature=related

Bloody Foreigners: The Battle of Britain

nice vid about the polish pilots

http://vimeo.com/10304911

this is about weasel fighting,a new sport in the u.k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmBAUyy7Go

Patrick Da Fronk... Hillarious!

For soviet, this is how we do it!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGIX...=youtube_gdata

Cracker that one Gilly.
Here's one of my all time fav scenes. Cracks me up every time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVrZJaN1IU

Yep
'I was good to you....even when you woz out of order'

interesting site if you want to seek out a wrecked ac...us and uk.

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/crashsites.htm

road safety with neil sedaka and paul simon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjDYNSrTlvk&feature=related"]

and a classichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmWK0DAdSqk

They say Lucas got the inspiration from the dambusters so here's the two together!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMfB...=youtube_gdata

hello everybody ,from a top show,it crowdhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUya...eature=related

if your wondering why a woman was punched out by a man,......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3BY72RF8vc&feature=fvw

This is an all time classic!! This bird needed to be in BOP!! could watch this piece over and over again!! Epic piece of music to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xHydbw8mQ

some japanese stuff...

first some great CGI of the coral sea engagement...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR8mX...eature=related

and this one is a jap news reel. a b29 wreak and then a sq scrambles

WARNING CONTAINS IMAGES OF HUMAN REMANS!!!!

http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives...seg_number=002

pictures!! a huge site with tons of pics of ww2 ( and others )...good color one...b&w ones....

http://www.historylink101.com/ww2_color/index.html

brittish celebrities unite in the war against a new drug thats sweeping through europe,'cake' also known as joss acklands spunky backpack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

Cake is now prohibited in Norway. Our primeminister got Check-neck during his vacation, and really got his Shatners Bassoon f.u.k.d up! Now he thinks his gonne live forever. Sad story. Very sad story...

yes its getting bad,a friend of mine had a negative blooty on the crank handle,and ended up on the jessop jessop jessop.

Just seen this...

Ace Combat Assault Horizon

ghosts of wwII.

double exposure type or over lay photos of then mixed with now...pretty cool and eerie at the same time! the guy (sergey larenkov) i believe is russian so the main gist is from that vantage point.



http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

I saw a couple of these in the UK newspapers, really good idea of linking the past and present.. there are fewer and fewer people who were around during ww2, this is a good mesh of history and now.

some good footage of i -15s and i - 16s being put through their paces...and yes you CAN try these at home. :grin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWE4i...eature=related

cool lawnmower art tribute to BoB pilots....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

final bit of the superb comedy series,blackadderhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglUm...eature=related

Cheers for that Bobby, it's only 30mins from here. Given me somewhere else to take the little chaos warrior during the summer hols. Just hope he gets lost in it!!!!.....

I think still the most emotional finish to any series ever. Cheers for posting Dave

you're cracking me up! cos when i think of it i had one of those.... i would love to tell you it gets better but that would be a bold faced lie. alcohol is your friend... :grin:

here's a 9 part series on a couple 109s. i am not going to post all 9. just follow the links. has some great in the cockpit shots.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvvkYyb2iU

Red-tailed Hawk guides explorers to a World War Two bomber crash site
Investigation of a Martin Marauder TB-26C crash site in the Huron National Forest
By Dave Trojan, Crash Explorer

Oscoda resident Milton Clouse told his two nephews Kenneth and Roger Clouse
a story in1999 about an incident that happened to the small town of Glennie Michigan during World War Two. He said that on November 3rd, 1944 when he was attending school in Glennie all the students were distracted by the noise of a low flying airplane. The students at Glennie School rushed to the widows to see what was happening. What they saw they would never forget. A twin engine bomber, later identified as a Martin Marauder TB-26C, was observed to dive from an altitude of about 1000 feet to an altitude of only about 200 feet above the ground, pull out, and start a gradual climb. The
bomber flew low over the top of the Glennie School House. It then climbed to an altitude of about 400 feet where it then started to raise its right wing and was seen to roll over on its back and crash almost vertically into the Huron National Forest only about three miles north of town. The plane crash sent a big column of black smoke and flames about 150 feet into the air.

The plane exploded upon hitting the ground near a truck-trail fire break,
scattering wreckage 600 feet in all directions and burned completely. Forestry service workers and firefighters immediately went out to the crash site to find the plane completely destroyed with parts of the plane caught in trees 50 feet above the ground and a large fire burning. Fires started by the crash burned over three acres before the fire was brought under control. The pilot and crew were killed instantly. Three bodies were found lying 300 feet from where the plane struck the ground. The horrors of World War Two had come to this small Michigan town and the memories of that day would never be forgotten by the people who witnessed the tragedy.

The Martin Marauder TB-26C, serial number 41-35182 aircraft was assigned to the 1st Air Force, 134 AAF Base Air Squadron (BAS) Unit. It flew from OAAF, Oscoda Michigan, which was then a satellite of Selfridge Air Force Base Mount Clemens Michigan. The TB-26C twin engine bomber had all its gun turrets, bombing gear and other combat equipment removed from the aircraft turning it into a trainer. During World War Two detachments of B-26s were sent to various state side bases to tow targets for aerial gunnery practice and to provide air crew training.

The flight that day had begun for pilot 1st Lt. Roy E Yturria at 10:15 in the
morning from OAAF Oscoda Michigan for a routine training flight. The scheduled flight was a transition mission for an aerial engineer which was used to familiarize engineers with the equipment they would be using and its position in the B-26 aircraft. A total of three engineers were aboard the bomber that day for training. They were S/Sgt Donald W. Jaton, S/Sgt Willis A. Dunn and S/Sgt Emanuel Mokol. One of the three engineers would have been an experienced instructor aboard to train the other two. The weather
at the time had winds out of the SSW at 18 MPH with light gusts and the visibility was eight miles. Something started to go wrong only ten minutes into the flight as they flew west North West over the small town of Glennie Michigan. The B-26 was not an aircraft for novices. Unfortunately, due to the need of training pilots and aircrews quickly for the war, the USAAF was forced to put relatively inexperienced pilots and crews into the cockpit and the accident rate increased accordingly. Lots of pilots could fly the B-26 as
long as things were going well. It was when things got unexpectedly exciting that one needed the practice and experience to successfully deal with them in the B-26 Marauder.


No facts could be derived from the examination of the wreckage except that the engines were apparently turning at full power when the plane hit. The accident investigation board was unable to determine the cause of the accident. It is believed that the most probable cause of this accident was some kind of left engine failure which inevitably led to a stall with the pilot unable to regain control. When a pilot has an engine failure in a twin engine aircraft he must act quickly to counter the effects, because the aircraft tends to yaw and roll into the bad engine and it can eventually roll
upside down.


After hearing the story of the accident, the two nephews determined to locate the crash site. They researched the local news and obtained a copy of the official accident report and other documents. Unfortunately, all efforts to locate the site failed until one day during casual conversation with Glennie town folk one of the nephews happened to mention that they were looking for the crash site. A part time seasonal resident said he knew exactly where the site was because he played at the wreck site as a small child.
He guided the nephews to the crash site in the summer of 2003. There they found a divot in the side of a small hill caused by the impact of the plane where the engines had burrowed into the ground. Aircraft debris was also discovered that confirmed the crash site. The nephews wanted to place a memorial at the crash site, but were turned down by the Forestry Service.


I heard about their discovery and efforts through the grape vine and became very interested in the story because I was from Michigan. My opportunity came in July 2010 to travel to the area and attempt to relocate the site. I contacted the nephews who offered to take me to the crash site. Upon arrival to the area, I found out that they had not been to the crash site in many years and were unsure exactly where it was located in the thick forest. During the search, I spotted a silver grey object lying in the brush. I kicked it only to discover that it was a hornet’s nest that had fallen out of a tree. I ran
away from that area as quickly as I could. We searched for over two hours before the nephews had to leave without finding the site, but before they left a baby fledging Redtailed Hawk, about three months old, taking his first flight flew down from his nest and landed next to our vehicles. We did not take too much notice because we were too busy searching up and down the forest. A Forest Service truck happened along and noticed the fledging Red-tailed Hawk in the road and stopped to give assistance. Forestry personnel gently moved the baby fledging Red-tailed Hawk off the side of the road and
into the forest as the mother Red-tailed Hawk soared and circled overhead. The Forest Service personnel did not know anything about the plane crash site, but they did confirm that we were looking in the right section of the forest.

Another crash explorer and I were left alone searching the thick forest area when I remembered that the report stated that the plane had crashed on top of a small hill. I followed my intuition and looked for a slight raise in the terrain. Near the top of a small hill was the unmistakable ground scar of the impact site covered by layers of branches and leaves. A quick check with a metal detector confirmed the site had metal scattered all around. We were able to uncover several foot long pieces of aircraft debris and a chunk of radio equipment to confirm the site. Looking 50 feet up into a tree above the
impact site was a Red-tailed Hawk nest high in the forks of a large oak tree overlooking and guarding the crash site where the baby fledging Red-tailed Hawk had come from. Hawk nests are often used by the hawks year after year for many years and may have been there for generations of hawks. I like to think that the spirit of the crew had guided us to the crash site using the fledging Red-tailed Hawk. As the crash debris slowly sinks into the ground and memories fade away, the story of the tragedy may one day be forgotten. However, with new information about federal regulations, a enewed effort is underway to place an interpretive sign near the crash site to ensure that the sacrifices of the four men are remembered forever.

somedays i have too much time on my hands but found a few guys who have way more...

was ok with this until he went for the smirnoff ice..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4g_...eature=related

i am sure these are outlawed somewhere in the word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9_ON...eature=related

this one is way cooler tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDXV...eature=related

but this is the one i really want!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbjt...eature=related

Russians ar Duxford Flying legends 2010
 

Heres one for you who loves the russian planes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pijXi...eature=related

cool comic of spanish civil war of an I 16 vs Me 109...helps if you know spanish..

Heres a cool com for eee, mmm, aaaa Spitfires ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnp9w...layer_embedded

corrr,she can pull my stick anyday,now if she was in the spit,perfect

gilly davedog and assosiated members ~S~
just thought id ask if any of you guys keep up with sow updates and will any of ya be making the leap to the pc on release day :)
also this saturday might be getting me hands on a ps3 so watch out lmfao
~S~
guys stay frosty

Sad accident yesterday...

http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/08/22/n...ykke/13061932/

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Spi...SM845.jpg#file

The Spit MK. XVIII that crashed

damn shame mcq,how was the pilot?

The pilot, a 68 year old swede, were killed in the accident. He had thousands of hours in the air. The accident happend when he was on his way to an airshow.

Ouch that's nasty.
Bit like that cta Dave!!

Sad, but when to go, this wouldnt have been a to bad option.....

remembering "ruth-less"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEvhKgXBAE

Bill Millin, Scottish D-Day Piper, Dies at 88

LONDON — Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who played highland tunes as his fellow commandos landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day and lived to see his bravado immortalized in the 1962 film “The Longest Day,” died on Wednesday in a hospital in the western England county of Devon. He was 88.

The cause was complications from a stroke, his family said.

Mr. Millin was a 21-year-old private in Britain’s First Special Service Brigade when his unit landed on the strip of coast the Allies code-named Sword Beach, near the French city of Caen at the eastern end of the invasion front chosen by the Allies for the landings on June 6, 1944.

By one estimate, about 4,400 Allied troops died in the first 24 hours of the landings, about two-thirds of them Americans.

The young piper was approached shortly before the landings by the brigade’s commanding officer, Brig. Simon Fraser, who as the 15th Lord Lovat was the hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser and one of Scotland’s most celebrated aristocrats. Against orders from World War I that forbade playing bagpipes on the battlefield because of the high risk of attracting enemy fire, Lord Lovat, then 32, asked Private Millin to play on the beachhead to raise morale.

When Private Millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, Lord Lovat replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.”

After wading ashore in waist-high water that he said caused his kilt to float, Private Millin reached the beach, then marched up and down, unarmed, playing the tunes Lord Lovat had requested, including “Highland Laddie” and “Road to the Isles.”

With German troops raking the beach with artillery and machine-gun fire, the young piper played on as his fellow soldiers advanced through smoke and flame on the German positions, or fell on the beach. The scene provided an emotional high point in “The Longest Day.”

In later years Mr. Millin told the BBC he did not regard what he had done as heroic. When Lord Lovat insisted that he play, he said, “I just said ‘O.K.,’ and got on with it.” He added: “I didn’t notice I was being shot at. When you’re young, you do things you wouldn’t dream of doing when you’re older.”

He said he found out later, after meeting Germans who had manned guns above the beach, that they didn’t shoot him “because they thought I was crazy.”

Other British commandos cheered and waved, Mr. Millin recalled, though he said he felt bad as he marched among ranks of wounded soldiers needing medical help. But those who survived the landings offered no reproach.

“I shall never forget hearing the skirl of Bill Millin’s pipes,” one of the commandos, Tom Duncan, said years later. “As well as the pride we felt, it reminded us of home, and why we were fighting there for our lives and those of our loved ones.”

From the beach, Private Millin moved inland with the commandos to relieve British paratroopers who had seized a bridge near the village of Ouistreham that was vital to German attempts to move reinforcements toward the beaches. As the commandos crossed the bridge under German fire, Lord Lovat again asked Private Millin to play his pipes.

In 2008, French bagpipers started a fund to erect a statue of Mr. Millin near the landing site, but the fund remains far short of its $125,000 goal.

Bill Millin was born in Glasgow on July 14, 1922, the son of a policeman, and lived with his family in Canada as a child before returning to Scotland.

After the war, he worked on Lord Lovat’s estate near Inverness, but found the life too quiet and took a job as a piper with a traveling theater company. In the late 1950s, he trained in Glasgow as a psychiatric nurse and eventually settled in Devon, retiring in 1988. He visited the United States several times, lecturing on his D-Day experiences.

In 1954 he married Margaret Mary Dowdel. A widower, he is survived by their son, John.

awesome site for aircraft videos and pics...

http://www.criticalpast.com/

anybody remember the royal tournament?i went in 88 with the air cadets
nothing like the royal marines band playing sunset
sorry about quality,turn it up at 2 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lPmlLiCpk

Rockets !!!!!
 

WHAT ! ROCKETS !!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4zHQEEQ_E

Cheers guys. Great stuff!

The bodylanguage of that swede by the keyboard is priceless...

Mmmm guided missiles- devs missed a trick here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX2Cd...e_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw0TN...eature=related
thank heavens we won the b.o.b