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Originally Posted by mazex
He he, one of my friends grand father shocked me one day... I had always seen him as a rather boring old retired postman telling bad jokes - and one day when where talking about aircraft out on the lawn he said "did you kids know I was a bomber pilot during the war?". He piloted the Ju 86 in Sweden that where license built here and called B3 in RSAF. His status grew quite a lot after that  He said that it was a great plane to fly and it actually stayed in service as a transport plane up until 1958 in Sweden. There is a nice example at the Swedish air force museum (which is actually the only remaining Ju-86 - German museums have been giving offers to buy it that have been refused):
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Oh I didn´t know that even one existed! Very nice photo! Yes the Ju86 was licenced built by a few countries, I believe South Africa too. Guess you then got to hear lots of interesting stories from that fellow?
12-07-2010, 03:38 PM
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