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Brewster Buffalo

Post by JimBob55 » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:33 am

I hope that you will find this story about the recovery of an original Brewster Buffalo as interesting as I did. Amazing! :shock:

http://broadcast.illuminatedtech.com/di ... cfm?bp=131

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Post by flpickupman » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:32 am

That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

Anybody up for a 1/18 VMF Midway Buffalo? :wink:
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Post by kevrut » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:59 am

I think 21st (or someone else) posted the release of one a couple years ago as an April Fools joke.
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Post by VMF115 » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:21 am

Not a bad A/C
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
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Post by Teamski » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:35 pm

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

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Post by VMF115 » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:37 pm

Teamski wrote:Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

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I remembered reading that years ago.
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Post by ostketten » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:14 am

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.
Hey Ski, I honestly did not know that. I knew that the Finns had used the BB very effectively against Russian Rata's in the winter war of 1939-40, but I always thought it was hopelessly outclassed by the Zero, I guess it must have been the later models, the extra weight of the armor and SS fuel tanks adversely affecting it's performance.
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Zero Kamikaze

Post by JimBob55 » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:31 pm

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.
No, I never would've thought that! Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

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Re: Zero Kamikaze

Post by Teamski » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:42 pm

JimBob55 wrote:
Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.
No, I never would've thought that! Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

JimBob
I believe I read that in Martin Caiden's Ragged, Rugged Warriors many, many years ago.....

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