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JimBob55
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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!
http://broadcast.illuminatedtech.com/di ... cfm?bp=131
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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?
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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