And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Very Nice. Are those nationalist Chinese markings?
There is an airfield in Champaign Ill. with Rudy Frasca's collection of WW ll aircraft. He has the actual P 40 used in the Belushi film "1941". He also has a Jap Zero (fake) used in other films and he maintains and flies them around town and at air shows. They are equipped with propane powered machine guns (loud with a huge muzzle flash but no projectiles). He and his son used to fly down the main boulevard in Champaign and dogfight and strafe with the fake guns. Several WW ll vets almost had heart attacks when they saw these aircraft come in on them. They stopped after the City received enough complaints. I loved the whole show but too many people couldn't deal with it.
I've been in Rudy's T-34. Worked for him and that was a prize for "Employee of the Year" Nothing like screaming across the cornfields at 250 MPH at 250 feet.
"Curtiss P-40E, ex USAAF 1941-25158 (cn: 19177), transferred to RNZAF as NZ3009, sold as scrap c.1959, displayed at Auckland Museum of Transport & Technology 1964-1994, restored to airworthy by Old Flying Machine Company in the UK between 1994 and 1997 before being registered as ZK-RMH. The aircraft carries the RNZAF serial NZ3009 as well as the markings P-11151/663 of the USAAC 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force."
Flying Tigers markings I think.
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ReplyDeleteDavid Janssen did a cool TV movie about an ex-P40 pilot flying a traffic helicopter.
ReplyDeleteCorrect, Nationalist China. The Sun logo, same as on their flag.
ReplyDeleteThere is an airfield in Champaign Ill. with Rudy Frasca's collection of WW ll aircraft. He has the actual P 40 used in the Belushi film "1941". He also has a Jap Zero (fake) used in other films and he maintains and flies them around town and at air shows. They are equipped with propane powered machine guns (loud with a huge muzzle flash but no projectiles). He and his son used to fly down the main boulevard in Champaign and dogfight and strafe with the fake guns. Several WW ll vets almost had heart attacks when they saw these aircraft come in on them. They stopped after the City received enough complaints. I loved the whole show but too many people couldn't deal with it.
ReplyDeleteI've been in Rudy's T-34. Worked for him and that was a prize for "Employee of the Year" Nothing like screaming across the cornfields at 250 MPH at 250 feet.
DeleteHis P-40 was a treat to watch.
"Curtiss P-40E, ex USAAF 1941-25158 (cn: 19177), transferred to RNZAF as NZ3009, sold as scrap c.1959, displayed at Auckland Museum of Transport & Technology 1964-1994, restored to airworthy by Old Flying Machine Company in the UK between 1994 and 1997 before being registered as ZK-RMH. The aircraft carries the RNZAF serial NZ3009 as well as the markings P-11151/663 of the USAAC 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force."
ReplyDeleteCrashed a few of those back in the day, you know the fly by wire Cox models.
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Deletemore than one P-40 version carried two .30s in the cowl, some later versions were fitted with Merlins.
ReplyDeleteThe above is useful for starting arguments.
That American Volunteer Group was called "The Flying Tigers." God bless each and every one of them.
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