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If anyone is looking for some light reading then have a look on HMVF at what this guy produced and then went on to make a start on something for it to sit on, have to take my hat off to him.....see link below
This short film shows you the German methodology of each section of manufacture making their respective part for the Panzer series of tank during WW2, and then bringing them all together to produce a fearsome result!!! If one section was faster than the other they simply stockpiled the piece after inspection and waited its turn....................brilliant
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
"...the Panzer series..." The word 'Panzer' means 'tank'. So all German tanks were Panzers. There was no "Panzer series".
Saw a film long ago that showed the turret ring of a Tiger, I think it was, being made. Great big mill essentially.
"...Mind boggling..." Yep. A guy with his torch. Heard of a guy some place in Northern Ontario, who was building a Mosquito. Guy I heard it from was Dennis Bradley of the Canadian Warplane Heritage. Never have seen nor heard if it was ever finished.
Heard of a guy some place in Northern Ontario, who was building a Mosquito. Guy I heard it from was Dennis Bradley of the Canadian Warplane Heritage. Never have seen nor heard if it was ever finished.
That will be Mosquito B.35 TA661 being very slowly reconstructed by the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association at Windsor, Ontario. It was one of a number of Mosquitoes acquired by Spartan Air Services in the mid-50's for aerial mapping of Canada. In 1956 it made an emergency landing near Pelly Lake in the Northwest Territories and was consumed by fire. The remains were recovered from the site about 25 years ago by the Windsor Mosquito Bomber Group.
Its being reconstructed with the original prototype trial build new build fuselage made by Gynn Powell for the airworthy rebuilds in NZ.
This is the new fuselage after it arrived in Canada some years ago.
"...the Panzer series..." The word 'Panzer' means 'tank'. So all German tanks were Panzers. There was no "Panzer series".
‘Panzer’ means ‘armour’. In the tank context it is a contraction of ‘Panzerkampfwagen’ = ‘armoured fighting vehicle’. The word ‘tank’ started off as a cover name, then became a nickname and ended up as an actual name.
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Originally Posted by Sunray
