The Birds are out and about.

[browningautorifle]

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[CINDERS]

If you look closely at the fins on the V2 you'll notice tiny paddle like things these are what kept the rocket pointed straight up when launched and not going fast enough for the tabs on the fins to keep it straight.
They were linked to a gyroscope and as the rocket tilted the input to them countered the yaw or pitch as in early development without these the rockets were quite unstable and prone to tipping and crashing the best one was where one went up and failed hitting a nearby Luftwaffe airfield causing considerable damage.
The V2's were so very lethal they fell to earth at supersonic speed thus there was no warning of their arrival just a huge explosion out of no where, nearly 1,400 struck London killing an estimated 2,724.

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There was something else about that trip

Somewhere in our pictures taken by my family is one taken of the queen and her entourage going past our house in Perth, I've seen it once when in my teens but my sister may still have it from the estate.

[muffett.2008]

I was just eight when I was first introduced to these things, I remember being passed up into the belly turret of a Lancaster by my father, but I had left my box brownie on the ground.

But the thrill is still there, the roar of V12's today over my house as a Kittyhawk and Spitfire tore up the sky......love it here(might move closer to the strip though) but get very little work done some days.

Just a heads up, the twin seater Spittie being assembled at Duxford for the boys here should be shipped to Scone shortly.....and hiding in the rebuild hanger is a Sea Fury.....being worked on as I type.

[muffett.2008]

Horse Festival in Scone today, didn't want to be bogged down in horseshit on Mothers Day so took the wife for a tour of the Museum.
You would have seen these before, but here they are again minus people.

[Bob Womack]

Nice collection!


My first stick time was in one of these!

Bob

[muffett.2008]

Running out of places to put this stuff.


Latest addition Hawker Hunter


.....and these.


Still have not managed to slip into the rebuild hanger.

[Flying10uk]

.and these.

What's the story with the BF 109, i.e. how did it end up in Australia and how/where was it captured? Thanks

[GeeRam]

What's the story with the BF 109, i.e. how did it end up in Australia and how/where was it captured? Thanks

Its not a real 109, its a mock up replica, and a poor one at that.

However, the genuine Bf109G that is on display in the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra is very special, in that its the only surviving example that is still wearing its original wartime German applied paint and markings.

[browningautorifle]

Its not a real 109, its a mock up replica, and a poor one at that.

When I first looked at it, I wondered. The wing has such a strange cant to it I wondered how it could actually fly...

[GeeRam]

When I first looked at it, I wondered. The wing has such a strange cant to it I wondered how it could actually fly...

The world gained another airworthy Bf109 only last month, when Mid West Aero in Danville, IL finished the long restoration to airworthy of Bf109G-6 Wr.Nr 410077 which had been recovered largely intact, from a freshwater lake in far north of Russia way back in 1990, after crash landing on its frozen surface in early 1944 after being damaged by flak, when being operated by Stab IV/JG54.
It made its first post restoration flight in the legendary hands of Steve Hinton a few weeks ago.