Aircraft

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, but so are the helicopters then were built to replace.

[Gravdigr]

I got a fucking lock on the door is what I did!

[sexobon]

Sounds like a misnomer to me.

[Griff]

A his seamen died but his building still stands.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Its chance discovery was made by a British backpacker, a keen aircraft enthusiast, who photographed a cannibalized DH9 in a new museum at the Palace of Bikaner in Rajasthan in 1995. He passed the word to an airplane restorer, Guy Black, who visited the palace in India 3 years later. But the aircraft had been moved to the palace's former elephant stables.

There, among piles of elephant saddles, was the airframe of the DH9, engineless, its timbers partly eaten by termites and much of its fabric covering missing. Along one wall, were a dozen DH9 wings. Several tailfins were nearby.

He said: "I could not believe my eyes. The DH9 are as rare's as hen's teeth now and there wasn't a single one in a collection in Britain." In the stables were the remains of three DH9s that been given by Britain to the Maharajah of Bikaner in the early 1920s to help him establish an air force under the post-war Imperial Gift Scheme.

Mr Black bought two of the rotting hulks. D5649, the plane he restored and sold to the Imperial War Museum for nearly £1 million was unveiled at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The Imperial War Museum, by luck, had a DH9 engine to install in the restored plane.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Jap dive bomber faw down go boom...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Flying disc actually worked...

[Gravdigr]

I'd take that 777 out on a country road where there ain't nobody around burn it, and collect the in$urance.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's probably a rental.

[Carruthers]

Here's a project for the aspiring aircraft restorer.
It's an ex-German Air Force F-86 Sabre (or remains thereof) currently listed on Ebay for a mere £6,500 ($7,900).



From the description:

This F86F Sabre CL13B C/N. 56-1730 is offered for sale due to my forth coming retirement together with lack of time and space.
Formerly displayed outside the officers mess at Jever, it was collected by me last year from Germany where it had lain for several years in a farm yard.
The offer consists of the fuselage (separated at the engine change joint) together with the tail/stabilisers/rudder and canopy frame with a good Perspex to be fitted.
As can be seen from photos whilst in the yard it sustained some skin damage.
When it was taken down from its display pole it was derigged rather brutally due to time constraints, so there are no wings (cut at the centre section) and the tail torque tubes were cut through.
THIS IS ONE OF ONLY FOUR F86s in the UK. So as such can only appreciate in value.

BiB: REALLY?

Ebay listing.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well, he does have the wings and shit, they just have to be buffed out. I wonder who put it on the pole in Germany?

[Carruthers]

Jever was an RAF airfield post WW2 until 1961 when it was returned to the GAF and became a NATO base.
I assume that the aircraft was pole mounted, as a monument of sorts, after the type was withdrawn from service.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Here's a project for the aspiring aircraft restorer.

I think that's how this one ended up, and it buffed out fine.

[xoxoxoBruce]

This photographer has a thing for noses, here's some of them...

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I'd take that 777 out on a country road where there ain't nobody around burn it, and collect the in$urance.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's probably a rental.

If I were the rental company, I'd take that 777 out on a country road where there ain't nobody around burn it, and collect the in$urance.