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Otra de las maravillas que se pueden ver volando en Flying Legends. Este Hind es parte de la Shuttleworth Collection.
[Canon EOS 40D + Canon EF 100-400 4.5-5.6L IS USM]
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Another very special aircraft flying for the Shuttleworth Collection
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This Lysander was built in Canada and was used by the RCAF as a target tug serialled 2355. It was bought after the war by Wes Agnew a farmer, former RCAF instructor and collector of aircraft. In 1971 it was purchased by Sir William Roberts for the Strathallan Collection in Scotland. It arrived in the UK in October 1971 and was registered G-AZWT, and work commenced on restoring it. However, it was not until December 1979 that G-AZWT flew again, painted as V9441 a Lysander operated by No.309 (Polish) Squadron. It was grounded in 1986 and was purchased in 1998 by the Shuttleworth Collection. It has been fully restored, repainted and fitted with dummy long range fuel tank and ladder to represent V9367 / MA-B an aircraft of 161 Squadron, flown by Pilot Officer Peter Vaughan-Fowler on operation Apollo during the winter of 1942.
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Built originally for the RAF as V9552 this aircraft went to Canada in 1942 as a target tug for the RCAF. Post WWII it was sold to a Canadian collector and then, in 1971, went to the Strathallan Collection in Scotland where it was restored to flying condition by late 1979. Grounded in 1986 it was stored, then went Duxford in 1997 for restoration. Purchased by the SVAS it joined the Collection in 1998. It arrived painted in standard RAF camouflage with additional markings to represent No. 309 (Polish) Squadron while operating from bases in Scotland between 1940 and 1942.
In the autumn of 1999, with the aid of a donation from the family of Peter Vaughan Fowler who had flown with 161 Squadron on Lysander operations during World War II, it was repainted in black overall with the markings of his aircraft, bearing the serial V9367. A fixed ladder was installed to allow rapid access to the rear cockpit – as fitted to facilitate picking up agents; a dummy 150 gallon long range fuel tank was attached below the fuselage. In this configuration the Lysander III S.D. (Special Duties) was employed by No. 161 RAF Squadron on clandestine night flying operations from RAF Tempsford and Tangmere between 1942 and 1945
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solo en Duxford se pueden ver estas escenas....
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Uno de olos pocos "Sea Hurricane" que quedan ya en vuelo...
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Cuiriosa formación de dos aviones contemporaneos aunque de caracteristicas completamete distintas. El Lysander era un aparato utilitario para cooperación con tierra, famoso por su dificil manejo y el Gloster Gladiator era un caza extremadamente maniobrable.
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Nada mas y nada menos que 78 años tiene este avión. Fué el último Gladiator construido.
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Uno de los 5 Hurricanes que pudimos ver volar en el festival del aniversario de la BoB
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El Lysander fue muy utilizado en misiones de apoyo a los espías y resistentes franceses durante la IIGM. Sus arriesgadas misiones las acostunbraba hacer de noche(de ahí su pintura negra) en los que volaba a la Francia ocupada trayendo o recogiendo espías o colaboradores franceses y también recogía pilotos aliados derribados que la resistencia francesa mantenía ocultos de los alemanes. Para ello estaba diseñado para realizar aterrizajes y despegues cortos en terrenos mal preparados. Una escalera adosada al lado del fuselaje permitía la rápida subida o bajada de las personas que recogía.
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1st of type for AC !
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet was a twin-engined British aircraft designed for the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race. Three examples took part in the race and one of them (G-ACSS) won it. The type set many aviation records during the race and afterwards, as a pioneer mail plane.
The DH.88 might have been the only wooden British high-performance monoplane, but for a shortage of metal for aircraft construction during the Second World War. Experience with the DH.88 would later be put to use in designing the DH.98 Mosquito, also a twin-engined monoplane of wooden construction.
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Ex RAF WP905. Painted as 18671:671, Royal Canadian Air Force
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