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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:04 am 
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First flight post restoration in March.
First flight with Swedish registration SE-BIR in last week.
First display flight on Saturday.
First flight in front of my lens on Sunday. 8)

Finally, we have a decent warBIRd in Sweden!
/Daniel K

More info for the interested:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=68192
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70888


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Beautiful image. I would be very interested to see more A2A images from the flight.

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Great picture, daniel-k! Nicely formatted with clouds below and blue sky above. Thanks for sharing it.

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Good stuff Daniel. I take it you made it home to the little lady before dawn after the Rygge show. If not you would still be wearing that ball and chain, right... :wink:

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Two more shots from the flight.

(TJ, I sure did make it home. Man, that was a great pizza, must do that again some time :D )


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Is that a Mk XVI ?

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Yep. It's a LF Mk XVIe.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregi ... rw386.html (not updated though)


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Outstanding :!: :D 8) 8)

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RW386/NG-D.

Here is one I acquired earlier....much earlier.

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