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Very nice to see Eric's Spad with air under it's wings. Looks great, Eric!

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You wouldn't happen to have some pictures of the other Skyraiders that were there would you?

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Here is a question for you, on the Spad why does it have poke-a-dots at the wingtips? Was this just a visual marker for carrier operations?

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Dave those are unit markings.

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You wouldn't happen to have some pictures of the other Skyraiders that were there would you?

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I've got a few that I'll post later.

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Bad play on words though, because neither were manufactured by Republic. Still 2 great looking warbirds though :)

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the dots are to mess-mer-ize da ninnimie. :D

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Sabremech wrote:
You wouldn't happen to have some pictures of the other Skyraiders that were there would you?

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here's Vlado:

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and in keeping with my long tradition of almost getting a good shot of the Blues crossing, here's this one, taken as we were leaving early to beat the crowd. Serves me right:

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You mean this skyraider specifically sabre ;) ?

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