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These 2 planes made the REAL Thunder at Thunder this weekend

Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:11 pm

Need I say more


Mark H

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Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:15 pm

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

Gary

Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:56 pm

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

David
WHF Maint

Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:02 pm

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?

Cheers Dave C

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Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:28 pm

Dave those are unit markings.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:47 pm

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

David
WHF Maint


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

Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:47 pm

David:

PM sent for some more pics

Mark H

Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:53 pm

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

Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:05 pm

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

Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:10 pm

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

David
WHF Maint


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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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Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:36 am

You mean this skyraider specifically sabre ;) ?

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