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Warbirdnerd
PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:41 am 
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Shamelessly linked from the FlyPast Forum Duxford Diary thread. It sure does not look like TFCs example. Anyone know if the rest of the story? Is the rest of the Hellcat around too?
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Lots of Pictures of Colling Foundation's new P-40 being disassembled and ready for shipment to the US...
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:07 am 
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thats a cool grummam hellcot f6 at the imperials wars museums in duxfort
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Too bad , if it were a spare, it would be great to go to p.o.f to start a rebuild of their's.
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Warbirdnerd wrote:
Shamelessly linked from the FlyPast Forum Duxford Diary thread. It sure does not look like TFCs example. Anyone know if the rest of the story? Is the rest of the Hellcat around too?

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The thread can be found here:
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... 014/page14
Lots of Pictures of Colling Foundation's new P-40 being disassembled and ready for shipment to the US...

I wonder what the non English writing says, I can't read it, it's all Greek to me.

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Not sure myself, but the 3rd word (after "aeroplane"?) Do'nt look so nice, "sh??t" ???
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that's a really neat piece. didn't know that stuff was still around. QEC? from ww2?
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Flat 12x2 wrote:
I wonder what the non English writing says, I can't read it it's all Greek to me.


Hah ha... too funny. :lol:

I see it was shipped to "Great England". Always thought it was great place 8)
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I wonder what the non English writing says, I can't read it it's all Greek to me.

Google Translate seems to say "Global Airplane Shipping Solutions, Inc."

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Warbirdnerd wrote:
It sure does not look like TFCs example. .



You sure about that...?

Maybe they have more than one :wink:

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"shipping"....good....shipping...
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The museum are being very tight lipped about where the Hellcat nose came from - although I was told it has original Royal Navy paint. The sign however was a spoof designed to wind up those on aviation forums!!

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That nose section was already there in July 1995 during my first visit to Duxford

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There was a FW190 nose section as well....

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