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Sasquatch
PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:47 pm 
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My buddy just sent me this link with a short video about finding a mystery P-47 under a farm field in Germany.

http://www.stripes.com/news/uncovering- ... y-1.263043

Dibbs on the data plate! :lol:

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I'm sure someone will have a "P-47" with this data plate attached to it flying in a few years.

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kalamazookid wrote:
I'm sure someone will have a "P-47" with this data plate attached to it flying in a few years.

???
It's a P-47, not a Mustang... or Spitfire... :twisted:

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Most interesting, thanks.

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kalamazookid wrote:
I'm sure someone will have a "P-47" with this data plate attached to it flying in a few years.

Like hell they will.More like 15 years and that's working their backsides off round the clock.

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