Warbird Information Exchange

Man I would kill just to be able to sit in those aircraft and make airplane noises.

The identity of the individual airframes at the Victory Air Museum is quite tricky.

The museum is known to have had six Buchons

More angles of the Bardahl P-51 racer. According to Curtis Fowles' site, this one took 2nd at Reno 1969, and was also the one that E.D. Weiner died in.

http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/su ... 4506.shtml

I have heard that he had a heart attack in flight, landed safely and then expired in the cockpit - is that true?

PeterA:

Here's how NX4477N looked when I saw it:



My reference says it eventually went to Yanks A.M as N27385.

The PBY hulk in the background of your photo was still there as well:







I don't see this one in "Warbirds Directory" at all and Googling 'N33RS' returns a Bell Helicopter. Must be a missing digit somewhere.

Here's the Baka bomb - I remember hearing that Mr Reinert had found it himself in a cave in the Pacific at war's end.



Finally (for this posting), here's A-26C (RB-26C) N3248G. According to my book it was still in Reinert's possession as late as 1996.








I'll post the cats & dogs in the next edition, and then move on the EAA-Hales Corners

I hate to admit to it, but, it was fun.

Steve

Was this you and your wingman?

Was this you and your wingman?

Re. Hurrischmitts

I had the opportunity to look through some old Battle of Britain film prints this evening which included the RAF Buchon's. As you can see there were several variations on the codes applied including two styles of MI T, which suggests they were used on more than one occasion which led to this error with continuity. The hangar shots were I believe taken at Duxford, whilst the exterior views were taken at Bovingdon.

My gut feeling is that the Buchon at the Victory Air museum example had a quick repaint for a low budget movie, but hopefully someone out knows the exact reason.

Jackdaw.

Buchon Movie Star




Special Hobby 1:72 HA-1112 M-1L Buchon Movie Star Plastic Kit #SH72311*

To resemble Bf 109E in the Battle of Britain movie the Buchons had to be adapted. The wingtips distinctive for Bf 109F and later versions were replaced by squared ones, however to maintain the wing area the wingtips did not end just next to the ailerons outer ends like on the Bf 109Es. The aircraft were equipped with weapon maquettes; fuselage mounted machineguns and wing mounted cannons. The horizontal tail planes were prop ups by struts. The aircraft received fictive Luftwaffe units' camouflages and markings. During the filming became obvious the lack of airworthy Hurricanes so for the filming of bigger formations at least three Buchons were painted over to resemble Hurricanes of Polish RAF squadron. These Hurrischmitts then played extras in the background. The kit of the movie version of th.e Buchon contains two frames with grey plastic parts but different from the Spanish version. The kit contains the wing with movie wingtips, new nose section with machinegun maquettes and the tail plane struts. Decals included offer markings for the Red 10 and Yellow 15 that flew for the German side (both with fictive units' markings) and British Hurrischmitt with MI-T code letters and Polish chess board on the nose.