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Jack Cook
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This puts all the other replicas to shame.
Any guesses who this is??
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Bob Diemert? :P :shock: :lol:
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Oh, dear...

You're gonna need a Defender for making a crack like that.

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Very spiffy! I like the ones that have the smooth fairing on the inboard leading edge.

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Toshiro Mifune? Mike Kawato shooting down Pappy Boyington? How many guesses am I allowed?
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I think Pappy Boyington claimed that one as a kill too!
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Randal MacFarlane in Australia?

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The Chris Amon-esque pose makes me think of Steve Hinton.

I'm wrong, aren't I?

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....now owned/flown by FAC MOH nominee, Garry Cooper, and is based @ Caboolture near Brisbane. It is quite immaculate and lots of little things to make here as close to the real thing as possible. Thanks Jack for posting.. :wink:

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Steve Nelson wrote:
Very spiffy! I like the ones that have the smooth fairing on the inboard leading edge.

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Just a note, all the Tora T-6 mods on both the Kates and the Zeroes had the leading edges added.
Great shot and the was the Zero that was Dick Foote's old bird in the 1980's before it was sold to some one in the UK and then found it's way to AUS.
It use to have a 250lb bomb underneath.
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Vital Spark wrote:
Bob Diemert? :P :shock: :lol:


Speaking of the mechanical Mastermind, What ever happened to the the Zero and Val he used to have? I know he tore the crap out of the Zero, and he had other components of another or couple of Zero's.
Also is this Mechanical Mastermind....................... still alive?

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...still has the 'bomb' on it...

was operated by OFMC [Ray and Mark H.] in UK before moving to Tim Wallis's Alpine Fighter Collection, then to me and on to Garry. We flew it across the Tasman Sea from NZ to Australia!

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gary1954 wrote:
Vital Spark wrote:
Bob Diemert? :P :shock: :lol:


Speaking of the mechanical Mastermind, What ever happened to the the Zero and Val he used to have? I know he tore the crap out of the Zero, and he had other components of another or couple of Zero's.
Also is this Mechanical Mastermind....................... still alive?


The Val is with the Planes of Fame in Chino, it has been undergoing a very long term restoration.

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Matt Gunsch wrote:
The Val is with the Planes of Fame in Chino, it has been undergoing a very long term restoration.
That's "wreckstoration." Once the P-59 flies it may move to the front of the queue.
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It certainly looks the part, but what is it that makes this Tora Zero so special?

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