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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

That would be one of the replicas built in the 90s?

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I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

That is correct. But wouldn't it be more an new-build reproduction vs. replica? A replica indicating that it has a lot of unauthentic parts on her.

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Christopher Soltis
Dedicated to the preservation and education of The Sikorsky Memorial Airport

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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

Here we go!

After seeing one of these at SnF, I put myself in position to have basically the same site line the pilot would have.

Blind as a bat. At the time, I thought "It would take balls of steel to fly that thing, even worse, to fly it off a carrier."

My opinion hasn't changed.

But neat airplane.

But you have to remember, almost all aircraft at that time were the same way on the ground. They were used to it, it was just the way things were.
Fifty years from now, people will look at todays high tech stuff and wonder how we could use such crude devices.

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I'm not so sure about that. Fifty years from now the B-52 will probably have just been retired!

......and replaced with a variant of the Boeing 737!

And a C-130 will fly the crews back to their home base after the B-52s get dropped off at the boneyard.

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and there was a time when you could say a DC-3 would fly the crew back........

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Who knows? That might actually happen. The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3, right?

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I suspect the F3F was "Worst in Class" from a visibility standpoint. Big barrel fuselage for the engine and landing gear, aft mounted cockpit, and a lower wing to eliminated most downward visibility, and a upper wing positioned perfectly to block out most anything in front of you and slightly above.