posted 06-29- 04:27 PM               

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For more pics of this bomber see my web site and look for the B-17 header on the first page (check out the hanger).

RC Warbirds http://home.earthlink.net/%7Epgrubich/

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posted 06-29- 06:55 PM               

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amazing. they look so real. great site btw.

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posted 06-29- 07:13 PM               

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Yes! Fantastic site! Was the 'bomb' used by that floatplane against the french sub for real?

Werner

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posted 06-29- 07:26 PM               

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Great Plane! It does look real! I live right by Ellington Field so I see the Texas Raiders (The REAL one) all the time I even know the guy who flies her and works on her so I got a piece of real B-17 aluminum skin from him!

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posted 06-30- 08:34 AM               

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Yes, the bomb dropped from the float plane was real. The gentleman who has the plane and a gentlman who has a sub regularlly have it out. He was bombing the sub in this pic...
(Took out the sub but also blew off he left horizontal stab). There is a website that recounts this but I dont have the URL.

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posted 06-30- 11:22 AM               

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Took out the sub???? Geez! That's gotta be expensive! Was he able to recover the rubble at least? Whoa!

Werner

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posted 06-30- 12:56 PM               

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That's funny. I saw the title and was thinking about an email my dad sent me yesterday:

New experience. From the tower, "You're number two on the runway, behind the B-17."

He lives in Lincoln, NE, so I was thinking that the plane over Davenport might be the same one he was following, yesterday. But I guess it's not

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posted 06-30- 01:23 PM               

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They recover and rebuild and then do it again! These have got to be guys with too much time and money...

BTW - I was a cadet in the Davanport Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol....

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posted 06-30- 01:33 PM               

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OK, you all though I was fooling....
Check it out: http://kamx-members.xoom.com/grubich/inaction.html
The plane tries to depth charge the sub, the sub tries to shoot the plane down with its deck gun and rocket. Now THIS sounds like fun!!!!!

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posted 06-30- 04:01 PM               

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How can you aim the deck gun on that sub? Radar controlled? Camera mounted on the barrel?

Werner

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posted 06-30- 05:10 PM               

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They dont say, but given the $$$ they are putting into their toys I wouldnt be surprised at all if its on a turret with a camera.... Did you get a look at the length of the sub?

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