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Here is some info that I have found...
ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 116794
Date: 17-SEP-1944
Time:
Type: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
Operator: United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
Registration: 42-74776
C/n / msn:
Fatalities: Fatalities: / Occupants:
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Lake Huron, 1 mi N & 3 mi E Sturgeon Pt,MI - United States of America
Phase:
Nature: Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Crashed.
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I was visiting my family near Sarnia, Ontario last weekend when they told me about a local discovery in Lake Huron just north of town. Two local girls went for a swim and found this piece of metal from a P-47 cowl assembly in the sand just below the surface. It is in amazing shape. No further word on whether a search for more parts is forthcoming.
Found another pic from the Sarnia Observer article...Observer story
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Don,
Sorry for not seeing this sooner. We were out of town on vacation and today is the first opportunity to view the forums in depth.
The results of your efforts are truly remarkable. The finish is very realistic. It's not overdone and very believable. I'm sure Sam will be very grateful for receiving such a wonderful gift. Great work.
Well done, sir.
Mike
hey Mike,
Thanks a bunch for your kind comments. Hope you had a great vacation!
Cheers,
Don
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That's a nice improvement to a well-done effort. Your panel highlighting gives the model depth.
It's a fine gift to Sam, and a tribute to the crew of U for Uncle.
Thanks for your comments, David!
Don
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That is nice of you. By that are you coming to Scotland? if so there is an Airshow at RAF Leuchars on the 15th of September near St Andrews (the home of golf, easy to find) in Fife
if you find yourself near. Well I hope the weather will be a bit better for you when you are here, there has been a fair bit of rain over here this summer.
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Yup. England, Ireland and Scotland. We have two weeks from Sept. 1-16th so it looks like timing is poor for the Airshow.
Fingers crossed for better weather.
Don
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My first model aircraft build in almost 50 years, a Hasegawa 1:72 Lancaster Mk.!. It is a tribute to my dad's (and my) friend Sam, who was the rear gunner in RAF 300 Sqn Lancaster BH-U "Uncle". They were shot down by Major Paul Semrau of NJGII on the night of July 24/25, 1944 near Orleans, France. Only Sam and two others survived.
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You've made a grand job of that,
I am sure he will be bowled over by it. I would be.-----------
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. And, I am really looking forward to visiting your fair land this September!
Don
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I decided to do a bit more weathering on the Lanc before I give it to Sam. I used chalk pastel dust and a small brush to highlight the panel lines. Please give feedback, positive or negative. Thanks!
BD
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What a great looking Lancaster! I'm sure Sam will be very happy with it.
Thanks, Pete!!
Don
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Well, it has been a long time coming, but this build is finally finished. With the advent of summer and spending long hours working on the restoration of Lancaster FM212, it has been a challenge finding time for modelling, but, tonight I put the finishing touches on LM178. Some of you sharp-eyed rivet counters will note that the serial number reads LM179. That is in deference to my friend Sam, the rear gunner and only surviving member of U-Uncle. His memory isn't the best any more and he is adamant that LM179 is the correct serial. Rather than shove all the evidence in his face and make a scene about it, I am going with that. After all, this is intended as a gift to Sam. So, to the crew of U-Uncle and all those other brave men of air who did or did not return from their last mission, this is my small tribute to your courage and sacrifice.
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AMAZING PHOTOS, AMAZING QUALITY!!!!!
:gr_hail: Thanks for posting them up....
Couldn't have said it better! Thanks!!!
BD
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Cockpit 360 just published a free update for this for the i*Pad. It is optimized for the bigger screen with a better user interface. I am loving this app even more now.
:thumbsup: Cheers,
BD
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Hi everyone!
Unfortunately the B-17 has been put away for a while as I try to find my lost mojo! I have managed to make some good progress on a Hobby Boss F3 Demon (which seems to be a nice kit, goes together well and makes a nice change building a 1960s era jet) so I may post some pics of that and then hopefully I'll be in a 'better place' to come back to the B-17!
Cheers
Ian
I feel your pain, man. The arrival of summer and it's associated activities has put a serious kink in my modelling time. Remember, this is a hobby, meant to be enjoyed at your leisure. The mojo will return.
Cheers,BD
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These are of outstanding quality and have some great technical reference merit as well for us modellers.
"This is a rare and fabulous series of pictures shot on Kodachrome sheet film (4x5 inches) and is of exceptional quality shot in 1942. It also captures a slice of life we will never see again...when an entire country was behind a war effort. I also had no idea that Kodachrome was ever available in any size other than 35mm film due to the complex processing process it required. It makes this series all the more significant. Note that all the images are still-lifes where no motion was taking place due to the very slow speed of the film at that time. What made K-chrome so good was that the film itself had no color dyes embedded in it; the dyes (yellow, magenta & cyan) were added during film processing making for an exceptional fine grain film. I never knew that Kodachrome was once available in 4" x 5" format, but Wikepedia did confirm this. WONDERFUL photos! These were scanned from 4x5 Kodachrome"
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Saving Private Ryan, The longest Day, Fire Base Gloria, The Iron Triangle, Band Of Brothers, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Full Metal Jacket, The Final Countdown, Kelly's Heroes, The Bridge at Remagan, Hamburger Hill, We Were Soldiers
Great list! Most are included in my favorites as well. I would add:
Generation Kill (HBO mini-series)
The Pacific ( " " " )
Piece of Cake (BBC mini-series)
Midway
Enemy At The Gates
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Thanks for your comments, gents.
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If you're talking about the copper tank at the front of the engine above the gearbox..... that's the coolant header tank. The Merlin never had a turbocharger and the Merlin X and on had a supercharger. Engine exhaust gas is used to drive a turbo whereas a supercharger is directly driven through the engine accessory section.
Cheers,
John
OK, that makes much more sense. Someone over at the hangar was referring to it as a turbo and I just went with that. I am, obviously, not an engine mechanic, lol. Thanks!
BD
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I dropped by the #7 Elementary Flying Training School hangar yesterday to take some pix of the Packard Merlin engines on Lanc FM212, which we are in the process of restoring. It was a very hot, hazy Sunday and there was virtually no one there, just a couple of CH2A members, hanging around in case any visitors dropped by. I have only been volunteering on the project for about three months now but have found it to be one of the most rewarding experiences in my life.
Of the almost 7500 Avro Lancasters produced during WWII, only sixteen remain on the planet. Only two are flying, one of which, FM213, our sister ship, is a couple hundred miles up the road in Hamilton, Ontario, at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
Our Lanc was purchased by the City of Windsor from the RCAF when it went off service in 1962, for the price of $1250. FM212 was built in Canada in 1945 but never saw active service as the war had ended. It went into service with 308 Sqn in Ottawa and saw over 8,000 hours of flight time doing aerial photographic mapping of the Arctic. When the city purchased it, it was still in flying condition. The wings and engines were removed and it was towed across Lake Erie on a barge from Milton to Windsor. Enroute, it was almost lost "at sea" during a storm.
From 1964 until 2005, it sat 20 feet in the air on a concrete plinth in Jackson Park, painted in war-time colours to honour the 400 Windsorites who lost their lives flying for Bomber Command. Those 41 years of static display took their toll. The wings began to sag, water was pooling in the wingtips, birds and bats were nesting in every available opening and vandals began to steal whatever they could.
In 2005, along with the City, the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association (CH2A) and The Lancaster Group, joined forces to bring FM212 down from her perch and rolled her to a temporary shelter beside #7 EFTS at the WIndsor Airport. Since then, the engines and wings have been removed again and we have been steadily re-building her, one skin and one part at a time. The work is being performed by a dedicated bunch of volunteers, many of them tradesmen in the aircraft industry, and many, like myself, just all-around handy guys with time on their hands who want to lend a hand on a significant endeavour.
So, that is our story and the tale of Lanc 212. These were just some of the thoughts that were running through my mind on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon as I climbed into the pilot's seat of one of the most significant military aircraft ever built. As I sat and looked around at the aged instruments, the worn and chipped controls and the hazed over perspex, I closed my eyes and imagined being an 18- or 19-year-old pilot, sitting on the tarmac on a summer evening in 1944, running up those four Merlin engines, charged with taking this massive bomber and her young crew across the channel at night, avoiding the searchlights and the nightfighters, and dropping her load of destruction. The weight of responsibility on these young men, the knowing that the odds were stacked heavily against them, and finding the will to forge on despite all of that, must have been unbearable. To sit in that seat now, and know that I may very well be the only person in the whole world at that moment in that position, was, in fact, too overwhelming for this 61 year-old and I climbed down reverently and went home.
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I actually had to do some work! :)
Cheers,
Andre
Yes, my day was noticably duller without my ARC fix.
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Hi ya
Thanx for the pic's
IRRC Merlins had NO turbochargers
You know, I think you are right. Everything I have read about the Merlin states that it has a 2-stage supercharger at the back of the engine, nothing about a turbo. This a/c flew aerial photo mapping missions in the Arctic for many years (up until 1962) so it is possible that the turbos were an RCAF adaptation after the war. I will look into it.
Thanks for the heads-up.
BD
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Holmes is the best.
Agreed! HOLMES always has something positive and uplifting to say with every post. Hey HOLMES, my wife and I are coming to the UK in September. Wanna meet?
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The only "modern" aircraft are the Phantom, Blackbird, Mig 29 and A-10, so far.
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Have you downloaded and installed the Win7 64-bit drivers for your network card, video card, and any other hardware devices?
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This looks like it could be a useful reference tool. Has anyone tried it yet?
BD
Well, since I got zero feedback on this, I decided to splurge the $5.99 and downloaded this app to my iDevice. And I am not the least bit sorry. It has 360 degree cockpit views for the P51-B/D. P38. P40. Hurri, Spit, Bf109, Me262, He-111, B17-F/G, B25, B29, B52, Mig 15, F-89, and more. You can zoom in on all of them to get fantastic detail. Many of the bombers have nose, waist and radio room panoramas as well. This was definitely 6 bucks well-spent. I highly recommend it.
BD
What'd ya see today???
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On Sunday, as my band was setting up for an outdoor gig, five Harvard trainers flew over in formation at about 1000'. It was an awesome moment.
Must have been on their way home from Thunder Over Michigan.