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Originally posted by David View PostP47 went into the Hudson.Damn. RIPOriginally posted by Strychnine View PostI saw that a "private plane" went down in the Hudson, but at the time they didn't say what it was...

When the government pays, the government controls.
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Cool! I have the 1970 event brochure right here.Originally posted by scott442 View PostMystery solved:


And I have a 1977 Ghost Squadron digest from 1977. It has some really awesome (especially for the era) color warbird photography.

Just some pages from the 1970 event that I thought were cool.

When the government pays, the government controls.
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It's a bit backward from way it usually goes. In this case, the plane is repairable, but the person isn't. The Jug was a tough old girl."It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
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I had a 5th grade (1981) math teacher who flew a P-47D during D-Day. While strafing a rail yard he assumed he hit a munitions car. The resulting explosion bowed the wings up, punched shrapnel holes in the floor of the cockpit and damaged the engine covering the canopy with oil. He bailed out over the English Channel after the engine died and was picked up by a British destroyer. He said if he had been in a P-51 he would have not been alive to tell the story.Originally posted by helosailor View PostThe Jug was a tough old girl.
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