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MIGs

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on: October 25, 2018, 02:47:11 PM


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Reply #1 on: October 25, 2018, 07:27:36 PM
Woohoo! A rare bird indeed!

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Reply #2 on: October 25, 2018, 07:28:58 PM
Very cool!  :bigthumb:

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Reply #3 on: October 25, 2018, 07:40:32 PM
I don't think I've seen that before!  :o

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Reply #4 on: October 25, 2018, 07:50:30 PM
Quote from: bbmike on October 25, 2018, 07:40:32 PM
I don't think I've seen that before!  :o

IIRC, the first US military air-to-air kill in the Korean War was by an F-82.

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Reply #5 on: October 25, 2018, 07:58:21 PM
What is the advantage to that configuration? Backup pilot?

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Reply #6 on: October 25, 2018, 08:02:52 PM
Extreme long range due to having two pilots and all that extra fuel carried internally and also in multiple external tanks. It was designed to escort B-29s all the way to Japan and back, something no other escort fighter could do.

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Reply #7 on: October 26, 2018, 07:43:31 AM
Staggerwing is right on top of his game - if you own a twin mustang I'm really going to be pissed ;-)


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Reply #8 on: October 26, 2018, 08:00:03 AM
I wish!


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Reply #9 on: October 29, 2018, 10:31:20 PM
This is an interesting fact :

"...in 1947 when a single F-82 rigged with fuel pods flew non-stop from Hawaii to New York — a distance of more than 5,000 miles. The Feb. 27 voyage, which took just over 14 hours to complete, still holds the world record for the longest non-stop distance travelled by a piston-engine fighter."


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Reply #10 on: October 30, 2018, 09:22:24 AM
^that is cool   :bigthumb:

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Reply #11 on: October 31, 2018, 07:33:08 AM
I wonder if they thought about doing a Twin F-22  ;)  Imagine how crazy that'd look !


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Reply #12 on: October 31, 2018, 07:56:58 AM
...or maybe a twin F35 if they could get two working at the same time..............

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Reply #13 on: October 31, 2018, 10:25:42 AM
Quote from: bob48 on October 31, 2018, 07:56:58 AM
...or maybe a twin F35 if they could get two working at the same time..............

 ;D ;D ;D


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Reply #14 on: November 01, 2018, 04:08:26 PM
Wow. this is really weird, the other night dreamed I was near a crash site, and it was this plane


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