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By: - 6th November 2004 at 14:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Funny pic, and a bit sad really.
Thought this thread might have been about the two Chipmunks at Gatow, Berlin in the 60s. ;)
By: - 6th November 2004 at 14:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ahh, you mean the PR Mk10?
By: - 6th November 2004 at 17:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thats a Chipmunk?
Bruce
By: - 6th November 2004 at 19:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thats a Chipmunk?Bruce
That was a Chipmunk.....
By: - 6th November 2004 at 22:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
From memory it's a former Thai Air Force example. It has a typical 'American'
modified rudder and a larger engine but it still ranks as a Chipmunk.
By: - 6th November 2004 at 22:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ooooh, bit dodgy.
By: - 6th November 2004 at 23:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Like the FW-190 with the Russian radial? :)
By: - 6th November 2004 at 23:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Like the FW-190 with the Russian radial? :)
Not even Russian :eek: It's from CHINA :eek: :eek:
To be fair, it is the BMW 801 that originally powered the FW190, reverse-engineered in Russia and produced in China. Hope I got that right, all a bit complicated after a couple of glasses of red :eek: :D
By: - 6th November 2004 at 23:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
From memory it's a former Thai Air Force example. It has a typical 'American'
modified rudder and a larger engine but it still ranks as a Chipmunk.
Not in my book, they've killed it. :mad:
By: - 6th November 2004 at 23:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
DGH- The RAF scrapped a number of Chipmunks over the years for various reasons. Whilst it's not everyones cup of tea it's still airworthy and appreciated. The future for Chipmunks is the LOM engine - it hardly spoils the
lines of the machine and is available brand new.
By: - 6th November 2004 at 23:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Somehow once you start messing about with Chipmunk's they lose there appeal with me. It's not something I mind on aircraft like the Sea Fury but with the Chippy it kind of spoils the whole package. Just my opinon, ment in light hearted banter. :)
By: - 7th November 2004 at 03:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hey, nice to read of the esteem in which our good ol' homegrown Chipmunk is held! One sees quite a few of them up here; nearly all of them sooner or later take on some variation of 50s-60s RCAF yellow training livery, and I've only seen one or two in Canadian registry with non-DH power. Hadn't seen this "AVG" spin on the Chip before...it's certainly striking. I have seen re-engined Chips at shows Stateside wearing equally warlike tongue-in-cheek liveries...one was pretending to be a Spitfire 24, the other a Sea Fury! Would post pix if I had the means to.
S.
By: - 8th November 2004 at 10:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hmm... not entirely my cup of tea, but I wouldn't kick it out of the hangar... ;)
By: - 8th November 2004 at 11:03 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thought this thread might have been about the two Chipmunks at Gatow, Berlin in the 60s. ;)
,70s & 80s. One now with the bbmf
Spose the other Chippy warbird could be the "spitmunk" - a standard T10 in AAC camo that the BFWF had in the mid 70s -early 80s.
By: - 8th November 2004 at 16:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Spose the other Chippy warbird could be the "spitmunk" - a standard T10 in AAC camo that the BFWF had in the mid 70s -early 80s.
Aah, the Spitmunk - WP964, at Greenham Common 1976. An underexposed original, of a dark subject on an overcast day! - tried to tart it up a bit, any suggestions?
By: - 8th November 2004 at 18:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
When I look at WP964, I think it's a shame that people can mess up a nice chipmunk like that. Can't they buy some cheap silly modern kitt and built some new plane. :rolleyes:
So you might guess that I don't like this modification. ;)
J.V.
By: - 8th November 2004 at 18:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yeah, these Yanks and sticking the wrong engine on things... shouldn't be allowed.
Chipmunks had quite an aerobatics history in the states when equipped with a larger engine. Art Scholl's "Super Chipmunk" is even in the Smithsonian.
Don't be such a snob. :D Chippies are hardly rare and not particularly historic, so anything that keeps one in the air is okay by me.
This conversion is on par with what has been done to Stearmans in the UK (Utterly Butterly & Crunchie airshow teams), with bigger engines and different paint.
Andfrom an operational standpoint, orignial engines are hardly thick on the ground in the USA.
By: - 8th November 2004 at 19:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hey, nice to read of the esteem in which our good ol' homegrown Chipmunk is held! One sees quite a few of them up here; nearly all of them sooner or later take on some variation of 50s-60s RCAF yellow training livery, and I've only seen one or two in Canadian registry with non-DH power. Hadn't seen this "AVG" spin on the Chip before...it's certainly striking. I have seen re-engined Chips at shows Stateside wearing equally warlike tongue-in-cheek liveries...one was pretending to be a Spitfire 24, the other a Sea Fury! Would post pix if I had the means to.S.
Steve, if you want to e-mail them to me, I'll stick them up for you.
By: - 9th November 2004 at 08:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
[QUOTE=J Boyle]
:D Chippies are hardly rare and not particularly historic,
QUOTE]
Not historic!? Chippy first flew in December 1946, thats like saying the DC6, Bell X1, Westland Wyvern etc are'nt "historic" -they all flew in 1946!
By: - 9th November 2004 at 08:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
When I look at WP964, I think it's a shame that people can mess up a nice chipmunk like that. Can't they buy some cheap silly modern kitt and built some new plane. :rolleyes:So you might guess that I don't like this modification. ;)
J.V.
Those "people" were the Army Air Corps who used this one off chippy to train IIRC forward air controllers and needed a more combat - looking machine rather than a bright red and white trainer. Much rather have this official scheme than the Red Bull sea vixen
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By: mmitch - 6th November 2004 at 13:58
Found this photo of a Chipmunk wearing warpaint at:- http://www.tailwheel.com/forums/index.php?act=module&module=gallery&cmd=si&img=45
:)
mmitch.