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PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 10:44 pm
by Splitpin
And if you have an hour ... make a cuppa , and enjoy this..... except the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4YBwjQTds

PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:00 pm
by Ian Warren
It s a good doco and they almost got the the aircraft out ... amazing Caribou flying in it as well bring in parts cool.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:56 am
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 9 2013,11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It s a good doco and they almost got the the aircraft out ... amazing Caribou flying in it as well bring in parts cool.gif

Glad you liked it ..... Ian there is another one i would love to get... do you remember one about a Constellation ? Similar to the B-29 but with a happy ending . From memory the guy who flew it out had really long hair (if that helps) also recall one about bringing the QANTAS 707 home .....

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:06 am
by Ian Warren
Yip , got that doco , good friend in the USA sent me that one , lotta Connie documentary's and one base on his experience's - Don was a wizzo in the backseat of a WV-2/EC121K for the US Navy and he also flew on the on both VX6 Connie's between Barbers Point Hawaii to the US many times , great watching the old 1965/8 stuff and Vietnam footage in the Gulf of Tonkin . cool.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:24 am
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 10 2013,11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yip , got that doco , good friend in the USA sent me that one , lotta Connie documentary's and one base on his experience's - Don was a wizzo in the backseat of a WV-2/EC121K for the US Navy and he also flew on the on both VX6 Connie's between Barbers Point Hawaii to the US many times , great watching the old 1965/8 stuff and Vietnam footage in the Gulf of Tonkin . cool.gif


Wow ... even more reason for a visit thumbup1.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:07 pm
by Bluebird
Hi Splitpin

That was a great watch. what a waste of someones life and a great aircraft. I wasn't even working on it and even i felt real sad to see it come to an end like that.


Thanks for finding that.

Todd

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:23 pm
by AlisterC
Cool! Thanks for the link to this. I have read the book Hunting Warbirds, which is a great read and details this mission to Iceland I think. I'll watch the video later, no time right now, but sounds to me like the very same thing. Cheers!!!
<------ great read!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:40 pm
by Splitpin
No problem fellow NZFF'ers .... glad you liked it.