The Sea Hornet, the successor of the famous Mosquito, and one of the fastest piston-powered planes ever. 2 R-R Griffons powered the beast. Maybe a better name, as it is also one of my favourite cartridges! And the Spitfire successor, the Spiteful. And also the Martin-Baker MB5, that remained a prototype... So many nice planes....

Can't believe there are over 500 plus views of this thread in such a short period. I thought it would be a few view and archived way back into oblivion. I only posted it to answer a few peoples questions about what is a Seafire.

Glad to see tho, that Aircraft, particularly from that period are so popular.

A lot of people out to check out where old Air Force bases use to be. It may surprise many people of how many museums that were on those bases with a lot of aircraft that became disabled that were just put into static display status since the AF thought it was too expensive to move them to scrap them.

A lot of these places are kept up by volunteers. I am amazed at some of the A/C that I have seen at some of these museums, in obscure places. What use to be Rantoul AFB in Illinois, I saw one of a few B36s and B 58s even in existance. I also saw another one at what use to be Castle AFB in Calif. Some of these old AFBs are now National Guard Bases.

It thrills me to no end that a lot of my fellow shooters are also into something else that is so cool.

Cheers to all!
seafire

Mr. Martini:

Yeah there are so many cool planes especially in those days. Too bad it all had to be developed around a war, but they were war birds anyway, so I guess it had to be.

Cheers and good shooting
seafire

J.L.,
thanks for posting that! wonderful picture.

God Bless the guys who did that and are still with us. we are lucky to be able to talk to them about those days, they are fastly disappearing and with them, all the knowledge of the accomplishments and sacrafices they have made for this country ( when it was a great country, not this Hippy Grown up/ Yuppie induced America we have become)

Cheers,
seafire

This is a picture of my grandfather in his Mustang. He flew 88 missions (45 in P-38J's and the rest in P-51D's) with the 384th Fighter Squadron/364th Fighter Group out of Honington, England. He claimed one probable during his two tours. He flew cover for the D-Day landings, Arnhem jumps and numerous missions to Berlin.







Here is a website dedicated to the 364th FG

That is one EXCELLENT photo for the scale builders


Let us not forget the SeaFury....

First Prop plane to shoot down a jet, a Mig, in Korea.

Also the Plane that took out the Communications/Command Ship (ours) at Bay of Pigs.

Timbertoes,

You mean the first jet shot down in Korea was by a seafire? I didn't know that, somehow I thought it was by an F-82 (twin mustang) but I'm getting senile too.

The mig 15 might be small, but I think the smallest cockpit I've squeezed into was a Me 109, I was in high school and it was a tight fit back then.

I have flight time in T-6's and B-25's, I'm a sucker for anything with round engines. I think it is cool that a DC-3 can still earn a living today.

Now what the hell was I working on before I started reading this thread?....