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    Cool vintage fighters vid time me thinks

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    bloody awesome!
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    Very impressive. First time I have seen a Seafire, very cool plane. unusual prop setup. Thanks for sharing that.
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    Best sea fury vid I have found so far...





    Some years ago, I saw one of these in the flesh. It was flying back to Ardmore (I think) from Hamilton after an air show at Rukahia. We were at a friend's place just north of Ngaruawahia when it flew overhead...the whistle you hear in a couple of the passes in the video was really apparent as it flew past us. The dude must have had it pretty much tapped out, because it appeared up over the horizon like a peregrine in a power dive and was gone over the opposite horizon in one half of two fifths of fuck all time - it just screamed through the air - literally and figuratively. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and raised goosebumps all over my arms and legs. I couldn't speak for about half a minute afterwards.

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    Dang! Run outta broadband, catch this later. I remember the first time seeing a Sea Fury at the Wanaka Airshow and being gobsmacked at this mighty machine. I believe it is regarded as the finest and last of the prop driven fighter planes.

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    I saw one at an Ohakea airshow some years ago - was amazed at how big it was (for a single seater) never saw it in action though. Thanks for posting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Winston001 View Post
    Dang! Run outta broadband, catch this later. I remember the first time seeing a Sea Fury at the Wanaka Airshow and being gobsmacked at this mighty machine. I believe it is regarded as the finest and last of the prop driven fighter planes.
    Yep - fabulous machine. Even watching that video, I am silenced for about two minutes afterwards...
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    Vintage? Now that they've recently been retired.

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    This should definitely be in here

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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    Vintage? Now that they've recently been retired.
    It's only the Pommy ones that have been retired, init?
    I thought the AV-8's of the USMC are still going.


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    Yak-3 Russian WWII Fighter

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    Can't forget the old Messerschmitt 109 G. Very good sound in this video.
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