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« Reply #2450 on: January 15, 2019, 09:04:26 AM »
That could make an interesting conversion, starting from a VW van.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2451 on: January 16, 2019, 01:32:00 AM »
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« Reply #2452 on: January 17, 2019, 08:03:21 PM »






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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2453 on: January 18, 2019, 02:12:53 AM »
Have a shave you unruly bugger! ;)
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2454 on: January 18, 2019, 03:50:46 AM »
Really! I was wondering how he gets a seal on his O2 mask!

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« Reply #2455 on: January 18, 2019, 07:00:16 AM »
The waste services truck in the pic with the 727 is not a VW. I think it's a Barkus B1000 (?) series van as the bulges for the headlights are not correct for a VDub. The big bulge should be on the bottom not the top.
Mind you if you were going to do the dio substituting a Combi as a s*#t truck it would be good enough.
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« Reply #2456 on: January 18, 2019, 07:29:36 AM »
... I think it's a Barkus B1000 (?) series van as the bulges for the headlights are not correct for a VDub...

It makes more sense that it would be based on a FWD vehicle ... but what the heck was an East German-made van doing at Flughafen München in 1975  ???
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« Reply #2457 on: January 18, 2019, 07:51:47 AM »
I went back to original post and found this comment:

It appears to be a Hanomag-Henschel F35 truck, customized by 'MAFI /Trepel Transport Systems'. The reversed, forward-facing cab allowed the truck to be parked close to the waste port without needing to reverse, which would have required a second person, and could have resulted in an (expensive) collision with the aircraft.

And this:

They were horrible to drive. The cab was just turned around on the chassis, so effectively you were reversing but you were looking forward. The gearbox was changed to make it possible to drive through the gears in the usual way, with the rear end in front of you; but the self centering of the steering was not changed, making that you had to fight the steering constantly. There was no power steering in those Hanomag Henschels which made them dangerous to drive. Stupid concept, they were generally hated by us. We had one for toilet service and one for water service at Rotterdam, secondhand from Frankfurt.
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« Reply #2458 on: January 19, 2019, 04:17:57 AM »
Oopppsss...

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« Reply #2459 on: January 19, 2019, 06:04:30 AM »
Basler BT-67 Conversion

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« Reply #2460 on: January 19, 2019, 06:36:27 AM »
Oopppsss...



Looks like the snow on the front fell off but not the back. Ouch!

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« Reply #2461 on: January 19, 2019, 10:36:01 AM »
A few more of the new Cessna tail dragger: Citation XTD.





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« Reply #2462 on: January 19, 2019, 10:42:50 AM »
Oopppsss...


Somebody sure wasn't watching their weight and balance.  Of course, the other approach would be a caption like "Up, up, and away!"

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« Reply #2463 on: January 19, 2019, 12:39:12 PM »
Gonna be rough on the nose gear when that comes down again!

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« Reply #2464 on: January 20, 2019, 04:23:45 AM »
Gonna be rough on the nose gear when that comes down again!
Unless the ground handlers are very, very careful.  Not sure I'd give odds on that.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2465 on: January 20, 2019, 06:02:30 AM »
Gonna be rough on the nose gear when that comes down again!
Unless the ground handlers are very, very careful.  Not sure I'd give odds on that.

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« Reply #2466 on: January 20, 2019, 08:38:33 AM »
what about tail damage?

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« Reply #2467 on: January 21, 2019, 04:55:08 AM »






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« Reply #2468 on: January 21, 2019, 07:57:34 AM »
Canadian Warplane Heritage's new C-47 in partial 437 SQN RCAF markings.



Will look like this with but Z2-R and <OR> on the nose.

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« Reply #2469 on: January 24, 2019, 06:11:03 AM »






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« Reply #2470 on: January 24, 2019, 11:04:45 PM »


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« Reply #2471 on: January 25, 2019, 05:07:12 AM »


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« Reply #2472 on: January 25, 2019, 06:35:02 PM »






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« Reply #2473 on: January 26, 2019, 05:16:17 AM »


CF-18 buzzing the CFB Comox Tower (while the pattern was full)
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« Reply #2474 on: January 26, 2019, 07:40:15 PM »
 :smiley:
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