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    very interesting. thanks for sharing!

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    Lost this link, nice watching it all over again, cheers for posting.
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    It was interesting to see that they rolled it out of the hanger sideways.

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    Yeah, seems odd at first, but it means the hangar doors (and the unsupported span above them....) only need to be 80 feet wide instead of 140 - makes the hangars a hell of a lot easier to build....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skafloc View Post
    Lost this link, nice watching it all over again, cheers for posting.
    I didn't know if it had been posted before but I thought that it nice enough to post anyway.

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    Can it be a postwar video?
    There are no guns and it seemed to be used as a passengeraircraft.
    Last edited by LOOP; 09-02-2015 at 23:03.

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    Yes - for some reason it's often identified as an R.VI but as you can see from the nose propeller, it's actually an R.XIV, and that particular one (71/18) wasn't completed until the end of the war. It had a brief passenger career, but sadly can be seen here after a charter flight for the Ukrainian government in August 1919.

    http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b10_WvskVN4/S-.../BCFC562-1.jpg

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    Nevertheless very impressive footage.
    Thanks Per.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Nevertheless very impressive footage.
    Thanks Per.
    Rob.
    Yes, thanks for posting the link.

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