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Old 02-07-2011, 03:34 PM
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I saw this at Cosford when I was there in Sep 09 - it has the looks of a real grunter although it could be like the X-3 and just look the part, I don't know...I didn't take as many pictures as I would have like because I only had the one SD card for the camera and no facility (since addressed with a netbook) to download them onto another media...I was amazed that while all these museums sell all varieties of spare batteries, not one sold any form of memory card so I had to ration by snapping...

The two I did get of the 188 show off well its unusual air-brakes if you wanted to include them as a feature...
Nice shots, I wish I could see it in person. But I do however have a treasure trove of information on this plane. The speed brakes are rather clunky, but probably not bad for 1950.
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