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Finnish Frankenplane crashed!

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Finnish Frankenplane crashed!

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Glad the pilots are ok. In the UK we call vehcles like that a Ringer.

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Mark, lol yeah think your right...That plane was cursed!
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Glad they got out, just all that time they spent putting the aircraft together from 2 separate airframes, now gone!
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Why "Frankenplane"?
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james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
It was made from spare parts, like the big ugly fellow.

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campbeme wrote:
james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
It was made from spare parts, like the big ugly fellow.

Mark :lol:
Ah! :D
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Should have called it Christine!!!!
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james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
It was made from a C-model hull that suffered a midair collision and used Canadian B-model's frontal section. In that collision the aircraft suffered heavy damage into frontal section but manage to get back, the other one crashed into a swamp.
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Just read in Jane's that it took 100,000 man hours and cost USD21m to build.

Should've gone to Specsavers :D
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CelticWarrior wrote:Just read in Jane's that it took 100,000 man hours and cost USD21m to build.

Should've gone to Specsavers :D
The official story goes Patria who did the modification got valuable experience in damage repairing and modifying Hornets... :roll:
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