Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 08:52
Glad the pilots are ok. In the UK we call vehcles like that a Ringer.
Mark
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Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 09:09
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 09:13
Mark, lol yeah think your right...That plane was cursed!
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 18:38
Glad they got out, just all that time they spent putting the aircraft together from 2 separate airframes, now gone!
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 07:47
Why "Frankenplane"?
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 08:21
It was made from spare parts, like the big ugly fellow.james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
Mark
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 03 Feb 2010, 18:35
Ah!campbeme wrote:It was made from spare parts, like the big ugly fellow.james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
Mark
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 07 Feb 2010, 03:57
Should have called it Christine!!!!
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 12:24
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.james84 wrote:Why "Frankenplane"?
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 24 Feb 2010, 11:14
Just read in Jane's that it took 100,000 man hours and cost USD21m to build.
Should've gone to Specsavers
Should've gone to Specsavers
Re: Finnish Frankenplane crashed!
Posted: 03 Mar 2010, 09:23
The official story goes Patria who did the modification got valuable experience in damage repairing and modifying Hornets...CelticWarrior wrote:Just read in Jane's that it took 100,000 man hours and cost USD21m to build.
Should've gone to Specsavers
