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A close up of the beautiful RAF P51 Mustang from the Taupo airshow. mmmmmmmmm Fuck I love this aircraft :) It just oooozes beauty.

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:iconjarik-knight:
awesome, i love fighters
I love you stringy, will you marry me?

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ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

If I'm 30 and I've still not found anyone, maybe. You can be my last ditch marriage option.

Do you feel proud? I would ;P

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put the crazies on the street
give them guns and feed them meat
Graaaagh!
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It's a deal then!

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My grandfather flew one of these in the war...

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heh cool :) So did my great-uncle Gerald Westenra. There is a writeup about him online here: [link]

He was an RAF Squadron Leader, with a DFC and bar, and a fighter ace - possibly a double-ace, with 8 solo and 3 shared kills. He flew Gloster Gladiators, Tomahawks and Kittyhawks, Spits, and finally commanded a Mustang III squadron. I can't believe I forgot to mention him in the description for this pic!

My father was born in 1947, and used to tell how he practically 'grew up in' Gerald and his father's Tiger Moth. He used to tell me stories about how Uncle Gerald's "low-level flying expertise proved invaluable on the farm, notably for feeding pellets to the sheep from a Tiger Moth biplane - in which, as he liked to demonstrate to passengers, he could soar over Mount Cook with the engine switched off, relying on upward draughts from the Tasman Sea." Awesome.

He was later a champion glider pilot, and flew in the world glider champs in the 60's.

I remember him mainly a few years ago when he was very old, and had Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Very sad.

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put the crazies on the street
give them guns and feed them meat
Graaaagh!

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