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Old 8th June 2012 | 20:41
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gpugh
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Hi Shaggy Sheep we have spoken a lot in the past re Chipmunk and dads involvement with same, have you sold yours now ? ref your commeny until recently. Father did qualify his statement in that having flown the Corsair with the FAA and then flown the Seafury on exercises during Korea against US Marine and Navy squadrons who were still using the Corsairs, he says the Corsairs if flown by their best pilots would be able to outfight the Seafuries most of the time. He says the Seafire was lovely to fly as a "weekend" sports plane but horrible onto the carriers and the Chipmunk had nicely harmonized controls but was a bit underpowered and needed a decent inverted fuel system

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