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They have some previous videos to which I do not recall the how exactly but it was a bit of engineering/manufacturing by the team to pull it off.The guns cycle at about 1/2 the regular rate the complaint .50 cal is expensive!!:D

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4 hours ago, ColinR said:

I have 2 questions after watching this, 

A) How did they get approval for this  

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B) who's for a 1/32 P-40E kit  with  AVG markings for sale? 

 

 

+1!  Has to be the coolest thing I've seen  in a very,very long time! I'd be up for a new tool 'E' ,bring it on!      

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Special permissions for this sort of thing are obtainable, but expensive. It's my desire to attend the annual full auto event in Las Vegas before I croak. They have it all, from Thompsons and MP40s to mini-guns and quad flak guns. 

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It's disappointing that, so far, the team hasn't acknowledged that in the late 2000s this same aircraft* did a series of "strafing" displays with six blank-firing guns at two Warbirds Over Wanaka airshows. To me it was much more impressive to hear when done on the ground than in the air - I was underwhelmed by how muted the sound was even at our close-range flying display distance, but it was still cool. It was a pretty big deal.

 

It's also frustrating that a project being promoted as "The Sound of History" has so much music over it! Hopefully the final product lets the aircraft speak more for itself.

 

*P-40N-1 42-104730, which served with the Royal Australian Air Force as A29-448. Restored to airworthiness in New Zealand and flew again in 2000. Normally it wears a representation of its original RAAF markings but is temporarily (thank goodness, for this particular history buff) wearing a different scheme.

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Above Coffee Creek, in the Trinity Alps we heard heavy hammering outdoors. As naive British visitors the whole family went to look-see. Four 'older gentlemen' had parked a Dodge pickup truck in a disused quarry. From the back of the truck they were cutting stone with a mounted . 5 Browning.

 

The Browning was way louder than their laughter. Their laughter lasted longer.

 

That P-40 was firing how many big Brownings? Wow! 

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