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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by LStarosta:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chuck_Older:
That's the Bayerische der Fisherwerke Gu-370 "Gullibal", used in Operation Arkplatz in 1942 <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ahhh, yes. This one was designed by the great Riel Dumaß. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Dude your sigs are great.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by joeap:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by LStarosta:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chuck_Older:
That's the Bayerische der Fisherwerke Gu-370 "Gullibal", used in Operation Arkplatz in 1942 <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ahhh, yes. This one was designed by the great Riel Dumaß. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Dude your sigs are great.
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Why, thank you. I try. 
Props to Julia Schultz, Playmate of the Month, February '98.
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Crash, that's the GU-470, with the internal bay for weapons or cargo. Simply an inproved GU-370, compare the pics. Note the difference in main gear- Gu-470 needed stronger main gear because of the larger payload capacity. Pusher arrangement was needed because the ordinance/cargo loaded through the wing leading edge, and also that's where the main fuel fills were. Cockpit is about 99% the same, though. It was supposed to drop the manned G13c "Funkenmat" torpedo, in which a radioman who volunteered for the duty was sealed into a sophisticated sound-homing torpedo for use against US Carriers in the med. Not used operationally, but the first volunteer, Sigismund "Twiggy" Ppfalzdorf was unofficially the first radioman in the outer stratosphere when the liquid-sodium axial thrust engine of the first G13a "Funkenmat" malfunctioned on launch and vectored straight up. Ppfalzdorf's widow was presented with a special radio that curiously only could be tuned into Amos and Andy at her husband's funeral, a small affair in her native Aachen. One hundred forty pounds of spoiled oleomargerine was used as ballast for the coffin, as Ppfalzdorf's remains that were found and identified couldn't even fill up a mess tin. The widow was spared knowledge of the coffin filler until 1973, when Ppfalzdorf's 'remains' were dis-interred, strangley enough, to break ground on a new FM radio station that played Cliff Richards' music exclusively. had Ppfalzdorf's body actually been in the grave, his surviving comrades say he would have been spinning in it.
just another funny little war story rife with coincidences
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hmm, i think there is joke here somvere... But i dont gett it. lack of language skill or IQ i gess, mabe bouth
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Well, there's that, plus my posts may be incomprehensible, since I'm drunk