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Offline Berry Vissers

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Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« on: Wednesday September 07, 2005, 12:40:39 UTC »
Last year we (Chippy Monkey, MarkyMC and myself) had a visit at Sintra Air Base in Portugal. Quite surprisingly, they still use about half a dozen Chipmunks for basic training and glider towing! Juts a pitty they were all in a hangar during the visit.

This is one of them:



Cheers, Berry
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Offline DGH

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Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday September 07, 2005, 18:48:18 UTC »
Nice picture Berry. Not sure about the Lycoming up front though, kind of spoils a lot of the appeal for me. Anybody else feel that way ?
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Ahhh Chippies.....

Offline Dean Cross

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Lycoming up front
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday September 07, 2005, 19:36:58 UTC »
Makes a pilot forget his airmanship and turns an engineer into a "parts replacer", apart from that I have nothing against the abomination! :-x  :-x  :-x  :lol:  :wink:
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Offline Duncan

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Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday September 07, 2005, 22:09:08 UTC »
Quite right....it's like silicone implants.  It may get the job done, but it's nothing like the real thing!!!!  :lol:  :angel4:
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Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« Reply #4 on: Thursday September 15, 2005, 20:40:52 UTC »
trust YOU to say that! :wink:
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Offline joelcorreia

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Re: Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday April 28, 2009, 15:33:16 UTC »
hello !
i'm pilot student from portuguese air force!!
and i can say... chipmunks are infernal machines!!!
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Offline STANNARD

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Re: Portugese Air Force Chipmunk
« Reply #6 on: Friday July 17, 2009, 08:48:10 UTC »
I'm sure we all know that some of the PAF Chipmunks came with a .303 Browning and a reflector gunsight. Did students fire at a banner towed by another Chippie? Or was it strictly air-to-ground firing? Despite the jibe about implants (something I know nothing about!), it would be quite interesting to fly the Lycoming version. I currently tow in a PA-25-235 Pawnee from Kirton Lindsey, and its Lycoming certainly 'does the business'. On a good day the Pawnee can tow a glider up to 2,000ft and be back on the ground in about 8 minutes. So, if anyone needs an occasional Supermunk pilot, you know where to find me.
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