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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Mar 9, 2017 - 2:04pm
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Jeff,
Thanks again for posting these recent photos. I particularly like the one of the 111 and the 112 on board the Tallulah.
Finally, a photo of John Claggett's doomed 111...
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Mar 11, 2017 - 3:57am
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Me too Drew. I just noticed a detail on the 111 that has been eluding me for a long time, the pre-radar mast rest:
There are some fittings on the side of the windscreen and hatchway hatch that I can only guess at.
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Mar 12, 2017 - 7:08pm
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A cropping from a PT 141 photo showing those buttons being used for a canvas extension of some sort. It looks like it is not attached to the hatch but a guess would be it normally would. Another guess is either a windscreen or to funnel air into the engine compartment:
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 10:29am
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Nice find Jeff . . . .
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 10:52am
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Thank you Dick! Could this qualify as a possible "booby hatch" like the ones in the Higgins drawings you showed me?
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Dick
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Posted on: Mar 13, 2017 - 1:53pm
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I'm not sure, this "Booby Hatch" treatment looks a little disheveled compared to neat tidy package on the Higgins. But what the heck it evidently worked or did it. The booby hatches as I understand were deployed while in port not at full speed like show in your posted photo - the action in the pooh looks like a wide "E" ticket ride.
Dick . . .
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Will Day
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Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 10:52am
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Great shot of the 143 and the beehive radar. ( Wonder how Higher-Higher liked the nude on the cockpit.)
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 2:39pm
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Or IPMS judges at model contests...
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Mar 14, 2017 - 7:47pm
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Jeff;
The same canvass spray sheild on Morobe based boat.
and again, on PT 142 RON 8.
Take care,
TED
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