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Czech L-39 trainer/fighter jet

scottcolbathscottcolbath Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
edited October 18, 2010 in Other Cool Shots
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John Penney. Air race dude....Guy who was training the owner on the L-39 and general badass aviator.
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Bret Cox. The owner of the L-39 and also as I have since found out, a racer at the Reno air races.
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Gus on the left and Jose on the right. The painters.
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Just a beautiful aircraft.
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S.C.

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    black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,321 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    Hi Scott,

    You got yourself some nice shots of a beautiful plane. I passed up an opportunity to go up in one of these not long ago. As opposed to this one, the one I would have flown in looked like it just came off of an old muddy Soviet field. I wasn't about to fly in it.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
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    IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    Nice shots. What a paint job!
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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    PantherPanther Registered Users Posts: 3,658 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    Howdy Scott,

    What a great series of images and love the Story behind them.

    Beautiful colors, love that Paint Job and that beautiful Blue Sky.
    Take care,

    Craig

    Burleson, Texas
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    StephanyStephany Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    Great plane for that time.... it was the trainer aircraft for Warsaw Pact. Russians (and others) bought about 3,000 of them..here is the story.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_L-39_Albatros
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    moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,419 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2010
    Great series of shots! The L-39 is a neat little airplane - the museum I hang at has a pair of them, so I get to see them in action all the time.
    The Moose is Loose!
    http://www.moose135photography.com
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