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RiŠardo (here@glorious-somerset.uk) 2015/02/15 10:24

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On 15/02/2015 16:03, Charles Lindbergh wrote:

>
>> On 15/02/2015 15:06, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 07:08:13 -0600, Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has everyone seen the History Channel presentation of "Stealing the
>>> Superfortress" the story of how the soviets coped the B-29 and created the Tu-4?
>>>
>>> If you are interested, the complete video has been posted on YouTube:
>>>
>>> http://bit.ly/1CvZMTK
>>>
>>
>> When I first saw the Lisunov Li2 at Krakow Aviation Museum I thought
>> that the USSR had done the same there, but it seems that it was a
>> commercially licence built version of the DC-4 from a 1941 agreement.
>>

>
> I think you meant to say "DC-3 or C-47".  This is the DC-4.
>

Duh! Of course - my apologies!

A moment of mental aberration as it was, of course, the DC-3. Also it
seems that the licence was granted on 15 July 1936, rather than in 1941.

Maybe I'd better have an early night.



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