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| Re: Winter Flying 15 - Tu 4 , Russian lineup.jpg (1/1) |  |  | 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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