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Operation Snowball FB5
« on: November 18, 2014, 07:28:42 PM »
Operation Snowball FB5. Pilot John Cunningham Swiss Air Force.

Thanks again to Gio963tto and CWatson for this aircraft.








Download here: New link https://www.mediafire.com/download/zadsycbjcus9hzm/Swiss_Vampire_2.rar
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2014, 07:49:43 PM »
formidable! As always.  ;)
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2014, 08:09:52 PM »
Thanks SAS~Gerax  ;D
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2014, 06:05:15 AM »
Thanks a lot !

But... excuse my ignorance... Operation Snowball... what is it ? a movie ?
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2014, 06:27:35 AM »
You're very welcome Gaston.  :)

No movie but may have been interesting if it was.  ;D

Here's a little info on it. 'Operation Snowball' took place on February 8th 1950. John Cunningham carried a pair of skis attached on top of the tail booms. For the delivery flight, J-1048 had the title 'Operation Snowball' painted on the engine cowling. A total of 75 DH-100 Mk.6 Vampires were flown into Switzerland serialled J-1005 - J-1079.




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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2014, 07:28:27 AM »
Oh, I understand... that reminds me of an old ski fabric, here in Switzerland... they were made in a locality called Bière, not far from where I live... they had a ski model called... "Vampire" ! And the plane was their logo !



A book about the company's history :



Some advertisement of an old era :



An example :




Unfortunately, the company bankrupted in the '90s...

Interesting, no ?
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2014, 07:37:43 AM »
That is really interesting Gaston.

Amazing how one incident like that can cause a company to incorporated it into it's product line. If I had that picture of the ski's earlier I could have used it in the skin for this aircraft. ;)

Thanks again for sharing that info Gaston. Made my day  :)

Cheers,
Ed
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Re: Operation Snowball FB5
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2014, 12:00:06 PM »
No problem... I could not know what you would do ! LOL
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