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Originally posted by philo
Water closet ?

No. It’s definitely a Mk XVI Spitfire. 🙂

Moggy

You need the BogPast Forum

Water closet ?

Bromley. London, 20 September 1959. Mk XVI SL574.

Haha. Yes. Great pic that. LBW What?!

Diss is a dump. Always go araound the edge, me. Oxfordshire is for Toffs and Poofs I reckon. Go to Jersey and interbreed to the level of giving birth to yourself as your granddaughter.

Originally posted by Moggy C
Ah – a man who’d prefer a Cessna 152 to a Spitfire :rolleyes:

Clearly a knowledgeable and discerning aviation enthusiast.

Your mother didn’t know any blokes from Abingdon when she was younger did she?

Moggy

Never have been a big fan of Spitfires 😉

now with a following wind and a bit of good luck I could afford a Cessna 152, which is more than could be said for a Spitfire.

I bought a car from a bloke in Abingdon once if that counts, I won’t do that again in a hurry either.

they did show a nice picture of the Spitfire that crash landed during one Victory Flypast.. landed on a cricket pitch and had dents on the leading edge of the wing to show where it took out the stumps!

Originally posted by Guzzineil
back to aeroplanes and its BBMF related.. went to a ‘talk’ at Metheringham Airfield tonight by 3 chaps from the BBMF… one interesting comment was that if the hurri/spit suffered an engine failure at 3000 ft then it would only continue to aviate for about 17 seconds?? i’m sure there must be some formula to calculate this involving the angle of the dangle etc, but whats the thourghts of our aviating commentators??

The arithmetic is quite simple.

Any aircraft has a glide ratio. For a typical spam-can this is something like 12:1 or 11:1

So from 3,000 ft it will travel nearly 7 miles forward at a best glide speed of 80 mph, about 5 and a bit minutes.

A Hurricane probably has a best glide speed nearer 100 mph. I have no idea of the glide ratio but would find it hard to beleive that it is half that of a spam can, particularly in the lightly-loaded configuration they are now operated in.

Using those assumptions gives 3.4 miles and just over two minutes.

To come down to 17 seconds you’d need a glide ratio of 1:1 and I can’t say I’ve often seen Hurricanes sinking towards the ground on a 45 degree glideslope.

But I know little, these were the guys who actually do it, so I can’t really argue.

Very interesting.

Moggy

back to aeroplanes and its BBMF related.. went to a ‘talk’ at Metheringham Airfield tonight by 3 chaps from the BBMF… one interesting comment was that if the hurri/spit suffered an engine failure at 3000 ft then it would only continue to aviate for about 17 seconds?? i’m sure there must be some formula to calculate this involving the angle of the dangle etc, but whats the thourghts of our aviating commentators??

excellent evening by the way.. £2.50, free booklet, tea and biccies at hal time and the procedes to the visitors centre..

Originally posted by Yak 11 Fan
No thanks, I’d prefer a Hurricane or Mustang, come to think of it, anything other than a Spitfire.

Ah – a man who’d prefer a Cessna 152 to a Spitfire :rolleyes:

Clearly a knowledgeable and discerning aviation enthusiast.

Your mother didn’t know any blokes from Abingdon when she was younger did she?

Moggy

Careful now.

That kind of talk could get you grouped up with dear old Ih8spits, and you wouldn’t want that would you;)

Willow

(spitfire fancier)

Originally posted by Ginger Prince

…now weren’t we all talking about planes…. Hands – up whose got a Spitfire….ahem.

No thanks, I’d prefer a Hurricane or Mustang, come to think of it, anything other than a Spitfire.

Good for you darren. Now on my Xmas list.
I will not scan my finger for you Moggy – you know me better than that. PS you did look nice in that little rubber number – on the other thread….

Philo – does your last message mean that the latest invention of the water closet hasn’t reached the racy town of Abingdon then?

…now weren’t we all talking about planes…. Hands – up whose got a Spitfire….ahem.

As a old boy of Wantage, or Grove to factual, I have no issues with Didcot. If it wasn’t for Didcot power station I would have failed to have found my way back to good old RAF Abingdon in clouds. (not that we ever went above clound without through visability!)

Now days I live in Bedfordshire within a stones through of Old Warden and not too far from the mecca that is Duxford!

Wallingford people be warned – I’m upstream of you:D 😀 😀 😀

Guzzineil, yes Old Hooky kept well would have to be in my top 10 ales.

Philo

Doo eee speeek barkshire then?

Aunt Sally days are over due to a bad drinking injury, I can be caught most sunday nights in the George and Dragon in Sutton Courtenay undergoing intense rehab 😉

Old Hookey now theres some falling down juice.

I’ll have a pint of ‘old hooky’….

Manonthefence and Ginger Prince,I wish I had not been rude about Didcot, for christ sake you have let it all slip about this area now and every bugger will want to come.I’m from Appleton and we find ferrets a bit aggresive, pigs are much better and they are easier on the knees.
Don’t forget we are Berkshire not Oxfordshire, bugger what the boundary changes did in 1971, I’m still in Berkshire and proud of it.However I do work for a company with ‘Oxford’ in its title, so I have something in the name to be thankfull for.
As for the beer discussion, well OSH has never been the same since being brewed in some remote land and that Green King S**t that masquerades as ‘Morland Original’ is nothing short of an insult to a well defined ale pallette.
Either of you play Aunt Sally by any chance, if so for who?

Originally posted by Manonthefence
Ginger person

You are clearly from West Hanney. Do you follow the village tradition and have intimate relationships with Ferrets :p

ROTFL 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Little do you know what truth you speak 😉

Ask The Prince to scan his finger 🙂

Moggy

Ginger person

You are clearly from West Hanney. Do you follow the village tradition and have intimate relationships with Ferrets :p

Cheers for the Jag info, any idea of the Serial?