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August 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Going, going…gone! #1231128

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Thanks…….perhaps I should visit the forum a little bit more and then wouldn’t have to ask such silly questions!!

Best wishes,

Martin

July 21, 2008 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Visibility/air clarity summer 2008 #432804

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Went to Popham yesterday for the Auster Fly-In and on the way home in the afternoon, you could see for literally miles and miles. Don’t think have seen it so clear for ages…only problem was that it was extremely bumpy all the way back!!

Martin

July 21, 2008 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Whats this? #1191483

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Umm wondered what it was too……was at Popham yesterday morning in the Auster III and a number of Yak50s and the Fiat flew over forming up to go into Farnborough. From where I was standing (far far away), it looked like a P2. But now I know!

Martin

July 11, 2008 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Prototype Survivors #1203648

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WZ662 the prototype Auster AOP.9 is alive and well as G-BKVK at Eggesford in Devon.

Martin

July 9, 2008 at 9:19 pm in reply to: Aircraft Digs In Cornwall #1205469

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The tunnel exists. Take a bloody look in it.

Sorry, but I didnt mean what I said…wasnt thinking right….know I shouldn’t have a pint or two before dinner. The tunnel as you rightly say does exist. As you go up the hill from the eastern end of Downderry the doors are I presume the ones on the right hand side of that rather nasty left hander.

Best thing would be to find out who the real owner is, before visiting the site.

Again apologies for saying the wrong thing….I didnt mean it in that context. I just thought it would have been cleared years ago, but then you never know.

Best wishes,

Martin

July 9, 2008 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Aircraft Digs In Cornwall #1205611

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Hey I’m Cornish myself, you know the old poem; Cornish born, Cornish bred, strong in the arm and thick in the ….!
Im just merely pointing out that many have been sadly pushed out of Cornwall, mainly due to retirees, and London second home owners these days.

As for the tunnel full of WWII kit, that just sounds like more rubbish.

I couldn’t agree more with what you say!!! – My Dad was born and raised in Looe and came back in the late seventies and found it far removed from the town and county that it was. It will never ever be the same. We are the minority these day due to the influx of others.

And as to the tunnel, well from what I’ve just heard in my local from two older gentleman including one from Downderry orginally, I think it is a load of rubbish. As far as we know the land has been owned by the same family since the war.

Best wishes,

Martin Pengelly

July 9, 2008 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Aircraft Digs In Cornwall #1206231

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My Doctors is in Downderry (as I live only a few miles away) and it came as something of a pleasant surprise to see the old photos of the repeater station there. I never knew it existed. They say you learn something everyday.

As to the tunnels, I do know of there existence, but nothing more than what has been mentioned before.

And I cant comment about my fellow Cornishman or woman, I thought we were all nice people……

Martin

June 16, 2008 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Light plane crash in Suffolk. #432971

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I have spoken to those people involved and they are on their way home today.

Martin

June 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm in reply to: What Type Of Aircraft Did You First Fly In? #1240831

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First flight was in a Cessna 150 G-BFLM out of Bodmin in February 1983, when I was 15.

First vintage flight was in the Chrislea Super Ace G-AKVF from Bodmin to Lands End in 1986 and my first warbird was Harvard Mk.IIB G-CTKL the following year.

Martin

May 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm in reply to: What civil aircraft are you? #1175872

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Not bad at all………G-AMJP………Dart Kitten III. But then G-BMJP is a Colt Balloon. Perhaps I am full of hot air at times!!

Martin

May 11, 2008 at 10:22 pm in reply to: G-AJRB News #1186928

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Aah, that ‘JRB! Based as in flying or based as in similar condition to photo?

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1053220/

Based as in flying condition of course. Restoration was conducted by Richard Webber at Eggesford and the airframe is now in pristine condition and a superb example of that marque of Auster. A wonderful restoration indeed.

Martin

These photos were taken early in the year before test flying had taken place. Photos by John Cooke.

May 8, 2008 at 9:34 am in reply to: Sexiest Warbirds #1189622

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Harvard
Mustang
F4U Corsair
Sea Fury
Mosquito

Martin

March 24, 2008 at 7:08 pm in reply to: In preservation, what aircraft types have you worked on? #1236821

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Auster 3
Tiger Moth
Stearman
lots and lots of Harvards of course….
SNJ-7C
Stearman
P-51D
Gnat
Staggerwing
TBM-3R Avenger
Beech 18
Chipmunk
Auster 9
Broussard
Piper L-18C
T-28

March 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm in reply to: Yak 11 (C.11) colour schemes #1249528

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I have a number of Yak-11 publications at home. Can easily let you borrow them. Have sent an email.

Martin

February 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1264546

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Probably in a hole…..

I remember the Vulcan with great fondness (for a jet) but can’t help feeling that a lot more good could have been done with that £6m for aircraft preservation in the UK.

I second everything here and this is my first and probably only word on the matter, having not paid much attention to it in the past.

It just seems a great shame in a way that events have unfolded as they have after so much has been done by a lot of people out there.

Martin
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