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February 15, 2006 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Cornish Lightnings #1384801

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Wouldn’t like to have been the poor crane driver who had to gain access to two those for unloading…. or did they fly in…lol? :diablo:

There were four aircraft originally – one went straight to Castle Motors, 2 to the house at St Cleer and the other to the property at Callington. This as correctly spotted has overwing tanks. All I remember seeing going past my house on lowloaders circa 1986? and from what I can remember cost £5000 each minus their engines.

One of the St Cleer ones, went to a new owner at Torpoint and now I believe is in a museum in Northern England. Should keep a copy of W&R by the side of my desk at work, shouldn’t I?

February 15, 2006 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Cornish Lightnings #1384820

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nice photos 🙂
i bet you caused a stir, circling while hanging the old box browning out of the window.cannot wait for the better ones and hearing how you buzzed the roof tops in the press 😀 😀
dave……………..

Will try again when the weather shall we say is a little warmer and the visibility a lot clearer. Photos were taken through perspex (Robin HR200) and at 1500′. Might try with a different camera and with a Cub with the door open for the next ones.

There will no buzzing of roofs of course as persons involved would like to keep hold of their licences and anyway it would take weeks for the news to trickle out of Cornwall if any wrongdoing was undertaken (we’ve only just got colour Television down here :)).

Best wishes,

Martin

February 14, 2006 at 1:56 pm in reply to: What has been your longest flight? #229242

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Not knowing anything about long haul flights (being a GA bod), does everyone sit at the screen for the duration of the flight or is one doing the shopping, walking the dog, sleeping whilst the aeroplane is flying along on auto-pilot towards its destination. If so, I could never do it, I just haven’t got the patience or the stamina.

Umm I know this may sound like I’m being funny about the subject, I’m really not, I’m just curious thats all.

Martin

February 14, 2006 at 1:40 pm in reply to: PT462 has Departed Duxford – 10 Feb 06 #1386242

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Must admit always thought the humbrol colours were pretty accurate – i beleived they were coloured from AM paint chips…am i a muppet?

TT

I agree, I’ve used the charts before on various colour schemes that I’ve worked on as the paints are quite accurate. Only problem I’ve had, was once was asked what scale the aeroplane was and when I said 1/1, I just was given some odd looks. But even so, some schemes have had to be taken from automobile paint as there has not been a close enough paint match for example Rob Davies’ G-TVIJ is painted in what is known as Fiat Bus Yellow.

As to a Muppet…..I was one once as some people would remember from my Squadron days at North Weald

Martin (nee Gonzo)

February 14, 2006 at 1:35 pm in reply to: Lendlease ownership question #1386248

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When all the ex-Italian Air Force Harvards and T-6Gs came out of Italy in 1983 (G-BKRA, CTKL etc) when sold at auction, the monies were still paid to the American Government as the airframes were all either old lend-lease (even from other operators) or from the later mutual aid.

I’ve seen T-6s in the past where the sum paid is rather nominal like $1.

Martin

February 14, 2006 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Cornish Lightnings #1386251

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Robbo

As my rotund appearance will testify I am a bit of a fan of clotted cream when in attendance in the UK but a lot of nasty people sell a charade of the real thing!

But I wouldn’t build a lightning out of it ? Confused
Kindest regards
John P
Off to a home for the recently bewildered!!

I must be the only person here that isnt keen on clotted cream and I know what you mean about imitations. With the real mccoy its hard to shake off your spoon. In the Summer when the emmets (visitors) are here, you can even get single (runny) cream instead of the proper variant. And dont get me started on the subject of pasties, Ginsters is definately not the taste of Cornwall 🙂

You know you can get cream sent to you in the post 🙂

Best wishes to all,

Martin

Thanks Ollie for making me smile. The Castle Air one is about four miles from my house, so I’ll try and pop along one evening to take a closer photo.

February 13, 2006 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Cornish Lightnings #1387078

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The first one is in the grounds of a house near Callington, the second at St Cleer and the third at the Castle Motors garage at Trebrownbridge.

Martin

February 9, 2006 at 1:04 pm in reply to: What has been your longest flight? #229356

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Liverpool to Exeter in a Yak52 without the aid of a GPS or an auto-pilot 🙂

February 9, 2006 at 12:43 pm in reply to: What do you all Fly? #408403

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G-AMMS probably one of the more famous Austers (was used at Farnborough in ’52 and ’53) is currently on loan from its Eggesford base at Leicester as we speak. Mr Langham is due a flight in her in the near furture (hopefully).

Martin

February 9, 2006 at 12:32 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain DVD #1392792

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It may have been mentioned before (and I apologise if it has) but last year on the History Channel was a 3 part series on the B0fB that consisted entirely of out-takes from the film. I failed to video it of course, but have now managed to obtain a DVD set of the above. Its been reviewed in some of the leading magazines and the film used IMHO is better than what we saw in the released version. Lots more Buchon and Hurricane footage for example. Mine came courtesy of Play.com.

February 7, 2006 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Grob 115 #229459

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There is one available for FS2002 but I don’t know if it would work in FS2004

Thats the same one that I found. Built by Dave Garwood, its available from Avsim.

Martin

February 6, 2006 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Grob 115 #229470

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I remember seeing one before…..somewhere. Think might have been on the cover disk of PC Pilot. Will take a look at home tonight and report back.

Martin

February 6, 2006 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Your Best ever flight #544089

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Favourite flight has to be my first Harvard flight on the 11 July 1987 from Dunkeswell in Devon in G-CTKL. Always thought that would be the end of it, but now have 35 hours in them.

Other less favourites include Mustang G-SUSY and Avenger N3966A from North Weald, Provost G-BLIW, Staggerwing G-BRVE and 2 hours in the back of a T-28B at Oshkosh in 98 in formation with 8 others.

Martin

February 5, 2006 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Spitfire in Land Girls #1399687

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Dave,

I’ve PM’d you and will try and find out as much as I can. Have already sent out a few emails tonight (to those who know that sort of thing) and will report back.

Martin

February 5, 2006 at 7:48 pm in reply to: Spitfire in Land Girls #1399850

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Really…….? 😮

Do tell more…. !!

Thats all I know……have been over it a few times now. Will try and take a camera next time. Markings are still quite visible on the wings – its just not the sort of thing that you expect to find in Darkest Devon! 🙂

Martin
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