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July 6, 2011 at 9:02 am in reply to: Scrapyard Photos; Any More? #1040222

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Not a scrapyard as such, but found by my late father in the Libyan desert, in 1949, Blenheim?

June 29, 2011 at 11:43 am in reply to: A couple from Kai Tak #1053176

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No problem at all with the doctoring. Its fascinating to see how the RAF Kai Tak differed from the final configuration. Sadly, I’ve only experienced landing at the shiny new airport, although my ex (very nervous passenger) landed at Kai Tak back in the 80’s and never realised how demanding a landing it was!

Looking the orientation of the RAF runway, I assume take offs and landings were even more were even more challenging back in the day. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some photos of how the airport is now in a couple of weeks time, but knowing the usual Chinese rate of progress, no doubt its already covered with high rise appartments!

Thanks again, thats fascinating 🙂

June 29, 2011 at 6:49 am in reply to: A couple from Kai Tak #1053687

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I’m off to the east next weekend so I’ll try and get a better shot then. I’ll be interested to see how much development they’ve done on the site in the past few years.

June 28, 2011 at 1:31 pm in reply to: A couple from Kai Tak #1055334

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Kai Tak, from the air, November 2009 (sorry about the image size)

June 28, 2011 at 6:34 am in reply to: A couple from Kai Tak #1056179

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I fly to Hong Kong a few times each year and the flight path takes me directly over Kai Tak. The old airport is now a building site, but seeing it there with the runway poking out into the harbour, never ceases to amaze me. It must have been a spectacular place to live near and fly into, some of the videos of landings there on youtube are amazing.

The new airport it spacious, efficient and utterly lacking in character (but could still teach Heathrow lots of things)

I’ll try and dig out some aerial photos of how Kai Tak is now.

June 21, 2011 at 2:09 pm in reply to: A mixture on the ground and in the air #481656

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Yes I am, work in Fenny and have just bought a large Cornish Pasty from ASBO, sorry, ASDA!

June 21, 2011 at 8:54 am in reply to: A mixture on the ground and in the air #481677

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That’s a good aerial shot of Stadium:MK, ASDA and Ikea. The coastal shots are great too.

June 12, 2011 at 6:03 am in reply to: Spotted #1081006

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Its been good spotting in the Leighton Buzzard area over the past couple of days.

Thursday evening, unidentified Boeing Stearman flew low over the Grand Union canal and landed at a private airstrip, before taking off some 30 minutes later.

Saturday morning, distant Spitfire heading the general direction of Aylesbury, followed later by a Dragon Rapide. Then, in early afternoon BBMF Lanc flying low from the west and doing a couple of lowish circuits over the town – brilliant!

March 14, 2011 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Aircraft you have been on updated #493059

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From memory and probably in cronological order;-

DH Dragon Kris Air (G-ADDI)
HP Herald BMA
Airspeed Ambassador Dan-Air
Boeing 737 Britannia Airways (G-ARVL)
Bristol Britannia Monarch Airlines
Boeing 720B Monarch Airlines
BAC1-11 Court Line
Lockheed TriStar Court Line (G-BAAA)
ATL Carvair British Air Ferries (G-ASKN)
Vickers Viscount British Air Ferries
Jetstream 31 Netherlines
Douglas DC3 Air Atlantique
Boeing 727 Dan-Air
Beech King Air Grand Canyon Airlines
Airbus A300 Dan-Air / Egyptair
Boeing 757 British Airways / Air2000 / Britannia
McDonnell Douglas MD83 Scandinavian / Alitalia
Boeing 737 Lufthansa / Easyjet / Ryanair /Air Sinai
Boeing 747 British Airways / Cathay Pacific
Airbus A330 Singapore Airlines / Cathay Pacific / Dragonair
Airbus A319 Easyjet / BMI
Airbus A320 British Airways / Monarch / BMI
Airbus A321 First Choice
Airbus A340 Cathay Pacific
Boeing 777 Cathay Pacific
Airbus A380 Singapore Airlines

March 9, 2011 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing #1093109

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The previously mentioned major model / die-cast bequest has grown much bigger than anticipated and this will still start to be sold off during the Indoor Aeroboot on March 12th.

Rather than try to produce a list we’ve added some photographs into an Album on the Photo Gallery page of the website, hopefully more picture will be added before the event!

Wow, what a collection! Loving that Autair Ambassador!, G-ALZZ I think? happy days seeing that one chugging along the taxiways at Luton Airport.

February 25, 2011 at 9:11 am in reply to: Aircraft museums in Europe – Balice, Poland (2003) #523624

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brilliant stuff! thanks for sharing!

February 13, 2011 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Books – wishing to donate locally #1120813

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We at Sywell, Northampton would be more than happy to take up your kind offer if no-one else does? We have an archive we are building and always deal with donations properly with a thank you letter etc….

All the best

TT

Thanks for your kind offer, the books are yours. If you can PM me your details I will bring them up for you.

thanks again.

January 28, 2011 at 9:20 am in reply to: RAF Masirah and Aden #1141424

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Fascinated by the diagram of Masirah Airfield – used to fly there in the early ’70s.

Thank you for posting all those atmospheric photographs.

MM

I’ll scan the other side of the diagram later, it shows Masirah in more detail.

At the time by Dad was there (1948 – 1949), it was literally a handful of Officers and men, plus a few local helpers. In his album theres a press cutting describing it as one of the loneliest postings in the RAF. My Dad recently died after a long illlness but always wanted to go back to see how things had changed as he enjoyed his time there.

January 28, 2011 at 6:22 am in reply to: RAF Masirah and Aden #1141659

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More pics added

January 27, 2011 at 3:40 pm in reply to: RAF Masirah and Aden #1142278

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A few more from my Dad’s album:-

Saab Safir, SE-BNO

Loading Dakota KN323

Dakota KN323

HQ, RAF Masirah

One for Narrow Gauge fans, Locomotive used to haul fuel from jetty to the airfield

Curtiss Commando, Missionary Flights Inc

DH Dove, Iranian Oil Company

More low flying, this time P/I Stead beats up Masirah

Indian Overseas Airlines Dakota

C-54, Coastal Airlines

Indian Dakota with local helpers

Lancastrian VM701 at Castel Benito, Libya

Avro York, BOAC, G-AGOA at Castel Benito

Map of RAF Masirah

I hope you enjoy looking at these.
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