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  • August 17, 2008 at 10:44 pm in reply to: Identify this fuselage… #1238523
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    Apparently, it is build number JP090, a development fuselage previously in use at Brough as part of the Typhoon fatigue test programme.

    August 15, 2008 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Underground Hangars To protect war planes #1239851
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    Proof.
    I have today found 3 examples of British types housed in an underground hangar.

    There was a Mosquito replica as well but lighting conditions were extremely poor so didn’t photograph it.

    The hangar in question..

    I’ll post some more from the same location in a new thread when I get the time.

    Did you get sweet and sour sauce with those pictures or rice or noodles?

    August 15, 2008 at 10:54 am in reply to: RAF Hercules #2489007
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    http://www.demobbed.org.uk/

    is a good place to start

    August 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Short Belfast G-BEPS #1165306
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    You should come over to the dark side (railways) there’s a guy who deals in locomotives etc and he has bought up a number of preserved engines lately and sent them for scrap. You can probably see the fur flying from where you are.

    As he said, preservation is just a step on the way to the melting pot…

    Back to the topic…

    August 14, 2008 at 12:07 pm in reply to: Air starts #518005
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    I think the OP was talking about old engines here. I remember ASUs being plugged into Aer Lingus B707s at Turnhouse back in the early 1970s but I couldn’t tell you exactly when things started to happen

    August 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm in reply to: That Question Again #518012
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    [*]Assuming you got the money, and the planes, you will need to decide on a route (-network). So now you will have to get in contact with airports and (if international) more aviation autorities.

    And before this stage you will need to do some route/market proving studies to be sure where people/cargo in your market area actually want to go to/from.

    August 13, 2008 at 8:02 pm in reply to: err, sorry? #1166915
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    True, one or the other but not both at the same time. We don’t talk about a McDonnell Douglas Boeing Phantom do we? Maybe we do…

    August 13, 2008 at 7:54 pm in reply to: err, sorry? #1166921
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    It was the Avro Hawker Siddeley bit that got me laughing

    August 12, 2008 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Who are Gloster SARO….? #1168111
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    And if you take your kids to Clarks to get new shoes they will in all probability have their feet measured in a machine with a QinetiQ label on it, which seems a bit of a sad comedown for the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment…

    August 12, 2008 at 11:44 am in reply to: Where have all the Jetstreams gone? #518799
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    Large numbers of US registered Jetstream 31 ended up at Kingman, AZ

    August 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm in reply to: What plane? #519325
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    Would you have flown Prestwick-Toronto on Pan Am?

    August 11, 2008 at 12:18 pm in reply to: The Finest Way to Market a Fighter Plane #2492027
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    start a war

    August 8, 2008 at 1:27 pm in reply to: Any Caravelles still flying? #519953
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    I see one to the right of runway 34R at Van Nuys, California.
    I wasn’t aware any were still flying, but then I don’t get out much in the world of vintage commercial aviation. 🙂
    There also seems to be a while U-2 just to the east of the aircraft.

    http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?wip=2&v=2&style=r&rtp=~&&msnurl=home.aspx?%26redirect%3dfalse&msnculture=en-US#JnE9eXAudmFuK251eXMrYWlycG9ydCU3ZXNzdC4wJTdlcGcuMSZiYj01My4wNjc2MjY2NDIzODc0JTdlLTc4LjA0Njg3NSU3ZTIzLjI0MTM0NjEwMjM4NjElN2UtMTMyLjE4NzU=

    Click on Bird’s Eye.

    Also note the A-3 Skywarriors and Hunters, too.
    Bonus points for the Pembroke/Sea Prince (which I recall seeing there in 1978).

    Is that a scale model Northrop flying wing to the rear of the hangar next to the A3s? And if so, is that another one on the other side of the runway (or could it be the same one towed across?). Oh yes, there is a U-2 there as well close to the Prince.

    August 8, 2008 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Concorde at Farnborough #1172332
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    The Tristar was there in 1972 – N305EA,
    Jim

    You are right, of course. It was an Eastern A/L one with BEA marks. I was confused because the Scramble site only has miliotary aircraft for 1972 and I can’t find my own note book.

    *goes back to sleep again*

    August 7, 2008 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Concorde at Farnborough #1172990
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    I can remember very little of Farnborough 1970 apart from sheltering in the car from the rain, and then getting out briefly for the Concorde. The weather was so bad it wasn’t visible until it was quite close to the crowd. I’m not sure if it did more than one pass – probably not. The only other aircraft I can definitely remember were a VFW-614, an Airbus A-300 and a Tristar.

    My first Farnborough and certainly not the best.

    The Tristar and A300 didn’t turn up until 1974

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