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  • March 12, 2008 at 1:13 pm in reply to: What on Earth is This? #1242345
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    Google Maps used to feature a red/white/blue Bucaneer fuselage on the SE side of the island but that has gone now from their satellite picture.

    March 10, 2008 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Edgely Optica #1244234
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    Bit of a supposition here but how long did people spend on pages that weren’t loading? I just loaded the site up on a laptop thats never had it loaded on before and it all worked perfectly, albeit slowly. On a 36kbps (yes i’m in the dark ages of modems still) modem it took several minutes to load each page. My thought is that people aren’t waiting for stuff to download, the site tracker shows many people spending only 5secs on a page, this might have something to do with it. As for the site not working on Firefox etc I do have a hunch…….I built the site on Microsoft Word 2003 which may be deliberately anoying to users of non-microsoft products.

    I’m sorry I cant be more helpful but I gotta go to bed (school tomorrow) as its 11pm now……

    Works ok for me.

    March 8, 2008 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Russians populations thought on their military #2488097
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    I believe very little of what I see on television and even less what I read in the newspapers. They all have some kind of political agenda to push.

    Yes, there are conscripts in the Russian military and sadly a lot of them get used effectively as cannon fodder in conflicts such as Chechnya and Afghanistan.

    But do you think really it is conscripts that are flying aircraft such as the Su-27 and MiG-29?

    March 6, 2008 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Russians populations thought on their military #2489615
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    I was once given a book on the Su-27 (I think one of the Polygon series) by a Russian woman I knew who treated it as if it was a real military secret. There again I did a have a Lt Col in the KGB make a speech at my wedding.

    March 4, 2008 at 11:40 pm in reply to: C-130 Production #2490700
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    Like this page here for example?

    http://www.uswarplanes.net/c130.html

    or even this page here…

    http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/articles/c130inv.htm

    March 4, 2008 at 11:34 pm in reply to: Phantom Phantoms ? #1248437
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    The first one is a Lightning

    March 1, 2008 at 1:20 pm in reply to: General Discussion #346655
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    After many years (the demise of the Deltics on mainline work was pretty much the end of train spotting for me) I’ve started writing down train numbers again and I find that, despite the constant stream of EWS and Freighliner Class 66 sheds, Eastleigh station is a good place to see a lot of freight trains in the South.

    In the old days it was anywhere on the ECML for me, especially the Doncaster area.

    March 1, 2008 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Favourite Train Spotting Places #1914418
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    After many years (the demise of the Deltics on mainline work was pretty much the end of train spotting for me) I’ve started writing down train numbers again and I find that, despite the constant stream of EWS and Freighliner Class 66 sheds, Eastleigh station is a good place to see a lot of freight trains in the South.

    In the old days it was anywhere on the ECML for me, especially the Doncaster area.

    February 29, 2008 at 3:42 pm in reply to: Scrapyard Photos; Any More? #1252640
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    Are these ex the woods at La Ferte Alais? I think we saw one coded RC in the trees back in 1975. But I may be wrong.

    February 25, 2008 at 1:57 pm in reply to: Does Tu-95 noise have any tactical disadvantages? #2495627
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    I have a friend who is a loadmaster on a Chinook and he suffers from hearing problems. He says its the gearbox noise that did the damage.

    I have heard Bears flying at Zhukovsky and they are not excessively loud – just distinctive. I wonder what the Moscow – Havana Tu-114 flight was like for self loading freight in the days before noise cancelling devices.

    February 23, 2008 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Swissair 146 Bumpy Landing #550600
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    I presume that this wasn’t the one that came to grief at LCY recently?

    February 23, 2008 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Req for the oldest B707 still flying #550601
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    Not quite correct Steve, VH-XBA, c/n 17696 is relegated by 4X-JYW, c/n 17617 which is in the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim.

    Both of which are presumably younger than the dash 80 prototype…

    February 22, 2008 at 11:52 am in reply to: Beagle 206S-2 G-ATZR(merged) #1260804
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    I love the 206 and have many happy memories as a junior spotter at Edinburgh in 1969 listening to G-ATDD and G-ASOF on my VHF radio calling OF/DD beacon outbound. It’s nice to see a picture of a virtually new airframe on delivery.

    February 22, 2008 at 11:07 am in reply to: RNHF website update – 20 February 2008 #1260830
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    Sea Fury sale?

    Discussed already in this thread

    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=78566

    February 21, 2008 at 11:04 am in reply to: Aircraft on sticks #1262138
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    what is even better is the link to their position on Google maps for the Moscow ones..

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