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May 29, 2006 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Tu-126 #2595664

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There was a Tu-126 dumped at Zhukovsky up until 1993 or so.

May 18, 2006 at 10:41 am in reply to: Show us those interception pictures! #2565800

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Sorry for the poor quality, but I presume that (given the way they came to me) that these were taken by F-4 pilots from Elmendorff AFB in Alaska in the early 70s

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May 16, 2006 at 10:16 pm in reply to: Cosford's F111 #1282589

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Are the Lakenheath codes on the aircraft genuine, was it ever based there.

Yes, the 48th TFW at Lakenheath had three squadrons of 111Fs for many a long moon. I think most of the LN fleet went onto Cannon AFB unlike the Heyford ones which were retired directly to AMARC.

May 13, 2006 at 9:35 pm in reply to: Mexican Navy and Su-27's #2569691

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Ok folks,

Mexico is part of North America, better it is part of Central America!
Thanks, Swerve, for showing my “political uncorrectness”! 😮 🙂

So now I will ask my question again:
Would those Su-27s be the first in service on the whole american continent?

Maybe in service yes, but they would not be the first Su-27s to be based given that two went to the US some years back and fly out of Groom Lake…

May 12, 2006 at 1:29 pm in reply to: Hurel Dubois Airliner #1289845

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Have to go to the USSR for other aircraft with this feature, although they were used for other purposes…
Bri

**warning thread drift…**

By happy coincidence I’m just back from Moscow where I viewed a fair number of the aforementioned glazed nosed An-30s at Myachkovo and Bykovo airports. The radioactive An-30 appears to have gone and they were working on the other one still in red polar colours. We saw 19 of them there and then a further three or four at Bykovo. Most east europena countries still fly them on Open-Skies mssions so they still turn up in the UK on fairly regular basis.

May 11, 2006 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Hurel Dubois Airliner #1291322

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The HD-34s used to be based with IGN at Creil outside Paris. I pitched up there in 1975, asked at the office and was shown round the hangars – I seem to remember that they still had a couple of B-17s then as well. Dunno where the photographs are though.

May 5, 2006 at 10:12 pm in reply to: a provocative thought.. #1298591

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in the picture description it said it was prolly due to the weight of the snow on the plane itself, bear in mind though that most of the planes there receive just a good paintjob, so what seems to be ok is prolly rotting inside.. just think of all the weather agents those airframes are subject to 🙁

Alex

The same could be said for a lot of museum aircraft sadly.

May 5, 2006 at 8:05 pm in reply to: a provocative thought.. #1298838

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The 109 is a replica on display at Victory Park in Moscow. The A-20 is in the Monino museum.

I’m somewhat surprised to see it in that state as it was perfectly ok the last time I saw it.

Having tried to get various aircraft out from another museum I can assure you that a) it is not an easy task b) the people tend not to have a full appreciation of the historical value of certian aircraft (I know this for fact from the aircraft I was offered) and c) whatever price you are quoted in the first place will bear no relation to what is asked for later down the line.

May 4, 2006 at 8:42 pm in reply to: BA Collection News 28-04-06 #1300812

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The FAST cockpit section wast not restored by ASI. It was restored by Neil Lomax and Kevin Bowen for owner Andrew Lee and is also worked on by Russell (cant remember his surname) at the museum who has got the electrics up and working again. ASI may have been responsible for scrapping the fuselage at Reigate, I’m not sure.

I would agree that its quite a minimalist section at Farnborough, but it is on a movable trolley-frame and doubtless was done like that to allow it to me semi-mobile. G-AWZI was already in a real state and having been partially broken up at LHR when it left to go to Reigate, was not as significant or in such good condition as this one was until it was scrapped.

Well, according to this page ASI seem to think they had something to do with “Airframe Adaptation of Trident aircraft cockpit section”

http://www.airsalvage.co.uk/portfolioview.asp?id=102

May 3, 2006 at 11:04 am in reply to: Armenian A320 down… #529371

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Very sad as I saw this just the week before last at DME

May 2, 2006 at 11:04 am in reply to: Calling Mr Flanker Man #1305005

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Ah, thanks. That’s the place alright as I recognise the building. I think they have moved the exhibits as I seem to remember that the Su-17 is perched on top of a large stand pointing upwards. I have a friend who lives not that far away so I will ask her to go ond take a look for me.

We were on a self organised tour run by my wife and a friend in Moscow for a bunch of mates in Scotland to see loads of russian airliners. We had ramp tours at DME and SVO and a tour of the repair plants at VNO and CHE and a visit to BKA and MYA. Security is very tight in Moscow and photography from inside airports terminals and the metro is strictly forbidden as we found out…

We’re going to go back in August to tie in with the alleged aerobatic airshow at Zhukovsky and we’re trying to arrange some visits to mil fields as well.

April 29, 2006 at 3:11 pm in reply to: BA Collection News 28-04-06 #1308972

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I think the minimalist cockpit section here is pretty much in line with the minimalist Trident cockpit section ASI have restored for the FAST museum at Farnborough which, to my thinking at least, does not give any real indication that it came from a Trident at all.

April 9, 2006 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Sea Furies 4 sale #1333642

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The sales inventory makes interesting reading not least for Firefly WD833 available for $99,000

April 6, 2006 at 5:25 pm in reply to: Handley Page Hermes G-ALDG #1335249

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Whilst I accept that different organisations are involved, it is a sad inditement on the state of airliner preservation in this country that whilst a wingless, wheel-less, tail-less, engineless fuselage has all this care lavished upon it (not complaining/criticising this effort in its own right), the only Trident 1 in preservation, the only passenger configured standard VC-10, and the only 707 preserved in the UK (only RR powered 707 preserved anywhere?), are effectively going to be chopped up.

Andy

Is D-ABOD B707-430 still extant at Hamburg?

March 21, 2006 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Russian stunt pilots to fly through cave in China #2564307

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This is a photo I took of 595 at MAKS 2003 – at that show it had a SINGLE Salyut AL-31F with TVC…… 😮

I think it goes like this…..

MAKS 2003, bort 595 in LII/Gromov colours in the static display has a single TVC engine.

At some point it is fitted (AFAIK) with TWO TVC engines – this is how it appears at MAKS 2005 – in the flying display.

In the meantime – another machine in ex-Test Pilots colours (Red/White/Blue) bort unknown(?) appears at MAKS 2005 in the static display – again with a single TVC engine.

What is going on ??

Ken

I have the MAKS static one as SU-27LL 598 (37820 painted on the seat side)
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