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  • in reply to: Kermit Weeks visits the Flying Heritage Museum #796417
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    Part 2 now posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viT0Lb6asis&t=11s
    Stuka and Me262 towards the end. Stuka due to fly next year!
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    in reply to: Electrically Heated Flying Clothing #819053
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    Certainly RAF air gunners wore electrically heated suits. A late workmate had one fail on him while in the tail turret of a Lanc!
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    in reply to: Feeling flush? fancy a nice little runabout? #819232
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    After sales service reliable….?
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    in reply to: Daks over Duxford 4-5th June… #820886
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    I wonder what the route will be? I suppose passing over the South East (East of London} is unlikely?
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    in reply to: Site issues #821605
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    I tried several times last week to make a new post but that button didn’t work. It did after a few days.
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    in reply to: Mikey McBryan restores a DC3 for June Anniversary #826593
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    Some parts store there. B17 parts too…..
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    in reply to: Help with fairey aircraft co. presentation lighter (photos) #828241
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    Rate fixers in industry negotiated piecework rates with the workers (later the unions)
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    in reply to: Newark Air Museum ~ 22Dec18 #828480
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    When I visited Metheringham They were restoring a Dakota that had been part of the Assault Glider project
    . Their plan is to build a hangar hopefully big enough to take the glider too. Then I saw the Puma nose against the Chinook at a distance and the illusion suggested a Horsa fuselage!
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    in reply to: Newark Air Museum ~ 22Dec18 #828638
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    Excellent museum! Managed to get there in September for the first visit in 4 years. Always there are improvements. A trick of the eye from a distance made the helio fuselages look like that of the Horsa glider. But possibly that could end up at Metheringham?
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    in reply to: Duxford Diary 2018 #829723
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    Yes thanks for all the photos and news this year from all the regulars. Best wishes and safe flying for all at Duxford in 2019.
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    in reply to: Concord G-BOAB Renewed. #767448
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    There was a ‘plan’ to put AB on a platform near the London Eye but like others it seems to have faded. It would need gutting and a new interior. Delta Golf at Brooklands was fitted out with interiors from BAs stores at LHR. I doubt if there would be much left now. AB had magazines etc piled up in parts of it to keep the C of G about right. 🙁
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    in reply to: Help Regarding RAF Chaklala #770095
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    Suggest you try on Pprune Military Aviation. There is a classic thread on ‘Gaining an RAF brevet in WW2’. Where somebody may be able to help.
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    in reply to: WW1 (?) bomb found and blown up at RAF Cranwell #771975
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    I turned off the A17 and drove through ‘the camp’ two weeks ago and it was defiantly in Lincolnshire then. :confused:
    A bit confusing for trainee navs when a journalist moves it all that way!
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    in reply to: V1 Landing Sites England, looking for resource… #772453
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    The ‘Kent Messanger’ did publish a map showing the ‘fate’ of each V1 whether in Kent or off the coast marked with a black dot. I did have one but not at home currently.
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    in reply to: A-W Meteor NF.14 WS788 Restoration Thread #795869
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    The more I see of 788’s inner structure I think that aircraft builders and RAF airframe fitters (in those days) did their apprenticeships in boiler making! Keep up the good work Blue 2 (and team) you show every week what enthusiasm cane achieve. 🙂
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