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August 24, 2004 at 9:10 am in reply to: Happy Birthday Herk…. #1607259

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I still don’t understand why even though the RAF has scrapped some, not one is being preserved in this country. 🙁
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August 23, 2004 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Oshkosh miscellany #1608066

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Excellent photos Papa Lima. didn’t get your beard singed in that bombing run did you. 😀
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August 23, 2004 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Florida's Warbird damage #1608299

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Warbird Aventures have put up details and photos of the damage at:- http://www.warbirdadventures.com/page2.html
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August 23, 2004 at 1:47 pm in reply to: HAC Pilots – very, very close formation.. #1608436

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They must have been shifting! Your photo is a little blured. 😮
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August 23, 2004 at 1:34 pm in reply to: British can't tell Hollywood from history #1608440

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Actually Lord Howard lead the fleet. Sir Francis Drake was one of his commanders, another was Hawkins :rolleyes:
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August 22, 2004 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Jeff Hawke #1609551

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[QUOTE=mmitch]Didn’t he do an airshow ‘act with a Ju52? It had a gunner in an open position on the top of the fuselage who blazed away at an attacking fighter. I remember it at an early ‘Fighter Meet’
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From Mike J
Indeed he did, mmitch. I believe that it is now displayed in a German museum after its flying career was cut short after coming to grief whilst crew training for the Lufthansa example, IIRC.

Belated thanks for that. I found some packets of unmarked photos in the bottom of a drawer and there was this among them. Excuse the poor quality. 😮
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August 22, 2004 at 10:14 am in reply to: Wattisham 1990 – F-4 heaven #1609880

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Coincidently I was reading the ‘Wattisham Chronicles’ on airscene yesterday. There are quite a few photos and pages of memories from the Phantom days. See:- http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/wattisham/partfive/partfive.htm
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August 19, 2004 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Merlin engine rumour #1613743

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This was a long time legend about the site at Langley in Berkshire, near the M4. There was the factory building Hurricanes etc. At the end of the war it was demolished and a different factory built on the site which was used by Ford’s to build trucks. There were stories of hundreds of Merlins in their crates in the foundations. I remember hearing this story in the 1960s while working in the area. I think the Ford factory was demolished in recent years but I didn’t see anything about the discovery of such a gold mine :rolleyes:
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August 19, 2004 at 10:37 am in reply to: Reds Interrupted #436313

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The ‘Safety Matters’ column in ‘Pilot’ reports an incident at Duxford. When the hard runway was closed and NOTAMed as such, a aircraft landed on it among the cones and taxied in with some rope trailing from its wings. 😮
The pilot had been briefed when asking for PPR that only the grass was in use….
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August 18, 2004 at 7:23 pm in reply to: 18th August 1940 We Remember #1615156

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Evening bump.

August 18, 2004 at 9:06 am in reply to: Jeff Hawke #1616413

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Didn’t he do an airshow ‘act with a Ju52? It had a gunner in an open position on the top of the fuselage who blazed away at an attacking fighter. I remember it at an early ‘Fighter Meet’
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August 17, 2004 at 9:19 am in reply to: 617 Squadron P51 Mustang #1788543

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In ‘Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz’ by Alan Cooper there is a list of aircraft operated by 617.
It lists one Mustang. HB937 code letter, N. Sailed on the SS Brady to the UK 18/5/44. Delivered to 617 sqn 25/6/44. transfered to 541 sqn 14/5/45. scrapped 14/3/1947.
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August 16, 2004 at 6:51 pm in reply to: BBMF Chipmunk's #1789011

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Details and a small photo on their site at:- http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/othertypes.html
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August 16, 2004 at 9:59 am in reply to: Reds Interrupted #436337

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As a non pilot ‘enthusiast’ I have often used the NOTAMS etc as as an extra info source for fly ins, airshows etc. I do think that the web access is more complicated than it used to be. Large airshows like RIAT, Farnborough and the 3 day ‘Airborne’ at Eastbourne are (or should be) more widely known and even if a pilot doesn’t check the NOTAMS he or she should at least be aware that one is taking place. Perhaps there is an idea that airfields around the zone issue a reminder to pilots likely to be heading it that direction?
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August 15, 2004 at 10:04 am in reply to: Shaffen/Diest Oldtimer Fly-inn pics #1790336

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Nice shots Steiglitz, is the ANT very noisy? The passengers have got the pilots (and the cockpit) between them and that big radial!
Any Stampe(s) at a Belgian flyin? 🙂
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