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June 6, 2008 at 9:19 pm in reply to: FAA Museum – very impressed. #1239267

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i hadnt noticed before i had to take my daughter and see how she was interested in the interactive elements. before then I was happy to read the display items on each airacraft and tell myself I already knew enough to just wander round and look at the airframes.

now I have a different perspective. I can see that to the kids, the mockups, the characters/figures and dioramas must really make a difference – when I got to the end i revisdted the first world war bit to try and get a bit of perspective from those displays.

I also really liked that you could walk up and around the aircraft, no ropes, no barriers.. That has to be the best thing for me (though its too tempting to jump up on a wing, climb in and make ‘dakka dakka’ noises.

June 6, 2008 at 9:09 pm in reply to: Sea Fury T20 VZ345 For sale by Tender #1239279

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i spotted it had a £90000 reserve which I thought a bit strong considering what you can get for $ from courtesy. but hey, what do i know.

December 30, 2007 at 12:17 am in reply to: End of a Spitfire – for Mark 12 #1324583

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range targets

Youve probably all seen this a dozen times over but its new to me so i’ll post it.

Its you tube of hunters doing some target practice

check out 2:20

owch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPr6UpqgkU&feature=related

October 7, 2006 at 1:41 am in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1261428

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The Herks didn’t bother rising to follow contours & obstacles so much as they should have done, they just ploughed on regardless, but we tended to see them sooner, and they were a little slower….

I was lucky enough to be watching the wingtip and shadow race across the ground flying through the black mountains back in 1990 in a 234Sqn hawk.
As I looked forward around the hillside appeared a bloody herk head on and my height. He didnt look like he intended to move and it took us about 10g as quick as you like to head skywards in a big loop then dive down where we left off.

June 7, 2006 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Paphos Shacks's to be destroyed?(2015 UPDATE) #1253921

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‘not viable’

we need a british ‘kee bird’ team to trot down, juice em up and fly them home

March 26, 2006 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Spitfire PR.XIX G-RRGN/PS853 #1337354

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Hiya

Having never been to Leuchars and only ever seeing 1 PR spit at a jaunty angle I am 99% certain It was at Benson.

I think at the time the queens flight was there and some Met Andovers.
I remember taking a wander around and ending up near the main gate and this PR spitfire was towering above the road. It was all very impressive.

The reason I thought it might be 651 was that it had been there before
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregistry/spitfire-pm651.html
however the records seem to indicate 651 was in storage.

I doubt it was a plastic one as I also went to Church Fenton Later and they still had their real one on the gate.

confused.

— EDIT
Ive just spotted on the list RAF Benson, 1971-1988.
– Gate guard.
hehehehe I knew I was right about it..

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March 24, 2006 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Finest piston engine of WW2 era? #1338391

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Bristol Centaurus is pretty good contender and the Napier Sabre is proof of the evolution of wartime development thinking even if towards the end of the war you wernt checking your six as much as your engine instruments.

Wasnt the griffon an earlier design than the merlin? – if so, for the underdog to overtake the merlin makes it a contender? –

Ultimately if the context is ‘wartime’ engines and not just piston engines the merlin has to win doesnt it?

Having said that if the Griffon was earlier, it spawned the Merlin then Superceded it right up to the good ole shackelton. (my facts could be wrong).

My money is on the Griffon – and youve got to thank it for the way it improved the look of the spitfire, without it would we have had the distinctive look of the later mark spitfires – (and less to argue over!)

March 24, 2006 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Read this before you post #1338407

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Its just another stealth tax, putting polititians online is obviously a ruse to have many millions of people bombard them with insults so they can pocket vast fines and keep the court systems busy.

March 24, 2006 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Spitfire PR.XIX G-RRGN/PS853 #1338421

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Benson Spit

Hiya –
I cant shed any light on your question im afraid, but in a similiar vein I was at RAF Benson in the mid 80s on ATC camp and remember (I think it was Benson) there being a superb gate guardian PR XIX spitfire.

If ever a spitfire gate guardian stood out more I cant think of one better than the PR spitfire leaping up at a jaunty angle in the middle of the roundabout before the main gate.

If I won the euromillions tonight its the first thing I would buy.

March 21, 2006 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Shackleton WL756 nose section #1340632

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Yes it had its own thread but a bigot caused it to be pulled..

March 19, 2006 at 10:43 am in reply to: Scrapyard Photos; Any More? #1343105

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Walter Soplata

The ultimate scrapyard thread deserves to be capped with mention of Walter Soplata.

Look up his story..

http://s96920072.onlinehome.us/Fea1/101-200/Fea182_Walters-Farm_Williams/part1/Fea182.htm

March 17, 2006 at 9:51 am in reply to: Cowboys & Indians- that Banana Spitfire #1344910

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I think it would have been better if it had been left in bits instead of badly mocked up. As it is you cannot see what is original and what isnt (bar the obvious) so their efforts obviously centered on they making it look like it was a complete genuine aircraft.And that is where the problem lies, there efforts center on making it look ‘great’ when it so obviously isnt and didnt need to be.

Personally I think it would have been far more reflective of that spitfire’s story to simply host/preserve the dried out remains as found.I think the story of finding it, or how it got to its final place and its active life is far more informative/unique than to have yet another spitfire to gaze at.

Sure at some point in the future someone will probably get hold of it, junk the junk, junk the original bits and build an entirely new one, and that is probably no better.

Q: Do all the bits that all the resto shops junk when they ‘restore’ an aircraft go in the scrap bin or back on museum aircraft never likely to fly again? do they exchange the next best and recycle the fleet.?

March 16, 2006 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Cowboys & Indians- that Banana Spitfire #1345359

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That Peugeot advert hit the nail on the head.
Especially the pictures of them standing proudly by – i can almost hear the music.

not knocking the warbirds of india site, that is very good.

March 10, 2006 at 10:46 am in reply to: D.H.98 Mosquito Photo's Please, Just Because I love looking at them. #1351417

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Didn’t HT-E crash at Barton – or am I confusing it with another a few years back.

March 10, 2006 at 10:43 am in reply to: DH88 Black Magic… #1351534

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It makes a better helicopter than the choppers theyve coded
such an abysmal flight model in this series – a product only made good by 3rd party support (free planes / scenery etc).

With a new version coming you just hope and pray they have ditched their flight model.

My personal favorite is the rubber rudder, you jam it in, turn the aircraft staighten the rudder our and watch as a mysterious invisible rubber band pulls you right back to the heading you were originally on,

give me il2/Pacific fighters anyday.
(apologies for hijacking the DH88 thread, did I say ‘good effort!’)
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