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  • March 6, 2013 at 8:40 am in reply to: Status of L-188 G-LOFC #517777
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    Crikey, our cup runneth over, now LOFE is here.

    For those with more general spotting interests, there seem to be about four visiting aircraft at the south side terminal this morning. It is rare to see so many at one time. Nothing as interesting as an Electra though.

    March 4, 2013 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Airbase Museum moving to Newquay:BBC #975429
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    G-AMRA just came back to Coventry.

    March 4, 2013 at 3:37 pm in reply to: Airbase Museum moving to Newquay:BBC #975553
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    Dakota G-AMRA just departed.

    Anson WD413 is outside but cowls off so not looking likely to depart immediately.

    March 4, 2013 at 11:59 am in reply to: Airbase Museum moving to Newquay:BBC #975828
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    It’s all happening at Coventry today 🙂

    Jet Provost XM424 has just taken off and done what looked like a goodbye fly past.

    Dakota G-AMRA and the Prentice have both done engine runs.

    February 26, 2013 at 10:05 am in reply to: Status of L-188 G-LOFC #518568
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    Sorry, I’m not likely to make it to my office at Coventry this week to check.

    February 23, 2013 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Montrose air station #985735
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    So which counts as the oldest still in military use? Given the above, does something on Salisbury Plain count (Middle Wallop? Boscombe Down?) or could it be Halton which also started in 1913?

    Someone on Flyer is suggesting that Farnborough also goes back to 1912 as a military station (earlier with lighter-than-air?).

    February 22, 2013 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Status of L-188 G-LOFC #518998
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    er, I can be barely remember what happened today 🙂

    Looking at my post, I suspect it was 1200ish.

    February 22, 2013 at 8:19 am in reply to: Status of L-188 G-LOFC #519009
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    LOFC is out on the airfield doing engine runs (as far as I could tell, they have spent these few days working on the propellor of the port innner). If it departs today, the wind is such that it will be using runway 05.

    February 20, 2013 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Status of L-188 G-LOFC #519201
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    Tell me if this is boring and I’ll stop but I think some of you photography enthusiasts want to be kept in touch. Anyway, LOFC has just arrived at Coventry and headed for the hangar.

    February 20, 2013 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Douglas DC-6 G-APSA To Fly Again #989629
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    In the 17 months I have worked at Coventry, I haven’t seen it go indoors.

    February 20, 2013 at 10:39 am in reply to: Douglas DC-6 G-APSA To Fly Again #989752
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    In the last couple of weeks, I noticed some passenger seats either going on or coming off the aircraft.

    Today, two people are out in very unpleasant weather conditions working on (or at least cleaning) the outside.

    February 19, 2013 at 2:50 pm in reply to: Spitfire took off with WAAF on tail? #990685
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    Hmm, which do I take most seriously, GBoR or conspiracy theories in the Daily Wail?

    February 19, 2013 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Spitfire took off with WAAF on tail? #990809
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    Possibly even more extreme than the Lancaster crew-man who fell ‘chuteless from a great height into a snow drift (17,000’ Sgt Nicholas Alkemede IIRC correctly from a Victor comic cover story in the 1970s), there was a (again IIRC) Yugoslavian cabin attendant who survived a much longer fall when the airliner she was in disintegrated in the cruise.

    February 12, 2013 at 11:58 am in reply to: Grumman Avenger with two highball bombs #1000201
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    No mention of Avenger in Des Curtis’ Most Secret Squadron about the Highball Mosquito (well not from a quick scan of the index anyway).

    So that awful film “Mosquto Squadron” which combined the truth of The Dambusters and Operation Jericho with the fiction of 633 Squadron to have Mosquitos breaking prison walls with land bouncing bombs had a small cell of truth in it, amazing.

    February 1, 2013 at 10:56 am in reply to: Sea Devon C20 ID #1014514
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    The above mentioned XK895, somewhat derelict at Coventry but still registed G-SDEV, is as I type being dismantled. No idea why but possibly it is going to Airbase Newquay (St Mawgan).

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