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  • in reply to: Raytheon scraps Beech Starship fleet! #402443
    mike currill
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    To PhantomII,
    The only way to make the Starship interesting is to move the canards to the back, give it a proper fin, move the wings forward and turn the engines roun the right way.

    To Moggy
    Nothing wrong with highwing rag covered Pipers that C G Taylor didn’t improve upon when he came to England

    in reply to: Raytheon scraps Beech Starship fleet! #402471
    mike currill
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    Hey Moggy sorry to get away from the topic but is it true that the Colt started as a design for a 2 seat milking stool and some fool built an aircraft around it?
    Only kidding as I know that is was the trainer version of the Tri-Pacer which I have a soft spot for as it was the first aircraft I ever flew in

    in reply to: Wishful thinking #2100052
    mike currill
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    Snotty, now we know you are being silly, everyone knows the only gun position on a Horsa glider was a ventral dustbin turret into which the gunner was inserted head first.

    How’s this for a malicious rumour. The lottery heritage fund will have a change of heart and give a grant to the Vulcan to the sky fund on the codition that it carries a bomb bay load on its first post restoration flight which is to be dropped from 20000ft over the Houses of Parliament,Tony Blair

    in reply to: To Spin…or Not to Spin #402503
    mike currill
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    My oppinion(for what it is worth) is that no aircraft should be certified for use as a trainer unless it is cleared for spinning, after all the most likely person to end up in an unintenional spin has to be a hamfisted student.
    I am also of the oppinion that spin training should never have been removed from the sylabus

    in reply to: Raytheon scraps Beech Starship fleet! #402635
    mike currill
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    Can you smelt composites?

    in reply to: Raytheon scraps Beech Starship fleet! #402640
    mike currill
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    N39TW used to operate out of Oxford Airport for Tom Walkinshaw before he changed to a Piaggio Avanti

    in reply to: historic militay bias #2101543
    mike currill
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    Vintage Light Aircraft

    I cannot think of any aviation magazine which gives a great deal of coverage to vintage light aircraft, about the best we get is the occasional article in one of the normal aviation mags.

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