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  • in reply to: Spifire Mk 22 Empennage #812404
    steve611
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    And further to my last question it has often been said that something is worth what someone is willing to pay on the day that it is offered for sale. It doesn’t have to make sense. And what it was worth last month or next month doesn’t matter either.

    To quote Mark12 “Disproportionate, but that was market at the time.” Twas always thus. It didn’t seem sensible to me and probably wasn’t then. I have to assume that back in the day a complete late Griffon Spit was worth a lot but an incomplete one wasn’t for some reason. Maybe the expertise for reconstructing a new set of tail feathers for a late Spit wasn’t there then? I don’t know. It was a long time back.

    in reply to: Hurricanes in RUSSIA – #812739
    steve611
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    A good friend in a rarely garrulous mood said that he flew Hurricanes over Stalingrad. I tried to get more but the shutters came down.

    in reply to: Spifire Mk 22 Empennage #812902
    steve611
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    Mark
    One thing puzzled me from the original run of this thread- what is so special about the Mk 22 empennage that its loss reduces the value of the project by 50%?
    Steve

    in reply to: Lancaster-reunion-of-giants Freeview Sunday 1010 pm #815020
    steve611
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    Dear Scotavia

    Thankyou for posting. Unfortunately there were a couple of problems.
    1. I only read your post the day after.
    2. You never actually said where it was being shown. One has to assume one of the channels on Freeview, but if you want to try and chase it down the next day (or even on the day) you have given me ****** all in the way of hints.
    Rule number one- if you want to send someone in a direction then please give them enough informatiion to go there.
    Hugs and kisses
    Pissed off Steve

    Hey! I didn’t realise that this forum had an unacceptable word autoedit. Apparently bu(gg)er isn’t acceptable. ****** that.

    PS I didn’t actually ask- you never did say what channel it was broadcast on!.

    in reply to: Seen today- odd looking aircraft #820393
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    Thanks everyone. I will go with David Thompsons C-FARA. It definitely was’t a Bronco. Solid fuselage but with a horizontal stabiliser with a fin on each end. For a giggle, the local rag (the gazette) reported that the star of the event was the BBMF with the lancaster flanked by a spitfire and a hurricane. Bless.

    in reply to: Seen today- odd looking aircraft #821015
    steve611
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    Thankyou for that. Greatly appreciated.

    I didn’t think ANYTHING would have been flying yesterday between some really nasty thunderstorms.

    in reply to: Better News Of Maurice Hammond #839387
    steve611
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    As a retired doctor (no longer a pilot, and spitfire enthusiast who is acutely aware of the dangers of smashing a Merlin up front into the ground) who has dealt with lots of casualties, a few aircraft crash victims (including military) and more burned folk than I care to remember the “further update” is massively better than I expected. He survived a fatal crash with burning petrol. I am amazed that he is as good as he is. He will view it differently.

    steve611
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    She is booked for Teesside on May 28.

    in reply to: A curious German weapon #885647
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    He (I assume he, although I have nothing to base this on) isn’t ours (unless you consider “ours” to include the other 43 sites at least that he posts exactly the same stuff on), or for that matter curious. Brazilian probably, although he often pretends otherwise. At least this time he states his subject clearly so you can find all of the pictures for yourself from the original sites he uses.

    in reply to: Spotted this online #897562
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    The War against Germany and Italy, Center for Military History 1988 (originally 1951). 478 Pages of download. Looks potentially interesting.

    “This volume, compiled by Lt. Col. John C. Hatlem, USAF,
    and Capt. Kenneth E. Hunter, with the assistance of Miss
    Margaret E. Tackley, and edited by W. Brooks Phillips and Miss
    Mary Ann Bacon, deals with the Mediterranean Theater of
    Operations and the Middle East. It is divided into five sections:
    (1) North Africa and the Middle East; (2) Sicily, Corsica, and
    Sardinia; (3) Italy: 9 September 1943–4 June 1944; (4) Southern
    France; and (5) Italy: 5 June 1944–2 May 1945. Each section is
    arranged in chronological order. The written text has been kept
    to a minimum. Each section is preceded by a brief introduction
    recounting the major events set down in detail in the individual
    narrative volumes of UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD
    WAR II. The appendices give information as to the
    abbreviations used and the sources of the photographs”

    in reply to: Any Salvagable Wreck's Left In The UK's Lake's? #898215
    steve611
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    There may (or may not) be a float-equipped Spitfire somewhere in the Lake District.

    in reply to: Falkland Islands Spitfires #913807
    steve611
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    X4620 delivered to 611 Squadron at RAF Digby on 7th November 1940 by a ferry pilot. If you need further detail of her activity with 611 you can have it.

    in reply to: The japanese sword jet #844020
    steve611
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    Last time I looked I stopped at 42. Under a variety of names and apparent places of origin.

    in reply to: Eric Brown, R.I.P. #844036
    steve611
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    “As it remarks ‘What do you use for a flypast?'”

    There wouldn’t be room for the clouds if an appropriate collection was established.

    in reply to: Is there not something fundementally wrong with this? #847786
    steve611
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    “Wasn’t the original forum thread taken down at the request of a third party? “

    If it is the thread I remember, that is what I was told- apparently a person or persons at that time unknown got a bit huffy.

    The SHT site offers that the replica is a Mk Vb similar to that owned by the Spitfire Society. Since it is cast from it it really ought to be.

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