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  • April 6, 2010 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Nimrod retirement today – please add pictures #1123839
    scotavia
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    I was also impressed with the in flight hot meals on Nimrod flights, in contrast my German Atlantic flight was an introduction to cold German sausages and pickled cabbage.At least I got back to Kinloss in the aircraft, a fellow air traffic assistant took a flight on a Dutch Atlantic and ended up being rescued off the wing before it sank off the Mull of Kintyre.

    April 6, 2010 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Meteor WL336 #1123850
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    Station flight RNAS Lossiemouth, it is the nearest wreck to my home in Grantown. The pilot needed only another 50 feet to be clear of the summit and then nothing between him and the coast. It was raining with cloud covering the tops, I spoke to the owners of the nearby farm, they heard the jet pass over low, then the silence, followed later by a strong smell of fuel.

    There is wreckage, but not at the summit, a six foot section of engine cowling lies in a boggy bit between the summit and farm track to the East behind the abondoned croft.

    April 6, 2010 at 4:57 pm in reply to: TV Documentary – Buccaneer #1123856
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    Was this the one featuring a deployment to Gib? I lost my video of it during a house move, superb sequence set to the music of Van gelis ( the Buccs in flight, not my house move)

    April 5, 2010 at 10:49 am in reply to: Another RAFM Job #1125330
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    oops sorry Mauld

    April 5, 2010 at 12:40 am in reply to: 1417 FLT #1125521
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    Some interesting pics of 1417 flight Harriers in the hides when you use” Belize harrier” as a search term in google images. Also sharkmouth harrier in Belize before the flight formed.

    April 2, 2010 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Another RAFM Job #1127425
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    see thread started 3 march
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98393&highlight=raf+museum+director

    April 2, 2010 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Help me plan a trip #1127433
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    There are sections of Whitley at MAM so thats in the time scale emntioned,however I second the comment about the members of staff, they were brilliant and I learned a lot from them, they are true enthusiasts with a depth of knowledge not often found.

    April 2, 2010 at 1:27 pm in reply to: SWWAPS, Lasham #1127887
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    here is the old 2004 thread with comments about the Drover
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-22295.html

    Seems it never flew after being shipped in via Liverpool and then being stored at Blackpool Squires Gate.

    April 2, 2010 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Mystery Spitfire location #1127901
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    I seem to recall that Castle Bromwich was subject of a big camo scheme to appear as housing which would therefore not math the circular camo on the pic?

    April 1, 2010 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Mystery Spitfire location #1128643
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    Ok here goes (ensures parachute on very tight , hand on ripcord ,leaps..)

    Standard Ministry of Aircraft production building, early style camo which was left untouched, I reckon it is South Marston near Swindon, originally a Philips and Powis operation, later Vickers and certainly in use post war.

    LA226 now stored at Cosford was a gate guard here.

    April 1, 2010 at 9:59 am in reply to: Mystery Spitfire location #1129562
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    Not sure of the location, but a lot of places were camo covered in the uk in WW2 so Uk is best bet.
    And the Spitfire in question has the wrong serial, it is part of a Black Out Block used for securuty reasons and therefore was never issued.

    April 1, 2010 at 12:10 am in reply to: Views of Swinderby #1129887
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    I was TG 9 AATC, 1973 Shawbury.
    I do recall the bedpacks fiascos, people sleeping on the floor to avoid remaking them, and the night we carried a drunk recruit into the drying room , so that if he was sick it would not ruin our floor before the inspection. He awoke in the night, on a dark cold blanket and thought he was in the gaurdroom cell block !

    March 31, 2010 at 11:58 pm in reply to: SWWAPS, Lasham #1129908
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    History from CNAPG archive…..

    19? The aircraft was registered as VH-EAZ.

    19? The aircraft was registered as VH-EAS.

    19? The aircraft was painted up as VH-FDT.

    15Dec1961 The aircraft was registered as G-APXX.

    to Air Navigation and Trading Co. Ltd.Blackpool

    May1967 The aircraft was placed on display at the Southend Museum in the UK.

    26Nov1973 The registration G-APXX was finally cancelled.

    1983 The aircraft was acquired by Doug Arnold.

    ? The aircraft was acquired by the Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society at Lasham, UK. 1996.

    March 30, 2010 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Views of Swinderby #1131786
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    August 1972,seem to recall a Mosquito hidden away.Long runs around the airfield.

    March 30, 2010 at 2:25 pm in reply to: photo of the day #573824
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    It is reported as a common sight, if you wait at this location with a long lens to get the compression effect ,so it is not a danger, just a result of the viewpoint and lens.

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