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  • January 15, 2011 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Licence built Miles Aircraft #1156340
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    A new one on me..just by chance I stumbled on this on ebay, item number 330517975916 sorry I’m too thick to put in a link!

    Perhaps the brochure that you already have?

    January 13, 2011 at 10:05 pm in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1088157
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    ..A Leonides up front I believe, heres a pair of ’em…JF Arlines Twin Pin at Portsmouth back in the 1970s.

    January 9, 2011 at 10:18 pm in reply to: "Foo Fighters" #1091090
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    I saw them at the Isle of Wight festival a few years back..didnt think they were all that good!

    January 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Tony Iveson on Desert Island Discs #1092071
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    …also on the I Player is the programme featuring Torquil Norman, (brother of Desmond Norman / BN etc). Some interesting aviation memories amongst it.

    Both can be down-loaded to play on your gramophone on all accounts!

    January 5, 2011 at 12:13 am in reply to: British Honduras Buccaneers #1097237
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    Have just finished reading the excellent Phonenix Squadron by Rowland White that tells the tale of the misson.
    The two 809 Buccs that flew the mission carried the nose code’s 021 and 030 not sure of the actual serials. ( one of them possibly XN977).

    January 4, 2011 at 9:14 pm in reply to: Back Garden Spitfire #1097532
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    …..A vintage newspaper clipping from 1969

    December 22, 2010 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Dig 1940 #1107570
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    Super stuff, anyone know where the colour footage was shot?..Also is that an A.W. Ensign behind the Hurricanes??

    December 9, 2010 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Spitfire stops play – just not cricket! #1121451
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    Obviously age hardening of the aluminum, assuming you hit it at 50-70mph and between the nose ribs. 🙂

    Mark

    The test was carried out by an airframe technician and part time test -cricketer, who was heard to say.. ‘Come on over if you think your hard enough…to dent a Spit L/E with a stump’!

    December 9, 2010 at 6:23 pm in reply to: Spitfire stops play – just not cricket! #1121608
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    Just in the results from scientific testing at a secret research facility ‘somewhere in the south of England’…This involved a wing from said species of aircraft and a shovel handle of a similar diameter to that of a cricket stump.

    The test would tend to support the sceptics, with just scuffing to the paint work. Alas the shovel came off second best!

    November 26, 2010 at 6:57 am in reply to: Ten Ton 1931 British monoplane Flying Boat #1134821
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    ..Blackburn Sydney perhaps

    November 25, 2010 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Bowden Cable #1134917
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    Many thanks to all for the input, have tried the push / motor bike route, alas the small size is proving rather elusive.

    Will certainly give the guys at Cable-Tec a try.

    Thanks again, Chumpy.

    November 20, 2010 at 9:11 am in reply to: Spitfire stops play – just not cricket! #1141936
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    I also take the stump marks with a pinch of salt, the top and bottom L/E skins on the Spitfire wing are 14 swg (.080″) thick, with a similar thickness butt strap behind.
    This makes for a extremely rigid bit of structure, no way could you put such well defined dents into them. Unless of course they were playing ‘extreme’ cricket, this employs stumps made from scaffold tube set in concrete!

    November 8, 2010 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Transport to Legends #1156069
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    Ask Oz to smuggle out one of the infamous Red Lion mixed grills….will keep you going till lunch time!

    November 4, 2010 at 9:43 pm in reply to: Spitfire stowage box ID #1088407
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    Well done vacb!

    What a splendid title, only the Brits would fit a ‘Ditty Box’, have seen it mentioned in parts books before. Looks to be the Spit version of a glove-comparment, wonder what they stashed in there?

    If it’s anything like one in my car it’s full up with knackered cassettes, old tax discs, pens that dont work, tattered A-Z etc etc!

    Many thanks, Chumpy.

    November 3, 2010 at 10:14 am in reply to: 75th Anniversary of the first flight of the Hurricane #1089294
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    …Should that not be George BULMAN!

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