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  • March 26, 2010 at 8:43 pm in reply to: Stolen bomber crashes 1955 #1135744
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    …a couple of press clippings from the time. (PM me if you want a scan of it all, bit too big to post the lot).

    Would make for a great TV drama what with the the guys at Thorney Island blocking the runway to try to prevent him taking off. Then chasing him in another Varsity, low level over London etc.
    ‘Nightmare 200ft above City’… must all be true or they would not have printed it!

    March 12, 2010 at 8:46 pm in reply to: 60 Years Ago Today, Worlds Worst Air Crash #1150779
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    A press photo showing the aftermath after the crash, a sad affair indeed.

    March 10, 2010 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Chippe Harvard Oxford Dove formation photo #1153161
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    Thanks for the input guys, yup thats the photo in the Flight article.

    Cheers, Chumpy.

    March 5, 2010 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Miles Martinet Wartime Photographs – Can You Help Please #1158335
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    ….A couple of small snaps from the depths of the collection, Martinet Trainer and MS912..alas dates and locations unknown.

    Chumpy.

    January 1, 2010 at 7:37 pm in reply to: 1938 Folkestone Trophy Race #1094447
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    Bit more relating to Hugh Buckingham..from the 1950 Aeroplane Who’s-who directory.

    January 1, 2010 at 3:04 pm in reply to: 1938 Folkestone Trophy Race #1094577
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    I see that i’m not the only one, Chumpy. Tee hee!

    Yes I know, I’m a soft touch!…Happy new year and all that.

    December 31, 2009 at 4:51 pm in reply to: 1938 Folkestone Trophy Race #1095405
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    Dave, No prob fire away your email.

    December 31, 2009 at 9:41 am in reply to: 1938 Folkestone Trophy Race #1095873
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    According to the Putam British Racing & Record Breaking A/C volume..twas G-ADMT

    December 30, 2009 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Another 'what is it?' #1096888
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    Looking at the part number 81050-129, this is very much Vickers style… ie the first three digits refer to the aircraft type / Mk, the second two the section of the airframe ie… (***37 engine mounting). The last three the idividual part number.

    Thus 810 Viscount (800 series), 50 main landing gear…part number -129.

    Any Viscount experts out there?

    December 29, 2009 at 8:44 am in reply to: Who, What, Where, When #1098199
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    Meant to add this..not sure where the photo came from.

    December 29, 2009 at 8:40 am in reply to: Who, What, Where, When #1098202
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    The photo shows G-ALUN ‘cocooned’, rather than under construction, circa 1963.

    One of my earliest boyhood memoiries was gazing up at it…just wishing I could get inside!

    December 22, 2009 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Heston Phoenix G-AESV #1102201
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    I went out on the piste in my new salopettes..but they wouldn’t let me in.

    Bloody freezing here on the Isle of Wight also!

    December 22, 2009 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Casa 2.111 #1102205
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    The last 2.111 to actually fly in the UK would be Doug Arnold’s G-BDYA, in 1977…unless someone knows otherwise?

    Snapshot of said machine taken by me at Blackbushe in April 77.

    Chumpy

    December 22, 2009 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Wanted: BF-109 Airframe Pics and Drawings #1102341
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    Hi Tom,
    Main advantage of the 109 was it’s simple construction, as QldSpitty points out the fuselage frames are made integeral with the actual skinning, these formed up panels joined by flat sheets.

    The fuselage (from aft of the cockpit to where the fin bolts on), made in LH & RH halves, these joined top and bottom by a channel member.

    Thus it is possible to make a large chunk of aeroplane in around 40 seperate pieces. Spitty will no doubt testfy to the fact that there are about 250-300 seperate bits in a similar lump of Spitfire!

    Messerschmitt had production sussed in my opinion, had it been a commercial war we were fighting back in 1940..they would have won.

    Heres one we made earlier etc!

    Chumpy.

    December 22, 2009 at 8:20 am in reply to: Heston Phoenix G-AESV #1103143
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    Thanks for the Ski-wear info..now I can go on the pist!

    Just had a look at the CAA GINFO listing for AESV..last owner was one Robert Arthur Pilgrim. The aircraft not listed as PWFU till 14.4.59.

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