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  • in reply to: Spit down at Coningsby, looks real bad #728758
    Sabrejet
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    As mentioned above, the BBMF Lancaster is confirmed for the RIAT flying display. 

    in reply to: Spit down at Coningsby, looks real bad #728803
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    Doesn’t seem to be anything official that I’ve seen.

    Sabrejet
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    Hard to believe that anyone really thinks Guy Martin did anything but bring his charm to the subject, as he did for the Spitfire replica programme. So what? We’re not really that naive are we? If it had been presented by Dan Snow, would we have thought the same?

    in reply to: WW2 aircraft panel? identification needed: #729427
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    Intriguing! A part that size will definitely have stamped part numbers, inspection stamps and probably inked numbering too. Needs a good clean and examination! For me it looks more 30s/40s than later than that.

    in reply to: ssssh in fifty years time……… #729442
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    In fifty years’ time people will still be posting the same tired old stuff. 

    in reply to: Sywell 2024 Airshow #734419
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    My brother went and was suitably impressed; he’s been going to airshows since the 1960s so that’s quite a statement. Let’s hope for more of the same: the mention of “quality food outlets” pricked up my ears too. 

    in reply to: TIGHAR says:- Send money so we can raise money #737456
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    “By: J Boyle – 29th May 2024 at 07:10  – Edited 29th May 2024 at 17:36

    At the risk of sounding like a cynic, anyone use amused that they are looking in a pond?

    Sounds like a good place to look when you don’t want a rapid, easy or inexpensive outcome.

    By their definition, ponds are small, so the chance of an aircraft just happening to hit one raise my suspicions. They’d have to have awfully bad luck for the aircraft to end up in a pond as well as.the difficulties of finding it in the first place.”

    In Newfoundland, lakes are often called ‘ponds’. The one next to Gander airport is pretty big and I doubt it’s the largest.

     

    Sabrejet
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    I smell BS. I do feel sorry for the show organizers and hope they can find a venue that won’t be prone to similar “admin errors” (or whatever the truth really is).

    in reply to: TIGHAR says:- Send money so we can raise money #738230
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    How is this individual not serving time by now?

    in reply to: Tornado's stunning 50 year scheme #740370
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    Agreed: stunning, imaginative and the complete opposite of those corporate RAF efforts.

    in reply to: For TIGHAR, the most important thing is – the movie! #740609
    Sabrejet
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    Gillespie sounds like a pompous ass. 

    in reply to: Which archives have you… #740870
    Sabrejet
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    Which archives have you tried?

    in reply to: DoRIS at the RAF Museum… #740881
    Sabrejet
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    DoRIS at the RAF Museum would be a start; IWM photo archive another. You said, ” it’s not been without effort”, so I assume you’ve visited other photo archives?

     

    Googling will only render a limited amount: proper research involves legwork (as in, getting out and doing it old school). The RAF Museum archives in particular are well worth a visit and the staff are very helpful.

    in reply to: Where have you looked? #740885
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    Where have you looked?

    in reply to: BOEING B-47 JATO/RATO #740993
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    JATO F-84F ops from Manston required the bottles to be dropped in the Channel.

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