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July 28, 2003 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Any plans to fly XL426 #2100119

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How about XH558 in Red Bull colours ?…..

I’m ducking now.

July 24, 2003 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Skyraider pic. #2101647

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Lovely

July 22, 2003 at 10:59 am in reply to: TFC Hurricane IV #2102490

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Surely everyone here has been around aircraft enough and to enough airshows to know that sometimes they go unserviceable. There are too many reports in magazines & on the AAIB website where it is reported that the pilot saw excess oil or something & “Thought it would be alright for one more flight” then promptly bent it. Yes, I’ve been disappointed before by non-appearances, but I’d rather wait than have the sickening sight of something going wrong in the air.

Ah, that’s better….

July 22, 2003 at 9:00 am in reply to: Picture of the Year! #729455

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That photo’s from the BBC news website showing an ex-Air France Concorde being delivered to the Sinsheim Technical museum just south east of Heidelberg.

See http://www.technik-museum.de.

You will have to use the German menu to get all the features. For those who don’t speak german, anything with the word “bild” at the start has pictures. Click on “exponate” to get to the aircraft sections. Aircraft = “flugzeuge”.

I’ll give them a few weeks to sort it out, then go down & have a look. It’s only about an hour from me. The delivery was well planned & was all over the radio news as it blocked a fair few roads for a while. They delivered a TU 144 & B747-200 in a similar fashion a few years ago. The B747 delivery is well documented on their website with photos of the dismanntling, transport in bits, including river trip & reassembly plus mounting on top of a large frame. It looks like a bunch of ants carrying away bits of a recent kill at times. Quite impressive, well worth a look.

The museum & it’s sister site at Speyer, about 30 miles away have a reasonable selection of other a/c including 3 JU-52s & an AN- 22.

July 21, 2003 at 11:03 pm in reply to: General Discussion #407880

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I thihk he means Browning 0.50 calibre type holes…

July 21, 2003 at 11:03 pm in reply to: Getting plastered #1981205

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I thihk he means Browning 0.50 calibre type holes…

July 21, 2003 at 3:42 pm in reply to: General Discussion #408009

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How about the Shorts Seamew or the Fleet Shadower ? I can’t recall who made the Shadower. Anybody ?

I always thought the Pilatus Turbo-porter looked a bit odd as well. Good plane though.

Just remembered the twin tailed, tail turreted conversion of the Westland Lysander prototype. Ooohh that was on the receiving end of the ugly stick.

No one has mentioned eggbeaters yet, or is taken as a given that they are generally ugly.

July 21, 2003 at 3:42 pm in reply to: Ugliest Aircraft? #1981293

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How about the Shorts Seamew or the Fleet Shadower ? I can’t recall who made the Shadower. Anybody ?

I always thought the Pilatus Turbo-porter looked a bit odd as well. Good plane though.

Just remembered the twin tailed, tail turreted conversion of the Westland Lysander prototype. Ooohh that was on the receiving end of the ugly stick.

No one has mentioned eggbeaters yet, or is taken as a given that they are generally ugly.

July 21, 2003 at 11:23 am in reply to: General Discussion #408132

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here is how to do the fart lighting thingy on video…. Watch out for any curtains

Go to http://www.planetkingsley.com

Click on “chuckles” in the menu at the bottom of the screen.

Select “Killerfart.mpeg” from the selection.

Yes, I do know Kingsley

July 21, 2003 at 11:23 am in reply to: We Want To Chat (Merged) #1981328

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here is how to do the fart lighting thingy on video…. Watch out for any curtains

Go to http://www.planetkingsley.com

Click on “chuckles” in the menu at the bottom of the screen.

Select “Killerfart.mpeg” from the selection.

Yes, I do know Kingsley

July 17, 2003 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Greatest airshow moment (Very old thread dredged up) #2103852

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Vulcan take offs. Need I say more ?

July 17, 2003 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Crazy goings on at Duxford #2103875

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Thanks for solving that one Flood, I always had problems reconciling George with such a song ! Doc Cox used to play in one of my locals, The Southampton in Surbiton. btw can you remember what year that IAT was, 94, 95 ?

July 17, 2003 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Crazy goings on at Duxford #2103906

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Not Duxford but IAT Fairford, mid nineties. After the airshow we were waiting for the traffic to clear watching the departing aircraft whilst sipping a beer in the evening sunshine. I think it was the year they had an Il-18 there. Anyway, the tannoy bursts into life with the commentator saying something along the lines of “here’s a song from Monty Python”s Life of Brian to cheer up all of you stuck in the traffic”. Unfortunately he had a bit of finger trouble selecting “always look on the bright side of life” on the CD player & got George Formby’s “I’m a w*nker” song instead. The first few bars , which contain those words, blarred across the airfield before being replaced by static and a very sheepish “oh”.
The beer nearly came out of my nostrils.

July 16, 2003 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Goodwood Festival of Speed aircraft oddities #2104420

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Here’s the Voisin Kenneth. I do like the helmets, very Flash Gordon.

With regard to the propellor driven car, the commentator said it was made by Marcel Leyat in Paris pre wwII. It is French registered & has rear wheel steering. According to the commentator it was commandeered by the Germans during the war. They then promptly crashed it into a tree, failing to corner it properly, before abandoning it. The owner has not bothered restoring it as he feels it is more authentic as it is. The body is made from plywood & up close you can see he sticks to his philosophy.

I bet he can save on the chunnel costs if he gets some old DH Beaver floats for it.

July 16, 2003 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Goodwood Festival of Speed aircraft oddities #2104432

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Thanks Whalebone, I was too tight too buy a programme at 8 pounds a piece. The engine did look a bit small for an aircraft one, never seen a radial in a car before though, only a Sherman tank.
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