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  • May 22, 2009 at 1:31 pm in reply to: .303 Ammunition #1163617
    stuart gowans
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    When I was a lad, I used to pick up 303 cases and bullets (not together) and also 20mm cannon shells, all varying in quality, but all war time dated, from, a beach on Sheppey.

    A couple of years ago I went back there with the family in tow; I told them about the finds I used to make, but there was nothing left to find, apart from the one my wife picked up (literally as I mentioned the subject), it was a british .45 complete unfired round……

    May 19, 2009 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Thin but robust provenance #1166304
    stuart gowans
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    I question the provenance of this Thread. I believe that parts of it are based on items recovered from Old Threads which may be original but on the other hand may be the result of using a modern word processor.

    I’ve got a “strange feeling of deja-vu”; does that count, especially as I’ve documented it?

    May 19, 2009 at 8:46 am in reply to: Cockpitfest forum #1166523
    stuart gowans
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    Works for me….

    May 19, 2009 at 7:36 am in reply to: Goxhil Memorial Damage #1166639
    stuart gowans
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    Thanks for the update Ron, and welcome to the forum.

    May 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Forum Meet at Cockpitfest? #1167203
    stuart gowans
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    Perhaps we could all bring a cockpit? :rolleyes:

    Thats me out then….

    May 18, 2009 at 10:31 am in reply to: Forum Meet at Cockpitfest? #1167564
    stuart gowans
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    I think we should meet under a prominent NAM exhibit…..hopefully the cockpits will be on the main drag (Cockpit Boulevard!) …so how about under the Vulcan nose?

    Hopefully? I think that a forgone conclusion.

    May 18, 2009 at 7:29 am in reply to: Petwood Hotel and Woodhall Spa memorial. #1167710
    stuart gowans
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    People without facebook should be able to view the album too. Kinema in the woods is at the back of the Petwood Hotel.

    I does actually say, “to view this page you must log on”, and so no you can’t view the album.

    May 17, 2009 at 11:24 am in reply to: Seafire F.Mk 46 LA546, repeat LA546 #1168427
    stuart gowans
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    LA 546.5?

    May 17, 2009 at 8:26 am in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Identification #1168682
    stuart gowans
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    This particular building came with the house, so it is very much in situ; most of the buildings that I have seen, (including the one in your picture) have windows every other 6ft section, mine has been asssembled with all the windows down one side, continuously.

    Access won’t be a problem, as someone has thoughtfully provided a 12ft roller shutter at one end, and the project A/C will have folding wings which are about 11.5ft wide (folded).

    May 16, 2009 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Identification #1169274
    stuart gowans
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    Thanks again; this one is in the depths of Suffolk, not on an airfield, and is the new home for the spitfire project.

    Would the window frames have been wood or metal originally? unfortunately these are all shot.

    May 16, 2009 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Identification #1169308
    stuart gowans
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    Thanks for that; would they have needed one as high as this (for a crew room etc), or wasn’t that a consideration.

    May 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Identification #1169642
    stuart gowans
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    Anyone have any ideas about this one; width is about 30ft length 100ft, height 18ft, truss spacing 6ft (all dimensions approx) the roof is probably asbestosis, not sure of the originality, lower sides externally are curved tin and very rusty trusses are inverted T section.

    May 16, 2009 at 8:19 am in reply to: Aircrew Lynching #1169820
    stuart gowans
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    If you kill the factory workforce, is that an end to it, or do the hitherto civillians then become the next generation of factory workers?

    If you so despise the country/regime that you are fighting, can you afford to be ethical, in the way that you conduct that fight,to the extent where you might actually lose, and become subjugated by the very country/regime that you seek to oppose?

    May 15, 2009 at 4:40 pm in reply to: To excavate or not to excavate……. #1170700
    stuart gowans
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    Yes probably!
    A lot of work sites (from small digs to building sites) attract the attention of an archeoligist group and sometimes a conservation group.
    St Athan is under redevelopment at the moment and there are archeoligists up the ying yang – guess whos paying aswel?!

    I really don’t see the problem here, what is wrong with keeping on board with the archeoligists, they do the same thing and have the same interests and it dosen’t sound difficult to keep them informed and write some reports. If anything surely that must add some interest to the whole project, rather than raise unwantd suspicions of ‘gold digging’ etc.

    I think youv’e answered your own question “what is wrong with keeping onboard with the archaeologists! with “guess whos paying”.

    A friend of mine had to fork out £20k for them to tell him there was nothing of interest where he was siting his new barn, and when he mentioned that he would need an access road, there were mass bookings at Thomas Cook ; another holliday paid for…..

    May 15, 2009 at 4:03 pm in reply to: To excavate or not to excavate……. #1170720
    stuart gowans
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    No matter you experience over the last 20? years, this comment shows a breathtaking arrogance.

    OR 20 years of breathtaking arrogance on the part of “the professionals”?

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