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  • December 12, 2006 at 9:36 am in reply to: The fighter collection P40B and TF51 #1275600
    Bograt
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    12th December 2006 09:12

    Shouldn’t you be working, Roobarb?

    😀

    December 12, 2006 at 8:26 am in reply to: The fighter collection P40B and TF51 #1275625
    Bograt
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    Note to moderators….can we get a ‘Tongue in Cheek’ icon please? :diablo:

    I’ll be up at Area 51 on Friday to bring back those rivets we borrowed…..

    December 11, 2006 at 8:19 am in reply to: The fighter collection P40B and TF51 #1277053
    Bograt
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    Wow! Isn’t it great the way they’ve grafted that genuine Pearl Harbor anchor nut into a new-build P40. Shame that it was only possible to save the cage as the nut was corroded beyond use. Mind you I understand that that cage has a nick in it from an incoming bullet from a Zero that was attacking at the time. This is also under rebuild from a wood splinter after it was shot down by a Colt 45 aimed by John wayne and the wreckage was washed up on the shore of some beach out there and used as a tooth-pick by Ronald Reagan at the height of the cold war. Such provenance:p

    Better not mention “TA805” then……..

    …………oops :rolleyes:

    October 13, 2006 at 8:34 am in reply to: Spitfire TE184 changes hands #1252951
    Bograt
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    Good Lord!! Is that a Mike Fenton autograph?!?!?! It’s worth a fortune! 😀

    Interestingly, the aircraft has just been put out on the airfield….could be time for an engine run.

    October 5, 2006 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Staggerwing tip-up #1263604
    Bograt
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    That’s what I was wondering…..as it was at DX only a short time ago it’s happened in the last couple of days…..just thought someone on the Forum might be at wherever location the alleged incident may have occurred…

    October 5, 2006 at 10:16 am in reply to: Staggerwing tip-up #1264166
    Bograt
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    A CAA test pilot…..? One that’s qualified on helicopters trying a vertical landing, perchance….? :rolleyes:

    August 3, 2006 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Tigercat to leave Duxford? #1267079
    Bograt
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    Pen Pusher…if you are able to spare any weekdays I travel to TFC every day Monday-Friday from St.Ives and would happily give you a lift.

    November 1, 2005 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Merlin sounds #1426000
    Bograt
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    I remember a ‘Flight International’ Christmas Quiz many years ago in which one of the questions was “Where does the most noise come from in a piston engine?” in the general aviation section of the quiz.

    The answer was; from the propeller – so, it would make sense that a combination of different exhaust stacks, props, air scoops and the like would give each machine a distictive sound.

    October 21, 2005 at 10:39 pm in reply to: TFC Airacobra #1341693
    Bograt
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    Wot a bunch of spotters eh?!?!?!? :p We don’t like them at TFC…….. 😉

    October 18, 2005 at 9:00 pm in reply to: Vampire T11 help required #1344783
    Bograt
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    How about Alan Allen? He’s a bit of a Vampire expert. That’s certainly a tyre size rather than a part number, you could try Watts Aviation in the UK as they do most of our rubber at Duxford. We just give them a size and that’s all they need.

    October 18, 2005 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Anyone got any End of the Airshow season thoughts and memories to share? #1344792
    Bograt
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    Ah Bograt woken up I see should be ordering bits and pieces for the engine (non-pertinent word) not (non-pertinent word) around on here :p :p

    Too busy spotting mate!!

    oops…I’ve been rumbled; anyone seen my thermos and binos?

    😮

    October 17, 2005 at 9:19 pm in reply to: Delectable Dakotas #1345750
    Bograt
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    Hey! It could be worse, Cosford’s York has a television screen built into the side. Don’t know whether it’s supposed to be Tinky Winky or Laa Laa…

    October 17, 2005 at 9:15 pm in reply to: Anyone got any End of the Airshow season thoughts and memories to share? #1345754
    Bograt
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    “And a good years flying with a servicable Merlin up front.”

    Not for much longer eh?? We know a good Spitfire engine buggerer….. 😀

    October 15, 2005 at 9:39 pm in reply to: Who will be remembered for what in 2005? #1347611
    Bograt
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    TFC for their latest acquisition, a forty-nine year old relic…….

    ME!!!!!

    :diablo:

    September 9, 2005 at 1:16 pm in reply to: My holiday snaps #1403350
    Bograt
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    I’ll have to let you know…….. 😉

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