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  • January 20, 2008 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Prince G-AMLZ Restoration Progress #1298059
    Jon H
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    And today the guys wasted no time and have paint stripped the front end, removed most the glazing (all broken) and even had time to start applying etch primer!

    Also they found traces of the old livery which can be seen marked in pencil under the windscreen, and a “V” in paint on the nose – both relate to its scheme when with City Airways at Coventry.

    Jon

    January 20, 2008 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Prince G-AMLZ Restoration Progress #1298064
    Jon H
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    Yesterday the fuselage went undercover at Millom!

    January 18, 2008 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Handley Page Halton Pannier Still Surviving. Action required. #1300919
    Jon H
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    Not easy to extrapolate, but it must be getting on for 3 feet high, and ten times that long?

    Assuming it stayed in one piece! Exposed wood and the british climate dont get on at all 😉

    January 18, 2008 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Handley Page Halton Pannier Still Surviving. Action required. #1300956
    Jon H
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    Also something not mentioned so far is what are the approximate dimensions of a Halton pannier?!

    Jon

    January 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm in reply to: RAF Millom Aviation & Military Museum Update #1301113
    Jon H
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    Photos of the Airship arrivals

    Ah so more goodies to come and see!! Which if I can charm the girlfriend into letting me go will be this weekend 🙂

    Jon

    January 18, 2008 at 10:51 am in reply to: Handley Page Halton Pannier Still Surviving. Action required. #1301141
    Jon H
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    Consol,

    Seems like we missed it at the time, but this is a great thread.
    Is anyone on this forum interested in having a look? The size is a problem of course but the IWM could be interested, couldn’t they?

    Cheers
    Cees

    Am happy to get involved if needed.

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 4:50 pm in reply to: XM603 Update #1317535
    Jon H
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    And I thought it was a mispelled reference to the Vulcan character Tuvoc from Star Trek Voyger:D

    Or the first time I googled TVOC and got the Thames Valley Orienteering Club website!!!! 😀

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Paphos Shackletons Saved #1317540
    Jon H
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    It wasn’t a flyer when I saw it at Lossie in 1989.
    I was amazed when they scrapped the gate guard as that was MR.2 dummied up to look like an AEW.

    My comment was meant very much tongue in cheek 😛

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Paphos Shackletons Saved #1317578
    Jon H
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    Does anyone know how the AEW (Dodo) trainer got to Paphos?

    A one off ferry flight perhaps?! 😉

    Can’t remember exact details but remember seeing a picture of it waiting on a dockside to be shipped….

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 1:41 pm in reply to: Paphos Shackletons Saved #1317916
    Jon H
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    Even if cockpit/fuselage sections and Griffons could come back to the UK and be preserved, that would be better than what’s happening to them at the moment. They would make great walk through exhibits for any museum.

    Real shame…… Made all the more worse having checked on demobbed and found the ‘AEW TRAINER’ WR967 is there as well!

    Sadly since the type is well represented over here the only way anything (cockpit/engines etc) would find its way back is if a private individual really wanted a chunk of shackleton…..

    Or we send Camlobe over there and tell him his return flight is on whichever one he gets flying first! 😀

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 1:34 pm in reply to: XM603 Update #1317929
    Jon H
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    The Vulcan Operating Company 🙂

    These are the guys who look after XH558 at Brunty.

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 11:26 am in reply to: XM603 Update #1317990
    Jon H
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    Well 603 is owned by TVOC now so thats probably a good starting point 🙂

    Jon

    January 4, 2008 at 9:06 am in reply to: Gunnery Trainer or Link Trainer #1318177
    Jon H
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    For comparison this picture of RAF Burtonwood has a similar structure labelled as a Link Trainer –

    http://www.rafburtonwood.org/jcpic14.jpg

    Jon

    January 3, 2008 at 7:34 pm in reply to: A military historic aviation forum? #1318582
    Jon H
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    http://www.atdb.org.

    Er, have I missed something? Having clicked on that I ended up at the website of the Union of European Turkish Democrats and I regret to say that my turkish is not sufficiently good to locate the page which relates to French registered Miles aeroplanes!

    Oops!

    Try – http://www.aerotransport.org/

    Odd one as the atdb.org address is displayed within the site!

    Happy hunting,
    Jon

    January 3, 2008 at 2:43 pm in reply to: A military historic aviation forum? #1318938
    Jon H
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    p.s. who knows whether F-BBCN was extant in 1971 and, if so, what became of her subsequently?

    Thats an easy one 😉 Information for F-BBCN /G-AGZX courtesy of http://www.atdb.org.

    F-BBCN Previous MILES FALCON M 3A 269 Mon 12 Jul 1954 Lecoq Lucien
    F-BBCN Previous MILES FALCON M 3A 269 Fri 10 Sep 1954 Aero Club De St Maur
    F-BBCN Previous MILES FALCON M 3A 269 Sat 15 Mar 1958 Lecoq Lucien
    F-BBCN Cancelled MILES FALCON M 3A 269 Thu 27 Mar 1958 Association Club Aerien Les Gerfauts Wed 22 Sep 1971 Destroyed

    Jon

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