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  • January 31, 2011 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #501911
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    Seeing that Ringway is being mentioned a few times brings back fond memories of the late 70’s – early 80’s, is there any one out there that was a member of the Starliner (plane spotting) club?

    January 25, 2011 at 10:54 pm in reply to: DC-4 or DC-6? #504749
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    I’ve found this post very interesting and thankyou to Phantom II for starting it. Not wanting to hijack this thread and to save another post being started, I’ve often wondered what the obvious visible difference was between the DC-6 and DC-7 as they appear very similar to each other….any one out there able to elaborate on this? Many Thanks,

    January 15, 2011 at 9:38 pm in reply to: The last of Doolittle's pilots has passed on. #1156199
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    8 minute video on Youtube, puts the words into pictures.
    Link:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFAk0NAJko

    January 15, 2011 at 8:24 pm in reply to: Interior Shots #1156336
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    Write to the RAF Museum at Hendon, they will send you photocopy diagrams/pictures of both cockpits from the pilots notes for a small photocopy charge.

    January 15, 2011 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Iran bans TU 154 #508799
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    A great shame, especially as most of the 154 accidents seem to come down to bad maintenance or poor airmanship. As far as I can remember, countries such as Iran, Syria and others cannot purchase airliners with that have more than 5%? U.S components, I’m not sure of the percentage figure, perhaps someone here does. Syrian Air is in talks with the Russians with a view to acquiring new Tupolev and Ilyushin airliners.

    Perhaps the new Chinese jets may be the way forward?

    January 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Iran bans TU 154 #508852
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    Quite a bold step for a country that has problems in acquiring civilian aircraft.
    Out of clarification do Iran have a world wide (aircraft) embargo or only an embargo on American products?

    January 13, 2011 at 8:47 pm in reply to: Best and worst airlines flown with #509088
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    Thıs pıcture lınk just about sums up my prevıous postıng on a wısh lıst flıght;
    http://www.airliners.net/photo/UTair-Aviation/Tupolev-Tu-134A-3/1848180/L/

    January 13, 2011 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Best and worst airlines flown with #509310
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    All depends on the particular flight I suppose, some of the best have been when the airlines have allowed me on the cockpit jump seats for various takeoffs or landings, QANTAS, BA, Gulf Air etc…
    those days are now long……………..gone post 9/11,

    Recent good trips have been Virgin, Swiss, Augsberg airlines…

    Classics flights have to be Spantax on their Convair coronado’s and stretched DC8’s

    Someone on this forum mentioned it quite recently, cannot remember who but would have loved to have flown inside the glass nose (navigator style) of a Tupolev 134, any airline would do!!!!

    January 13, 2011 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Who are sun express #509315
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    To be honest it’s still the same Lance, (espeically the other way around). I flew out in Greece for over a year off and on and we had to be very, VERY careful of Turkish airspace when taking off from said islands. It was stated that if we infringed the airspace we would have Turkish Airforce Jets along side us within minutes 😉

    Ahem, we’re digressing somewhat 😀

    Tensions have always been high in the sky along the Agean coast. Some of the greek islands can be literally a handful of miles off the Turkish coast. F-16 and F4 Jets on either side get scrambled frequently resulting in mexican standoffs in the airspace, sometimes aircraft are lost, this all eminates from the 1974 war in Cyprus. Sun express is a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish airlines, both countries havevery strong links. I think it exclusively operates B737-800’s but could be wrong.

    January 8, 2011 at 12:26 am in reply to: Couple of olduns #503455
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    Oh boy! How I miss the Russian stuff in our skys, as a kid I use to see the glass nosed TU-134, IL62, TU-154 and IL-18’s regularly fly through the Manchester summer skies. No variety any more, 30 years later it seems to be the same sterile boring stuff A320’s or B737-800’s.
    Keep the Russian photos coming please!!!!

    December 24, 2010 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #505036
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    Is the static Herald still at Gatwick?

    December 21, 2010 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Luang Prabang, Laos + Thailand #505382
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    Nice one, I also enjoyed the story which went along with the photos, well presented and thought out, well done!

    December 17, 2010 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Lancaster Throttle Box?/Mossie Bomb Rack? #1113501
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    Avro Shackleton?

    December 8, 2010 at 11:14 pm in reply to: DC-3 Barrel rolling #1122470
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    How about this video for a barrell roll?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN77b9DqEbc

    December 5, 2010 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1125209
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    Interesting experience up for auction if you live in Atlanta USA.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1hr-left-seat-DC-3-Douglas-pilot-flying-time-warbird-/160514460349?pt=Motors_Aviation_Parts_Gear&hash=item255f684abd

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