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July 3, 2017 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Vickers Wellington recovery from IJsselmeer #804461

DaveF68
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Thanks for the update, that’s good to hear.

June 30, 2017 at 11:10 am in reply to: Investigating a dump – questions #806874

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“I believe the area is still owned by the MoD and managed by a local countryside trust”

MOd is the landowner

June 15, 2017 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Spifire Mk 22 Empennage #813910

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I think a bit of misinterpreatation of what Mark12 said has taken place earlier in the thread

June 15, 2017 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Digging up an old query – mystery Floatplane that might be a Besson MB411 #813915

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The wingtips on real photos of MB411s appear to be ‘square cut’ rather than rounded tip, with quite a thick section (giving an optical illusion of curved in some shots). The ‘RN’ shot appears to have curved wingtips which appear to have ‘grab handles’.

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The apparent fairing on the upper fuselage (Like a DH4A one friend noted!) also seems strange.

June 15, 2017 at 11:35 am in reply to: Digging up an old query – mystery Floatplane that might be a Besson MB411 #814070

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Found this:
“Throughout the rest of the war, 765 Squadron were stationed at Sandbank………..

Thanks Martin, that’s interesting. Certainly a lead to pursue. The modifications to the rear fuselage and the wing tips still make me wonder if this is a fake photo, but at least we have confirmation that it operated in the UK

June 15, 2017 at 11:30 am in reply to: Digging up an old query – mystery Floatplane that might be a Besson MB411 #814074

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Huh?

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June 12, 2017 at 11:03 am in reply to: Aviation-related garden ornament, as seen in London? #815217

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More than that the chimneys are actually being demolished and rebuilt

https://www.batterseapowerstation.co.uk/#!/go/view/app/chimney?view=updates

The roof will being going back on eventually

June 1, 2017 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Sea Vixen wheels up landing #819670

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The Sea Vixen has some structural airframe compnents (e.g. engine mounts) that will have been directly affected. The bottom of the rear ones in particular.

May 31, 2017 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Sea Vixen wheels up landing #820081

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I think the ‘avoid speculation’ genie is well and truely out the bottle, especially with things like Facebook etc. And it get’s people’s backs up. You only need to look at the antagonism that the attempts to censor the Victor hop at Bruntingthorpe caused.

May 31, 2017 at 2:50 pm in reply to: Concorde Hard-points? #820085

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The only practical military application for Concorde would probably have been as a VVIP transport* (or Quick reaction SF transport if you suddenly had to get a squad somewhere quickly)

The illustration above came from an article John WR Taylor wrote for the 1967 Yearbook called ‘A Bold Assessment of The Next 50 years’ – I’d love to see the full thing to see how accurate (if at all) his predictions were.

* Plus the high speed target it occasionally found itself used as.

April 10, 2017 at 10:22 am in reply to: Lysanders but look at the codes…. #840217

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Five years later – the family behind these amazing photographs has started a KickStarter Project to get a book published with the photographs. Its only right that those who enjoyed these photographs should now pay forward to have a hard copy in our libraries.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/640372561/clipped-wings-0/

(Usual disclaimer – No personal connection/gain here other than to have the book in my shelf)

Will do!

April 3, 2017 at 8:45 pm in reply to: Seeking information re Hunter XK149. #775413

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I cannot see your picture. Would you mind posting it again please.

Strange, I can see it

April 3, 2017 at 11:19 am in reply to: WW2 Bombs, have any gone off without being disturbed? #775726

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Most military WW2 explosives were relatively stable at normal temperatures, and would require the effect of a detonator to trigger the explosive reaction. I’ve not heard of any ‘just going off’ but obviously any percussive or handling event could trigger the detonator.

In addition to what’s under our towns and cities, there is also what’s at sea – mines and torpedoes are regularly washed/dragged up on beaches and in fishing nets. Then there is land forces munitions (Grenades, shells, bullets).

March 30, 2017 at 9:48 pm in reply to: Who nose? What's this radome? #777490

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Tornado F3.

Could be an F2…. 🙂

March 30, 2017 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Bristol Fighters in UK ? #777837

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Presumably, excepting the Shuttleworth Trust example, these F.2b’s would have been the ex-Boddington Wheelwright airframes from Weston-on-the-Green. If those two originated there, can someone tell me what has become of the other four airframes that were recovered from Mr Boddington’s barn in the 1960s?

On became the static example now on show at the RAF Museum

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/72-A-99-Bristol-Fighter.pdf

Also details the other 4’s fate – Canada, Brussels, Peter Jackson (x2) and South Yorks
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