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June 6, 2016 at 9:29 am in reply to: Off-Topic > Cutty Sarks' "sister-Clipper" needs your help #857362

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Used to walk past ‘Adelaide’ every day when she was ‘Carrick’ in Glasgow. Like everything else, a lack of money was the big problem.

May 26, 2016 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Home for last Concorde Announced #862927

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I think BA are actually a little embarassed by the Heathrow Concorde

May 26, 2016 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Fate of Hellcat JV111? #862929

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Scrapped or smuggled off to someone’s private collection

May 13, 2016 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Gnat Display Team Crash 2015, Report out May 2016 #870262

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It’s a startlingly low number of hours for an aircraft that had a reputation for being ‘tricky’ in service

May 13, 2016 at 11:40 am in reply to: Shuttleworth wildcat #870819

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As predicted :

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?129841-Shuttleworth-s-Wildcat

May 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Lysander Engine Cowling differences #875071

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Yep, the Gills are open on one and not the other, but even then there is a cut away on the top of the Mercury Gills where they meet the nose that isn’t on the Perseus.

May 5, 2016 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Was P-38 copied from D-2 ? #875825

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Lockheed started design on the P-38 in 1937 as well

April 30, 2016 at 5:19 pm in reply to: Spitfire PS915 #878834

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Seems it was a different article I was thinking on…… must dig it out, I know it had images of at least one silver one. Does the BBMF YB have the pics of PS852?

BTW this one is interesting as it has the MSG down to the lower position rather than the high level demarcation usually carried on PR19s

April 30, 2016 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Caudron Goeland at Tregantle, Cornwall – February 1941 #878839

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Interesting – I’ve been curious about that one for a while – it was given with an RAF serial , but that appears not to have been carried (Either AX775 or AX776) and apparently repaired at Broxbourne – from what I can gather it was shipped off to Free French Forces in North Africa.

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/75922-caudron-goeland/?p=1955279

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Caudron Goeland F-BAAX landed near a Searchlight Post close to Tregantle Farm. The occupant was Andre’ Edmond Bruist Colin aged 25, he stated that he was a native of Belfort, France. He has been a Sgt Pilot in the French Air Force from 26th August 1939 until 25 August 1940. He left Vichy at 12:30 hours on the 1st February 1941 and landed in Brittany, he took off again for England. Monsieur Colin is being detained at Liskeard Police Station, his aeroplane is being guarded by men of the 11th Battalion Devonshire Regiment.

April 28, 2016 at 8:45 am in reply to: Spitfire PS915 #880296

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IIRC from the pics in those articles there were a couple of differences in the scheme over time

April 25, 2016 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Billy Bishop controversy. #881723

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He could have used a hand gun to make bullet damage….

From memory Capt William Fry had some interesting opinions regarding the veracity of Bishop’s claims, made after Bishop’s death, but I can’t find the reference now.

April 22, 2016 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Latest RAF Museum disposals list #883883

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The Mohawk was in Milestones of Flight for the Lindbergh connection – was it moved to storage to make way for the plastic F-35?

I think the idea of illustrating the varied impressements would be better done with a more unusual type rather than a type the RAF used in great numbers – perhaps the Hawk Major is just too similar to the Magister?

BTW, I think the Museum of Berkshire Aviation would be a excellent home for it!

On a historical note, is it’s current scheme a geunine wartime one?

April 20, 2016 at 11:58 pm in reply to: Latest RAF Museum disposals list #884454

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Whatever else it is, the Mohawk is a genuine ex-RAF aircraft with an established UK military history. Much like the Hawk Major

April 15, 2016 at 9:54 am in reply to: New Meteor book planned #886736

DaveF68
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Looking forward to this, Steve’s first book is still my favourite Meteor book (and I have a few!)

April 15, 2016 at 9:52 am in reply to: Desert Air Force Survivors #886739

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The Fury is Iraqi isn’t it? (And one of those that mysteriously ‘disappeared’ after 2003)
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