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May 15, 2015 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Belfast truss building off the A64 near Tadcaster. #910984

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Went away for my 25 anniversary to a hotel just off the A64/ A1 junction & noticed a large building that appeared to be of a Belfast truss construction.

Was there a WWI airfield in the area?

Regards Rad

yes, Tadcaster/Bramham Moor – this is a great site for identifying airfields

http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/regional/WestYorkshire.html

Picture of irt halfway down:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?4119-Hangar-Types

Historic England:

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1399211

May 14, 2015 at 10:04 am in reply to: Paphos Shacks's to be destroyed?(2015 UPDATE) #912131

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Dakotaman

I presume by wreck you are referring to the fuselage of WR967 better known as Dodo. It was shipped out there in a container.

Tim S

Or possibly XF700 at Nicosia

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/image_view.php?a=17100&s=xf700.jpg

May 11, 2015 at 10:45 am in reply to: Hillson Praga G-AEYM #913744

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Interesting it wasn’t formally struck off the register until February 1946 – presumably a post-war tidy up?

https://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AEYM.pdf

May 8, 2015 at 9:33 am in reply to: A Sleeping Beauty Awakens from Her 61 Year Slumber #916070

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Another vote for the military scheme

May 3, 2015 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Elgin Scrapyard airviews 27 May 2011 #919534

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That is my pic of WB847 from the same day that you have referenced!

haha! Fancy that!

May 3, 2015 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Meteor 091 you are clear for take off… runway zero-four #919699

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Nice to see these old machines still extant around the world – thanks for posting Mark12.

IIRC the FR9 was thought almost extinct (with Newark’s the sole survivor) until the re-discovery of the Ecuadorian aircraft

May 3, 2015 at 12:56 am in reply to: Elgin Scrapyard airviews 27 May 2011 #920327

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Sorry to hijack this thread slightly, but is anyone able to identify this chunk of aircraft taken at the Elgin scrapyard April 1993? I’m afraid i haven’t a clue! Many thanks.

It’s the inner nacelle of a Shackleton.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/1/4/1026411.jpg

A quick google suggests WB847 as a possible candidate

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavtroon/16723192995/

Or WL798 or WL738, which were also scrapped about the same time

April 27, 2015 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Two Mark One Spitfires changing owners soon #925204

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While I’m sure that the owner has very good reasons for donating this to IWM and this should be respected, I sincerely hope that IWM, who already have a Mk.1 in their collection, have enough imagination and drive to see the merit in continuing her flying career and we do not look back in a few years time and view this as another of those FFS moments.

Wasn’t Black 6 operated by the IWM whilst flying? – So there is a precedent

April 27, 2015 at 10:59 pm in reply to: Maryland survivor #925205

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It’s in the news pages of the latest Aeroplane Monthly markb, no precise location given but there are a couple of pictures.

A broad hint at location even?

April 24, 2015 at 11:33 am in reply to: Another Shackleton in danger? #927086

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Not sure if he is still there, but MOSIM used to have a curator that was a real aviation enthusiast, especially on the early years stuff. Annoyingly, I can’t recall his name (Nick something I think!)

April 20, 2015 at 11:02 am in reply to: Monospar wreck #848072

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I have only just discovered this thread, hence the late reply.

The aircraft in question is indeed G-AHBK-impressed as K8308 and used by the EA Flight at Collyweston during the war.

Minor point, but K8308 wasn’t an impressment, but was bought by the Air Ministry in 1936 (along with K8307) – it only entered the civil register post war.

April 10, 2015 at 6:49 pm in reply to: What surviving aircraft would be candidates for the RAF Museum #854922

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There is a surviving ex-RAF C-54 as well N3054V (KL977)

April 10, 2015 at 3:58 pm in reply to: What surviving aircraft would be candidates for the RAF Museum #855083

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Alas We can’t keep everything…..:apologetic:

Tim S

One of everything would be good, but our climate is not condusive to storing large aircraft outdoors, and the two sites chosen for the RAF are now size limited. maybe we need an RAFM North America in Arizona?

April 10, 2015 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Westland Welkin the most capable WW II fighter ? #855111

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The “high performance” for the Welkin at altitude should perhaps be compared with that of turbocharged US fighters such as the P-38 and P-47, in service some years before and generally more useful. The Welkin may have had an edge at the extremes of the envelope and if the Ju388L had arrived it would have made things interesting, but it didn’t. Arguing that the 70-series Merlin was an end-of development-line design is special pleading that doesn’t hold water: we are after all talking about a 1941 design. Just which other high altitude engine was likely to be available in this timescale, it being somewhat ahead of the later Griffons? And what about the 100 series in the Hornet?

Warren Bodie, in his P-38 book, has some scathing things to say about the Welkin, and the development money spent on it – he thinks the RAF should just have bought P-38s. That said, he seems to write from a very anti-British viewpoint,s seemingly stemming from the facts surrounding the RAF cancelling their P-38 order. Nice chap to correspond with though.

April 10, 2015 at 12:58 pm in reply to: What surviving aircraft would be candidates for the RAF Museum #855142

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The RAFM acquisition andrestoration policyhas changed so much over the years as Directors, curators and (now) CEOs have come and gone – at one point, it was juts ‘we need to get a representation of that, regardless of the starte/provenance (P40/original P-51/B-25 etc etc). A lot of stuff was acquired on the basis that any restoration and display would be long long term, but so long as the Museum had it, it was ‘safe’.

We’ve had a policy of replicas being acceptable, then no replicas (that seems to have changed again); It’s been RAF and Allies/Enemies, then RAF and significant world aircraft etc. Same goes for the restoration policy. It’s never changing.

The one that always made me smile was airframes with no RAF heritage being displayed in RAF markings – P-40 and P-47 for example

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/1994-1337-A-P-47-Thunderbolt-KL216.pdf

I’d love to see the MItchell or B-17 displayed in RAF colours for a change!
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