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  • in reply to: Curtis Hawk Mystery #1075888
    DaveF68
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    A couple of questions – how did the Germans get hold of the Stinson Sentinel?

    Captured in N. Africa or Italy?

    The Stinson must represent Stinson L-5 Sentinel 42-98643 – the remains of this are at the Polish museum along with the ex-Berlin aircraft.

    There doesn’t seem to be anything online as to how it got there.

    in reply to: More images found of 1970s scrap in Quarrywood, Elgin… #1075903
    DaveF68
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    Could also be the intake of the Javelin XH873 – colouring looks close to this one…

    Could be sitting on a section of Javelin wing as well!

    in reply to: Royal Flying Corps Formed April 13th 1912 #1075914
    DaveF68
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    One would imagine that 2 and 3 Squadrons will have something planned.

    At the very least another ‘simultaneous’ take off would be nice!

    in reply to: Curtis Hawk Mystery #1079951
    DaveF68
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    Going slightly off track I have always wondered why the museum’s Fokker DR1 (the last original one left) was not part of the Berlin shipment, or had it already been damaged?

    152/17 was damaged/destroyed in an air raid, but some sources say it was moved east – perhaps it was on the train the wings were on.

    The RAFM DH-9A came from Krakow as a bare fuselage as well.

    in reply to: What is this seat from? #1080671
    DaveF68
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    The colouring (Dark ADmiralty Grey) would suggest a UK mil type as well – but it looks a bit luxorious for UK Mil helicopters!

    in reply to: Just Jane due to appear in Dr Who Christmas special #1083561
    DaveF68
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    Trailer is here http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111119_02

    Set in 1941, didn’t the Lancaster come into service in 1942?

    Oh well, it’s not exactly a documentary!!!

    After Spitfires in Space (and mk IXs in 1940) a year out on their Lancs can be forgiven!”

    DaveF68
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    Whilst listening carefully to the ‘cataclysmic’ news of radiation readings on the Scottish beach of Dalgety, I was amused to hear the comments from the local homeowners surrounding the bay.
    It seems they were more concerned about the possible degrading of their property values, than the dire warnings usually given by the ‘elf & safety’ jobsworthies on such occasions.
    Yes we do live in 2011 and those are the vaues of the nimby’s of today.
    I only ever flew with round dails, and am still alive and kicking….should I not be ??

    Presumably your dials were behind glass,w hich blocked the radiation.

    There are some very expensive houses along the foreshore at Dalgety Bay!

    in reply to: Epics of restoration #1020469
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    The APSS Strutter project and the work they have done on East Fortune’s Bolingbroke and Anson

    http://www.apss.org.uk/projects/APSS_projects/Strutter/Status/index.htm

    in reply to: Epics of restoration #1028174
    DaveF68
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    The APSS Strutter project and the work they have done on East Fortune’s Bolingbroke and Anson

    http://www.apss.org.uk/projects/APSS_projects/Strutter/Status/index.htm

    in reply to: Largest aircraft on and off a carrier? #1020471
    DaveF68
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    So I assume the Fat Albert is still the biggest/largest/heaviest that actually DID it?

    I would think so. I had an inkling the YC-14 had had carrier trials, but I was thinking of the QSRA Buffalo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_eDutgh4IU

    The space available between the flight line and the island would limit much larger than that.

    in reply to: Largest aircraft on and off a carrier? #1028177
    DaveF68
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    So I assume the Fat Albert is still the biggest/largest/heaviest that actually DID it?

    I would think so. I had an inkling the YC-14 had had carrier trials, but I was thinking of the QSRA Buffalo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_eDutgh4IU

    The space available between the flight line and the island would limit much larger than that.

    in reply to: Navy Wessex paint #1020833
    DaveF68
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    Could the Bucc prototypes have had Oxford Blue topsides – that colour seems to have been in circulation at the time, in particular the RAN Wessex fleet coming out of Yeovil….. which neatly stops the thread drift and brings us back to parrafin palmtrees

    Funny colour Oxford blue – in some pics it looks darekr than the roundel blue, and almost a navy blue in others it looks lighter (Adrian’s Testing Colours book provides several examples of this!)

    in reply to: Navy Wessex paint #1028562
    DaveF68
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    Could the Bucc prototypes have had Oxford Blue topsides – that colour seems to have been in circulation at the time, in particular the RAN Wessex fleet coming out of Yeovil….. which neatly stops the thread drift and brings us back to parrafin palmtrees

    Funny colour Oxford blue – in some pics it looks darekr than the roundel blue, and almost a navy blue in others it looks lighter (Adrian’s Testing Colours book provides several examples of this!)

    in reply to: Largest aircraft on and off a carrier? #1020837
    DaveF68
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    More recent American experiments have been less successful…..

    http://www.flygplan.info/images/c17.jpg

    Mind you, landing a C-17 on what appears to be an LPH/LHD is some feat

    in reply to: Largest aircraft on and off a carrier? #1028571
    DaveF68
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    More recent American experiments have been less successful…..

    http://www.flygplan.info/images/c17.jpg

    Mind you, landing a C-17 on what appears to be an LPH/LHD is some feat

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