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January 6, 2015 at 5:36 pm in reply to: New To The UK register #855979

Elliott Marsh
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That Rapide is gorgeous! Interestingly, a bit of Columbo-ing on G-INFO shows it’s also registered to the aforementioned Karl-Friedemann Grimminger. Quite a collection of lovelies!

January 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Unbroken film #857531

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A fantastic film, I thought. From a purely aviation standpoint, I agree that it had some of the best CGI aircraft, and CGI aerial combat sequences, I’ve seen. It’ll never be “photo real” but this was as close to that as I’ve seen. The mock-up Liberator looked great, too, and the close-up of the B-29 towards the end was very solid animation. I’ll let the Electra inclusion slide, solely because Electras are lovely and, more importantly, the type of aircraft wasn’t important to telling that particular part of the story.

December 31, 2014 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Historic Aviation Highlights for 2014 #861090

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The Lancasters and the Comet are the obvious (and well-deserved) highlights, but there are a few others that spring to mind…

The big DC-3/C-47 gathering at Lee-on-Solent was something special. The quartet of D-Day veteran Skytrains at Duxford would’ve been my highlight of the year had the Lanc not come over and the Comet not flown.

The débuts of the Mystery Ship and David Beale’s Mew Gull, and their display together at Sywell (to say nothing of the Mew pair at Race Day in October), were fantastic. Likewise, seeing the two imported BE2s at Old Warden flying in the sun at the end of what had been a very wet day at Old Warden was a delight.

There’ve been some tremendous warbird solos this year too – at Flying Legends alone, the Gladiator, Nimrod, Mustang, Corsair, Hurricane and Bearcat were as good as it gets in 2014. Brian Smith nailed it in the Corsair at Shoreham, too.

There are plenty of other highlights – Peashooter, Super Constellation, four Mk.I Spitfires, Draken, Dutch Hunter at Waddington, Race Day (one of the best airshows of recent years), the Hurricane Mk.I/Spitfire Mk.I/Gladiator formation at Shoreham and the big D-Day set-piece later in the day… the list goes on. Proof, if we needed any, that the perception of British airshows being in “terminal decline” couldn’t be further off the mark.

December 31, 2014 at 11:22 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #861229

Elliott Marsh
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Would just like to echo the thanks to the “Duxford Mafia” for their continued updates, look forward to catching up with you chaps in the new year!

Wholeheartedly agree – this thread is always worth a visit and is a great source of information for people, like me, who like to keep abreast of developments at Duxford.

December 23, 2014 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Shuttleworth Sea Hurricane, something to watch over the holiday #866965

Elliott Marsh
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Interesting documentary – without wanting to sound weird, it’s good to hear Jerry Mead’s voice again, too! Very much a part of my childhood airshow memories, was Jerry.

November 26, 2014 at 11:50 am in reply to: Was Aeroplane – Is now Forums and Facebook groups? #891106

Elliott Marsh
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You missed ‘Vulcan’ off the list, Mike.

The Spitfire Appreciation Society made for wonderful reading. Plans for every member to donate £300 so they could buy P9374. Arranging a “best bum” competition between the two prominent female members of the group, who promptly left after it became quite clear that the most prolific posters of the group were only really in it to swoon over them…

In general, however, I find Facebook to be an excellent means of keeping up to date with operators and, to a lesser degree, airshows. It’s great to be able to see regular updates from places like La Ferté-Alais and Bremgarten, whose goings on would otherwise be “private”. Even UK operators like BHHH and Hangar 11 have utilised it to good effect – indeed, Peter Teichman posts fairly regular (and very in-depth) updates on the latter, which is a refreshing approach.

November 25, 2014 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Was Aeroplane – Is now Forums and Facebook groups? #891616

Elliott Marsh
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No need to apologise at all! I hope my response didn’t come across as defensive, that wasn’t what I intended.

I can’t speak for other sites, but GAR started in 2009 with a predominantly airshow (reviews in the main) and modern military focus, with a few articles on civilian operators. The site has evolved over time and only in the last 12 to 18 months have we started writing more regular in-depth historical articles (following our relaunch and a big site upgrade); there’ll be much more of that in future, and more articles focused on present day operators and personalities. Certainly the D-Day series (which will wrap up at 32 articles in total) was a hefty undertaking, but next year’s series promises to be bigger and, I feel, better – hopefully it’ll reflect the amount of time and care that’s gone into it! We’re still developing, but people seem to like what we do and statistically, the reach is only growing and we’re always working on ways to expand both the readership and content pool.

The online mag Mike refers to was Global Aviation Magazine, and yes, it was knocked on the head because it clearly wasn’t working. The original GAR site, however, thankfully does not have the same problem!

One thing that bothers me is that for every person who takes the time to go out, do their own research and give something their own slant, there are those who virtually copy and paste from elsewhere. I saw one news piece on Peter Teichman’s P-40 rollout last spring which was essentially a 5 minute rework (if that – some sections were identical!) of the information on PT’s website, passed off as that site’s own work. Even more frustrating were the “great article” comments! You can and should do better than that.

November 25, 2014 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Was Aeroplane – Is now Forums and Facebook groups? #891674

Elliott Marsh
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Yes, that is indeed the main problem. The sad thing is that online content doesn’t replace well researched articles such as the 1930’s airliner ones I mentioned earlier. Wikipedia is useful, but not authoritative. The internet serves those with a passing interest well, but not those with any more than that. That may change – but not soon; we are too forgiving of soundbite information, regardless of its veracity.

Bruce

I see your point, certainly, but having spent months researching the aerial aspects of the D-Day campaign for around two dozen individual articles, and being in the midst of in-depth research into the Battle of France & Battle of Britain (many hours spent analysing combat reports and the like from the National Archives, etc.), all for articles which are published online, I can say with confidence that there are well-researched articles out there, provided you look beyond Wikipedia (and the sites which seem to use Wikipedia as the basis for their research, I might add).

I write for the Global Aviation Resource website and I do sometimes feel that because our content is online and free, there’s an assumption (perhaps from those who aren’t familiar with what we do) that it’s second rate or thrown together. But that’s a whole other discussion. 😀

For what it’s worth I think both magazines could flourish if they ensure they enforce their own brands and styles. To my mind, everyone would benefit from that!

November 20, 2014 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Blenheim airborne at Duxford #894812

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http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/11/20/aviation-news-she-flies-bristol-blenheim-mk-i-l6739-g-bpiv-takes-to-the-skies-at-iwm-duxford/

More photographs at the link above – some lovely atmospheric images courtesy of Ashley Stephenson and George Land!

November 20, 2014 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #894826

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http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/11/20/aviation-news-she-flies-bristol-blenheim-mk-i-l6739-g-bpiv-takes-to-the-skies-at-iwm-duxford/

A dozen more images on GAR via the link above – a lovely restoration, congrats to all at ARCo!

November 11, 2014 at 11:08 am in reply to: Biggin Hill Remembrance Day Flypast #903837

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http://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2014/11/11/aviation-feature-biggin-hill-heritage-hangar-commemorates-remembrance-sunday/

A write-up and plenty of photos from the flypast in the article linked above, and an example image below. Smashing effort by all involved.

November 5, 2014 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Golden Apple's F-86A (G-SABR) retrospective #909823

Elliott Marsh
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A very valid point there, Mike. It’s a real shame that some of the variety has waned on the classic jet front over the years – whilst we have several Hunter T7s (and more on the way) and a trio of Gnats, the more unique/lesser seen types (I’m thinking specifically of the Venom, C-VIX, Meteor, Delfin etc.) are dwindling. Even the Meteor T7, which was everywhere in 2012, has practically disappeared over the last 12 months.

The scene in Europe seems to be in a slightly better state, with the Swedes doing well to operate their growing fleet, a Starfighter nearing flight in Norway (alongside the Vampires), a MiG-15 or two and various Hunters, Delfins and Magisters knocking about.

November 5, 2014 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Golden Apple's F-86A (G-SABR) retrospective #909831

Elliott Marsh
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April 1992 was the first flight in the UK – so 22+ years in total (albeit it didn’t fly in 2014). I was only 3 at the time (!) and some of my earliest airshow memories involve the aircraft. I do wonder if a fair few took it for granted, given that it was such a staple of British airshows, particularly at Duxford – a case, perhaps, of not fully appreciating what you have until it’s gone? Maybe I’m wrong.

November 5, 2014 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Golden Apple's F-86A (G-SABR) retrospective #909837

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Lovely photos from ’94 there – how good do those ‘dirty’ gun ports look?!

October 31, 2014 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #914121

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That looks wonderful, love the little touches and the fact it’s been done by hand, rather than sprayed. I’m not always bothered by such things, but the fact it’s going to be hung up (assuming that’s confirmed) is a damn shame. The detail deserves to be seen up close – poor show…
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