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  • October 25, 2003 at 4:53 pm in reply to: British Concorde – NOT IN BA Colours!! #2112099
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    Safe and sound at the Yeovilton FAA museum, tucked up indoors, and you can walk through it too.

    October 24, 2003 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Concorde complaint to BA #2112352
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    Saw the beastie at Edinburgh today, and it was truly impressive.
    Difficult to believe we’ll never see it in its element again.
    By the time I’d packed up my gear and started walking back to the car, it was at 29,000 feet, and about 3 quarters of an hour after I’d got home, about 8 miles away, it was on finals at Heathrow!
    We’ll never see its like again.:(

    October 23, 2003 at 9:40 pm in reply to: Hampden At Cosford To Be Half Restored #2112671
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    I agree. These half restoration jobs dont serve any purpose. Take a look at the Canadian Halifax for a lesson on how to do it properly.

    October 23, 2003 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Potential underwater airframe source #2112699
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    Originally posted by Graeme C
    i heard a while back that a company in the UK were trying to get salvage rights to a British ship which had planes on it? It was on Russian convoys? Would it be possible to get planes off the merchant ships that have sunk? i would like someone to have a go?

    i heard someone else say that alot of aircraft are down a mine in Australia, it would be interesting to find out what is down there?

    That’ll be the Archerfield Quarry. A bloke got the rights to it, then the Aussie authorities closed it down and confiscated the stuff he had brought up. There is a website-cant remember the address, but a search should sort you out.

    October 22, 2003 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Concorde complaint to BA #2112985
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    Gateguard. I dont see any reason why Scotland shouldn’t have one-assuming East Fortune managed to achieve the task of getting it somehow under cover. It was a British icon, and folks from up here hold it in high regard just like everyone else.

    October 21, 2003 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Best Preserved Lightning??? (fighter jet not prop) #2113503
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    MOF has only one Lightning.
    Apart from the colour scheme, it has no engines. Its hollow inside, which kind of takes away its impact for me.
    The other one in the vicinity is the ex Saudi one mouldering on a pole at Ferranti.

    October 21, 2003 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Shackelton for sale……again! #2113516
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    does anyone know what the current state of the Cyprus Shacks is?
    Have they been made into dog food tins yet?

    October 21, 2003 at 8:41 pm in reply to: Question about aircraft lost in fires #2113519
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    Dunno about great T.V viewing. I just found the whole thing very depressing, and difficult to watch.
    I dont suppose there will ever be another opportunity like that.

    October 17, 2003 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Who do we have to thank? #2114954
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    The late Charles Church and Nick Grace.

    October 12, 2003 at 9:23 pm in reply to: "Tin hats on everybody !" #2117928
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    Put that bloody spear down!

    October 12, 2003 at 12:20 pm in reply to: aircraft strathallan #2118053
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    Ive got some really good ones of the Lanc. Theyve been posted here before, but I had to get Ageorge to do it as I cant get the darned computer to post photos.

    October 12, 2003 at 12:18 pm in reply to: "Tin hats on everybody !" #2118055
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    You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

    October 7, 2003 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Underwater Aircraft #2120635
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    Didnt that Hurricane in Malta come out of salt water?
    Not a bad job by anyones standards.
    Loch Ness is freshwater by the way, and full of peat, which must have helped preserve the Wellington. If memory serves, the tail light lit up when current was applied, there was still fuel in the tanks, and some of the fabric with paint still on it was visible when they pulled it out.

    September 25, 2003 at 9:54 pm in reply to: G- Hunt #2123510
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    Originally posted by AlexisLambert
    See!

    Yuk!
    Why do Americans do that to U.K. warbirds?

    September 23, 2003 at 9:43 pm in reply to: RNHF news #2123978
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    I’m very much looking forward to seeing the Sea Fury back where it belongs. Its a most impressive beast, especially when its doing top knots down the centreline. I was fortunate enough to see the previous one at Leuchars, and the one that had to be ditched in the Clyde Estuary during the last Prestwick airshow.
    Its been a long time …

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