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  • in reply to: Kermit surveys after hurricane Irma #833776
    Supermarine305
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    Thank you. Makes sense and would be A24B 42-54643.

    Of course Mr Weeks luck doesn’t take away from the very real human impact and deaths from Irma.

    in reply to: Kermit surveys after hurricane Irma #834201
    Supermarine305
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    I can safely speak for everyone when I say ‘Phew!’

    Good to se the damage was limited to broken signs and soggy carpets.

    P.S. What is that fuselage in the works Kermit passes in 14:42?

    Supermarine305
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    I still think the RAFM biggest problems is being spit into two different sites. You can never tell the history of the RAF that way iunless you have a duplicate collection.

    Of course this aimchair expert hasn’t a clue on where the best location for the RAFM would be. Hendon would be too small. Cosford perhaps too remote, but also the lenght of the runways has been a problem in flying in some larger types.

    On the subject of space at Duxford some wise soul on these forums did suggest moving the Science Museum’s reserve collection there from wroughton.

    Supermarine305
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    I do wonder with that attitide how many rescuers in Houstion had a gun pointed at them recently?

    in reply to: Glen Miller Wasn't Killed By RAF Lancasters? #839745
    Supermarine305
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    And typos a-plenty can still be found.

    Anyway, just moving on, regretting posting this threa and all. A little searching found this on the Daily Mail. Not ‘fail’ Snapper, no matter how apt.

    Long story short, over fives years ago the self same Daniel Spragg considers a note jotted by a 17-year-old near Reading of a Norsemen flying ESE was key against the jettisoned bombs theory.That’s just weak.

    in reply to: North Sea Stirling Discovery #839888
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    Actually physically protect this Stirling? No-one of course. It would be pure chance if someone were prosecuted for deliberately disturbing it. It has no doubt been accidentally ravaged by numerous fishing nets over the decades.

    Unlike the Jutland wrecks though this Stirling’s going to have low scrap value and that is what will probably save it from illegal salvage.

    in reply to: Glen Miller Wasn't Killed By RAF Lancasters? #839891
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    Rosevidnesy: That’s fine. I should have added the usual caveat that I have in no way anything to do with this book. The article just happened to have something about an aviation mystery to it.

    At $35 I am not going to be the one to judge how well researched it is. I am not that keen on Miller.

    in reply to: Glen Miller Wasn't Killed By RAF Lancasters? #839976
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    Point me toward any national news organisation that is of ‘irrefutable aviation history knowledge’. 🙂

    I ran across this story and I though it had some legs, notwithstanding the impending book publication. There is a thread somewhere about the jettisoned bomb theory and perhaps in hindsight I should have tacked my comment onto the end of that.

    in reply to: Anyone have leads on a Heron spinner? #778968
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    Would this the Fiat G.46 under restoration?: Link.

    in reply to: Dunkirk film – Merged For General Updates And Chat #785051
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    “One puzzle, IMDb states “Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros reputedly bought a vintage WWII Lufttwaffe bomber for use in this movie, at a cost of $5 million.” Can anyone explain this please? Or was it erroneous?”

    You can safely say that story came from the same pile of steaming manure as the one about Nolan buying a genuine Spitfire just to crash it for the movie.

    in reply to: Biggin Hill Museum #786608
    Supermarine305
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    Forgot to add. The designs are horrid.

    If you want to preserve something for future generations why ruin it in the process?

    in reply to: Biggin Hill Museum #786611
    Supermarine305
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    If you copy a link from a secondary website like this forum it is likely to be copied in its abreviated form including that nasty little string of punctuation marks which is breaking the link.

    You’re best copying the URL from the source website itself.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #787830
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    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #790397
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    Now I’m confused. I thought 2 were discovered much more recently -late 90’s/early 2000’s- In India in an elephant house.

    And I thought the above plane plus IWM’s static are these airframes.

    in reply to: One for the ID experts. #812858
    Supermarine305
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    Other choppers are there apart from XH-51 between the main collection of aircraft and the Cessnas (other GA types are available) to the left.
    Closest is a Hughes TH-55 I think. The other two, not so sure at all. The middle one is very sleek, could almost be the other XH-51A? It doesn’t look at all like a Huey. The last (left of the C-141) is very small and flimsy. I keep thinking Hiller for some reason.

    Would that be a Sikorsky S-61/H-53 in front of the 707?

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