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  • January 31, 2006 at 1:07 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1407826
    GASML
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    He’s not the only one to have done it. This was (I think) Eddie Kidd and Vic Norman at Rendcomb in the early 1990s.

    (PS: The one with the two-stroke engines is the Cri-Cri)

    January 30, 2006 at 7:00 pm in reply to: deHavilland Museum visit 29th January #1408870
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    Is that a broken Mossie fuselage mould? Didn’t know any surviving. What’s the story?

    Amazing 😮 what still survives to this day.

    Cheers

    Cees

    I think that it is a Hornet fuselage mould, but I’m sure Bruce will give us the definitive version.

    Thanks again for a brilliant visit Bruce. Next time I’ll try to drop in, if the owner of the airstrip agrees!

    January 30, 2006 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Preserving Aircraft Outdoors #1409453
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    Remove everything behind the panels he says…….

    Aaaaagh! Luckily the wing was scrap anyway!!

    January 30, 2006 at 11:30 am in reply to: Great British Design Quest: Vote Spitfire. #1409904
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    Have you seen the picture of the Spitfire they’re using on the BBC website?

    What the heck is it?

    You’d have to go a long way to find an uglier Spitfire if you tried, I was so shocked I voted for the Mini!

    January 30, 2006 at 8:52 am in reply to: Camel sold #1410109
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    All collections have aircraft coming and going – it is a sign of a healthy collection that is on it’s game that they don’t go stale- I think a couple of airframes that left in the past were based upon financial need more than anything and you would have to say that the OW you see today is a stronger place than it was maybe it was wrong on one level but correct on another?

    Regards
    John p

    Totally agree John. As with any aircraft collection, some of the acquisition decisions are bound to be controversial, but Shuttleworth on a summers day? Heaven!

    January 30, 2006 at 8:47 am in reply to: deHavilland Museum visit 29th January #1410196
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    Thanks again Bruce, to you and all at the Museum.

    I was only sorry I couldn’t stay longer…….

    Nice flypast too by Janey in the Chipmunk.

    Was that R44 in the vicinity earlier, Hairyplane by any chance?

    January 30, 2006 at 8:41 am in reply to: BoB movie help #1410205
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    The scene with the duff ‘chute is in the September 15th battle.

    A few years ago I remember being told by the special effects man that the scene with the duff chute wasn’t actually intentional.

    It was the third take with the dummy and on each occaision the radio controlled chute had failed. Because the camera followed the dummy all the way down, it turned into the longest special-effects shot in the film, but the special-effects man got sacked anyway!

    January 27, 2006 at 6:15 pm in reply to: Pietenpol Aircamper with Diesel Engine #1412809
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    Mark Wilksch is actually an Aussie!

    Having met him a few times at Finmere and Bicester, I can confirm he’s an all-round good egg. Good luck to him with this.

    His first diesel engine installation was actually on a J3 Cub, but I don’t think they got to fly that, befoe they started installing them on Europas, Thorps and things. That Pietenpol looks a jolly nice bit of kit too.

    January 27, 2006 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Fire at Felthorpe Flying Club #1412936
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    Sad thought this was – and it’s every aircraft owner’s worst nightmare – I’m not too sure why this three year-old thread’s resurfaced now.

    I must admit it gave me a hack of a scare when I saw it!

    Mind you Coulsoth, you’re dead right in your anger!

    January 27, 2006 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Weekend Weather Forecast #409286
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    Don’t worry Trinnie, looks like its definitely ‘coat’ weather for this weekend!

    January 27, 2006 at 2:21 pm in reply to: The Cloud Appreciation Society #409290
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    Today: Friday 27 Jan 2006 The Times newspaper P3 has a full page article on the Cloud Appreciation Society and a wonderful picutre of some mama cloud, which you virtually never see in England.

    Go have a peek in your newsagents.

    or….http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2011699,00.html

    January 27, 2006 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Just supposing… #409295
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    Name the venue, and I will be there like a (slow) shot.

    Likewise, except I’d get there even slower!

    January 25, 2006 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Heads up. "Biggles Biplane", Monday 23rd, "Inside Out" on BBC East #1416810
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    Thanks for the comments Skybolt. And congratulations too. Who’d have thought it, a Tempest MK III!

    Amazing response from the BBC Inside Out feature, including a call from one of W.E. Johns’ grand-children!

    January 25, 2006 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Horten Flying Wing – who knows what… #1416828
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    There was a Horten-type tail-less glider lurking in the back of a hangar at Halton as recently as last year. Anyone know what that was?

    January 24, 2006 at 5:44 pm in reply to: My First Flying Lesson! #409619
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    Good on ya! The most important thing about your first lesson is to simply sit back and soak in the whole experience.

    While I found the flight sim programmes really useful when you are getting into the training, you’ll find once in the aeroplane for the first few lessons, there’s an overload of things all trying to sink in at once.

    Don’t worry about that. Instead relax, let them come one at a time – and above all -enjoy!

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