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  • in reply to: Open day at Berlin Schönefeld this weekend #1382398
    jeepman
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    Find any underground hangars full of mint 262s or Doras then??

    http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=792292003

    is this ever going to be resolved??

    in reply to: Where is this Hurricane? #1407997
    jeepman
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    Russia – is it the one now up on a column as a memorial?

    in reply to: Spitfire at Great Easton? #1409504
    jeepman
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    I think it’s P & A Wood Ltd at Great easton nr Dunmow –

    well known Merlin restorers and IIRC the Sopwith Dove repro at Shuttleworth is also owned by them.

    in reply to: Motor torpedo boat at Duxford #1415262
    jeepman
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    Even when a boat makes it into preservation there are still idiots about

    http://www.newson.co.uk/boat_list.php?id=13

    Again imagine the uproar if this had been say Mosquito TA122

    in reply to: Motor torpedo boat at Duxford #1418926
    jeepman
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    British Military Powerboat Trust etc

    For the full story on the boats – see here

    http://www.bmpt.org.uk/News/news.htm

    but we’re loosing valuable artefacts still…….

    http://www.prinzeugen.com/S97.htm

    sadly S-97 which was also situated in the UK has been broken up as being too far gone which only leaves S-130 as the sole survivor.

    It seems that to give the IWM their due they seem to be doing a bit of a rescue mission here

    in reply to: freedom of Information Act #1431962
    jeepman
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    Thanks guys – but I write as somebody who in the day job co-ordinates the Publication Scheme for a quasi governmental organisation and deals with extremely difficult FoI queries (with diverging legal opinions) on a day to day basis.

    Given the general harping here about some of the decisions taken by some of the state-funded museums, I was simply intrigued to see whether people had considered the use of the FoI Act as an opportunity to seek information to answer some of the questions being asked. But perhaps as JDK says it’s more fun to moan than to do anything about finding out the background to the decision.

    The question about whether anybody had anything to raise was really by way of an experiment to see what would, if at all, be available.

    in reply to: Egyptian Air Force Museum #1341438
    jeepman
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    Not ‘Rover’ again. 🙂

    Mark

    shouldn’t it be “over” not “Rover”?

    in reply to: 'Big Bird' ? at Duxford. #1349428
    jeepman
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    Channel Dash Stringbags

    I read somewhere that the Swordfish used to try and stop the Scharnhorst and Gneiseau (Eugene Esmonde VC and colleagues) recevied a coat of black distemper in the hours prior to the attack.

    I don’t know if the long range Swordfish used in Malta also were so painted.

    in reply to: Douglas Bader's childhood home #1349450
    jeepman
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    yesterday’s Homes Section of the Sunday Times had a two page article on the rectory in Sprotborough – or is that the article that spurred your question?

    Perhaps too much of a coincidence not to be

    in reply to: The Nash collection #1352038
    jeepman
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    If you have the Wrecks and Relics Picture Book, there’s a brief introduction to the Nash Collection and it’s founder in there.

    HTH

    in reply to: radium dial instruments .. yes again..! #1354027
    jeepman
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    Hello Guys
    after glancing over my halifax instrument panel this evening, I was wondering if the instruments do not glow in the dark any longer are they still a threat? I say this as three of the boost guages were brand new removed from their original boxes and never used.

    The IWM clearly thinks that the radium paint used on Instruments is a hazard. The speedometers on both Jeeps on show in the Land Warfare Hall now have a “radioactivity” sticker, as presumably do all the american vehicles – as it was a standardised unit.

    in reply to: RAF Museum Reserve Collection #1354042
    jeepman
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    Definitely a case of the wrong tree to bark up there. Any museum, particularly a National museum, that sold any of its collection to the general public would be breaking the public trust as well as numerous ethical guidelines.

    So swaps of duplicate airframes are alright?

    Anybody know what the RAFM got in return for the Mosquito TIII that went to Norway – I’ve always been intrigued

    in reply to: Thers more to Duxford than prop jobs… #1357777
    jeepman
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    Nice pics.

    Dare I say I like cooling fans and hairdryers.

    Question: is the IWM’s F-86A currently on display at Duxford?

    Roger Smith.

    Exhibited outside on the plinth where the single Belfast truss hangar – blown up during BoB filming- was

    in reply to: Me 109 K-4 Airworthy Rebuild #1357812
    jeepman
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    Thanks guys

    Lynn and Dave

    Thanks for your responses

    looking at some of the material shown on Hyperscale this looks to be an extensive reconstruction to say the least.

    Will be nice to see when finished – whatever it’s provenance

    sk

    in reply to: Duxford – Have your say! #1365430
    jeepman
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    erm……

    just a further thought

    could you cover the AAM with grass? :rolleyes:

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