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July 18, 2005 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Crash axe #1387092

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Crash Axe or in this case the Axe has crashed.

I have two for my project, one original which was liberated from a downed glider near Eindhoven at the end of the war and one which was used in the Boeing 747. The look very similar apart from the 20.000 volts bit.

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Cees

July 18, 2005 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Any new Halifax Pics anyone? #1387097

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Not starting that one again eh Peter

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July 18, 2005 at 3:00 pm in reply to: Any new Halifax Pics anyone? #1387479

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Thanks very much Mike,

Great pics, looks like she finally has a perspex nose, I hope the deal with YAM still holds in that they would provide an example for HR792/”LV907″ as well.That would make a lot of difference compared to the distored one she is fitted with at present. How about a new set of props as well YAM?

All we need is a few large tins of Humbrol dark green/dark earth and matt black.:rolleyes:

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Cees

July 16, 2005 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Bf 109 G-4 "red 7" was destroyed by an accident #1389808

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What a shame. 🙁

Glad the pilot was ok though.

I hope she can be rebuilt to airworthy condition though.

Btw, is Sigi Knoll the guy who rebuilt the engine?

Seem to remember him talking to Robbie Coltraine about the Daimler Benz engines he rebuilds in his workshop for a series called ‘Planes Trains & Automobiles’.

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Paul

Yes I think he is Paul,

He has been involved with almost every airworthy DB-engine in Europe as far as I know (and the static DB601 for the IWM’s 109E as well)

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Cees

July 15, 2005 at 12:14 pm in reply to: Any new Halifax Pics anyone? #1391045

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what are their plans for this then Cees?

Ehmm, nothing just displaying it I guess.

The search continues, but this again shows that there is more left than you know. It just takes a bit of detective work over the years, which is very enjoyable I might add and you learn more and more.

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Cees

July 14, 2005 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Any new Halifax Pics anyone? #1392225

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Not from NA337, but taken recently in a French museum.
Looks restorable.

Oh if only….

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Cees

July 14, 2005 at 6:30 pm in reply to: One for the Halifax guys. #1392243

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Nice pic

Thanks Mark for posting.

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Cees

July 13, 2005 at 6:04 pm in reply to: Lancaster Ground run #1393637

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Well done, a taxiable bomber is much better than a static one.

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Cees

July 12, 2005 at 6:50 pm in reply to: P7350's Battle Scars #1395902

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I’m sure in one of the books there is a close-up of what looks like a round patch on the upper surfaces on one of the wings. The caption states it’s a repair patch, anyway.

Daz,

Correct, in one of Jeremy Flack’s books (Flying Legend IIRC, the first one) about the Spitfire with all the colour images there is one showing the patches clearly.

HTH

Cees

July 10, 2005 at 10:55 am in reply to: very pistol identification #1401200

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Cees – Flare cartridge en route to you today!

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TT

Thanks TT

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Cees

July 6, 2005 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Suitable name for museum #1407413

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Finito Benito, Next Hirohito?

As painted on a wartime B-25 once

Cees

July 1, 2005 at 12:24 pm in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1415026

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Cees

There was a bit of wing found in a hedge and that is not the one…but you know the non aviation press.

The wing of your interest I believe goes back to the Doug Arnold funded multi restorations in ‘Hampshire’ in the late 1980’s. That wing looks like residue from TE392.

Mark

Current market price for a Spitfire depending on mark, engineering integrity, desirability and market place conditions is £1.1m +/- £200k. Engineering content value, in my view, is nearer £2m at sensible labour rates.

Thanks Mark,

It seems that during the seventies and eighties a lot of parts were swapped around.

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Cees

July 1, 2005 at 11:15 am in reply to: "Scrapyard" Spitfire #1415096

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Does anyone know where that Spitfire wing in the photographs originates from? It doesn’t look like it was fitted to RR232 as the camouflage is so much lighter.
Or can Spitfire wings still be found in hedges as told in the newspaper article?

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Cees

June 30, 2005 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Halifax flooring #1416187

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Anybody know why the Halifax had black and white chequerboard lino flooring??

I saw it in the pictures of the Canadian restoration and dismissed it as temporary pending completion, but then in the new FlyPast there’s a period picture of the special ventral mounting for a .50 cal in the bottom of the fuselage to counter schrage musik attacks and there’s the same chequerboard lino fitted

why – did they get a job lot of spare lino or was there a special reason – it seems so incongruous.

Cees – do you know………

No, I didn’t but do now :rolleyes:

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Cees

June 30, 2005 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Wreckage recognition request #1416831

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Please correct me if I’m wrong but I seem to remember that these General Electric turbosuperchargers were fairly standard and were used on the B-24 and P-47 as well. So finding just one of those turbos gives a clue that it is indeed an american type but no more than that.

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