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  • in reply to: Air Leasing at Sywell… #844188
    ozplane
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    Read on and you will see that the indicated date of issue for the CAA permit under which it will fly is 19/7

    in reply to: Air Leasing at Sywell… #844197
    ozplane
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    What G-INFO does suggest is that the Permit is due to be renewed on 19th July. Let’s hope some strings can be pulled for an earlier release.

    in reply to: Air Leasing at Sywell… #844631
    ozplane
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    Oh good, so my eyes weren’t deceiving me. It will be something different for the display circuit, assuming air displays continue albeit modified.

    in reply to: Air Leasing at Sywell… #844645
    ozplane
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    If my beady old eyes don’t deceive me there was a Fury in the front of the hangar wearing a dark grey topsides/yellow undersides scheme at the front of the hangar on Friday. But it was grey day and I was in an aircraft taxiing out so don’t quote me.

    in reply to: EE Lightning Variants #855497
    ozplane
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    In fairness I seem to remember an RN Phantom doing something similar at a Lee-on-Solent airshow many years ago. My 2 year old son cried for 20 minutes afterwards due to the noise but he was coming down with chickenpox so I blamed that.

    in reply to: Tiger Moth accident at Brimpton #856602
    ozplane
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    I went flying yesterday morning, nil wind, tempersture of 24 degrees and the Wonderplane was notably sluggish on take-off. I learnt to fly in Nairobi (altitude of 5,500 feet) and density altitude was always a factor, sometimes reaching 8,000 feet, which made a Cessna 150 puff a bit. Perhaps Sunday’s incident had an element of that in it i.e.first hot day of the year plus light winds with a density altitude of more than the nominal strip height of 210 feet. Just a thought.

    in reply to: Shackleton to Woodford? #859289
    ozplane
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    Or Duxford? Nothing much seems to have been done to it since it was moved to hangar 5 and now the Victor has got the go-ahead it must have moved a long way down the queue for restoration.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2016) #862139
    ozplane
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    Just for info, the 4-ship Classic Wings Tiger Moth formation was for a French vodka commercial.

    in reply to: SPOTTED (2016),What Have You Seen? #863629
    ozplane
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    Almost certainly it was the 3 Chipmunk formation from Denmark that attended the Old Warden meeting.

    in reply to: Bassingbourn Airfield in WW2 #864550
    ozplane
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    Thanks Wyvern. That’s the one I was thinking about.

    in reply to: Bassingbourn Airfield in WW2 #864589
    ozplane
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    Thanks for posting Paul, a really interesting set of photographs. I live about 10 miles away and it was interesting to see the snow scenes as we only had one light covering this year and that only lasted about 2 hours. The shot of the dispersed B-17 in the drive up to Wimpole Hall was the first I’d seen and I assume the Ju 88 was flown over from Duxford to educate the “cousins”? Does anybody have the location of the memorial to the USAAF’s time at Bassingbourn?

    in reply to: SPOTTED (2016),What Have You Seen? #865933
    ozplane
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    8 Chipmunks flying East to West and return near Baldock at 1615. Presumably prior to Old Warden on Sunday.

    in reply to: Shuttleworth wildcat #866997
    ozplane
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    No, but the implication is that perhaps they could be purchased with the proceeds of the Wildcat sale.

    in reply to: Spitfire Trainer question #876871
    ozplane
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    MJ 627 has dual controls.

    in reply to: Mudgee airshow report #881726
    ozplane
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    Looks like a good day out. I don’t think we’d be allowed a low pass like the Avenger in the UK after last year’s accident at Shoreham! Nice to see the Jetstream still earning it’s keep. Thanks for posting.

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