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  • January 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm in reply to: Sunday Times – WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust #1011082
    ozplane
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    Stow Maries with any luck.

    January 10, 2014 at 5:51 pm in reply to: The forced landing was the easy bit #390350
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    It might have been the telephoto lens foreshortening the picture but I don’t think he’d have cleared the cliff even if he had got off.

    January 9, 2014 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Russavia's Rapide 'How it left Duxford' #1013088
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    I like the reference to “Garden Ford” as the engine in the description under the photograph. Seems appropriate as the engine installation does look a bit agricultural.

    January 9, 2014 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Russavia's Rapide 'How it left Duxford' #1013420
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    Thank you. I’m glad the memory hasn’t completely gone.

    January 9, 2014 at 12:25 pm in reply to: 2014 – The to do list #390364
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    Having just had 2 new mags fitted to the Airtourer (Annex 2 type) I’m not looking to spend any money on radios or transponders so I will probably go the handheld route. That should be fun talking to the Lakenheath guys as I’ve only got Mode C as well. Oh well I guess it’s two tickets on the lottery next week.

    January 9, 2014 at 12:14 pm in reply to: Spitfire T.16 Drops in at Mt.Hope… #1013451
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    I don’t know but I think as a concept it looks better than the “high rear cockpit” version. Whatever it’s a Spitfire so it can’t be bad.

    January 9, 2014 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Russavia's Rapide 'How it left Duxford' #1013457
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    I’m not sure how true it is but didn’t some RAF officers use a Drone as an airborne platform to go grouse-shooting? Judging by Mike’s “hands-off” pass it certainly looks stable enough.

    January 7, 2014 at 4:31 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go? (2014) #931251
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    I have but I was actually landing at the time!!

    January 7, 2014 at 12:35 pm in reply to: DH.104 Dove Preservation Group #931365
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    That’s the great thing about this forum in that a casual enquiry from an itinerant Pom (me) can raise the history on the Wanaka Devons. However at the risk of thread drift what has happened to the other aircraft in the “Toy” museum at Wanaka. When I was there back in 2003 there were all sorts of rarities including an Auster and a Proctor? On a subsequent visit in 2008 a lot of the stuff had gone.

    January 6, 2014 at 6:32 pm in reply to: Spitfire Running Costs #931596
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    And don’t forget insurance. I have heard tales of £40K for a Spitfire valued at around the million, so even if you get 40 hrs utilisation in a year, which is going it a bit if you don’t get a couple of foreign shows, is £1000 per hour. You could reduce this by not insuring the airframe and just having third party but I don’t think I would be brave enough to do that.

    January 3, 2014 at 12:05 pm in reply to: Russavia's Rapide 'How it left Duxford' #933238
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    With, I hope, a lot more to come.

    January 2, 2014 at 6:41 pm in reply to: BoB unpublished Pictures Life Magazine #933562
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    Most interesting. Thanks for posting them.

    January 2, 2014 at 12:38 pm in reply to: DH.104 Dove Preservation Group #933753
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    There were a couple of Dove/Devons at Wanaka in NZ some years ago in the “museum” next to the airfield. Are they still there and if so might they be a source of spares as they didn’t look like “flyers”.

    December 27, 2013 at 11:38 am in reply to: Anyone been to Duxford recently? #937293
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    And the other centre section that arrived from Lambeth was still in Hangar 3 last week.

    December 17, 2013 at 11:59 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #943948
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    Thanks Chris. She’s back “home” then.

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