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  • May 17, 2013 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #989916
    ozplane
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    Excellent photographs as usual. That aerial (?) mast in front of the Texan’s cockpit would make me cross-eyed. Surely it’s highly distracting.

    May 15, 2013 at 6:09 pm in reply to: Aviation museum in Toronto #991902
    ozplane
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    Thanks Bill. Great shame for them losing all that revenue.

    May 14, 2013 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #993559
    ozplane
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    But probably you didn’t have to fly one in combat.

    May 11, 2013 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Holiday reading-what would you recomend? #995903
    ozplane
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    Another vote for “First Light”. Just finished “The Quick and the Dead” by Bill Waterton. Gives a frightening insight in to the attitudes of the designers at Glosters to their test pilots. Now well in to “Wings on my sleeve” by Winkle Brown. Amazing range of aircraft flown and described. White knuckle flights in Arado 234 s and DH 108s.

    May 9, 2013 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #997482
    ozplane
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    The Cambridge METAR is giving 22 knots gusting to 35 knots from 190 i.e.50 degrees off the runway. Unusually strong winds for this time of year and it’s swinging through 130 degrees. Not good flying weather.

    May 3, 2013 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Catalina N423RS #1003198
    ozplane
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    Which is what I suggested in post #3

    May 3, 2013 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Catalina N423RS #1003260
    ozplane
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    What else would you do with it? Bit expensive for the £100 coffee and bun bimble but I suppose there are people who can afford it.

    May 3, 2013 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Catalina N423RS #1003271
    ozplane
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    Is there room for two Catalinas on the UK show circuit? I doubt it so the USA would seem to be a better bet.

    May 2, 2013 at 9:57 am in reply to: Meteor flying yesterday #1004391
    ozplane
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    I have heard that some of the fleet are going to be positioned nearer the centre of the UK for the airshow season to cut down on the transit legs. Would Coventry be a good guess?

    May 2, 2013 at 9:52 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #1004498
    ozplane
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    Excellent work all round both from the engineers and photographers viewpoints. To my untutored eye the structure of the Gladiator looks remarkably complex for a 1930s design.

    April 30, 2013 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Little Staughton Airfield – 2009 Thread Revived #1006290
    ozplane
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    That radio mast is also a pain when you fly in as it’s quite difficult to spot, even though it’s on the maps.

    April 10, 2013 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #938911
    ozplane
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    And “puleeeze” comes from which language precisely?

    April 10, 2013 at 9:51 am in reply to: Auster in Foyles War #939195
    ozplane
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    Thanks Pimpernel. It was the Kilkerran in the address that put me off as that sounded Irish. Must do better!

    April 9, 2013 at 3:13 pm in reply to: Auster in Foyles War #939553
    ozplane
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    Thanks chaps. I thought I recognised the Customs House but I couldn’t for the life of me remember where it was. Too much “Liffey Water” last time I saw it I suspect!

    March 27, 2013 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Are British Aerospace still destroying historical artifacts ? #950159
    ozplane
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    Sopwith, I think you are being a bit hard on B.Ae.Systems, saying they care nothing for their heritage. £5 million towards Airspace at Duxford would counter that assertion.

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