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  • October 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1049834
    ozplane
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    Agree wholeheartedly with the Hunter, Canberra and Viscount being successful. Slightly later the BAC 1-11 was a close run thing and I wonder if the B.Ae 146/RJ series ever made any money for their builders. No doubt Alertken will be along shortly with the exact numbers.

    October 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1050114
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    I think it might be in an oblique fashion. Post No 20 introduced the bike industry and I tend to get a bit fed up with uninformed comments about British industry. The fact that producing what the customers want can resurrect a moribund sector sends lessons to the rest of industry. Let’s just hope that we don’t let “graphene”, the new wonder material, escape our clutches and leave the rest of the world to exploit it.

    October 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1050153
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    “Axe to grind”. Coming from you that’s the best joke I’ve heard this year.

    October 11, 2011 at 10:37 am in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1050373
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    I’d rather take the view of two hard nosed Australian bikers than a half baked quote from Wikipedia. I quoted the Antipodean aspect but they are doing very well here in the UK too so let’s just give credit where credit is due. I know that is hard for an Australian resident.

    October 11, 2011 at 10:19 am in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1050403
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    Not quite fair. Triumph are selling all the bikes they can sell.Met a couple of Ozzies at Rotarua in NZ last year and they were “doing” NZ on their Triumphs. I asked them what they thought of them and their reply was along the lines of “B….y strewth mate, best bikes in the world”. A couple of blokes on Japanese rice burners looked a bit askance at that.

    October 9, 2011 at 6:51 pm in reply to: British Aircraft Industry after WWII #1052598
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    On the subject of De Havilland failures, how about the Puss Moth with flutter and wings departing, tip stall with the early Hornet Moth leading to replacement of the wings and the lingering resentment in Australia of the problems with the DH 86 which De H never properly addressed. And doesn’t the Mosquito have a strengthening strut on the fuselage? The Tiger Moth did well though.

    October 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm in reply to: RNHF #1056308
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    Only two Sea Furies showing on the Duxford website update just published. Looks like a good show though with some unusual participants.

    September 30, 2011 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Tiger Moth incident at Duxford. Pilot and passenger ok #1062644
    ozplane
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    Thank you jimbob. Good one TonyT

    September 30, 2011 at 3:13 pm in reply to: Tiger Moth incident at Duxford. Pilot and passenger ok #1062670
    ozplane
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    “Members of the public were not involved in the incident”. I agree Moggy, who was the third man/woman. Possibly somebody taking a photograph?

    September 30, 2011 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Tiger Moth incident at Duxford. Pilot and passenger ok #1062686
    ozplane
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    Any idea of the operator as I have chums that fly there?

    September 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm in reply to: When did the dH86 beome extinct? #1062808
    ozplane
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    My memory of G-ACZP was of it flying back and forth to the Isle of Man when it was operating for Lancashire Aircraft Corporation. At that time it was in the LAC house colours of a light duck egg blue with a red cheat line. Looking up my very amateur photographs of those days at Squires Gate I came across a shot of DH86B G-ADUF taken in August 1950. According to G-INFO it went to Gulf Aviation in 1952. I wonder if any bits remain?

    September 29, 2011 at 11:21 am in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1064172
    ozplane
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    Thanks Propstrike. I think you’re probably correct. There can’t be enough Kestrels left lying around after all these years but it’s good to see the skills are still available to do this kind of work.

    September 28, 2011 at 10:52 am in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1065695
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    Probably a naive question but where do the operators of these lovely old Hawker biplanes get the spares for the Kestrel engines from? It’s not as though one can nip down to Quikfit for a new exhaust is it? Is there much commonality between the various marks of Kestrel?

    September 26, 2011 at 5:10 pm in reply to: ATA 'Spitfire Girl' flying again #1068783
    ozplane
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    Just to add that there are a couple of references to the lady in question in “The Forgotten Pilots”. Apparently she left in 1944 to study architecture. Probably a wise move as Poland must have been a blank canvas after the war.

    September 26, 2011 at 5:06 pm in reply to: ATA 'Spitfire Girl' flying again #1068788
    ozplane
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    There is also “The Forgotten Pilots” by a fomer ATA pilot, Lettice Curtis. It was published by Nelson Saunders in 1971 although my copy is the 3rd edition of 1985.

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