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  • January 12, 2011 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Saudi Arabian Caravelle jet #1088995
    ozplane
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    Flew Tripoli-Benghazi on that in June 1968. I must be getting old.

    December 31, 2010 at 11:27 am in reply to: Cessna 172 book #416589
    ozplane
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    Just out of interest when did the American 172s get corrosion proofing? Certainly the earlier ones are starting to show their age. With respect the 182 is a different animal from the 172. An all round more substantial piece of kit which is why Rheims Aviation found the niche for a “hotter” 172. And is 775 “far more” than 590 in terms of production? I think not.

    December 30, 2010 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Cessna 172 book #416594
    ozplane
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    Yes it does mention the French versions. I’m not sure but I think Rheims Aviation actually built them from scratch after a few assembly jobs. What made them better was that they were fully corrosion proofed, unlike the American built aircraft, and of course there wasn’t a completely similar aircraft to the Rheims Rocket which had more power than the usual 172.

    December 26, 2010 at 1:00 pm in reply to: Cessna 172 book #416604
    ozplane
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    Excellent.

    December 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Cessna 172 book #416611
    ozplane
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    It’s even less if you shop around. Hint….South American river as I said earlier.

    December 23, 2010 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Cessna 172 book #416619
    ozplane
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    Just got my copy, via a certain store named after a South American river, and it does pretty much what “it says on the tin”. It’s a useful reference for the different marks and for prospective owners, gives a list of the varying payloads that each version can take. Some interesting photos too but no 3-views. Overall pretty good value.

    December 23, 2010 at 6:26 pm in reply to: 'Biggles Biplane' Comes Together #1106619
    ozplane
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    Excellent work,well done. Is that an Aeronca hiding in the background perhaps?

    December 19, 2010 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Neil Williams crash 11Dec1977 #1111643
    ozplane
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    I see in the caption with the photograph of the wreckage, that the crash was at night. Is that true? I always thought that he made the wrong decision on which valley he was in and hit the mountain in decreasing visibility. Is there an AAIB report somewhere? It seemed such a strange mistake for such a talented pilot.

    December 15, 2010 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Last flight into preservation of DC-6 ZS-MUL #1115861
    ozplane
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    I’m not sure I agree Tim. If the dust ingress had stopped the outers why wouldn’t it have stopped the inners as well? If you look at the videos of the Red Bull DC-6 they tend to taxi on the inners even on a hard runway. Anyway it was going to be a one-way journey on to a short strip so I think most pilots would have tried to stop as soon as they could, I know I would and I only fly singles. You know the old story, “nothing so useless as runway behind you” !

    December 15, 2010 at 10:24 am in reply to: Last flight into preservation of DC-6 ZS-MUL #1116224
    ozplane
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    Really excellent stuff and I wonder where they found a flight crew who were current enough to handle the old girl in such a lively fashion. With regard to feathering the outers, perhaps they did it to avoid sucking in too much dust in to the systems and damaging the engines. Presumably the engines have a value if they are airworthy and could be swapped for unairworthy ones if she isn’t going to fly again. Thanks for bringing this to the forum.

    December 10, 2010 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Harrier Farewell – Wittering 9th December 2010 #1120453
    ozplane
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    Hornchurch, Look East at lunchtime had them going to Cottesmore for storage or “onward sale”. Not sure who would buy them. Spain or Italy might be candidates but they are worse off than we are.

    December 2, 2010 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Hangar 11 supporters day at North Weald 27-11-2010 #529068
    ozplane
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    Excellent, I look forward to that.

    December 1, 2010 at 6:07 pm in reply to: Hangar 11 supporters day at North Weald 27-11-2010 #529079
    ozplane
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    Excellent update and it’s quite a stunning collection isn’t it? For those of us not “in the know”, where has the engine been in the interim period and how has it come to be re-united with the airframe?

    November 26, 2010 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Whazzat? #1134168
    ozplane
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    Ah, orbit type spins as opposed to spinning type spins.

    November 26, 2010 at 4:13 pm in reply to: The world's first supersonic airliner? #1134267
    ozplane
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    Those for whom this thread has no interest please turn away now. Those that are remaining might be able to help me on a claim that doesn’t quite match the DC-8 but is of interest to me. I was working in Kenya when the last of the East African Airways VC-10s was delivered. The flying community there was quite close-knit and I knew several of the pilots and there was a strong rumour that the last aircraft achieved Mach 1.01 on it’s last acceptance flight from Vickers. This was very much in the line of “let’s see what she can do” rather than a pukka test flight but knowing the pilot in question it wouldn’t surprise me. Do any “mazungu” who were there at the time remember the incident which unsurprisingly didn’t get in to the papers.

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