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  • in reply to: Purchasing and running costs of a Tiger Moth? #780863
    ozplane
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    The simple answer is a lot. Ballpark figures might be:-
    Hangarage (if you can find it) £120-£300 per month
    Fuel 6 gals/hr £50 per hour
    Oil £3/hr on a good engine
    Insurance Upwards of £1000/year depending on experience and hull value
    Maintenance £2000 per year but highly variable
    But the elephant in the room is the engine. A rebuild on one at our strip cost £24K and led to the group folding
    I’d have a trial flight first and see if you really enjoy it. Hope this helps.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #784863
    ozplane
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    Nicely put David and a lovely photograph to round off the year. Let’s hope it’s not prophetic in the sense that the airliners are not moving off into the sunset.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #785001
    ozplane
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    And Airspace has had a lot of work done to it’s roof recently.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #785025
    ozplane
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    Couldn’t agree more Chris but apparently the “tableaux” idea is “passe” (getting very French here) and so the LWH has had it’s day. The contents will then be spread amongst the rest of the exhibits. I suppose the argument is that it’s a branch of the Imperial WAR Museum, not just an air museum. In addition the LWH is apparently very leaky and is difficult to make waterproof.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #785161
    ozplane
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    Good name for a shed.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #785170
    ozplane
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    Part of the plan for the redevelopment of the Land Warfare area.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #785776
    ozplane
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    Possibly replace either the York or the Hastings in Airspace as being a more significant type? Or maybe in the new “shed” proposed for the Land Warfare area.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #786195
    ozplane
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    Nice picture David but that Viscount should be indoors.

    in reply to: New historics to fly 2018 #789098
    ozplane
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    For those of you not familiar with and/or cannot be bothered to look up G-INFO, the aircraft referred to in “civil aero’s” post are a Puss Moth, SE5 replica, Tiger Moth and Super Cub respectively. A fairly eclectic group and I’m looking forward to seeing the Puss Moth especially.

    ozplane
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    Monarch Engineering are still going. Perhaps they could “acquire” it for “training purposes”?

    in reply to: North Weald Diary (2017) #793311
    ozplane
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    Is it going to be a flyer?

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #796267
    ozplane
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    Because the excellent Duxford photographers pride themselves on capturing anything unusual that moves or flies at Duxford. Thanks for your efforts chaps.

    in reply to: B-29 Doc: 2017 Memories. #797228
    ozplane
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    Some lovely shots, thanks for posting. The formation of the B-17, B-29 and B-52 was very impressive and looked pretty tight.

    in reply to: Visit to Vigna di Valle, Italy #797900
    ozplane
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    Crikey, I’d pay serious money to see/hear that in real life. Makes Reno seem almost tame by comparison. Thanks for posting it.

    in reply to: Visit to Vigna di Valle, Italy #798000
    ozplane
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    Thanks for posting. As you say, the Schneider Trophy racers are real jewels. I’d love to see and hear one of them take off from an Italian lake but I guess that’s not possible.

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