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  • May 20, 2002 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Word Game #1995414
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    RE: Word Game

    grin 🙂

    May 13, 2002 at 7:02 pm in reply to: What was your favourite airshow and why? #2109520
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    RE: What was your favourite airshow and why?

    i too recall the warbirds displays at west malling, the last one i can think of there was a flypast that included the sunderland flying boat that was at chatham dockyard at the time, i can also think of the vulcan that if i recall, burnt a hole in the runway on take off, and sally b not long after she was in mamphis belle, fireing her gunn’s on a flypast…..i also remember me and my mate not having enough money to pay two entrance fee’s and one of us hideing in the boot of a car and halfing the fee. ( the things you do to see aircraft! )i feel deeply ashamed now!!!! maybe if we had paid full price west malling wouldent look like this….
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    May 13, 2002 at 6:27 pm in reply to: GENERAL DISCUSSION FORUM SPECIAL!! #1995899
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    RE: GENERAL DISCUSSION FORUM SPECIAL!!

    i’m a TV video repair man and professional fosters drinker 🙂 :7 }>

    dezz

    May 9, 2002 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Word Game #1996277
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    RE: Word Game

    balms

    aromatic substances

    May 7, 2002 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Word Game #1996754
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    RE: Word Game

    eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr…………

    TWINE

    😛

    May 7, 2002 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Favourite Band? #1996758
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    RE: Favourite Band?

    well, well, well, aint we a lot of indie / alternitave loving aircraft fans…….
    my fave’s are

    Blink 182
    Greenday
    Sum 41
    feeder
    and a bit of “the Doors”
    i’m with Rabie on the “boy bands” and Kiddie rubbish
    }>

    May 7, 2002 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Whats your favourite television advert? #1996761
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    RE: Whats your favourite television advert?

    what about the john west one where the fisherman fights the bear and ends up kicking it in the knackers and nickin the fish…. i like that one. or at the moment the yorkie add, makes a change from all the add’s making us blokes look stupid!!!! ….but then again i must be stupid thinking a bloke nicking a fish is funny??????
    :9

    April 21, 2002 at 11:53 am in reply to: Lanc and the 12,000lb bomb #2110125
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    RE: Lanc and the 12,000lb bomb

    hi
    Paul Brickhill’s book, The Dam Busters, ISBN 0-330-37644-6, has loads of info on the tallboy as well as ‘Grand Slam’ and ‘Blockbuster’its a DAM (pardon the pun) good read!!
    🙂

    April 9, 2002 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Doodlebug Summer #2110998
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    RE: Doodlebug Summer

    [updated:LAST EDITED ON 09-04-02 AT 09:46 PM (GMT)]Dont really know, but i saw a film on tele ages ago, where early on in it’s devlopement the germans had problems controling it, so they stuck a test pilot in it, Hanna Richite (spelling ?)i think. or if it was late in the war maybe some sort of suicide weapon? but as i say i dont really know. 🙂

    April 9, 2002 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Doodlebug Summer #2111036
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    RE: Doodlebug Summer

    There is one down at Headcorn airfield, its usally in the hanger but they roll it out on sunny days (sorry about the pic i had to reduce it from 350k down to 74 i can e-mail the original if you want)
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    March 22, 2002 at 11:26 pm in reply to: Who was after Gannet pic? #2112160
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    RE: Who was after Gannet pic?

    Can anyone see the 2nd pic?

    March 22, 2002 at 11:24 pm in reply to: Who was after Gannet pic? #2112163
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    RE: Who was after Gannet pic?

    I have a few here that me dad took, dont know when poss late 70’s early 80’s? at yeovilton.
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    March 12, 2002 at 8:11 pm in reply to: Hawkinge #2112755
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    RE: Hawkinge

    [updated:LAST EDITED ON 12-03-02 AT 08:18 PM (GMT)]Nice set of piccies, i especilly like the 3rd one down (as it looks like the place where some of the formation take off shots in the bob film were taken from).with regard to my last post, i dont want to have all the places as shrine’s, i listed them to point out that kent has a lot of aviation history, but little of it remains today.

    Ashley, thanks for your views, i to think the museum at hawkinge is one of the best.

    Rabie, I to am a local, i come from Gillingham, and think what the council is trying to do is wrong, last i heard it was going to be a scince park or somthing if the application was successful, do you have any idea how they are getting on?

    🙂

    March 11, 2002 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Hawkinge #2112790
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    RE: Hawkinge

    PLEASE NOTE:- ALL THE VIEWS IN THE FOLLOWING POST ARE NOT MENT TO BE LIABILUS OR OFFENSIVE. THAY ARE PURELY THE VIEWS OF THE AUTHOR.

    “I don’t think they’d want every patch of ground that they flew from to be forever a shrine, with no other use. People have to live somewhere! I don’t think they fought their battle to stop British people from having homes in the future.”

    How many of these places are “for ever a shrine” apart from biggin hill, rochester, headcorn, lydd, manston and hawkinge, how many are left and not given over to houses and industry, ok they may not have all been involved in the battle of britain but they were all part of aviation in kent and are, to the best of my knowledge no longer here in anything like their original state, if there is anything left at all. I don’t want hawkinge to go the same way. Have a look at hawkinge on multimap.com the aerial photo, there is a stretch of land, 15 to 20 miles of it, to the north where they can build houses until their hart’s content, I agree that no one wants a stretch of muddy ground that doesn’t honor anyone, so make it a park don’t build houses on it.

    1. Abbey Wood (Flying Ground)
    2. Allhallows (RFC/ELG)
    3.Ashford (ALG/RAF/USAAF)
    4. Baldwyns Park (Flying Ground)
    5. Bekesbourne (RFC/RAF Aerodrome)
    6. Biggin Hill (RFC/RAF Aerodrome)
    7. Brenzett (ALG/RAF)
    8. Broadsalts (RFC/ELG)
    9. Bromley (Flying Ground)
    10. Broomfield (ELG/RFC/Civil)
    11. Canterbury (Flying Ground)
    12. Capelle Ferne (RNAS Airship Station)
    13. Chatham (Balloon Station)
    14. Crayford (Aircraft Factory)
    15. Detling (RNAS/RAF Aerodrome )
    16. Dover (RNAS Seaplane Station)
    17. Dymchurch (RFC/RAF)
    18. Eastchurch (Short Bros/RNAS/RAF)
    19. Erith Marshes ( Aircraft Factory)
    20. Eynsford (Flying Ground)
    21. Farningham (ELG/RFC)
    22. Frinstead (ELG/RFC)
    23. Gillingham (Flying Ground)
    24. Godmersham Park (Balloon Station)
    25. Grain (RNAS/RFC)
    26. Gravesend (Civil/RAF Aerodrome)
    27. Grove Park (ELG/RFC)
    28. Guilton (ELG/RFC)
    29. Guston Rd (RFC)
    30. Harty (ELG/RFC)
    31. Hawkinge (RFC/RAF Aerodrome )
    32. Headcorn/Lashenden (ALG/RCAF /USAAF /Civil)
    33. High Halden (ALG/USAAF)
    34. Horton Kirby (Civil)
    35. Hunton (ELG/RFC)
    36. Hythe (RFC)
    37. Joyce Green (RFC)
    38. Kings Hill (ELG/RFC)
    39. Kingsnorth-Hoo (RNAS Airship Station)
    40. Kingsnorth (ALG/RAF/USAAF)
    41. Harrietsham (RFC/HQ)
    42. Leigh Green (ELG/RFC)
    43. Leysdown (Flying Ground)
    44. Lidsing (Balloon Station)
    45. Lydd (Balloon Station)
    46. Lympne (RFC/RAF/Civil)
    47. Manston (RFC/RAF/Civil)
    48. Marden (ELG/RFC)
    49. New Romney/Littlestone (RFC/Civil)
    50. Newchurch (ALG/RAF)
    51. Orpington (Flying Ground)
    52. Penshurst (RFC/RAF Civil/ELG)
    53. Port Victoria (RNAS)
    54. Pluckley (ELG/RFC)
    55. Plumstead Marshes (Flying Ground)
    56. Ramsgate (Civil Aerodrome)
    57. Rochester (Short Brothers/Civil)
    58. Sheerness (ELG/RFC/Balloon Station)
    59. Shellbeach (Flying Ground)
    60. Staplehurst (ALG/RCAF/USAAF)
    61. Sole Street/Petham (ELG/RFC)
    62. South Ash (ELG/RFC)
    63. Swalecliffe (Civil Flying Ground)
    64. Swingfield (ELG/RFC/ ALG/RAF)
    65. Swingate (RFC/RAF)
    66. Thowley Wood (RFC)
    67. Walmer (RFC)
    68. Westgate (RNAS)
    69. West Malling (ELG/RFC/RAF/ Civil)
    70. Whitfield (Flying Ground)
    71. Wittersham (Balloon Station)
    72. Woodchurch(ALG/RAF /USAAF /Civil)
    73. Wye (RFC/RAF)

    “The history has NOT been forgotten. The new road into the estate is ‘Spitfire Way’. Many of the new roads within the estate also have an aviation connection – Waddington Drive, Lysander Way, etc.”

    Any where within 2Miles of a old fighter station there is a road called “sptifire way” it’s the developers way of saying “look we are interested in what happened here” when what I think they really mean is “we are making a few million quid and to keep the aviation people happy we will call a road after a aeroplane” I don’t think it means anything to them. How many roads are called “Hurricane way” or “Boulton Paul av”? not many I bet.

    I think Hawkinge is important, as is all aviation heritage.

    Am I the only one with these views, or am I just twisted……
    🙂

    March 10, 2002 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Hawkinge #2112858
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    RE: Hawkinge

    I was there last year, when there was a fair bit of it left, so i dont know how much building has happened from then, but i think every square foot of the airfield is worth fighting for! i see your home page is thunder and lightnings, exallent site buy the way, wouldn’t you rather have a lightning tyre than no lightnings at all?

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