Gary , I have ordered that book at my local library , it had a lot of operational stuff as the guy spent 3 years on them . I think it had Twin Packard Merlins , there’s a bit in the book about them shifting on their mounts in rough seas – your not thinking of putting a Merlin ito one of your boats are you ???
Gary , theres a book called “The Boats in Blue” ( I think that’s the title) by Wilf Pereira , about the RAF Rescue Launches in WWII , everything you need to know is in their , I’m at the library tomorrow and I’ll try and get the ISBN number for you , good book.
Gary , theres a book called “The Boats in Blue” ( I think that’s the title) by Wilf Pereira , about the RAF Rescue Launches in WWII , everything you need to know is in their , I’m at the library tomorrow and I’ll try and get the ISBN number for you , good book.
Willow , I’m of the same opinion as yourself , if it is written off it should stay that way , building new airframes and using old data plates is just cynical . If you were killed in a car accident , do you think your wife would want to see the car back on the road – no I think not . This has been debated on here before – it’ll be another flamer – give it another couple of hours.
Was’nt she sawn up to fit on some oil companies lorries , when the Libyans found out they impounded her remains and they are still held in storage in a Police compound.
St Pats day over here too!!! , still well celebrated by half of Glasgow , spotted your photos of the Avenger , it was me who posted the Dutch one with the radome , good photos too , I can tell you will be an asset to the Forum , welcome !!!
Awwww nawww , another Jimmy Buffett fan , I work for an American company and my boss is a Jimmy Buffett fan ( Buffett ?? pay $10 and listen to as much as you want ???) bloody rubbish.
If you look down the right hand edge of the photo you can just see one prop and the bomb aimers perspex of KB976 , another one literally historically wrecked
Originally posted by Roger S The Avenger is my favourite warbird since I was a child. Don’t know why, but it always has made a big impression on me. Strangely, I prefer the post war variants, the radar fitted TBM-3W2, and the normal TBM’s, with the removed turret and the big glashouse on top of it, and especially the multo coloured, highly conerted “Borate Bombers”. Unfortunatly, no Avenger is left in Holland. It is hard to imagine, but I saw the last Dutch Navy TBM 3S being burned by theNavy firebrigade (at Valkenburg NAS) in 1974!!!!!!! How was that possible. It still angers me BW Roger
Like the Dutch Navy Radomed version – copyright Rob Braithwaite
Scott , as Snapper says the possession of expended ordnance is not illegal and you do not have to hold an FAC to collect such items . However rounds which have been deemed safe by twisting the heads off and removing the charge can still be classed as illegal as the primer is still often in the base of the casing . Casings from used rounds or from rounds which may have been “cooked off” in post crash fires will have no explosive content and therefore possession of such items is not illegal.
I know you do everything by the book mate and I’m sure it’ll all turn out ok .
Read some of the attached website if you think that the North Korean situation is of no interest to the UN , I for one think that the North Korean situation is much more dangerous than Iraq is at this moment
Read some of the attached website if you think that the North Korean situation is of no interest to the UN , I for one think that the North Korean situation is much more dangerous than Iraq is at this moment
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