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  • March 4, 2005 at 10:42 pm in reply to: Can you remember ? #1420650
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    “Concrete Woodlouse”

    😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

    March 3, 2005 at 11:47 am in reply to: Happy B-Day dhfan #1424146
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    Thanks, people.
    I can’t make up my mind whether to go out and do something exciting or head for a local greasy spoon for a full fry-up then repair to the boozer.

    There’s an, admittedly feeble, attempt at snow outside at the moment so currently the breakfast’s winning.

    March 3, 2005 at 11:30 am in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1424159
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    Cheers paulc
    I believe that the 146 also had it’s roots in HS at least…
    OAW

    Hatfield drawing office sequence. By my EXTREMELY biased reasoning that makes it DH. 🙂

    I don’t care what name they put on the building, it’s still de Havilland to me.

    March 3, 2005 at 1:03 am in reply to: So he's here then #1424895
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    I did say “hopefully”!

    March 3, 2005 at 1:01 am in reply to: Duxford 25 years ago today #1424900
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    After all that I’m feeling really ancient, I was nearly 28!

    I didn’t even know it was coming or I would have been there. My pictures wouldn’t have come out, however. I had a Practica EE2, their first electronic camera and most of the time it didn’t work. I finally got fed up and bought an Olympus OM-2n the following year.

    March 3, 2005 at 12:21 am in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1424924
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    What a wonderful chap you are. 😀

    Bl***y Avroliner, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, etc.

    March 2, 2005 at 8:44 pm in reply to: SHackleton flying in SA. Where's ours? #1425430
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    Did the South African Air Force MR.3s have the Vipers? I understood that they were responsible for using up the fatigue life quicker than anticipated.

    March 2, 2005 at 8:00 pm in reply to: So he's here then #1425479
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    Hopefully, as I see this particular bunch of hoodlums relatively infrequently, I shouldn’t suffer too badly from the mass slagging off.

    Good luck, I hope everything works out.

    If the current weather continues, I suppose you could always use the Rewind as a snow blower.

    So much for not suffering too badly…

    March 2, 2005 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1425494
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    …Hawker Siddeley HS125 executive jet.

    D.H.125 if you don’t mind. 🙂
    Originally referred to internally as the Jet Dragon.

    Hawkers said they were going to retain the de Havilland name, in the States in particular, as the image was so well respected.

    Took them about 10 minutes to change that.

    March 2, 2005 at 4:12 pm in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1425901
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    I believe Anson was an Admiral so it probably was something to do with the French.

    March 1, 2005 at 11:55 pm in reply to: CWH Lanc. #1427015
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    Ah, doesn’t he look cherubic?

    Not the word that first springs to mind…

    March 1, 2005 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1427847
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    If I ever see a reference to a Rolls Royce Proteus I may kill sombody. Were any built after the RR takeover?

    I hate this retrospective renaming. I once saw a board at a show (I think) with details of a British Aerospace Dove.

    March 1, 2005 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1428217
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    Napier appear to have started being less erratic with Javelin, Rapier, Dagger and Sabre but they seem to have become bored with that idea.
    I haen’t a clue what a Naiad is but I believe Eland is an antelope or similar.

    Armstrong-Siddeley only used the Metro-Vick precious stones names on the engines they inherited. Their own were snakes, Viper, Mamba etc.

    March 1, 2005 at 10:55 am in reply to: Prewar British Engine Names #1428408
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    British jet enginess were named after UK rivers; thought I’ve yet to finjd an aircraft powered by the Orwell or the Thames (or Isis for the Oxfordian pedants). 😉

    Only Rolls-Royce ones. 🙂
    Armstrong-Siddeley (ex Metro-Vick) were precious stones, Sapphire, Beryl etc and Bristol (pistons too) were mythological, Olympus, Orpheous, Pegasus etc. Not having had a classical education I don’t know whether that was Greek or Roman, or even both.

    Armstrong-Siddeley piston engines were named after big cats, Jaguar, Puma, Lynx…

    February 27, 2005 at 2:14 pm in reply to: CWH Lanc. #1431108
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    I’ll go and bash my head against a brick wall…

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