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  • July 25, 2004 at 4:00 pm in reply to: some pics from Sunderland airshow (Sat) #1828871
    dhfan
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    What’s the score with the Sea Harrier colour scheme ?

    I think Damien mentioned it in a previous thread. IIRC, they couldn’t do the scheme they wanted as the right colours weren’t in stock, so it’s painted as an Admiral’s barge.

    July 23, 2004 at 9:11 pm in reply to: New build Rolls Royce Eagle… #1829651
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    I can’t get over the dedication and single-mindedness to create something like that.
    Although long out of practice, I have set or operated most types of machine tools in the past, with varying degrees of competence. Even with a fully equipped machine shop I’d have got fed up before I finished.

    July 23, 2004 at 5:03 pm in reply to: New build Rolls Royce Eagle… #1829708
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    Mind-boggling.

    July 23, 2004 at 4:28 am in reply to: Preserved aircraft 'Biographies' #1829831
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    JDK is the head honcho on this and he fled the country a few weeks ago, temporarily apparently. I imagine there will be a slight pause.

    July 22, 2004 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Stuka found in Forest. (2004 zombie thread) #1829991
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    Hi DHFan

    That will be Tom Gleave’s Hurricane which exploded over Biggin in August 1940.

    Thanks, Elliott

    I assumed somebody would know about it. 🙂

    July 22, 2004 at 1:57 am in reply to: Stuka found in Forest. (2004 zombie thread) #1830434
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    It seems unlikely but I suppose it is possible. I still lived in the south in 1987 and I’m sure it would have been on the news or in the mags.
    I remember reading a book by, I think, Paul Gallico many years ago and it said he’d removed ammunition belts from a crashed Hurricane in the woods somewhere around where he lived. IIRC, the author lived at Down in Kent which as the crow, or Hurricane, flies isn’t a great distance from Biggin Hill.

    July 22, 2004 at 1:18 am in reply to: Arthur E Hagg, Mossie Designer #1830438
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    Err, Arthur Hagg didn’t design the Flamingo or the Mossie, they were both R E Bishop.
    He left DH in 1937 and “returned to the fold” at Airspeed in 1943.

    Source amongst various other possibilities, the aforementioned “deeply dull” tome.

    July 21, 2004 at 4:17 am in reply to: Charles E Brown #1552545
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    Surely DP845 was never really a MkIIX. I think it was originally going to be the prototype MkIV(?) but got overtaken by events and was always a testbed, and Jeffrey Quill’s favourite Spitfire.

    July 20, 2004 at 3:01 am in reply to: 'Mosquito Heaven' #1553437
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    At a glance they’re mostly B35s, or two-stage Merlins anyway, but with one interloper that appears to be a late model nightfighter, NF30 possibly.
    IIRC, there’s only one of those left now, in Belgium.

    July 16, 2004 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Silverstone #1555174
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    Sounds like a few sub-divisions here. Probably too many but see what you think about these.
    Test tracks.
    Permanent race tracks, sole usage.
    Part of the site used for motor racing.
    Used in the past but not now.
    It’s already too complicated, where does Goodwood fit in?

    July 16, 2004 at 1:22 am in reply to: Legends – Black adn white piccies #1555664
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    The only time I’ve ever flown into Nice, the approach was extremely damp, and presumably quite deep.

    Great pictures, BTW, Franck.
    I generally prefer colour pictures but you certainly have a point.

    July 16, 2004 at 1:17 am in reply to: Swedish Spitfire restoration #1555666
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    I’m fairly sure there was an article in one of the mags a few years ago about this aircraft, it’s acquisition and restoration.
    Great solution. It didn’t serve in Sweden so give it the next serial number. Obvious, when it’s pointed out, and brilliant.

    July 16, 2004 at 1:05 am in reply to: Silverstone #1555669
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    To be fair, James, they also built the aeroplane to contain the aforementioned turret.

    July 16, 2004 at 12:50 am in reply to: Silverstone #1555674
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    Millbrook and MIRA are two different places.

    MIRA is the Motor Industry Ressearch Association and it’s near Nuneaton

    Millbrook is GM’s in-house test track (Vauxhall, if you must) and is in Bedfordshire.

    Moggy

    Ah. Brain failure.

    So, any advance on 4 test tracks (Boreham, Hethel, Gaydon, Nuneaton) and 3 motor racing circuits, (Silverstone, Snetterton, Thruxton). Permanent rather than occasional.

    Brooklands was the other way round, I believe. Built for cars and became an airfield.

    July 15, 2004 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Silverstone #1556073
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    I’ve heard the name Millbrook for MIRA too, but according to Action Stations it was Nuneaton.

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