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  • April 15, 2004 at 8:29 pm in reply to: Help save the Beverley #1615313
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    In my personal opinion, the new building to be built at Cosford is the same. An architect showing how clever he/she is and impressing the high and mighty that decide on these things.
    A more traditionally shaped building would be of more use to the museum, although less spectacular. Probably not unusual enough to attract the funding.
    The original proposed development shown on the Cosford website, (still there a month ago), was impressive, I thought.
    What’s been agreed isn’t.

    April 15, 2004 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Merlins over Malta #1616065
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    Originally posted by Moggy C
    Which way? 😉

    Moggy

    Well, we obviously don’t want to see you lot again. 🙂

    April 15, 2004 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Merlins over Malta #1616112
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    We had it down as a probability already so we’ll revise that.

    April 15, 2004 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Contra-Rotating props #1616129
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    I’ll have to check again but I thought there were only detail differences between a Mk22 and Mk24. The voltage was supposed to be one but my impression was it hardly justified a different Mk number.

    April 15, 2004 at 12:49 am in reply to: Keith Park BofB Hurricane mistake #1790309
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    Last time I saw that Hurricane it was outside a pub at Green Tye, Hertfordshire. I think it was my justification for visiting the pub.
    It was mentioned on an earlier thread.
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16487
    Long way to go to see it again.

    April 11, 2004 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Duxford's weird jet fighter boat #1796770
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    Originally posted by aj_march
    If I remember correctly there is a Saro A1 at the bottom of the Solent somewhere, Geoffrey Tyson was nearly killed when it inverted after touching down, does this sound familiar to anybody?

    Very nearly right.
    Eric “Winkle” Brown was flying it and was stuck under the wing. IIRC, it was Geoffrey Tyson that dived in and dragged him out.
    The aircraft was never found, but I don’t know how hard they looked.

    April 10, 2004 at 2:36 am in reply to: Iraqi Fury(s) #1799315
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    I shall resist commenting on my views regarding the IQ of the average American.

    April 9, 2004 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Odd uses for aircraft #1800267
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    Hardly Short’s fault. The Air Ministry insisted it be able to fit into existing hangars and the joke undercart came about when the boffins at Farnborough (?) said the take-off run would be too long. As production was already underway, the only way to increase the angle of attack was to lengthen the undercarriage.

    April 9, 2004 at 10:51 am in reply to: Odd uses for aircraft #1801017
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    So that’s where Hendon got the idea. 🙂

    April 9, 2004 at 1:49 am in reply to: MH434 charity book. #1801273
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    James, I can’t imagine how I could possibly help but if you think I can, just say so.

    April 9, 2004 at 1:44 am in reply to: Mosquito #1801289
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    Sadly the Mosquito T.3 that belonged to British Aerospace crashed, killing the crew, and was totally destroyed several years ago. There are no Mosquitoes currently airworthy.

    The turrets were only ever mock-ups, briefly fitted to three airframes and were found to reduce top speed by about 20 mph.
    Neilly may have more pics but I think I’ve only seen one or two.

    April 9, 2004 at 1:27 am in reply to: Iraqi Fury(s) #1801314
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    Although I don’t know when it was built, I would suggest that the original Isaac’s Fury is probably a historic aircraft in it’s own right.
    Is it still about?

    April 7, 2004 at 6:39 pm in reply to: Black out at RAF Museum? #1803609
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    I am now as peeved as Lancman. In my opinion, a ridiculous way to display aircraft.

    April 7, 2004 at 2:14 am in reply to: I'm gutted. I missed seeing…. #1804581
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    Sunderland.

    That’s the only one that comes immediately to mind but I’m sure there are others.
    I was fortunate to see a Vulcan on more than a few occasions (I always describe the sound as making your kidneys rattle) but would love to have seen the Finningley scramble.
    I thought I saw an SR-71 at Mildenhall in the late 80s but was beginning to doubt my memories until I found a pic I took.

    April 4, 2004 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Breighton today? #1809109
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    Well, the weather here, about 40 miles south is terrible, howling gale (very windy to be more accurate) and pouring with rain so I doubt much happened.
    We went to one of the open days last year and there was a terrible crosswind so nothing flew. I wouldn’t be surprised if today was the same.

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