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  • January 29, 2004 at 3:34 pm in reply to: MH434 And Her Many Guises #1825068
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    The title could be:

    A Spitfire – the History.

    I don’t suppose Key would be amused.

    January 29, 2004 at 3:17 am in reply to: High speed taxing at St Athen !!!! #1825106
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    March

    http://forum.airforces.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3992&highlight=xv575

    July

    http://forum.airforces.info/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4903&highlight=xv575

    January 29, 2004 at 1:40 am in reply to: Supermarine Graveyards #1825110
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    I read that website a year or two back and, IIRC, the powers-that-be suddenly put a block on any further ferreting around.

    January 28, 2004 at 5:02 pm in reply to: High speed taxing at St Athen !!!! #1825225
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    Google is your friend.

    http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/TPC/Funny_Pictures/0001-1000/0001-0100/0090/TPC_0090.htm

    Flood, a sure sign of old age is thinking things happened recently.
    I speak from experience.
    It appears to have been posted on the old keymags forum in March (and July) 2002.

    January 28, 2004 at 1:11 am in reply to: Lancaster NX664 #1825301
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    Excellent site.

    Just bumping this up and adding this link.

    http://www.chez.com/eternalflight/nd689.html

    It’s a request for help regarding a dig a few years ago.

    Puzzles me a bit as well. Why would the Lanc have a G suffix. (I know what it means, I’m just wondering what needed guarding.)

    January 28, 2004 at 12:49 am in reply to: High speed taxing at St Athen !!!! #1825304
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    That picture is on Ray Hanna’s office wall.
    I wonder if there’s a connection or if he just likes it.

    January 27, 2004 at 4:23 am in reply to: Horten program C4 (2004 Zombie) #1825494
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    A largely complete Horten, don’t know which one, was found at the end of the war and shipped to the States.
    I’ve got a feeling I’ve seen postwar pictures of it so presumably it’s still there somewhere. Silver Hill?

    January 27, 2004 at 3:11 am in reply to: Storage of digital images #1825496
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    Apparently the initial thought that CDs would last for ever has been revised. I’ve certainly got a few that are unreadable, due to light degradation. Admittedly, they weren’t stored in a cool dark place and I’m sure dyes have improved over the last few years but I will certainly make multiple copies when I take them off the hard drive.
    Snapper commented a few months ago that he re-archives every couple of years. I suspect that’s the way to go.

    January 27, 2004 at 3:00 am in reply to: MH434 And Her Many Guises #1825497
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    Another copy sold.

    I think it’s possible it may work better in landscape with one picture per page. As by it’s very nature it’s going to be largely photographic, it’s going either to need an awful lot of text to fill up the blank bits or a huge number of photographs in portrait. Depends how many pictures people come up with I suppose.

    Just throwing ideas in, one of Dan’s great profiles could accompany each set of photographs. If there are thought to be too many, they could all be used on the inside covers, like Spitfire – the History.

    PS. Dan, you’ve spelt Biggin wrong (and Elstree, I’ve just noticed)

    PPS. I love that mock BOAC civil scheme.

    January 26, 2004 at 5:38 pm in reply to: Tsr2 XR219 #1825569
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    The photographs on the wall at Elvington showing the recovery of the wings certainly shows them in crates. To find one set was extremely fortunate, the chances of there being two seem extremely unlikely.

    January 22, 2004 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Another Caption comp #1826079
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    Just like cars, it’s got a crumple zone.

    January 22, 2004 at 12:23 pm in reply to: WW2 aircraft gate guards #1826128
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    I think it’s me that’s past my sell by date.:)
    In my defence, I spent a good deal of the mid-seventies in an alcohol-induced haze, especially when in NW Kent.

    I was glad to see the post about the 1 Squadron Spitfire Mk21. I used to catch a glimpse of it outside on the apron at Wittering when hurtling past on the A1 and often wondered which one it was. The Mk21 is my personal favourite.

    January 22, 2004 at 3:42 am in reply to: WW2 aircraft gate guards #1826212
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    I remember seeing the Hurricane outside the chapel at Biggin Hill on a few occasions during the seventies.
    Is it my fading memory or was there a Spitfire there as well?

    January 22, 2004 at 12:51 am in reply to: Italian Museum help needed #1826220
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    You’re welcome, Galdri, hope it’s worth a visit.

    January 21, 2004 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Italian Museum help needed #1826340
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    Just Googled and found this:

    http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/museums/mst.htm

    If you can’t follow links, here’s the basic details.

    Address: Via S. Vittore 21 – I-20123 Milano (I)
    Hours: Tue-Sun 9:30-17:00

    Phone: +39-2-485551, Fax +39-2-48555305

    Transports: Subway Line 2, S. Ambrogio. Bus n. 50, 54, 96, 97

    National Science and Technology Museum of Milan, the most important in Italy, offers to Aviation enthusiasts a large pavilion with many interesting examples

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