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June 30, 2006 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Cosford Cold War exhibition #1314300

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Thanks for the pics.

Apart from that, I agree with everybody else, except Cking – and I think the building is an eyesore and unfit for purpose (to use a phrase that seems popular nowadays).

June 30, 2006 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Time Team digging a Zeppelin? #1314315

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My parents used to have a ‘van on Cakes & Ale so I’ve been past Theberton church dozens, if not hundreds, of times. I never knew there was anything there or I would have called in.

Some of the Leiston technical site used to still be there in the woods, to the right on the lane that chopped the end off the main runway. There was still a fair bit of the runways left when I first started going there in 1977. By the time Mum sold the van in around 1990 they’d virtually all gone.

June 27, 2006 at 5:34 pm in reply to: FLYING LEGENDS 2006 #1319514

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Oh, I don’t know – he does materialise briefly every 12 months or so.

At least he’s consistent. 🙂

June 22, 2006 at 2:56 pm in reply to: FLYING LEGENDS 2006 #1326049

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Does that mean I have to pay to get into ‘The Friends of Duxford’ enclosure? 😀

Brian

You already have, when you joined/paid for Friends of Duxford.

June 21, 2006 at 6:26 pm in reply to: New remake of "633 Squadron"? #1327252

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Frederick E Smith wrote about half a dozen books in the 633 Squadron series.

None had quite the impact of the original but surely one of them would be better than a re-make.

June 17, 2006 at 11:52 pm in reply to: Anybody at the Biggin Hill Air Fair in 1963? #1331551

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I think my first, and only, one was 1966 too, but I had progressed to long trousers.

Nearly brown ones as I was walking across the back field when a Red Arrow came over at an altitude I’m still convinced was lower than my head. 🙂

June 17, 2006 at 1:13 am in reply to: Queens Birthday Flypast this Saturday #1332180

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Good stuff, Old Speckled Hen, far better than when Morlands brewed it.

Kimberley ale is rubbish. How they managed to brew a 4.8% beer (Classic) with zero taste I will never understand. No loss as far as I’m concerned, I avoid their pubs anyway.

June 13, 2006 at 4:05 am in reply to: Victor Crescent Wing #1335238

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Every description I’ve ever read said the prototype was black with a red cheatline.

June 9, 2006 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Forumites at Leg ends, Duxford #1336403

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Unfortunately I’ve got to go Sunday rather than Saturday this year.
I was invited to a birthday bash about 18 months ago – what a totally inconsiderate day to have a birthday. 🙁 Difficult to get out of it with that much advance notice.

If anybody’s still around Sunday, no doubt I’ll have my usual habits, ending in the Lion.

May 16, 2006 at 8:28 am in reply to: Did the Allies use Captured German Aircraft? #1284146

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That incident with the Arado’s in one of Winkles’s books.

IIRC, it was sabotage. He had half a dozen Luftwaffe techies working on it and none of them would say who’d done it until the brown job in charge produced a revolver whereupon they all pointed at one bloke. No further problems. 🙂

May 1, 2006 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Questions about the Stringbag #1306460

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Or you could go to Duxford (not exactly on the way to Wales but nearer than you are now) and see the radar-equipped RAF MkIII.

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=191

May 1, 2006 at 3:25 pm in reply to: The Day-Glo thread…. #1306524

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Tut, tut, I wish you guys wouldn’t keep testing my archives….here is XR391 taken air-to-air in 1966 and XH375 at Abingdon on 7th June 1968 making a ‘dry run’ prior to the 50th Anniversary of the RAF celebrations there…..next please? 😉

Too loud, man. 🙂

April 30, 2006 at 4:01 pm in reply to: WWII Aviation Pubs (2004 thread) #1307811

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Thanks for the link Dezz. Shades of the Nazi factory under the Harz mountains…

April 26, 2006 at 4:18 am in reply to: WWII Aviation Pubs (2004 thread) #1313752

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………the blocked off underground works is still there.
Dezz

Tell us more. (Well me, anyway).

April 25, 2006 at 5:50 pm in reply to: WWII Aviation Pubs (2004 thread) #1314258

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In Fowlmere there is the pub called “The Checkers” where members of the 339thFG hung out and called homed during the war. I know many 339th men who spent some fun times during the war in the that pub and I guess the pub is still there.

Don’t you spell funny. 🙂

Yes it is still there – http://www.localsecrets.com/showreview.cfm?id=7922

Sounds a bit too upmarket for me, foodwise at least.
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