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June 3, 2023 at 12:50 am in reply to: Nightingales and allied Bombers #752631

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Not listening to this, as I haven’t – I’m not even sure I’ve got speakers plugged in to this PC – but what brought it home to me was the night time taxi runs of Just Jane, NX611.

At around 7.00 in the evening, on the ground, there was already rime on the perspex. It doesn’t bear thinking about what it was like at 15-20,000 feet in an hour or two.

The last time we were there, some years ago, I was I guess, early sixties. They were mostly late teens or early twenties.

All volunteers…

At that age, although I was, I shouldn’t have been trusted with a motorbike or car, let alone a four-engined bomber.

May 12, 2023 at 9:16 am in reply to: Only a matter of time. #753306

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Coal mining in the UK is stopping completely any time now due to green issues.

Apparently it’s “greener” to import coal for steel production, and the drop in the ocean needed for heritage railways, from halfway around the world than to dig it up here.

Like chopping trees down in America, converting them into wood pellets and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn in a power station.

There’s nobody as stupid as a green zealot, apart from a politician obviously.

May 12, 2023 at 9:06 am in reply to: Bawdsey Ferry – Pre WW2 Flying Boat Hulls #753315

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Baz, since we’re both long-standing members, I could PM you as there’s a “Send private message” button below your post count.

Pre ‘improvement’ members with only a handful of posts have the facility.

May 11, 2023 at 7:45 pm in reply to: Bawdsey Ferry – Pre WW2 Flying Boat Hulls #753344

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You now need several hundred posts before private messages are enabled, so don’t hold your breath!

May 11, 2023 at 12:08 am in reply to: Help with information on 362B2 squadron ww2 #753403

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Although I knew stocks of mustard gas were still held in WWII, by both sides I believe but certainly here, I wasn’t aware of it actually being used anywhere.

It’s difficult to argue with somebody who says it actually happened to them, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.

April 27, 2023 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Vas ist das? Secret British schnell fighter 1942 #753545

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The M2-F3 probably, as that looks nearest to what I remember.

IIRC, I had an 1970(ish) Aircraft Annual by Ian Allan so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was where I saw it. The timescale’s about right and it’s the sort of article they would have printed. I’ve probably still got it somewhere…

I’m no aerodynamicist so I’m not even going to try to understand any theories of lift other than the generally accepted one.

April 27, 2023 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Vas ist das? Secret British schnell fighter 1942 #753577

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I have a picture in my mind of what could have been a space shuttle concept or similar lifting body. I’ve no idea all these years later whether it was an artist’s impression, a model or something that was actually built and tested.

It had a cockpit right at the front, a pretty well dead flat upper surface with a fin/rudder each side at the back and a continuously curved lower surface.

I haven’t a clue how it was supposed to generate lift, if anything I would have thought the opposite.

April 26, 2023 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Vas ist das? Secret British schnell fighter 1942 #753684

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Fred, George and Blossom Miles were very under-rated as aircraft designers – vis M.52.

The Yanks did a lot of research into blended wings, lifting bodies etc. 50-60 years ago including what, as I recall , was an early concept for a space shuttle.

No idea now whether they lost interest or I did…

April 26, 2023 at 11:33 am in reply to: Flight In a two seat Spitfire #753734

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Since the forum revamp, new members need several hundred posts before PMs are enabled.

I suggest that once you’ve made contact, you edit your post to remove your email address.

April 26, 2023 at 11:31 am in reply to: Vas ist das? Secret British schnell fighter 1942 #753735

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Miles M.30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_X_Minor

Not being clever, I just guessed that P & P might be Phillips and Powis and it was.

Gipsy Major, not Gypsy.Major.

No idea why but that’s how DH spelt it.

April 7, 2023 at 11:34 am in reply to: Air Racing in France #754053

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Would there be any Wright Flyers still flying in the 20s?

There was a quantum leap in aircraft design in the 17+ years since Kitty Hawk.

April 5, 2023 at 9:41 am in reply to: AgCat with Unusual Engine #754092

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I spy spam, here and the Spitfire survivors thread.

I’ve never understood the point of this sort of spam. Is it me?

Still no report button.

March 26, 2023 at 10:00 am in reply to: Wooden Propeller ID Sought #754329

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Gun Timings suggests to me that it was fitted to a fighter with interrupter gear and had to be fitted in the correct orientation on the crankshaft.

On that basis, a Short 184 seems pretty unlikely.

March 19, 2023 at 1:21 am in reply to: Coastal Command Spitfire in 1940? #755060

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According to wiki Coastal Command couldn’t manage in the early part of the war until it got it’s act together in1942, while this was going on it was the RAF who stepped up and managed things.

Coastal Command IS RAF like all the other Commands. Fighter, Bomber, Transport, Training, etc..

Offhand, I can’t remember if Coastal Command ever operated Spitfires but I’d be extremely surprised to find any had been allocated to them at that stage of the war when every single one mattered.

I would have thought they’d still be struggling through with Ansons and the like.

March 12, 2023 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Buried……. Bf109! #755262

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Thanks.
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