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  • December 4, 2012 at 11:19 am in reply to: Robert Taylor – Aviation Artist #946722
    Mike J
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    Tried them too!

    Again, no reply.

    Perhaps they just are not interested in earning their client any money.

    They’re not answering the phone???? :confused:

    December 4, 2012 at 10:55 am in reply to: Robert Taylor – Aviation Artist #946726
    Mike J
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    I believe that The Military Gallery were absorbed by Aces High at Wendover. It might be worth a call to them.

    http://www.aceshighgallery.co.uk/contactus

    December 4, 2012 at 3:17 am in reply to: HAC Hurricane Sale #947190
    Mike J
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    my absolute fantasy is to own a Hurricane, cant understand it not being sold…

    3 reasons why it didn’t sell:

    1) It’s not a Spitfire

    2) It wasn’t made in America

    …….and

    3) It’s not a Spitfire.

    December 3, 2012 at 9:13 pm in reply to: India 1920s #947665
    Mike J
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    Thanks for posting those Bar Side. Takes me back to the early days of Shuttleworth’s example, which wore a similar scheme.

    December 3, 2012 at 9:06 pm in reply to: St Athan. Not open to public collection of the 1990s #947675
    Mike J
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    …..
    Percival Proctor III LZ776 – Duxford

    The Proctor is Z7197, presently stored at Stafford I believe. The Duxford example, LZ766, came from Skyfame and was never part of the RAF Museum collection

    December 2, 2012 at 9:45 am in reply to: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow #950325
    Mike J
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    My understanding put simply is the same as the TSR2, America never came up with it & didn’t want anyone else to have it!!!!!

    Ooooh, I do love a good conspiracy theory! 😀

    December 2, 2012 at 9:19 am in reply to: Strange 'Air Ministry' Document? #950473
    Mike J
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    As you say, all very strange. The J/1 was a post-war Auster (the first example, G-AGTO is still operational with Mark Miller at Duxford)

    The date as typed reads ‘19440’? A typo for ‘1949’ perhaps. The document appears to be a record of annual inspection and work carried out, as part of the aeroplane’s log book entry.

    December 2, 2012 at 1:12 am in reply to: Red Tails DVD #950523
    Mike J
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    Yes, you’re right,of course. I guess what I was thinking was that Lucas paid the marketing expense for the film, since no distributor would touch it, and he made back that $40 million and then some.

    Gross box office takings less the theatres’ cut means that I’m sure he didn’t come close to recouping even the marketing costs.

    November 30, 2012 at 8:35 am in reply to: Red Tails DVD #952347
    Mike J
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    I thought ‘Red Tails’ was bad until I got hold of a DVD of ‘Thunder over Reno’ earlier this week. ‘Bad’ doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’s not the $6 that I begrudge so much as the wasted 90 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back.

    November 29, 2012 at 11:41 pm in reply to: Spitfire RW382…. #952541
    Mike J
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    Wasn’t it a low-back last time around? Or am I imagining things.

    November 29, 2012 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Hurricane Auction – Mon 3 December, Brooklands #952546
    Mike J
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    I fear another UK warbird may be heading across the pond ?

    Which would not be unreasonable, considering that an airworthy one has just come the other way.

    In any case, this is a Canadian-built one which served only in Canada, so I wouldn’t class it purely as a UK warbird.

    November 29, 2012 at 7:16 pm in reply to: Hurricane Auction – Mon 3 December, Brooklands #952962
    Mike J
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    My money’s on it remaining unsold. It has been on the market for a while, along with the NZ example, and there has also been talk of the Ed Russell one also being available. We’ll all know the answer to that in a few days, though.

    November 28, 2012 at 11:32 pm in reply to: Which twin-Merlin powered LSR car is this? #954050
    Mike J
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    Wouldn’t it be great if the remains could be rediscovered and exhumed and a restoration based around the surviving parts, in a similar fashion to Parry-Thomas’ Babs and Campbell’s Bluebird K7.

    November 28, 2012 at 7:08 pm in reply to: Total number of airworthy WWII aircraft? #954546
    Mike J
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    ……..And that is after the recent dtatbase purge to eliminate “paper only” planes…but not all are airworthy of course.

    Actually, the recent FAA purge did nothing of the sort, it simply required owners to reconfirm details of the aircraft registered to them. It made no attempt to verify the existence of actual airframes, so I’m sure many owners holding just the paperwork to types that they consider of value have reregistered them.

    I’m sure the exercise did eliminate a lot of the ‘dross’ though, doubtless along with the registrations of some stored projects where the owners have passed on or just didn’t bother or otherwise neglected to reregister them.

    November 28, 2012 at 11:00 am in reply to: C-45 Paint Schemes #955196
    Mike J
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    A selection of Bill’s shots of Beech 18s in military service:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/4777072323/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/5235656144/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/4878265730/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/4644048704/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/4644048704/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/5679942097/

    I left out the AT-11s and civilian-registered examples, but was rather taken with this 1964 shot of an AT-11 converted for spraying

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/4695370784/

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