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February 25, 2004 at 5:27 pm in reply to: Spit ID please #1601624

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So, I take it it was scrapped, after the engine problem, or is it resting at the bottom of the sea? 🙁

February 25, 2004 at 5:10 pm in reply to: Spit ID please #1601638

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Is this any better?

February 24, 2004 at 11:05 pm in reply to: Now this is Low… (Yes, another Spitfire thread!) #1602449

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I’ve got it on my HD and I wish I knew how to alter the outcome of the low pass. I think it would be good to make a spoof of the Fosters add, and the presenter to loose his head!:D

February 24, 2004 at 10:31 pm in reply to: Now this is Low… (Yes, another Spitfire thread!) #1602524

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Hi sconnor.

Well it’s not my website.

The clip was posted on our EAW forum, some time ago and I posted the link here, a few weeks back because I thought you guys might not have seen it.

February 24, 2004 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Now this is Low… (Yes, another Spitfire thread!) #1602616

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HI DazDaMan!

Look here for your video clip

http://alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/ohmygodSpitfire%20pass.wmv

Right click, and save target as……….

February 24, 2004 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Now this is Low… (Yes, another Spitfire thread!) #1602928

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Undercart lever a bit sticky, was it sir?:D

February 24, 2004 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Anymore scrap yard pics??? #1603077

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Back in the late 70’s, I used to go to Booth’s at Rotherham, who used to handle to breaking up of loads or railway stuff, but I also remember seeing a load of Vulcan’s piled up in the yard. I did take pictures of some of the planes there, but there all on slides, and my present scanner won’t scan them.

Another place I saw scrapped aircraft were at Pound’s yard in Portsmouth, where a WWII sub is still beached, and a small scrapyard on the outskirts of RAF Benson, where I rescued a 1914 General Bus Company, double decker. I could have had loads of bits from all these places, but at the time I was busy recovering stuff for the railway, or helping friends. 🙁

February 24, 2004 at 9:41 am in reply to: Exhausts at night #1603436

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Thanks Guys!

I had imagined the glow was slight, but I guess with the boost turned up, to do an attack run, the enemy must have been able to see them coming a few miles off.

Interesting point about bombers, I was going to ask about them, but my main question was for fighters. How about radial engines, what sort of effects do you get from them at night. I would guess very little as the engine is shrouded, and they have only one, or two large exhaust pipes generally, which must be easier to suppress?

February 19, 2004 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Hanging a Mosquito! #1608233

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Quite agree! 😮

Stupid plan!

By all means hang stuff up there but not planes which people want to get close to and see properly. Is this the one that was hung un the science museum?

February 13, 2004 at 10:26 am in reply to: Dan air's Lancastrian. #1616964

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Nice to see it survived. 🙂

I’d always thought it had got the chop, as so many things did around that time. Any idea what happend to the Dan-Air Comet, and Dakota from Lasham?

I alway popped in when it was an open airfield, as I used to drive from Alton to Basingstoke, a lot in those days, and there was always interesting stuff there. One day I saw a B17 which was refuelling after doing a tribute flight over Aldershot. It was the one and only time I’ve been on a real B17, just a shame I had no camera with me.:(

To this day there is that collection of old planes at the end of the field, but most of them are not in very good condition.:(

February 12, 2004 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Dan air's Lancastrian. #1617558

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Yep, well sounds like the one. I never was one on passenger planes, but I remember it was a bit like a Lanc, but with three tails.

Nice to know it’s still around. 🙂

February 7, 2004 at 5:54 pm in reply to: New build mossies #1821492

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I find it amazing that a plane that was designed in a few months, during W.W.II, and built mostly by cabinet makers, using timber and glue that was far below the specs of modern day materials, should be so hard to reproduce.

Sadly in those days if it flew it was good enough, but today’s world of paperwork, and alike bull ****, just makes doing anything like this almost impossible. 🙁

I would love to see a Mossi flying, and sometimes building new planes is the only way to go, as the originals are to valuable to risk destroying, as happened a few years back.

I mostly work on preserved steam engines, and I have a very good understanding of engineering, but what we do to keep engines running these days, entails us building almost new ones from old, and the paperwork and bureaucrats are there too.

I sometime wish we could get rid of those people who make a living from the rest of us who just want to enjoy our hobby!

February 6, 2004 at 10:10 am in reply to: News From Flug Werk – Wow! #1823861

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Yep Steve, that’s the one, and I think that’s the picture I saw two years back, when it was on display. Does anyone know anything more on what has happened to it recently?

February 5, 2004 at 11:35 pm in reply to: News From Flug Werk – Wow! #1823890

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Anyone know the condition of the Me109 in Poland? It was supposed to be put on display in the museum in Krakow, but on my last visit, it was still not there. Mind you that was two years ago.

February 5, 2004 at 11:30 pm in reply to: New build mossies #1823891

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Super news, because the jig making process is the difficult bit, once done, mass production is not a problem.:)
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