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  • July 5, 2009 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Shuttleworth Meet? #1191666
    GrahamSimons
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    0630hrs start…. 21.02 return – typical Old Warden!

    ‘Saw’ the event framed by the doors of hangar four – in between fire alarms! Lots of gossip…. lots of scandal…. (hmm… I wonder if Legends is gonna be as good as advertised?)

    Lots of old faces… a number of new ones and some nice conversations…. remarkably, everything there seems to have had the right paperwork… AND the right paperwork trail…. no-one was even the slightest bit disappointed that that some aircraft didn’t fly! No queues to get in…. no queues to get out… and before that, no-one trying to hurry you off the field….

    Time flies at Old Warden!

    July 4, 2009 at 7:36 am in reply to: Shuttleworth Meet? #1193037
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    Could always meet by the Snargasher!

    July 3, 2009 at 10:31 pm in reply to: Shuttleworth Meet? #1193143
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    I’ll be there in one of the hangars in my usual spot trying to earn a crust! Stop by and either say hi or punch me in the mouth, depending on if I have annoyed anyone!

    June 12, 2009 at 9:51 pm in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1215139
    GrahamSimons
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    Is it just me, or do I feel another appeal coming on?

    June 6, 2009 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Bleriot pictures #1221559
    GrahamSimons
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    From the files….

    June 5, 2009 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Neil Williams last flight #1222750
    GrahamSimons
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    A sad end, indeed, for a talented man.
    He used to write a column in one of the aviation periodicals…

    Anon.

    That was Aviation News when it was in newspaper format – I got loads of them up in the loft, and they still make good reading! I still think no-one could display a Spitfire like Neil could. Late afternoon at Shuttleworth with the sun low down…. that curving display line… Neil Williams imparted style and grace to a display that truly I have seen from no-one else!

    May 29, 2009 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Help with a P-51 Mustang photo #1232123
    GrahamSimons
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    The same photo is in the original ‘Aces & Wingmen’ captioned as being YF-L of the 358th Fighter Sqn (355th FG), crashed at Manston on 3rd Jan 1945. However 44-14564 was bellied in by Capt. Grant A Seeley near Steeple Modern on that date. According to the database on Littlefriends site it was coded YF-E but what can be seen of the letter doesn’t look like an ‘F’.
    The officer is identified as Lt Col Moody of the 355th, which would make more sense for him to have been photographed close to their base rather than Manston.

    It’s recorded in the 355th Group Combat Diary for 1945 (ref FO.1479A) for January 3rd 1945 which I used to research our Airfield Focus on Steeple Morden. Seely was with the 358th FS and belly-landed at Steeple Morden as stated. I have not had time to check the actual aircraft, but if it was YF:L, on that side, it would read L:YF, which matches the pic.

    May 29, 2009 at 7:05 am in reply to: Flying Through Hangars #1233000
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    You got it …Abbot and Costello …will check title later 😀
    Other one is poss Corkey Fornof in BD5J for the James Bond movie Octopussy

    cheers baz

    Sadly, that never ‘happened’… it was faked up using a Bede mounted on a pole and driven through the hangar with the pole mounted on a vehicle – I think it was a Jaguar. If you got Octopussy on DVD and run the sequence frame by frame you can see the pole and moving car!

    May 24, 2009 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Suggestions, Northern France? #1162190
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    La Coupole is worth a visit but last time I was there it contained a lot of modern rocketry/space stuff. Some really good dioramas tho!

    May 23, 2009 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Crop Culture Ltd, Bembridge,Isle of Wight #1162797
    GrahamSimons
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    So good to see pictures cribbed from books we produce!
    *grins*

    May 23, 2009 at 7:06 am in reply to: Piaggio P166 flying survivors #1163080
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    Is that Cessna 310 G-APUF by any chance? If it is she was also a frequent visitor to Kidlington in the late ’50s – early ’60s.

    The original caption reads: ‘McAlpine Aviation’s fleet at Luton Airport in 1960. Their original Rapide G-ALBC is seen in the centre along with a pair of Piaggio 166s, Lockheed 12A G-AGTL and Cessna 310 G-APUF’.

    May 22, 2009 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Piaggio P166 flying survivors #1163405
    GrahamSimons
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    From our Airfield Focus on Luton – and the late Hugh Scanlan – comes this pic of MacAlpine and their fleet.

    May 21, 2009 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Airshows. A plea to the commentators, please be quiet when the planes arrive! #1164410
    GrahamSimons
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    Old Warden is pretty good – one of the best there used to be Roger Hoefling (spelling) – then he started doing the Hall and something went awry IMO

    May 20, 2009 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Visiting Washington #1164811
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    The Mall is well worth a look – even if a lot of things are gloomily lit and crowded. Udvar-Hazy Center is amazing, even if some stuff is poorly captioned!

    May 13, 2009 at 3:12 pm in reply to: Twin Engined bomber on Norfolk beach? #1174435
    GrahamSimons
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    …and folks wonder why I am so cynical!

    Methinks we have some seagulls around – flies in, cr*ps, then flies out!

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