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  • December 9, 2010 at 6:20 am in reply to: British European Airways Ambassador #1122326
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    Great Elizabethan flight and interior footage in the film ” Innocents in Paris “…
    sadly all in black and white…..

    November 30, 2010 at 6:07 am in reply to: Fairey Constellation?? #1131055
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    …reckon Breda’s much more a likely culprit than Lockheed..witness the BZ 308.??

    November 28, 2010 at 6:28 am in reply to: Defiant Proto K8310 #1133213
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    ..thanks for sharing those, I always though the Defiant could, aesthetically,have been a fine looking aircraft if it hadn’t been lumbered with the turret..was there ever a variant proposed without the turret.??

    November 8, 2010 at 10:07 am in reply to: Engine Remanufacture #1156750
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    I’ve always wondered how much more ( if any ) durable a newly manufactured Merlin (for example) would be in this day and age, given the quantum leaps made in metallurgy and lubrication since WW2….??

    October 31, 2010 at 2:49 am in reply to: an interesting shed ( website) #1091771
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    ….absolutely staggering, and here in Melbourne too..!!

    Hope it all ends up where it can be most usefully used..I might be wrong but seem to recall that Beaufighter tyres had been extinct until now..???

    October 22, 2010 at 11:44 am in reply to: Seaplane Activity At Southend-On-Sea #1100046
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    ..Flew out of Southend, around 1957 as a young lad in a Viking to Berlin ( Overseas Airways..?)..seem to remember the Viking had a wing spar box section going right through the cabin necessitating a big step over it for the long suffering stewardess..

    Also remember saving up for a flight in a blue Prentice with Orange (no joke) windows..happy days.

    October 19, 2010 at 7:47 am in reply to: The Ultimate Aviation Book? #1103754
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    ..I know where you’re coming from Stepwilk, but with apologies up-front here I go..

    Alex’s “Sigh for a Merlin”

    Baders “Reach for the Sky”

    and the Freddie Laker book “Skytrain”

    October 12, 2010 at 7:50 am in reply to: Aircraft Appearing In Films #1111198
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    ..dont forget the awesome Airspeed Ambassador in “Innocents in Paris”..

    and the non-stop Avro York in “Flying with Prudence”..

    and some biplane in “..it’s a mad mad mad world” plus the drunk guy flying the Beech 18 ..

    October 8, 2010 at 11:45 am in reply to: "In The Red" BCAL 707 Into RAF..??? #1115162
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    Sincere thanks again to all for their genuine interest and assistance, it is very much appreciated, I will follow all suggested leads and will advise an end result.

    Forester, your comments are precisely correct in respect of command authority as it was in those days (and as I remember it to be), and yes, Dad spent a long time earlier on the woomera run with Air Charter on DC-4s, and later on the BUA “Africargo” run on DC-6s, and (later I think) on Britannias.

    Thanks again.

    October 7, 2010 at 12:40 pm in reply to: Aircraft Appearing In Films #1116616
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    I can’t recall that, unless in a very minor role. Ann Todd (dir David Leans’ partner) was co star and Dinah Sheridan also appeared.

    Muriel Pavlow did appear in Reach For The Sky and Malta Story though.

    How about someone (Daz?!) tackling the lists and serials of aircraft appearing in the great WWII epics, ie Dambusters, Reach For The Sky, Battle of Britain etc?!:D

    Pagen01

    You are correct, and thanks for that, it was indeed Anne Todd….

    Awesome film tho…

    October 7, 2010 at 12:09 pm in reply to: "In The Red" BCAL 707 Into RAF..??? #1116643
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    Thanks all…and spitfireman, I have emiled Neil as suggested, and will advise the result ..appreciation again to all…

    October 7, 2010 at 11:39 am in reply to: Aircraft Appearing In Films #1116754
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    ..think Muriel Pavlow loved her ’50s aviation films..pretty much sure she c/o leaded in “Sound Barrier” too…

    October 7, 2010 at 11:06 am in reply to: "In The Red" BCAL 707 Into RAF..??? #1116767
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    thanks…fogbound everywhere..pretty sure it was LA to Gatwick..

    October 6, 2010 at 7:00 am in reply to: Aircraft Appearing In Films #1117928
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    …and the early Airspeed twins (memory.??) in the classic pre-war “Q Planes”

    October 6, 2010 at 6:55 am in reply to: Aircraft Appearing In Films #1117935
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    …and the film with a-26 firebombers in it done in the ’80s..seem to remember a nice dead-stick landing in one scene….was it “Inferno”..??

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