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  • in reply to: Can you ID this 1970s TV kids drama #1345919
    Old Fart
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    Wasn’t Budgie an invention of Sarah, Duchess of York?

    Yep.

    How about Roger Ramjet.

    in reply to: Vickers Viscounts – A Few Pictures #1345923
    Old Fart
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    My first flight on a Viscount was on the first round of the farewell flights operated by BWA from Southend and back to Southend but…

    that included low passes over Northolt and a very very low pass over Brooklands before a pass over Southend, very emotional.

    done a few others that year as well as the following year when Helijet had bought the aircraft and done farewell Viscount flights, all my Viscount flights were in G-APEY

    in reply to: 1970s airshow teams help #1346545
    Old Fart
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    Cheers

    all the programme has listed is “Aircraft of RAF Support Command”

    in reply to: 1970s airshow teams help #1346946
    Old Fart
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    What types where support command flying in 1970.

    in reply to: Can you ID this 1970s TV kids drama #1347098
    Old Fart
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    Seem to rember something about this not what it was called but the plot was on a dimond hiest in France they were bringing the dimonds to the UK via radio controlled 109’s?, with diffrent pilots taking over along the route, the kids got help from some guy and sent up thier own squadron of Spitfires, cant rember how but the kids got the diamonds and sent them up in ther spit from france for the long flight to UK over the English Channel, the bad guys had 109’s? all the aircraft were fitted with darts that could be fired off to shoot down the other aircraft.

    Nick

    PS:the Spitfires won and none ran out of fuel mid channel!

    in reply to: Vickers Viscounts – A Few Pictures #1349413
    Old Fart
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    Thanks for posting,

    Love the old Viscount saw them everyday for years over head as I live near Southend Airport great shame that none now fly in the UK

    in reply to: Aviation related Car Boot finds or similar #1365209
    Old Fart
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    Odds ‘n’ sods mostly

    including Corgi Viscount test model (50p)
    Corgi lancaster test model (50p)
    Southend Historic Aircraft Museum guide book (50p)

    in reply to: Aviation named pets #1367117
    Old Fart
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    Worse thing they can do is use the litter box when you have visiters and what they leave can only be removed with the use of an NBC suit or sold off as a new terror weapon!

    in reply to: Aviation named pets #1367703
    Old Fart
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    Cheers,

    Had a cat called Digby, would have been nice if he had been nammed after RAF Digby but he was named after Digby the largest dog in the world! it was a mix up in the names or something, anyway he was found on Foulness ranges dodgeing the shells and bombs inbetween being fed by the base staff, when I got him was told he is very old, has frostbite on his nose, ears, bosseyed excma (scabs) and that he would not last more than 3 months all he wanted was a little bit of love and a secure warm home for the last bit of his life.

    He also had a problem about washing himself so… you’ve guessed it had had a regular bath in the sink cats normally hate water but he loved it!

    I must be doing something right as he lasted 5years!

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Digby.jpg
    Digby gave nothing but love… and dribble lots and lots of dribble

    just because a pet becomes ill or old is no excuess to throw it out with the rubbish, people who mistreat animals are some of the lowest of the low, some of the storys I have heard are heartbreaking,

    I fosterd a Ginger Tom Cat call willum he’s previous owner used him as a football, he had had his pelcis broken and dumped thankfully he surived and had a good few years whit us knowing nothing but love.

    in reply to: Gonna buy a new model… #229897
    Old Fart
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    say sod it and get both that what I would do…

    if I had any cash which I havent so I cant.

    in reply to: Aviation named pets #1368911
    Old Fart
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    I foster cats from the CPL all have FIV (Feline AIDS) so nobody wants them, got one a short time ago called Oscar

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Odds%20N%20Ends/oscarwobble.jpg

    Used to have a Merlin (white tortie)

    Brother and his misses have a Ginner called Beau

    in reply to: Fokker DR1 #1371590
    Old Fart
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    Looks great, not enough room for one that big!

    in reply to: Fokker DR1 #1372203
    Old Fart
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    More pics ar requested:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Models/Fokker7.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Models/FokkerCan.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Models/Fokker9.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Models/Fokker11.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Models/FokkerEngine.jpg

    She is purly a static model after all the detail work thats gone in to her knowing my luck she would end up as match sticks and scrap metal on her firsft flight!

    I need to fix a problem with the rudder a hinge snapped in two, alsong with a control horn on the control surface, which sheard off, once these are fixed and the control line are run through (again!) she can finaly go on display somewhere on top of bookcase at presnent not a safe location but of the way of three mental moggies!

    in reply to: 1980s Southend #1372393
    Old Fart
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    cheers for that David I’ll pit date my notes.

    in reply to: 1980s Southend #1373437
    Old Fart
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    G-ANZJ (C/N H687)

    Was sold at the auction to Paul Raymond for the Whiehall Theatre of war it then went to A Hillyard last nated with him in 1998.

    I’ll pull out the older W&Rs I have and have a look later.

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