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January 29, 2011 at 6:30 pm in reply to: 1, IV and 800 NAS sadly now history #1140177

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Took me a moment – but what a beauty!!

= Tim

January 29, 2011 at 5:36 pm in reply to: 1, IV and 800 NAS sadly now history #1140199

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Memories that cannot be put into cold store.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/nolt40.jpg

= Tim

January 25, 2011 at 7:27 pm in reply to: John Sowrey #1144637

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Oh, dear – senile – read died last year as same year, so ignored.

Yes – the younger.

= Tim

January 25, 2011 at 6:16 pm in reply to: John Sowrey #1144714

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So who/which was the John Sowrey who let me fly one of his squadron’s Spit 21s in 1947??

= Tim

January 15, 2011 at 9:36 am in reply to: Winning design chosen for national Spitfire memorial #1156873

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Trafalgar? My best friend – Pat Hancock – lived & died just down the road – Waterlooville.

He would have loved it!! Third from left.

= Tim

January 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm in reply to: The Battle of Britain living History show 2011 #1089668

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“We’ll probably lose the rest of the vets this year“.

Ooooh, Andy – how depressive!!

This one, for one, is not leaving yet!!

= Tim

December 2, 2010 at 6:25 am in reply to: TV Series Fighter Pilot #1129082

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Aha – but was he flying in one of them??

Not proud!!

= Tim

December 1, 2010 at 1:29 pm in reply to: TV Series Fighter Pilot #1130025

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Forget Buccaneers – fly a real aeroplane!!

This is what they had in my day.

= Tim

November 29, 2010 at 8:03 pm in reply to: CORGI re-writes history. #1131316

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Back to the other bit of the thread – more of the same………..

Damned sight more sensible than flying in your No1s as we did!!

November 29, 2010 at 7:34 pm in reply to: CORGI re-writes history. #1131446

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Is that good?

Certainly good to hear all the background.

Sad that it’s actually found its way into Northolt’s (where it was based!) excellent Battle of Britain Perspective.

= Tim

November 29, 2010 at 5:39 pm in reply to: CORGI re-writes history. #1131497

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Don’t know but I imagine a hangover from Fury days where (from my Hart/Hind days) one got covered in oil??

Like these silly b+++++s trying to run with their ‘chutes on. If it ‘s fitted properly you can’t. Another rant!!

November 29, 2010 at 4:24 pm in reply to: CORGI re-writes history. #1131598

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No problem clarifying this one?

There was only one Arthur Clowes.

As seen before…………..

November 18, 2010 at 10:25 am in reply to: Not much room for error!! #1143989

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All grist to the mill – & new since our day.

A couple of photos to show how the other half lived for 3 months!

– Tim

November 17, 2010 at 6:17 pm in reply to: Not much room for error!! #1145508

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Malden strip, Chris? I’ll believe you, but my eyesight’s not that good!
And since it was highly contaminated by the tests, I wouldn’t have liked to land there.

As to Tongareva, that was one of the isles where we installed microbarographs to monitor the tests.

Majuro? That really is a floating strip!! But at least it has a bit of width?

Waipahu? Then you’ll well know the field that we used to call Hickalulu?

Just for fun – a couple of photos from Fiji. Get that monster??

= Tim

November 17, 2010 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Not much room for error!! #1145660

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Negative, Chris – Malden didn’t have a strip (?) & is a bit of land surrounded ny water. Tongareva (rather like Aitutaki) is a lot of water surrounded by land!

And Christmas, as you know, is half way between those 2 extremes.

Interesting, though, because you’ve led me to this – http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=18807/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl – things I was better off not knowing at the time?

Carrier? This is the only one I’ve flown off – & that was a damned sight too small! (350′ usable).

= Tim
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