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  • in reply to: Connie Edwards fighters – Now sold. #892995
    paulmcmillan
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    You could always stick them in a barn for 40 years and hope someone pays you 100 million for them then

    in reply to: Orkney Spitfire find thread… #893263
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    I would imagine yes Scottish Nationalist Party Air Force

    I would suggest it could be one of those Pink painted PR ones sorry should be Salmon painted

    in reply to: Orkney Spitfire find thread… #893674
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    in reply to: Information sought on crashed aircraft. #906791
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    David do you know where those photos were taken ? It looks like 31 Sqn North West Frontier to me The incident to K1289 would be an earlier one than 1941 to me

    in reply to: Burma Expedition News. #907417
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    Mark12

    Thanks for the update it seems this story has another year to run at least…..

    Paul

    in reply to: Arithmetic of baling #929100
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    Moggy I wonder if the 7,000 number is in just bomber command training eg OTU etc not initial or abintio as until a pilot was streamed fighters bombers transport coastal etc they were in all the same pot

    in reply to: Tempest II in NZ #870224
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    According to WIX it is off to Canads

    in reply to: SPITFIRE P9468 #875871
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    Using Ross’ data Air 78 makes that Kenneth Spencer Harvey 1383958

    in reply to: CAC Boomerang to Europe!!!!! #886964
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    That’s one Boomerang that didn’t return from whence it came

    in reply to: One of Gustav Hamel's as yet unidentified cars #896533
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    Like This

    in reply to: snipe 56 fighter squadron biggin hill #903211
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    Sorry for Raising This Thread from Dead but have some info on this

    Sutton Bridge ORB:

    8-5-1928 F/O G Bradbury (Geoffrey Bradbury) No 41 Sqn injured as a result of an accident to a Siskin (J8402)

    Sutton Bridge ORB

    20-5-1928 07:00 F/O G Bradbury died in West Norfolk Hospital, Kings Lynne, as a result of accident on 8.5.28

    paulmcmillan
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    I have access to No.7 ATS ORB

    Acklington 14/11/38 Seal aircraft No. K4780 crashed into sea near Alnmouth resulting in the death of the pilot, Sergt W. A. Curl, and one passenger A.C.I. J. Millican, and at the subsequent Court of Inquiry held on 17/11/38 the cause of the accident was, in their opinion, failure to recovery from an intentional or unintentional spin before hitting the water.

    2 AOS ORB (was 7 ATS)

    Acklington 20/11/38 Seal aircraft K.4780 raised from the sea and the body of the late J. Millican recovered. This aircraft belonging to No. 7 ATS crashed into the sea on 14/11/38

    in reply to: Civil Spitfire F24 #905155
    paulmcmillan
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    Anyone after a data plate I would suggest looking around here!

    https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1281862,-74.1849114,16z

    in reply to: Civil Spitfire F24 #905160
    paulmcmillan
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    We have a nearer location

    Logansport Pharos-Tribune
    17 April 1953
    Page 8

    “SUFFERN, N. Y. (UP)—A jet airplane crashed in wooded countryside just north of the New York- New Jersey border today, it was reported here. The jet zoomed over the Suffern. municipal building a few minutes before police were notified by telephone that it had crashed near a reservoir at Hillburn. The crash scene was close to heavily travelled Highway 17. Another report identified the pilot as a civilian. Peter D. Freytag who customarily flies a British Spitfire plane out of Teterboro airport. This report cast some doubt on the original identification of the plane as a jet.”

    in reply to: Civil Spitfire F24 #905171
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    The Aeroplane 1953

    “”Eye-witness accounts of the accident differ, some indicating that the aircraft exploded in the air and others after it hit the ground.”

    I leave you to draw your own conclusions of root cause (with absence of the actual accident report) but as far as I can see it can only be 1 of 2 both of which involve collision with a mountain at high speed

    I assume Dick Phillips picture was in the Aeroplane earlier in year as they had a illustration of some of the competitors including Peter D. Freytag’s Spitfire

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