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  • February 5, 2008 at 1:35 am in reply to: 50 years ago today BEA munich crash #556209
    Papa Lima
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    This for me was one of those moments, when I heard about the crash, that is etched in my memory. I was riding my bike up Silver Street in Lincoln to school when one of my mates told me. It seems as if it was just yesterday.
    The whole of the UK went into mourning that day.

    February 4, 2008 at 10:22 pm in reply to: SB-29 #1279249
    Papa Lima
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    It may be my imagination, but I think I can see the bulge under the rear fuselage which housed the inboard end of the KB-29’s flying boom. That would make it a KB-29P if it is.

    February 4, 2008 at 4:18 pm in reply to: Researching a piece from my Grandfathers collection #1279778
    Papa Lima
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    My 1964-5 Janes lists some Continental horizontally opposed engines made under licence by Rolls Royce, but the bore sizes are either too small or too large.

    February 4, 2008 at 8:35 am in reply to: High Flight film #1280199
    Papa Lima
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    That’s why I decided not to buy it, after I had eventually managed to get the blurb on to my display!

    February 3, 2008 at 11:03 pm in reply to: High Flight film #1280388
    Papa Lima
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    Nothing there when I searched just now!

    February 3, 2008 at 10:57 pm in reply to: SB-29 #1280401
    Papa Lima
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    One of them was SB-29A-40-BN 44-61671 as shown in a photograph on page 77 of Volume 14 of the Warbird Tech Series by Peter M Bowers, publshed by Specialty Press, ISBN 0-933424-79-5. This book also contains a brief description of the SB-29 variant.

    January 31, 2008 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Distance spotting and measuring #557702
    Papa Lima
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    I learned this mnemonic at school (55 years ago):
    Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction
    Sine = Opposite over Hypotenuse
    Cosine = Adjacent over Hypotenuse
    Tangent = Opposite over Adjacent
    If you know the angle and the height (the “Opposite” side of the triangle in this case) you can work out the Adjacent side of the triangle (distance along the ground).
    Go figure!

    January 31, 2008 at 1:05 pm in reply to: More Photos – 1950s – @ airfields in Germany #1284504
    Papa Lima
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    And an archetypal NAAFI wagon (brings back memories!). Look at the angle of the building at the left of that photo!

    January 26, 2008 at 4:53 pm in reply to: General Discussion #355682
    Papa Lima
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    Letters from abroad arrive quite soon here in Sweden, but parcels – aaaaargh! I posted a small parcel to my Swedish address from Washington DC while in the USA and it took 6 weeks! My Swedish friends say that the hold-up is at Swedish Customs, although my parcel (of books) had not been opened, I suppose they X-rayed it.

    January 26, 2008 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Mail #1919046
    Papa Lima
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    Letters from abroad arrive quite soon here in Sweden, but parcels – aaaaargh! I posted a small parcel to my Swedish address from Washington DC while in the USA and it took 6 weeks! My Swedish friends say that the hold-up is at Swedish Customs, although my parcel (of books) had not been opened, I suppose they X-rayed it.

    January 26, 2008 at 4:47 pm in reply to: Short Seaplane #1291151
    Papa Lima
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    There is a very nice photograph on page 7 of the Putnam’s “Westland Aircraft since 1915” by Derek N James showing a Westland-built Short 184 and the engine arrangement, completely blocking the pilot’s forward view. Fascinating.

    January 25, 2008 at 3:23 am in reply to: News report: Thailand to buy 6 Gripens #2510081
    Papa Lima
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    A little more from Dagens Nyheter:

    “Avtalet omfattar sex stycken Gripen, radarövervakningssystemet Erieye och tillhörande datalänksystem. Ordersumman uppgår till omkring 3,8 miljarder kronor. Leverans är tänkt att ske i början av år 2011.”

    The agreement will cover six Gripens, the Erieye radar surveillance system and associated datalink system. The amount of the order is about 3.8 billion Swedish Kronor (= USD 600 million). Delivery is expected at the beginning of 2011.

    January 25, 2008 at 3:19 am in reply to: News report: Thailand to buy 6 Gripens #2510083
    Papa Lima
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    A “miljard” is a Swedish billion, which is 1,000 million (not a million million).
    The amount of SEK 3.8 billion would therefore be USD 600 million.

    January 25, 2008 at 2:06 am in reply to: Bristol Britannia Record Flight #1292931
    Papa Lima
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    According to Wikipedia:

    In civil aviation applications, radio altimeters generally only give readings up 2,500′ above ground level (AGL).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_altimeter

    This ties in with my experience as a radar fitter of 40 years standing (and sitting), where the range is limited by the pulse repetition frequency, and the power output, which for a radar pointing directly downwards and primarily used to aid landing is relatively low.

    January 24, 2008 at 9:40 am in reply to: 'Lightning P1B' XA487 Mr Giles Howell #1293930
    Papa Lima
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    Go to the Thunder-and-Lightnings link in my post above and you will see where the Lightning survivors are.
    Good luck.

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