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September 10, 2004 at 4:41 pm in reply to: MyTravel "We are making good progress towards achieving the turnaround" #647419

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Looks nice, though, and was very impressive as it passed my balcony! Pity there are no aircraft that come anywhere near me!

September 10, 2004 at 3:05 pm in reply to: RAF VC10 #428951

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Speechless and green with envy!

September 10, 2004 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Squawks #435834

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Barnowl, you’ve pinched my tag line! I’ll have to find a new one now Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

September 10, 2004 at 11:59 am in reply to: AR501's wingtips – remember this?? #1557317

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Clipped wing Spitfire

While visiting East Fortune, Dodrums and I took a close look at the wing tips on this Spitfire, and couldn’t decide whether they had been clipped properly or not – there was an impression that it may have been an “amateur” job. Does anyone know more about this particular Spitfire and its wing tips?

September 10, 2004 at 10:45 am in reply to: Boeing Washington B1 #1557385

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When I lived at RAF Waddington while the Washingtons were stationed there, I only ever saw them in natural finish.

September 10, 2004 at 8:18 am in reply to: Canadian trip – British Columbia Aviation Museum, Sidney #1557500

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Many thanks, Consul, for that information which I have now included in my captions.

September 9, 2004 at 7:50 pm in reply to: MyTravel "We are making good progress towards achieving the turnaround" #648701

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My Travel ship

I wondered what this ship that I saw moored in Gothenburg today had to do with aircraft! Now you have partly answered my unspoken question. However it was also visiting Gothenburg a few weeks ago, when I took this photo, so it appears that MyTravel is still offering North Sea cruises . . . there were plenty of tourists on board!

September 9, 2004 at 1:44 pm in reply to: Defiant Walkaround #1558289

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Further to post #19, the first test of a Martin Baker ejection seat was in a Defiant flown by Bryan Greensted, Rotol’s chief test pilot, at RAF Wittering on 11 May 1945, with a dummy in the seat.
I have seen a photo of this aircraft somewhere, but haven’t been able to locate it yet.
Dummies were used for the first 7 tests, followed by another 6 tests at Beaulieu. The seat was fitted into a Meteor Mk III for further testing which culminated in Bernard Lynch being ejected at 320 mph at 8 000 ft on 24 July 1946.

September 8, 2004 at 10:31 pm in reply to: A Salute to the T-6!! #1558821

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Here are 6 from Oshkosh and 2 from Abbotsford this year. I haven’t managed to get very far with my captions for this year’s photo harvest, and I already know that I won’t be able to find much info on these “Harvards” (I’m a Brit!) so if anyone out there could help me with identification and a little background, such as the owner and base airfield, I would be very grateful.

September 8, 2004 at 3:46 pm in reply to: Cancelled projects #2653672

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Comanche cancellation

“In February 2004, the US Army announced that it plans to cancel further research, development and planned purchases of the RAH-66 Comanche stealth helicopter. It considers that the helicopter will not meet the requirements of changing operational environments. An amendment to Congress will be submitted for the 2005 budget request that would allow the Army to terminate the Comanche program and reallocate funds to restructure Army aviation programs. The Army plans to buy approximately 800 more aircraft and upgrade another 400 with the diverted Comanche funds.”

From http://www.army-technology.com/projects/comanche/

September 8, 2004 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Some more to try and guess.. #1559487

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No, I must be wrong, that looks like a retractable undercarriage; the Seamew’s was fixed!

September 8, 2004 at 1:06 pm in reply to: Some more to try and guess.. #1559489

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No. 7 is surely a Short Seamew, although the Seamew was unarmed, so what are the four objects sticking out of the wings?

September 8, 2004 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Ahh! Beverleys! #1559531

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I have a Canon 8000 scanner that can handle various size negatives as well as paper prints/book pages. It does everything I need and more – and I am in the publishing business! Dunno if it’s cheap in the UK though!

September 8, 2004 at 10:56 am in reply to: The first Warbird you saw fly! #1559754

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Swordfish at Yeovilton, around 1961.

September 8, 2004 at 9:25 am in reply to: Schneider Racing Aircraft, Some Pics #1559866

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Fiat AS.6: “The crankshaft on the front engine had a large gearwheel on the back driving a hollow propeller shaft lying between the cylinder blocks. The rear crankshaft had a similar gearwheel on the front to drive a second shaft down the centre of the first. . . . the two shafts drove contrarotating propellers . . .”
From page 133 of “The Development of Piston Aero Engines” by Bill Gunston, which also examines the relationship between the “R” engines, Kestrel and Merlin.
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