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June 23, 2004 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Weather Warning!!! Big Storm/hurricane To Hit England!!!! #1976029

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I think we got it in Copenhagen today – it was dreadful there! Now I’m back in Gothenburg and drying out!

June 22, 2004 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Gripen & LCA/J-10 #2684198

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Gripen cockpit 2000

Photo from the afore-mentioned AI article dating from July 2000 . . .

June 22, 2004 at 6:38 pm in reply to: Gripen & LCA/J-10 #2684211

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Gripen weights per Air International article July 2000:
Empty weight (JAS 39A): 14 600 lb (6 662 kg)
Take-off weight, clean: 18 740 lb (8 500 kg)
Take-off weight with external stores: 30 860 lb (14 000 kg)
From Saab/BAe brochure: approx. 14 tonnes

June 22, 2004 at 11:28 am in reply to: Red Arrows to be grounded ????????? are they mad ! #1614156

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Found something here:
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/seavixen/history.html
Sea Vixens were used by two display teams; Simon’s Sircus (named after the team leader, Lt. Cdr. Simon Idiens) and Fred’s Five (also named after their team leader; nicknamed Fred). While short-lived with only around 40 displays put on, Simon’s Sircus was regarded by many as one of the best air display teams ever.

June 22, 2004 at 11:04 am in reply to: Red Arrows to be grounded ????????? are they mad ! #1614190

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Yes, Melvyn, I think you’re right, the name Simon rings a faint distant bell . . .

June 22, 2004 at 10:55 am in reply to: Red Arrows to be grounded ????????? are they mad ! #1614218

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Someone mentioned Sea Vixens . . .

Here are 6 of the Sea Vixens (Yeovilton, early 60s)

June 22, 2004 at 10:29 am in reply to: How pathetic is this #666633

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You basically book a ticket to go from A to B. If you refuse the alternative offered, then you have only yourself to blame! At least they got a free hotel night, unlike my treatment by Lufthansa some years ago when I was stranded in Frankfurt! The hotel room there cost a bomb! But in that case the weather was to blame (blizzard in Sweden).

June 21, 2004 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Gripen & LCA/J-10 #2684915

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Just to remind you what a Gripen looks like . . .

Halmstad last week

June 21, 2004 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Spitfire XI PL965 back home! #1614862

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I could have cleaned up the montage, but only did a quick merge job on it, and anyway I am sure that the original photo is around somewhere in digital format! Apart from the staples, there are strips of “Magic tape” along the centreline!
Anyway, this Forum has members who can Photoshop far better than myself, I only did the 14-week short course (and in Swedish to boot)!

June 20, 2004 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Kemble on Sunday #1615652

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Stunning pictures, I’m tempted to give up attempting photography after seeing these!

June 20, 2004 at 10:11 pm in reply to: Spitfire XI PL965 back home! #1615655

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Reassembled Spitfire

Is this what you were trying to do?

June 20, 2004 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Volvo Baltic Race pix #1977691

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It’s called a “Stridsbåt 90H” and carries up to 21 amphibious troops – “H” = half a platoon, for landing on and transporting troops and materiel to the many islands around Sweden’s coast.
FACTS
LENGTH: 15,9 m
HULL LENGTH: 14,9 m
BREADTH: 3,80 m
HEIGHT (from keel): Mast top: 5 m,
MAX SPEED: Approx. 40 knots
ENGINES: 2 x Scania DSI14 V8 (14 litres, turbocharged, intercooler) of 625 (460kW) or 675 hp each
See
http://www.amf4.mil.se/article.php?id=2908
for more pictures
(Translated from the Swedish by Papa Lima)

June 20, 2004 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Volvo Baltic Race pix #1977711

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How about a caption contest for the second picture?
“Catch me if you can!”

June 20, 2004 at 11:21 am in reply to: How many B29's are left? #1616115

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B-50A 46-010 “Lucky Lady II” of the 43rd Bombardment Group made the first nonstop flight around the world between February 26 and March 2, 1949, being refuelled enroute by four pairs of KB-29M tankers of the 43rd Air Refuelling Squadron. It took 94 hours to complete the 23,452- mile journey.
Source http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b50_1.html

June 19, 2004 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Photos request #1616687

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Sorry about the quality, but perhaps this Vulcan on finals to Cottesmore in 1970 could be the sort of thing you are looking for?
I also have more b/w pix of Buccaneers at Yeovilton in the early 1960s I could scan in too.
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