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July 23, 2006 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Vulcan 607 – An awesome book! #1281593

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Barry Masefield and I joined up together, so I’d better get myself a copy! We were the two smallest guys in the Ground Radar (Nav) class at Locking, so were always next to each other on parades.

July 23, 2006 at 10:49 pm in reply to: Heads up "Strategic Air Command" BBC2 Sunday #1281600

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Like Mark12, I saw this as a schoolboy in the cinema. I stayed in my seat after the afternoon showing finished and watched it all again!
Unfortunately there is no chance of it ever being on Swedish TV so if there is a DVD or video around, I would like to lay my hands on one. DVD for preference.
June Allyson was a highly desirable young lady in those days (50 years ago!) and I was sad to read of her passing the other day.

July 23, 2006 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Busy afternoon at Säve today #471526

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Just PM me with your E-mail address if you want high-resolution JPG copies of any of these.

July 23, 2006 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Busy afternoon at Säve today #471531

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My car

Mazda MX-5 Miata, sadly vandalised in February when the pikeys took half the engine out – took 2 months to repair!
Sorry to go off-thread, but I love my car almost as much as aircraft!

July 23, 2006 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Here's a funny for you all. #1281959

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Mildly amusing, pity about the wretched dialogue. I see that the film crew included a trouser presser! When I was in the mob I had to press my own trousers (except in Bahrain, where we had Indian “batmen” to do that kind of thing, but I digress).

July 23, 2006 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Busy afternoon at Säve today #471647

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Final batch from Säve

11. EI-DHE lifting off.
12. EI-DCT also lifting off, from my newly-found spotting spot at the south end of the runway – I’ll be using this spot much more in the future! Only a local resident would be able to find it, though.
13. EI-DCT folds up her wheels,
14. and all clean, jets off.
15. Goshdarn it, on my way home I had to stop at the traffic lights for this Wizzair Airbus HA-LPC A320-233 arriving from Warsaw to land, grabbed my camera and shot through the side window – but it worked!
Not bad for a couple of hours in the sunshine – and almost all the pix came out OK, thanks partly to much use of my trusty unipod.
The Canon EOS 350D is the bees knees as far as I am concerned!
All I have to do now is to upgrade from 200 mm to 300 mm or even 500 mm!

July 23, 2006 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Vulcan 607 – An awesome book! #1281996

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http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=207360

Link to PPrune for Peter

July 23, 2006 at 11:17 am in reply to: Vulcan 607 – An awesome book! #1282314

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Septic, your picture must be older than you think, 607 has been on the other side of the airfield for a long time now (over a year, I think), and I believe that corrosion is now getting a strong grip on her. There was a thread on her condition by those best placed to know on PPrune quite a while ago.

July 22, 2006 at 10:59 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282647

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“The V-1 was an odd and ingenious weapon, designed to be cheaply built in large numbers. Early production items were largely made of metal, though wooden wings were quickly introduced.”

The plot thickens!

http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/jet%20age/cruise.htm

July 22, 2006 at 10:51 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282651

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“Machine gun bullets had little effect on the sheet steel structure”

This article seems to be a little more credible . . .

http://experts.about.com/e/v/v/V-1_flying_bomb.htm

July 22, 2006 at 9:49 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282695

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Received my Friends of Duxford card renewal the other day, but it’s a bit far away and I’m busy, otherwise I would love to nip over and check it! Aren’t there a few in other museums, too, such as Lambeth, the Science Museum and Cosford?

July 22, 2006 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282932

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http://www.constable.ca/v1.htm

states that the wings were made of wood.

Mind you, I never believe uncorroborated statements published on the Internet!

Any experts out there?

July 22, 2006 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282978

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V1 flying bomb cutaway

I doubt it, since it had a spar and ribs, which could have been covered in plywood, for example (I also doubt that the Germans would have wasted large amounts of expensive aluminium sheet).
Cutaway from page 111 of “Air Warfare”by Peter G. Cooksley

July 20, 2006 at 11:59 pm in reply to: Aeroseum Gothenburg #1285442

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More pictures and info

(8) Augusta-Bell 206 Jet Ranger, one of two carried aboard the icebreaker Ymer in the summer cruise to the Arctic in 1980. Apart from reconnaissance and transport, these helicopters were used to help in the polar bear census. The right rear door was removed and anaesthetic darts were fired at the bears. Hence the polar bear tally on the nose, one with a crown above denoting that the King was present on that occasion.The first Jet Ranger, Hkp6, was supplied to the Swedish Defence forces in August 1968 for a mere SEK 664 000 fully equipped.
(9) Alouette 02036 Hkp2, these first arrived in January 1959.
(10) Coastguard Cessna 337, SE-GMM was the Swedish Coastguard’s first aircraft of their own. This model is equipped with STOL wings and a SLAR (sideways looking airborne radar) underneath. Oil in the coastal waters can be detected with this at up to 30 km day, night or in fog.
(11) Viggen 37094 – cockpit acces to this and most of the other aircraft is possible, as you can see from the ladders by their sides.
(12) Draken 35415 and Viggen.
(13) A different Draken and the Viggen 37911.

July 20, 2006 at 5:00 pm in reply to: New Camera Advice wanted. #460107

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I am pleased as Punch with my new Canon EOS 350D, which does everything I have ever wanted from a camera – but I took my “old” Minolta Dimage A1 to the Aeroseum today for static indoor shots (on the other Forum), as it has a faster lens, and the results were also excellent (using a unipod for support).
It seems that half the trick lies in the camera user, hence I practice as much as possible. I am finding that I need to use Photoshop much less nowadays to correct my faults!
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