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  • in reply to: APPEAL FOR EARLY FLYING FILMS #401118
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    Acrobatics are what people do, aerobatics are what aircraft or aeroplanes (not “planes”) do.
    Pedantic mode off, but the BBC should know better!

    in reply to: Paphos Shackletons Saved #1251875
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    Is the French aircraft a Flamant?
    I thought the Shackletons were bought by a private person – perhaps he abandoned them a long time ago.

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1251879
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    Kaman also produced the forerunner of the Osprey – google up the Kaman 16B to see it – an incredible machine base of a Grumman Goose, with a tilting wing and two enormous propellers!

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1251887
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    Kaman Huskie at MAM

    Kamans, featured in the “other” magazine this month, by coincidence. Very ingenious, eliminating the tail rotor.
    There’s one tucked away at MAM Baginton which I captured earlier this year:

    in reply to: Carvair – Alive & well #1252064
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    Could be Ryanair’s next gimmick!

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1252072
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    Courtesy of Aerofiles, the best quick reference source on the Web for American aircraft!
    HUP-2, -2S 19?? = 550hp Continental R-975-42; rotor: 35’0″ length: 56’11” v: 105/x/0 range: 340. Autopilot. POP: 339 [128479/128600, 129418/129522, 129978/130085, 134434/134437], of which some with radar as HUP-2S for anti-sub warfare. Redesignated as UH-25B in 1962.

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1252085
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    Piasecki HUP-2 Retriever, if I am not mistaken.

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1252241
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    Yeovilton September 2005

    Nice line-up from last year . . .

    in reply to: helicopter pioneers #1253512
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    Bahrain 1968

    Some nostalgic pix that always reawaken memories for me – mostly of those bl**dy flies! And the scorpions who lived under the 40 gallon diesel fuel drum for the Houchin that powered my personal UPS-1 radar set. Happy days!
    Nice day out on HMS Nubian, though.

    in reply to: General Discussion #316467
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    6 June was Sweden’s National day – we all got a holiday and there were blue and yellow flags everywhere!
    Is St George’s day celebrated as a holiday in England? (I haven’t lived there for 30 years!)

    in reply to: FLYING THE FLAGS #1929650
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    6 June was Sweden’s National day – we all got a holiday and there were blue and yellow flags everywhere!
    Is St George’s day celebrated as a holiday in England? (I haven’t lived there for 30 years!)

    in reply to: HMS Härnösand revealed to the public #2051664
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    Just remembered that I chatted to an officer on HMS Munter who told me there were 8 crew on board. It reminded me of the 27XX series Air Sea Rescue boats I once worked on, doing radar repairs and maintenance, they were about the same size – but a lot faster, we could make 33 knots, but at that speed you had to hold on with both hands!

    in reply to: HMS Härnösand revealed to the public #2051667
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    HMS (Swedish) Munter

    Greetings again Ja!
    Here she is just after firing a bunch of mortars (or dummies perhaps), they made some satisfying cracks, anyway. I just don’t understand why they use such little “bombs”, surely they can’t harm a submarine. Perhaps they are for scaring away Russian submarines, like the one that was stranded outside Stockholm some years ago!
    Yes, I have been “around the block” a few times, among other things been resident in Bahrain (courtesy of Her Majesty, in the RAF), France, Italy and now Sweden (twice, totalling 30+ years). My work as a technical author and translator keeps me up to date with technology, but not much of a military nature these days.

    in reply to: Morane Criquet #1255812
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    Is this one? Taken at La Ferte Alais last year.

    in reply to: HMS Härnösand revealed to the public #2051758
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    Varsagod! (or whatever you say way up there in the frozen North!)
    Det var mitt nöje!

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