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  • in reply to: Avro Lancaster Exhaust stains #1395444
    Papa Lima
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    Lancaster exhaust

    The only picture I could find that clearly shows the exhaust stain underneath (at least for the inboard engine) is this detail of VM703 with Ghosts fitted outboard.
    The stain sweeps downwards back from the exhaust along the side of the necelle and possibly extends into the small wing area behind the nacelle too, although it seems to be heading downwards rather more than backwards.

    in reply to: Photography and Video in Airport terminal building? #613329
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    Thanks, Airband1, taken with my Minolta Dimage A1 with just 7x zoom, needed a bit of enlargement in Photoshop!
    Out of the terminal on the first floor, cross the footbridge and take the lift to the top of the car park building. Definitely no seating there! I guess in the winter it would be cold and windy; even in the summer half an hour was enough for me! There are only a couple of strategic places up there where the runway is visible – I found them at the eastern end.
    However I am sure that Ren knows much better spotting spots!!

    in reply to: Photography and Video in Airport terminal building? #613335
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    Glasgow photo

    I took this one from the top of the multi-storey car park at Glasgow airport – the only place I could find while in transit there this summer from which I could see the aircraft! I also wandered around with my camera in the terminal for an hour or so without being accosted.
    I will be at Prestwick on Friday and hope to take as many as possible between arriving from Gothenburg at 13:30 and departing to Dublin at 20:30.
    Any tips for good spotting places there?

    in reply to: Irish Air Corps Museum Collection #1396170
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    “get in touch with the museum”

    How?

    in reply to: Phantom Hope? #1397047
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    . . . and the tail . . .

    in reply to: Phantom Hope? #1397052
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    East Fortune Phantom

    Here it is

    in reply to: altimeter subscale setting #414606
    Papa Lima
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    For me as a complete ignoramus without any knowledge of piloting, the following is an interesting site which helps to explain a few things including QFE:

    http://www.john-a-harper.com/flying/england.htm

    I had always thought that you set for zero when on the ground before departure, but now I realise that the airfield might be a few thousand feet above sea level!

    in reply to: Ryanair 737-200 retired ????? #614501
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    I shall be travelling to Dublin in a couple of weeks time, and look forward to seeing 1,800 aircraft parked there – it sounds like AMARC! (Ref. post #1)

    in reply to: Strangest RAF aircraft of World War 2. #1398572
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    . . . or perhaps even cogitate . . .

    in reply to: Lightnings at Grainthorpe. #1401523
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    The Draken appears to be an ex-Danish Air Force F-35. Does anyone know how it ended up at Grainthorpe?

    in reply to: Sud-Ouest SO 4050 Vautour (Vulture) #1402740
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    Breguet Deux Ponts restaurant

    At last! I can reveal my French secret – “Le Breguet” restaurant not far from La Ferte Alais, at the Aerodrome de Chaubuisson, 77610 Fontenay-Tresigny. I was there with AIB and Mike J and even managed to snap the owner, M. Charpentier, I believe.
    The aircraft is F-BACC, and the coffee is great! Unfortunately we didn’t have time for a meal, but I am sure it is well worth a visit. There is a swimming pool too! 40 km from Paris, off the N4.

    in reply to: Ditched/Recovered Lightening mystery . . . #1402781
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    IIRC this was on an earlier thread and completely refuted.

    in reply to: 1980s Southend #1406166
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    Post #67
    After massaging that photo of the Widgeon with Photoshop, this is what I came up with . . .

    in reply to: ID please #1409068
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    MS.230

    Sure looks like a Morane Saulnier MS.230

    in reply to: Vulcan Pictures Required #1409228
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    http://www.avrovulcan.org.uk/crown_copyright/wittering_orp.htm
    shows XM601 in all-white
    (second post, thought I had the wrong aircraft at first!)

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