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November 16, 2022 at 10:44 pm in reply to: Vintage Gliders #757621

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Actually more closely related than you think. The photos of the Tiger Moth spraying gorse at Mangere were taken by the same person who drew up the plans for the Eon (nee Chilton) Olympia in 1946 from the original Meise. It had to be beefed up for aerobatic reasons and added about 40kg weight.

September 13, 2021 at 7:14 am in reply to: Cobham's Flying Circus #763289

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Aerco can call me on 0418 727-727

October 1, 2013 at 6:47 am in reply to: Spitfire Brass label #934540

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Fantastic information and thank for sharing it with us ,you must be very proud of your dad, who did he work for at that time?

Jay

I think he workd for Southern Aircraft at Gatwick. He later left to work for Chilton at Hungerford on some projects including redesigning the Meise to become the EoN Olympia.

March 12, 2013 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Spitfire Brass label #963686

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Years ago my Mum said Dad did something for the spitfire. Naturally he never talked about. After he died, Google produced this

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&NR=559490

http://www.google.com.au/patents?id=lBx-AAAAEBAJ&printsec=drawing&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Also interesting is this http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q140/lufbramatt/slipper1.jpg

September 21, 2012 at 5:57 am in reply to: Crop Culture Ltd, Bembridge,Isle of Wight #1045794

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I am Chairman of the Britten-Norman Aircraft Preservation Society (restoring Islander C3 G-AVCN) and we are collecting all and any items relating to early B-N/Crop Culture. I am going to show the pictures to B-N’s first and second employees, one of which, I believe, went to the Sudan in the Anson (flown by Desmond). I am fairly sure he is the guy on the left in the last picture. I’ll let you know what the two of them say. In the meantime, any chance of getting scans of the pictures for our collection?

Cheers

Just right click and download. I have more, I think, maybe higher res. Just email me at pinkharrier ….at,,,,, yahoo.com

September 21, 2012 at 5:48 am in reply to: Aerobatics airshow stars of the 1920/30's-info needed #1045889

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Some memories from my father who worked for Cobham in the 1930s are here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/63810556@N03/sets/

September 21, 2012 at 5:44 am in reply to: Air Displays / Flying Circus's / Air Pageants #1045893

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Well 9 years is a bit belated but some memories by my Dad who died in 2006 are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/63810556@N03/sets/

September 21, 2012 at 5:40 am in reply to: Sir Alan Cobham and his flying circus… #1045899

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Memories of Cobham’s Flying Circus

My father worked as an apprentice engineer for Cobham in the 1930s. He published some memories in an Australian Magazine called the Western Flyer in or around 1994. I have had to photograph the pages but at least they exist on Flickr right here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63810556@N03/sets/

Cheers.

July 25, 2012 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Crop Culture Ltd, Bembridge,Isle of Wight #944282

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Glad the photos are of some use.

May 3, 2011 at 4:20 am in reply to: Chipmunk Pics #1060877

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Below taken Hatfield 27 April 1948 G-AKDN

Below VT-CKM taken Karachi 14 Mar 1949 outside old airship hangar.

April 30, 2011 at 10:03 pm in reply to: Vintage Gliders #1063265

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Slightly related. Tiger Moth ZK-AO? spraying gorse at Mangere Airport (pre International) 1958. Possibly Boyce Barrows piloting.

April 22, 2011 at 7:26 am in reply to: EON Olympia 2b #1075862

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The following pix taken at Redhill 20/21 Sept 1947 after a flight from Long Mynd. Pilots name was Grieg (that’s all that was on the neg envelope).

I do not know if this was the prototype or not.

That’s definitely my older brother as a 7 year old on the left.

March 6, 2011 at 7:59 pm in reply to: General Discussion #290811

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Inkworm said “One advantage is that a lot of the advances that F1 invest a lot of money in developing do filter down to the road cars.”

I think this is a bit of a myth. IF two different races were held concurrently on a race track – one clockwise, one anti clockwise – then we MAY see some improvement in the road toll (currently 3000 fatalities world wide each day).

Naturally it won’t happen as it is too dangerous. No kidding.

Perhaps if manufacturers were, by law, forced to test all their vehicles to the max on their test tracks in two way condition we may see them go back to the drawing board. The results wouldn’t look anything like the cars we have today.

March 6, 2011 at 7:59 pm in reply to: F1 #1883564

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Inkworm said “One advantage is that a lot of the advances that F1 invest a lot of money in developing do filter down to the road cars.”

I think this is a bit of a myth. IF two different races were held concurrently on a race track – one clockwise, one anti clockwise – then we MAY see some improvement in the road toll (currently 3000 fatalities world wide each day).

Naturally it won’t happen as it is too dangerous. No kidding.

Perhaps if manufacturers were, by law, forced to test all their vehicles to the max on their test tracks in two way condition we may see them go back to the drawing board. The results wouldn’t look anything like the cars we have today.

February 7, 2011 at 12:11 pm in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1128652

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Chipmunk VT-CKM outside old Airship Hangar, Karachi, 14 Mar, 1949
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