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  • August 14, 2015 at 7:30 pm in reply to: A really odd RAF Chipmunk #913415
    Mothminor
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    Thanks Laurence. Like the photo 🙂

    The Chipmunks in the video don’t have any horizontal stripes. They appear to be all silver with a coloured band and rudder much as in the OP’s first post but black on top of the nose. On second look the tail colour may actually be different to the band! It’s all very confusing!!

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    August 14, 2015 at 4:43 pm in reply to: A really odd RAF Chipmunk #913639
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    Don’t want to confuse matters further but what colour bands did Oxford UAS have? The Chipmunks at the start of this video seem to have band colour same as rudder. Later on they only have bands.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIUw1KzBGo

    August 14, 2015 at 3:56 pm in reply to: A really odd RAF Chipmunk #913642
    Mothminor
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    However I’ve since had pointed out that this scheme existed much earlier; there are photos of a RAFC BP Balliol back in 1955 wearing these bands.

    There’s footage of both Balliols and Chipmunks with blue bands in the 1955 film The Sky Is Ours shot at Cranwell –

    http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-sky-is-ours/query/chipmunk

    August 14, 2015 at 3:38 pm in reply to: Historic Aircraft Negatives Scanned. #913646
    Mothminor
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    All great shots, Robert, especially the Comet and the Fulmar – so nice to see a colour photo of it outdoors.

    However, photos like the line of Whirlwinds are still valuable and well worth digitising for posterity, if you ask me.

    Totally agree with Tin Triangle – these photos are rare and worth saving.

    August 14, 2015 at 3:24 pm in reply to: BDAC Old Sarum visit #913652
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    I took my youngest a few weeks ago, he really enjoyed sitting in all those cockpits.
    Sadly, the aviation interest seems to have skipped his 2 older brothers…

    Certainly looks like your young un was having a really good time 🙂
    And 1 out of 3 ain’t bad – you can pass exams with that percentage nowadays!

    Do you have any photos of the Comet fuselage from Lyneham?

    Glad to know that it will be open to the public. Just to add to Carpetbaggers shot, here’s the other side –

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/mmx16/BD%20Collection%20Old%20Sarum/Comet_zpsld3unb3i.jpg

    August 13, 2015 at 6:46 pm in reply to: BDAC Old Sarum visit #914654
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    I must visit one day.

    If you do I hope you’re lucky with visiting aircraft too. The airfield was pretty busy and there were quite a few interesting types when we were there –

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/mmx16/BD%20Collection%20Old%20Sarum/DSCF0118_zpsrf63sgj8.jpg

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/mmx16/BD%20Collection%20Old%20Sarum/DSCF0121_zpseufgfwie.jpg

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/mmx16/BD%20Collection%20Old%20Sarum/DSCF0120_zpsilxfql1n.jpg

    http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/mmx16/BD%20Collection%20Old%20Sarum/DSCF0008_zpszl30u4kb.jpg

    August 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Fairchild Argus I-MARC #916701
    Mothminor
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    All: wouldn’t it be great if my wife could be reunited with the Argus she flew in in 1954?! She must have been inspired by that first flight, as we still fly together.

    It would be absolutely fantastic! Very best of luck 🙂

    August 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Historic Aircraft Negatives Scanned. #916733
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    Many of my older photos were taken with a low quality camera

    Same here then compounded the problem by opting for matt-finish photo paper which really doesn’t scan well! Or at least not for me!!

    Love the shot from directly underneath the Buccaneer. Hadn’t realised that Benbecula was used by the USAF – very nice close-up on the Mohawk.
    Thanks for posting them 🙂

    August 12, 2015 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Fairchild Argus I-MARC #916741
    Mothminor
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    I’m rebuilding an UC-61A nc 416 s/n 43-14452… Thank you Sandro Pagliarin”[/I] Nov 15, 2005

    That’s really good news!

    August 12, 2015 at 8:41 am in reply to: Fairchild Argus I-MARC #917298
    Mothminor
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    Thank you, Laurence. I hope I-MARC does turn up again 🙂

    Alternatively, maybe one of the forum members down under may know the current owner of VH-JCG (A36-1s latest reg. Last known under restoration at Wedderburn) and be able to check on its c/n. A long shot probably!

    August 11, 2015 at 11:28 pm in reply to: Historic Aircraft Negatives Scanned. #917615
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    Lovely photos, Robert. Are the Red Arrows Gnats at Leuchars?

    Quite agree with what you say about deterioration of film. One of my biggest disappointments was discovering that the old cine films my Dad had taken at Strathallan in the 70s had not stood the test of time. They were also stored well but I guess that sort of tape perishes over time.

    Always nice to see old photos whatever the condition anyway and the ones you’ve posted have certainly ‘kept’ well – any more? 🙂

    August 11, 2015 at 11:15 pm in reply to: Fairchild Argus I-MARC #917617
    Mothminor
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    Hi Laurence,

    Nice photo 🙂 There does seem a fair bit of confusion over I-MARCs history.

    Worldmilitairs F-24 production list http://www.worldmilitair.com/production/f24.htm disagrees with the Baugher site and gives 43-14478 the c/n 442 and RAF serial FS561.

    http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a36.htm has a question mark over the (Ranger-engined) Argus A36-1 but gives the serial 43-14451. It does however give the c/n of R9-416. I assume the R9 denotes the engine type. Again, according to Worldmilitair, this should be c/n 415.

    Maybe that’s where the problem lies – it’s easy to skip a line when reading a list!

    Page 57 of this website (which seems to have been last modified in 2010) lists I-MARC with a private collection in Galliate, Piedmont, Italy. Unfortunately “smontato” seems to translate as “removed” – in exactly what way I don’t know –

    http://www.alatricolore.it/alatricolore/sopravvissuti/lista_sopravvissuti_upd3.pdf

    August 10, 2015 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Hanriot HD 41H Type 1? #918614
    Mothminor
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    The rudder looks like French markings with the anchor and red/white/blue vertical stripes. I think that Greece at that time used blue/white/blue. Is it possible that some or at least one HD41H was operated by the French before being sold abroad?

    What I also wondered was is it instead an uncowled HD17?

    August 9, 2015 at 11:03 pm in reply to: Sharing some old photos #920046
    Mothminor
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    It certainly says Official at the bottom left but I think it possibly says RAF Chivenor at the top.

    August 9, 2015 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Sharing some old photos #920264
    Mothminor
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    These are lovely old photos – really nice to see them!

    Avro Tutor K3221. Nothing known at all.

    Quoted from Avro Aircraft Since 1908 on the Librarun website –

    The only versions significantly different from standard were the Avro Prefect and the Avro 637. The first was a specialised navigation trainer developed for the R.A.F. via a conversion of the Tutor K3221 illustrated on page 285. Seven built to Specification 32/34 replaced the old Mongoose Trainers at the School of Air Navigation, Andover, in 1935. They were merely two seat Tutors brought up to full Avro 626 condition (but without the third cockpit), and equipped with tail wheels and modified aileron circuits.

    Unfortunately doesn’t go as far as the page with the illustration (unless you register possibly)

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