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June 3, 2004 at 11:50 pm in reply to: Dragon Rapides, and why YOU need to fly in one #1815186

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Vintage De Havilland magic – you can’t beat it! I managed a flight in Aer Lingus’s DH 84 Dragon, EI-ABI, during Birmingham Airport’s 50th Anniversary in 1999. Wonderful stuff!

June 3, 2004 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Why Do We Shun Jets!!! #1815231

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JET, JET, JET,JET….whooooooosh!!! There, is THAT better??

June 3, 2004 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Sunderlands to the UK #1815253

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The RAF Museum Sunderland was preserved at Pembroke Dock for years by Peter Thomas of Skyfame, before being roaded to Hendon. The IWM example is ex French Navy and was on display at Nantes for years, again transported by road/sea/road.

June 3, 2004 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Legends participants #1815254

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Once they’ve got your money at the gate, they can make all the excuses they want about want HASN’T turned up!!!

June 3, 2004 at 11:27 pm in reply to: View as I left work today #1815275

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A VANTEN ??? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

May 31, 2004 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Live BoB dig Channel 5 30 May 21:00 #1821486

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Live dig

Anyone can pull a live TV programme to pieces, but those of you are wondering why this particular one was live was to show what could be achieved within a one hour programme, once all the research and technology had played its part. Usually digs like this are the work of months of digging away and finding very little, but to plan and dig ‘live’ within an hour and find what they did has to be applauded. This has got to be a ‘first’ and surely beats these recorded ‘time watch’ programmes that are filmed over a long period.

May 31, 2004 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Birmingham 29/5 #715770

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Did you use anything to stand on to get those shots from the grassy viewing area? I haven’t been to BHX for a few years and the time before last, there were rubbish bins up against the fence with a sign saying “Please Use the Rubbish Bins”, so I did – I stood on top of them to get photos over the fence!!. Last time I went, they had cottoned on to this and had taken the bins away, so be replaced by others fixed well away from the fence.

May 31, 2004 at 5:11 pm in reply to: D-Day Airshow? #1821731

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Duxford next Sunday

Doubt if I’ll go, as Legends is coming up the following month, unless anyone know of anything unusual going to Duxford next Sunday. May go to Old Warden instead.

May 30, 2004 at 11:57 pm in reply to: Out and about – Yeovilton #1822263

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Yes! The Hunter T.8M would be nice but I could take the P1127 and BAC 221.

Here is the BAC 221 the first time I saw it at Farnborough 13 Sept.1964.
I was only 14 at the time, so please excuse the head! This was one of the rare colour print films that my father bought for his camera…he bought the films and I took the photos! I suppose now you want to see my shots of this when it was the Fairey Delta 2?

May 30, 2004 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Out and about – Yeovilton #1822303

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…and here is Yeovilton’s P.1127, XP980…
1) When I first saw her in the static park at Biggin Hill’s Battle of Britain Day, 17 Sept.1966.

2) 12 years later, stored by Flight Refuelling at Tarrant Rushton, 10 May 1978.
At this time is was fitted with the wings from Harrier XV751!
3) Another 10 years later, and here it is painted as a ‘Sea Harrier’ used for ground instructional used by the School of Aircraft Handling at Culdrose on 27 July 1988.

Any more history lessons required?

May 30, 2004 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Out and about – Yeovilton #1822396

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Yes! The Hunter T.8M would be nice but I could take the P1127 and BAC 221.

Okay, here is what I have on Hunter T.8M, XL580. This aircraft was one of the blue and white ‘Admirals Barge’ aircraft in the mid-60s,but I never got to shoot it in that scheme. Here are the photos:

1) In silver/dayglo with 759 Sqn. coded ‘800/BY’ at Brawdy 3 Aug 1968.
2) Two years later as ‘743/VL’ with FRADU at Yeovilton 2 Sept.1970.
3) Another 12 years later, converted to T.8M of 899 Sqn. at Yeovilton 31 July 82

Enjoy!

May 30, 2004 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Live BoB dig Channel 5 30 May 21:00 #1822549

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Having just watched this, I thought it was amazing that considering the programme was ‘live’, at the end of it, they had the original pilot, the bulk of the engine, the instrument panel, control column and a few instruments and bits and pieces. If they can manage that within an hour’s live programme, there is hope for a lot more potential discoveries.

May 30, 2004 at 12:41 am in reply to: Gatwick developments… #719285

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Does anyone know if it is possible to take photos from this bridge, or are we going to be hampered by some awful thick, tinted glass?

May 24, 2004 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Aircraft From Those Magnificent Men. #1830493

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Does anyone know if this wonderful film is available on Region 2 DVD?

No it’s not – I enquired in HMV today. If you do a search on Amazon, you will only find it in Region 1 DVD. I can’t understand why so many British films are released in the States first on Region 1?

May 24, 2004 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Aircraft From Those Magnificent Men. #1830505

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Albert –

I’m sure that I saw one in Krakow last summer. I’ll dig out my photos when I get home this evening and check.

You’re right! It’s listed in “European Wrecks & Relics”.
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