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  • May 6, 2007 at 11:07 am in reply to: BBMF at Fifty 'Lest we Forget' #1316218
    RPSmith
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    Nice – the last photo made me think of a car bombing along with a spaniel’s head sticking out of the window 😀 😀 😀

    Roger Smith.

    May 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm in reply to: Bristol Brabazon #1317428
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    Visible in the photo is the 10ft section of skin with the Brabazon name on, which was in the Bristol Industrial Museum until it closed for renovation last year.Andy

    I’m sure I remember seeing that hanging on a hangar wall at Old Warden a few years ago – but there again it might have been “Princess”.

    Anyone else remember it?

    Roger Smith.

    May 3, 2007 at 11:53 am in reply to: Spitfire on the move. #1319264
    RPSmith
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    Appointment made with bank manager 😀 😀 😀

    Roger Smith.

    ps has it really been in the US 25 years?

    May 3, 2007 at 8:09 am in reply to: Short Skyvan #1319584
    RPSmith
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    At 27 years old does it qualify to be historic.

    The NMuUSAF have an F-22A Raptor just going on display!

    Roger Smith.

    May 2, 2007 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Duxford 30th April 2007 #1320030
    RPSmith
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    That Hastings does look nice – I agree with Peter’s comment about looking like a kit though. As an ignoramus were they painted silver in service or unpainted/polished bare skin?

    Roger Smith.

    May 2, 2007 at 12:13 pm in reply to: BE-2 replica in flight #1320285
    RPSmith
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    Yep, low’n’slow fine to use photo on Biggles website.

    I used to visit Sywell fairly frequently in the days I was single and travelled the country extensively!!

    In fact my first visit to Sywell was when a friend took me on my first visit to Old Warden about 1963. I remember Mr. Jordan’s Stearman, G-AROY was on the apron and I took a colour slide of it with my Kodak 44a – I wish I could find that slide.

    Roger Smith.

    May 1, 2007 at 11:23 am in reply to: Heads up "Rich Boy's Toys – Jets" Ch 5 Mon night #1321544
    RPSmith
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    The touch and go he performed for the camera was more of a ‘hop, skip and a jump’ sort of motion:eek: .
    John.

    John – the MiG, I think, was one of several warbirds operated for training and, seeing that landing, I concluded a trainee was in control??

    Roger Smith.

    May 1, 2007 at 11:21 am in reply to: Heads up "Rich Boy's Toys – Jets" Ch 5 Mon night #1321547
    RPSmith
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    Suprised the MiG pilot wasn’t wearing a bone dome. He mentioned Russian ejector seats – what would be his chances of survival with his skull breaking through the canopy? or is the MiG 15 ejection sequence slow enough to allow ejection of canopy first?

    Other interesting comment about bang-seats was from Mr. Kutz(?) comparing the thought processes of a military-trained pilot with non military-trained. He seemed to suggest that nearly all private military jet fatalaties were from the latter category because they maybe lacked the instantaneous reaction to eject.

    Roger Smith.

    April 28, 2007 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Duxford 5/05/2007 BBMF #1324037
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    Oh yes….! it’ll be the first proper outing with my xmas pressie from the present Mrs Buckshot…
    me 350D+tamron 75-300mm.
    cannon 55-200mm.
    cannon 35-80mm.
    cannon 18-55mm

    She even bought me a 2gb memory card!

    Good gal is my missus:D

    and rich – where did you find her, has she got a sister? 😀 😀 😀

    Roger Smith.

    April 28, 2007 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Lancaster landing at Rotterdam this Saturday! #1324041
    RPSmith
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    Do you have time and place where the Lancaster will cross the coast line on its way home. It would make a great picture.

    Interesting point. If I were flying at a similar height and a parallel course, how close would current air law allow me to fly to another aircraft (for instance to take photos)? That’s assuming it wasn’t a pre-arranged photo session.

    Roger Smith.

    April 28, 2007 at 12:56 pm in reply to: BE-2 replica in flight #1324234
    RPSmith
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    Hopefully attached is a photo I took at Sywell many moons ago – just came across it in our attic.

    Roger Smith.

    April 26, 2007 at 5:25 pm in reply to: Will it be at Legends? #1326322
    RPSmith
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    Someone told me, that a mate at work told him, who got the story from his brother-in-law, who was told by someone he knows who works for the air force that there is going to be a WW2 Spitfire at Legends this year – can this be true?

    Roger Smith.

    April 23, 2007 at 11:13 am in reply to: Mr Autogyro the legendary Ken Wallis. #1329617
    RPSmith
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    Like several others I too immediately jumped to the (happily) wrong conclusion.

    ….as this man seems immortal…

    I had the pleasure of attending a talk by him a few years ago. Unfortunately he is not immortal but is irreplacable.
    Autogiros never seem to have been a universally popular type of flying machine but Wg Cdr Wallis has a unique collection – I hope he has made provision for when he trades in his wings for a heavenly pair.

    Roger Smith.

    April 23, 2007 at 10:57 am in reply to: Historic Whittle Engine Runs Again After 63 Years. #1329618
    RPSmith
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    Great work – I greatly look forward to seeing (or more correctly hearing) somewhere this year.

    How about in Coventry on June 1st to celebrate Whittle’s 100th birthday??

    I take it this is the only runnable engine of this type?

    Cranfield University restored and ran an even earlier Power Jets unit (a W2/700 I think) at Cranfield about 8 years ago.

    Roger Smith

    April 21, 2007 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Preservation views now and fifty years from now #1331366
    RPSmith
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    Interesting debate.
    One point I would throw in is salvaging from wreck sites to recreate a complete example of an otherwise extinct aircraft – the example I have in mind is the AW Whitley.
    Although I am not associated with the team who are working on rebuilding a Whitley I would imagine that visits to several crash sites has meant removal of as much material as possible to ease what is already a difficult task.
    I think I would rather ‘loose’ these crash sites (that will eventually dissappear anyway) to have a solitary complete example of a reasonably important aeroplane.

    Roger Smith.

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