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  • December 9, 2005 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Where are they now? #1379265
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    😀
    Roger Smith

    December 9, 2005 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Where are they now? #1379268
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    What’s the third one then?

    Roger Smith

    December 7, 2005 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Australian Flying Corps casualty 27th July, 1917 #1382219
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    Now got a copy of the Coroner’s report with witness statements.

    Lieutenant Trout had just taken off to deliver the R.E.8 to Lympne and had done a similar operation two days previously. The aircraft (3772) was air tested two days previously (Lt. C. Thomas) and the engine examined the day before (Sgt. G. Sutcliffe). There was no other aircraft involved so the P/O Prune newscutting must be a seperate event. Lt. Thomas was airborne at the time of the accident and saw 3772 flying immediately before the crash.

    Although simply classed as a “flying accident” by the Coroner it is unclear from the evidence wether the crash was as a result of mechanical/structural failure or pilot error. One Herbert Fortnum, Chief Fire Officer at Messrs. White and Poppe’s stated that he went outdoors because “an aeroplane passing over the factory..” “.. was making peculiar noises..”

    The 69th Squadron was based at South Carlton, Lincolnshire.

    Roger Smith.

    December 7, 2005 at 12:14 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain soundtrack #1382728
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    [QUOTE=DazDaMan]Got mine off Amazon, quite cheap, and it arrived within two days! 🙂 QUOTE]

    Bet it wasn’t as cheap as the original vinyl copy I picked up at a car boot sale last year.
    Am torn between keeping it to play (yes, I still run a record player) and framing it to go on the wall!

    Roger Smith.

    December 6, 2005 at 5:15 pm in reply to: Wheeler Slymph picture / status #1383716
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    Yes – June 1968 to be precise, collected by Bob Ogden and myself, a memorable journey with Bob’s Cortina MkII 1600E towing a trailer.

    Bob’s poor, brand new, Cortina. I was in the front passenger seat when, towing the same trailer en route to Thetford to collect his BAC Drone, the car hit black ice and we all ended upside down in a ditch. Were you one of the three in the back Gordon?
    That Cortina laid the foundation for many a modern day aircraft restoration – despite being wrecked it was rebuilt back to road-worthy (so the garage claimed) status. Bob didn’t keep it long after that.

    Roger Smith.

    December 6, 2005 at 2:15 am in reply to: G-TOMC when at Baginton #1384490
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    The “remote part” of Baginton Tim refers to is the area known as Rock Farm. The two hangars had originally been used by AWA as their experimental area – seperate (for security) from the main works. Amongst others the AW.52G (flying wing glider) was built in them and the laminar-flow wing Hurricane was kept there as well.

    Quite a number of ex film aircraft and replicas were stored there for some years including B-25 and CASA 352. I have read somewhere that the CASA was with the MAM but it never had any connection with the Museum.

    Roger Smith.

    December 6, 2005 at 2:04 am in reply to: Wheeler Slymph picture / status #1384495
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    The guy holding the wheel is Martyn Hall (at one time a Trustee of the Museum). The fuselage is inverted and immediately in front of the wheel is one of the black tubular undercarraige ‘V’ struts – the other can be seen to the right. The engine bulkhead is in the bottom foreground.

    Even when we collected the Slymph from Old Warden 1967/68 it was in poor condition. The wings were reputed to have been burned during the war and it’s last engine is, I think, in the DH 53 (it may have been borrowed for the Slymph).

    To Martyn’s right is the blue fuselage of Slingsby Cadet, BGA804 originally donated by the Cornish Gliding Club and collected from Perranporth in 1968 (I think). I understand another Cadet now claims this identity.

    Roger Smith.

    December 6, 2005 at 1:47 am in reply to: Photo of Seafire remains SX300 #1384510
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    I see now the second fire did even more damage, completely obliterating the the serial area.

    Location Coventry, in the colour photo.

    Mark

    From what the owner (then) told me the fire consumed almost everything original and new except for the seat he had at home.

    Date of photo wise – the blue caravan and new fencing at the rear puts it on the new (current) MAM site

    Roger Smith

    December 5, 2005 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Harriers in museums #1384968
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    Thanks for the updated list smarchitelli

    A question though

    If XW270 at Coventry University has the wing of XV748, which wing does XV748 at Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington have?

    Coventry Uni’s Harrier and Westland Scout both came from Everett Aero at Ipswich and I am still trying to ascertain that the Scout is a composite.

    Roger Smith.

    December 5, 2005 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Round The Bend- What was Nevil Shute thinking of? #1384973
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    OK, just gone to the bank vault to get my Putnam’s “Airspeed Aircraft since 1931” out!
    Airspeed Limited formed – 13th March, 1931
    Original Directors – N.S.Norway, A.Hessell Tiltman, Lord Grimthorpe, Sir Alan J.Cobham and A.E.Hewitt.

    Roger Smith.

    December 5, 2005 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Harriers in museums #1385581
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    Do you have any photo’s of it whilst strung up please ? 😉

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    Presume you are aware of the photo on the rear cover of the current “Wrecks & Relics”. It is credited to Andy Wood – perhaps he has others?

    Roger Smith.

    December 4, 2005 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Pearl Harbour The Final Salute #1386606
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    They never had cadets like that when I was in the ATC

    Same here!!

    It is sad such an apparently long-established memorial services is to end. Am intrigued to know of it’s origins – did it, perhaps, start in 1941 as a sort of “thanksgiving” that the USA were now in the war?

    Roger Smith.

    December 4, 2005 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Round The Bend- What was Nevil Shute thinking of? #1386609
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    Hessell Tiltman? – rather a memorable name

    Roger Smith.

    December 3, 2005 at 11:06 pm in reply to: The future ten years from now, extinct types resurfacing? #1387659
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    Don’t forget the AW Siskin

    Roger Smith.

    December 2, 2005 at 6:16 pm in reply to: Harriers in museums #1389496
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    There was one on ebay (in the US) earlier this year
    Roger Smith.

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