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  • in reply to: Germanattempt to undermine morale with explosive chocolate! #1409449
    RPSmith
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    This is the first step in a new EU campaign to ban British chocolate!

    Roger Smith – AAAAAAAH CADBURYS

    in reply to: Anyone fancy a Mustang?? #1409467
    RPSmith
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    50% scale, 50% of the quantity of prop blades

    150% pilot

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: Cosford photo's 2-9-05 #1411126
    RPSmith
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    That new construction must, I guess, symbolise something.

    My thoughts (or did I read it somewhere?) are that the line of vertical columns running one end to the other represents the “iron curtain” or the Berlin wall.

    A few miles down the road at MAM is a genuine Berlin wall “watcher” the U.S.Army DHC-2 Beaver.

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: A Teaser #1411303
    RPSmith
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    Aeronautical names fascinate me.

    Airspeed Cambridge, companion to the famous Oxford.

    We have the Harvard and the Yale – how many other trainers named after famous Universities?

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: Cosford photo's 2-9-05 #1411308
    RPSmith
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    Are they “taking advantage” of the cutting I believe went on during it’s move to Cosford (from Colerne?)?

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: R.A.F. Shawbury – The Hidden Cost… #1411313
    RPSmith
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    In recent years we have all seen sad pictures on our TV screens of casualties of various military conflicts being bought back to the U.K. for burial.

    Are military casualties in the U.K. no longer buried in the graveyard local to the base but at one close to their home – or is it a decision resting solely with their loved ones?

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: Nicosia 1957 to 1959 Reminiscences #1411322
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    Actually that SM-79 still survives and is preserved in the Vigna di Valli museum still in it Lebanese markings.

    Is it the same one?

    When I was working at Dunlop (c. ’63 – ’70) a Service Engineer(?) working in Lebonan “found” three SM-79s which resulted in the one going back to Italy and is now at Vigna di Valli.

    Am I right with this recollection? If so did the other two survive?

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: For AIB and all WWI fans #1411342
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    Fabulous collection – thanks for pics.

    What’s the biplane behind the Bleriot – a Curtis J1N ?

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: Memphis Belle: hopes lost of keeping it in Memphis #1413551
    RPSmith
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    [QUOTE=Papa Lima]This is the thread I put up after my visit in August 2003; the aircraft had long since been moved from Mud Island (shown in Mark12’s photo at post #3)
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    I saw it at Mud Island November, 2002 so it must have moved pretty soon after that. Regrettably my photos didn’t come out to well – it was fairly dark under that tent when the sun wasn’t shining!

    Perhaps the folks of Memphis will commission the first B-17 FSM (or has someone already done one?)

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: What Where When Why #1413555
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    Looks like a Sea Venom, with the outer wing panel/s removed.
    Flood

    If it’s a Sea Venom – that rule out an ATC unit?
    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: TV Head's up #1421836
    RPSmith
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    Thanks for the heads up, I’d have missed without it.

    I did!!!
    Ah well, guess it will be repeated.
    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: ACAM gives their V-1 a fresh coat of paint #1421840
    RPSmith
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    Nice the Avenger being restored as a tanker rather than returned to warbird status.

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: RAF casualties Hotton War Cemetery – help #1429045
    RPSmith
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    Andy,

    was at Hotton 12 months ago. My second cousin Albert Baldwin and four fellow crew members buried there – their Lancaster shot down 12/13th August, 1944.

    Roger Smith.
    (will email when back at own computer)

    in reply to: Avro Anson restoration #1429490
    RPSmith
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    VM325 is the ex Midland Air Museum Anson C.19 which I helped in the move of from Halfpenny Green in mid-November, 1981.

    to 23 MU 25.03.47
    to 48 MU 17.07.47
    to 22 MU 22.11.49
    to 48 MU 06.02.50
    to 173 Sqdn 31.03.53
    to 34 MU 01.06.54
    to 173 Sqdn 01.09.54
    to Upavon Comms Flt. 09.06.55
    to 49 MU 20.06.55
    to 71 MU 12.04.57
    to 49 MU 26.03.58
    to Upavon Comms Flt. 28.05.58
    to 49 MU 12.12.58
    to Upavon Comms Flt. 02.02.59
    to 71 MU 19.01.61
    to Tranport Command Comms Flt. 14.03.61
    to Western Comms Sqdn 19.05.64
    to Northern Comms Sqdn 08.01.65
    to Western Comms Sqdn 05.06.67
    to Halfpenny Green Air Scouts 19.09.68

    David Ogilvy told me some years ago that VM325 is in his logbook.

    Good luck to the group in their efforts to restore it – a big job.

    Roger Smith.

    in reply to: Vimy over Brooklands. #1338410
    RPSmith
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    Put her in the NASM – she is American built and has been sponsored by National Geographic – she could compliment the Concorde.

    This gets my vote. Although it would be very nice to see the Vickers collection at Brooklands expanded with the addition of a Vimy, we do have one original and one replica in the UK. NASM would be an excellent home.

    Roger Smith.

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