This is the first step in a new EU campaign to ban British chocolate!
Roger Smith – AAAAAAAH CADBURYS
50% scale, 50% of the quantity of prop blades
150% pilot
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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.
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?
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Are they “taking advantage” of the cutting I believe went on during it’s move to Cosford (from Colerne?)?
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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.
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.
Fabulous collection – thanks for pics.
What’s the biplane behind the Bleriot – a Curtis J1N ?
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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.
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.
Thanks for the heads up, I’d have missed without it.
I did!!!
Ah well, guess it will be repeated.
Roger Smith.
Nice the Avenger being restored as a tanker rather than returned to warbird status.
Roger Smith.
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)
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.
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.