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  • February 8, 2011 at 10:30 am in reply to: Its all been on the TV Tonight #1127625
    RPSmith
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    Excuses, Moggy, excuses – you’re really a TG fan :D:D

    You could have recorded the programme then, afterwards, whizzed through to the airfield bit therefore not having to “suffer” the rest of it.

    Roger Smith.

    February 7, 2011 at 8:49 pm in reply to: Its all been on the TV Tonight #1128026
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    Yes, I was tipped off and forced myself to watch:D

    Anyone who can get it on iPlayer it’s about 50 mins in. What a treasure trove. Wonder if James May (who seemed to be able to tell the difference between a 15, a 17 and a 19) has seen the business potential there?

    Roger Smith.

    February 7, 2011 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Breguet propeller in Barnsley #1128208
    RPSmith
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    What the article, perhaps, didn’t say…..

    “the propeller was found ontop of a pile of wood and some fabric material that staff dragged outside and made a bonfire of. A pair of wheels was noticed too” :diablo::diablo::diablo:

    Roger Smith

    February 5, 2011 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Avro Shackleton WR963 Project Thread #1130363
    RPSmith
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    Great to hear – the news not the Griffons.

    The wind today was in the wrong direction – if it’s coming from the south I can sometimes hear engine run-ups at Baginton. The lucky residents of Willenhall would have heard the roar :D:D:D

    Well done to all concerned.

    Roger Smith.

    February 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Amiens Prison Raid book out yet ? #1136444
    RPSmith
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    this one???
    http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=104569&highlight=amiens+walls

    Roger Smith.

    January 30, 2011 at 4:36 pm in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1139357
    RPSmith
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    Nearly 6 hours in and no one has suggested a Vulcan…………

    Even more suprising that the Lightning hasn’t come up!

    Modern engines and avionics…..

    Roger Smith.

    January 28, 2011 at 8:59 pm in reply to: flypast mags #1140662
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    ……I’m based just outside Coventry and work in Leamington if anyone is interested……..

    with a ‘handle’ like “CVT” you couldn’t really be anywhere else 😀

    Can’t help with your problem but welcome now you’ve jumped in.

    Roger Smith.

    January 26, 2011 at 8:56 am in reply to: Trevor McDonald and a Beaufort ? #1144210
    RPSmith
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    The most interesting thing about the programme (he ain’t no Alan Whicker!!) was the walk through what had been Nicosia Airport – abandoned and left in 1974 when, at the cessation of fighting, it became part of the UN buffer zone. 1970’s adverts on the walls, period furniture and the check-in desks – a real time warp. It was on the apron here that there were a few qick shots of the abandoned (and engine-less) DH Trident.
    A few minutes prior to that there was a quick air-to-ground glimpse of most of a Shackleton – didn’t appear to have enines or fins/rudders.
    The film of the Beaufort was taken by the divers looking at the (submerged) remains of Cleopatra’s Palace in Alexandria harbour.

    Roger Smith.

    January 22, 2011 at 3:30 pm in reply to: BBC1 " The One Show" tonight FIDO #1148257
    RPSmith
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    ……..and a mention of the 55,000 aircrew who died flying in Bomber Command………..

    I thought I heard it said as “55,000 casualties”. Casualties usually means persons killed and injured not solely those who died???

    Roger Smith.

    January 22, 2011 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Cranfield College Relics(2008 thread) #1148259
    RPSmith
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    Just for the record Gordon, MAPS was formed 24th May, 1967 – a few months after this tour.

    Roger Smith. 🙂

    January 20, 2011 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Hendon Pioneers puzzle #1149498
    RPSmith
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    probably stupid (it is fairly late at night and I’ve drunk my cocoa 🙂 ) but the name Geoffrey de Havilland sort of jumped out at me.

    G’night, Roger Smith.

    January 16, 2011 at 7:36 pm in reply to: TSR-1? #1154956
    RPSmith
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    Thanks for your replies folks. I’ll convey the gist of them to my friend when I see him during the week.

    Roger Smith.

    January 16, 2011 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Pup relica left Midland Air Museum #1155327
    RPSmith
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    Thanks for the replies/additional information.

    It will be good to see it mobile at Sywell – can’t have enough Pups moving about under steam!

    It will leave a big hole at Baginton which the Pou G-AEGV can’t fill.

    I find it very ironic that ‘EGV was, of course, originally built at Sywell by members of the East Midlands Aero Club in 1935/36.

    Roger Smith.

    January 16, 2011 at 12:26 am in reply to: Wings in a shed #1155917
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    Hi Roger – Nice to see those shots of the now-extinct leather elbow patches so beloved of Physics teachers in days gone by 🙂

    Yeah, yeah, so you went to a posh school – at my Secondary Modern they were Science teachers :D:D:D

    Roger Smith.

    January 12, 2011 at 4:20 pm in reply to: "post war " Horsas #1088806
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    Two Horsa fuselages at Albrighton (near railway station), Wolverhampton in the late 1960s.

    Roger Smith.

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