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  • November 14, 2010 at 11:47 pm in reply to: Eon Olympia VV400 BGA No 1697 #1148293
    RPSmith
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    Good news to hear the pending restoration (welcome to the Forum)

    Would be great if you could occasionally revisit this thread with updates on progress.

    Roger Smith.

    November 12, 2010 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Lancaster tail #1149885
    RPSmith
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    Anybody know if the part for sale was sold and where it is now?

    Roger Smith.

    November 12, 2010 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Lancaster tail #1149888
    RPSmith
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    Hi Gus,

    Welcome to the forum.

    Your post has given me another piece of the jigsaw of my mother’s cousin loss in PD230 coming down near Gouvy.

    I now know the Lancaster was brought down by a nightfighter (Hptm H-W Schnaufer) rather tha AA fire.

    Are you able to tell me the source of your information please?

    Roger Smith.

    November 12, 2010 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Stuka pilot interviews #1149899
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    Programme coming up at 19.30 tonight about the blitz on Coventry with an interview with a Luftwaffe pilot.

    On BBC1 – may only be the Midlands region though?

    Roger Smith.

    November 9, 2010 at 11:53 am in reply to: It's just a chair….or is it? #1154572
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    Wyvernfan – by coincidence I was at the President’s Evening of the R-R Heritage Trust (Coventry) and mention was made of The Sphinx Club where RRHT (Coventry) meetings are normally held.

    The Armstrong Siddeley Athletic and Social Club must surely be the forerunner of The Sphinx Club. R-R still have a factory at Ansty and RRHT maintain a small workshop there.

    Roger Smith.

    Sorry for extended thread drift xtangomike. It’s a nice chair with a story and I would agree Brooklands would be a good home for it.

    November 7, 2010 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Piston Airliners Converted to Turbine Power #1157535
    RPSmith
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    Quite a few Herons were converted (and enlarged) to turboprops.

    Roger Smith.

    November 4, 2010 at 10:10 am in reply to: FACT or FICTION: "Amiens Raid: Secrets Revealed" #1088751
    RPSmith
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    There is a saying “any publicity is good publicity”

    The ‘discussion’ has certainly raised my interest in the topic 😉

    Roger Smith.

    November 3, 2010 at 11:12 am in reply to: RAF Warwick #1089255
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    Two books you need BR.

    “Aviation in Warwickshire Between The Wars” by Alf Jenks (self-published 2006) and “Warwickshire Airfields in the Second World War” by Graham Smith (Countryside Books 2004)

    Both have a brief section on Warwick.

    I remember seeing the remains of some brick buildings at the south end (Longbridge) only about five years ago.

    Roger Smith.

    October 30, 2010 at 11:22 am in reply to: Please can you advise (dH propellor) #1092201
    RPSmith
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    ………..a tiny hole Ive found on the very top part of the propeller in the centre………

    this is intriguing. I know little about propellers but would they normally have a hole in the end?? (would whistle well!) could this be consistent with John Aeroclubs thoughts that it has been truncated?

    Roger Smith.

    October 29, 2010 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Please can you advise (dH propellor) #1092629
    RPSmith
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    😀 😀 😀

    Well you have my picture in my Avatar. The only trouble is that that was taken when I was flying for Hornet Squadron in the Battle For France and that makes me about 98 years old now. I think that your gorgeousness might be too much for the old ticker. The ‘drop dead’ bit might be far to close to what would happen. 😉

    Signed….Mrs. Moggy :D:D

    October 28, 2010 at 10:20 am in reply to: Latest Details Of Nimrod at Coventry #1093992
    RPSmith
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    Ben, when I was there last Thursday (21st Oct) RAF engineers were due along with a ‘driver’.

    Someone must have turned up as it did run later that day (after I had gone 🙁 ) despite the discovery of the no. 3 engine FOD guard being the incorrect type. The flaps were operated during the run.

    I am told that the engines were started twice on the Sunday. Apparently, to those not used to them, they are bl**dy noisy.

    Roger Smith.

    October 26, 2010 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Please can you advise (dH propellor) #1095270
    RPSmith
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    Another piece of information might be useful is – do you know what country the de Havilland factory was that your father worked in?

    Mention has been made of de Havilland Canada, then there was de Havilland Australia and the parent de Havilland company in England.

    Roger Smith.

    October 26, 2010 at 11:06 am in reply to: Westland fixed-wing aircraft-Surviving examples? #1096062
    RPSmith
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    Also Westland ‘built’…
    The company produced a variety of other types during WW1 – I wonder if any of the survivors are Westland examples?

    DH4
    DH9
    DH9A (Westland took on the design changes from the DH9)
    Short 166
    Short 184
    Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter

    Roger Smith.

    October 21, 2010 at 4:42 pm in reply to: RAF Souvenir Books #1100734
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    I think I’m right in that originally RAF stations holding Battle of Britain/At Home days had individual books, then there was a common book with an insert for the station you were at?

    Roger Smith.

    October 20, 2010 at 11:23 am in reply to: Got room for a Nimrod MR4? #1102374
    RPSmith
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    ……….. if I were a paranoid type I’d be sleeping in any recently retired Nimrods with a good intruder alarm.

    So that’s real reason the RAF are visiting Classic Flight/Airbase this week to run the engines on XV232 :diablo:

    Roger Smith.

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