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May 15, 2010 at 3:44 pm in reply to: Coventry and Midland Aircraft Museum #1153111

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Thanks Elliott, I thought if anyone knows it would be you – the website dosen’t have info on it.
Do you have any background information on it at all, it’s a fascinating piece, and smaller than I imagined

It belongs to the RAFMuseum and was first exhibited at MAM (IIRC) in 1996 (at the celebration of the Whitley’s 60th anniversary). I’ve always thought of it as a fairly substantial piece but in recent years more and more ‘other stuff’ has been placed around it and it is, sadly, almost hidden away. It consists of the rearmost section of fuselage (minus rear turret) a tailplane and one of the two fins.

At one time there were quite a number of other pieces of Whitley (including a portion of N1498’s wing) at the Museum and I had hoped MAM could become a ‘repository’ for surviving Whitley bits (before Elliott’s labours became widely known). I think, now, there are just two (unused) fuselage frames there.

Roger Smith.

May 15, 2010 at 3:31 pm in reply to: Coventry and Midland Aircraft Museum #1153118

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What’s that old song, ‘Three Wheels on my Wagon?!’ 😉

That was a popular song at Classic Flight recently :diablo::diablo:

Roger Smith.

May 14, 2010 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Bristol Brigand. #1154948

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Should we read anything into the fact that it is going to Cosford rather than the Stafford storage facility??

Roger Smith.

May 14, 2010 at 9:29 am in reply to: Latest Details Of Nimrod at Coventry #1155247

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……..BTW, you might want to have a word with the ground marshaller in Keiths shot, looks like he relieved himself against ….

LOL – Keith, mind if I post that pic onto Classic Flight’s GST (volunteer’s) Forum? It would create more mirth I reckon :diablo:

Janie, what’s the reg of your Chippie please?

Roger Smith.

May 14, 2010 at 9:18 am in reply to: RAF Museum Hendon – buzzed by two Hurricanes tonight #1155255

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The fly past was in connection to this:

http://www.battleofbritainbeacon.org/

Anne

Will the architects brief include some lights? :diablo:

Sorry, someone had to say it.

Roger Smith.

May 14, 2010 at 9:13 am in reply to: D-day for Bomber Command Memorial #1155258

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Just watched Robin Gibb being interviewed on BBC breakfast/early morning TV.

Great news terribly presented. Much as I like the Bee Gees, Robin Gibb did not interview well. All credit to him, though, for being involved in the efforts to create this long overdue memorial.

There were very few details of the memorial itself (how is it being funded?) and the archive film started off with a close-up of a Mustang (at least it was an RAF one:mad:) going on to some aircraft a long way away and then a brief shot of a Lanc – although not a close-up!!

The memorial is to be in Green Park, Westminster and will contain a statue of a seven man (“Lancaster”) crew.

Roger Smith.

May 12, 2010 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Latest Details Of Nimrod at Coventry #1157358

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Age doth the memory hurt 😮

Roger Smith.

May 12, 2010 at 8:32 am in reply to: Latest Details Of Nimrod at Coventry #1157796

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Good to meet some of you folks yesterday – Ben, Rich(or was it Blue??) and Keith.

I was ‘working’ filtering visitors into the first car park until after the aircraft arrived.

T’was a dangerous place to be around 9am with some of the airport workers driving like Lewis Hamilton to try not being late for work and this idiot in a yellow hi-viz vest trying to stop them 😮

If you want to view the local news (ITV Central) piece on the arrival and the forthcoming opening of AIRBASE this link should take you there

http://www.itv.com/central-west/classic-aircraft25285/

Roger Smith

May 7, 2010 at 10:11 am in reply to: Gipsy Queen engine stand #1091244

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Perhaps have a word with Martin Slater at CFS. He has film he shows on the occasions he gives talks of his running an ex-Proctor(?) engine mounted in the front of an old car (Ford or Morris?) in the 1950s. 😀

It occured IIRC in your part of the World too!

Roger Smith.:)

May 7, 2010 at 10:06 am in reply to: Biggin Hill Replica on the Move #1091248

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Taking pictures of replicas is one thing, but empty poles!!!

Are they original poles or replicas?:diablo:

Roger Smith.

May 6, 2010 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Lufthansa Junkers G38 in Art – New Piece! #1092000

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very nice.

Roger Smith.

May 4, 2010 at 11:44 am in reply to: Blitz Street – Channel 4, 9pm #1094513

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Am I right in thinking that the piece with “Winkle” Brown talking about tipping up V-1s had been used before on a different programme? If I am right I hope he got a repeat fee.

Roger Smith.

May 2, 2010 at 12:26 am in reply to: Rockstars, Filmstars Etc. And Their Historic Aircraft #1096319

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……Elvis Presley had a Convair 880 N8809E named after his daughter “Lisa Marie” and a Lockheed Jetstar 6 N777EP both still preserved at Gracelands.

I thought of mentioning these two but, to be pedantic, they are historic aircraft NOW but were new when Elvis was alive and using them 🙂

Roger Smith.

April 28, 2010 at 2:41 pm in reply to: ML Ejection Seats #1099839

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If I may broaden your thread out a little – how many different British manufacturers of ejection seats were there?

I believe that Folland designed their own for the Gnat.

Roger Smith.

April 23, 2010 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Performance figures for Hawker Hurricane with laminar flow wing #1104822

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Still very interested blan73 and would love to hear what you can tell us.

Welcome to the forum 🙂

Roger Smith.
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