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April 22, 2010 at 11:49 am in reply to: Whitley Parts #1106777

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Which way is forward please?

Roger Smith.

April 22, 2010 at 11:47 am in reply to: Mexican made aircraft. The 1920 Mexican helicopter #1106781

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I was about to say the view forward in the BC-1 is like that out of “The Spirit of St Louis” when I saw the picture and your comment of the BC-2.

The Celia is a very sleek looking machine with the wings contoured into the fuselage? any views of that from another angle?

Roger Smith.

April 20, 2010 at 2:03 pm in reply to: Mexican made aircraft. The 1920 Mexican helicopter #1109244

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Interesting to see something different (for us in the UK) on the Forum – thanks for posting.

Presume the Aura was a small airliner – what engines did it have and how many passengers & crew?

Roger Smith.

April 20, 2010 at 10:20 am in reply to: Blitz Street – Channel 4, 9pm #1109757

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…… it was quite amazing the damage the ‘weeny’ bomb did……..

I believe they misled a little with the ‘safe haven’ under the stairs. A small proportion of (terraced) houses would have had stairs adjoining an external wall – although I guess more semi-detached houses might have. I’ve always understood (and my mother and auntie sheltered under-stairs in Coventry) that the strong structure of the stairs would provide some protection from downward blast/falling debris (and give rescuers a focal point to head for?). Look again at the amount of brick debris on top of that staircase.

Similarly the comment by an interviewee about sheltering under the kitchen table. Not wishing to be flippant but kitchen tables were built stronger in those days and probably would have protected the other interviewee who was injured by the ceiling falling on him.

Roger Smith.

April 20, 2010 at 10:07 am in reply to: Blitz Street – Channel 4, 9pm #1109765

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I’m wondering how they’ll factor in the downward speed of the V.2 during that simulation. Would the rocket still be under power during it’s dive? It would surely make a significant difference to the explosion.

Roger Smith.

April 20, 2010 at 8:57 am in reply to: Mexican made aircraft. The 1920 Mexican helicopter #1109815

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Interesting looking machine – it appears the whole top biplane and propellor arrangement rotate to provide the lift.

I wonder if the engine rotated with it and wether torque was a problem? And what would have driven it forward (or in any particular direction)?

Roger Smith.

April 17, 2010 at 10:41 am in reply to: General Discussion #305857

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So,

Is that an ejection seat, or an ejaculation seat?

Perhaps if it is the latter it might explain the need for the face screen:D

Anon.

and will you be able to overcome the premature problem often found in young projects?:diablo:

Roger Smith.

April 17, 2010 at 10:41 am in reply to: Harley-Davidson ejection seat experiment #1894541

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So,

Is that an ejection seat, or an ejaculation seat?

Perhaps if it is the latter it might explain the need for the face screen:D

Anon.

and will you be able to overcome the premature problem often found in young projects?:diablo:

Roger Smith.

April 16, 2010 at 7:18 pm in reply to: Gipsy engine Data Plates #1112622

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Have you tried DHAMT or RRHT?

And from the BAPC engine list the following have(had?) Queen IIs

Dumfries & Galloway: ex-Proctor R7559/G-AMAL
Hendon
MM Aviation: in Heron G-HRON; 8 in all
Newark Air Museum: Percival Proctor G-AHMP
North East Air Museum
Shuttleworth Collection: nos.61245 (port) & 60595 (stbd) in DH88 Comet G-ACSS

Roger Smith.

April 15, 2010 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Importing airframes from mainland Europe (EU) #1113290

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………Specific to the F104 can anyone tell us the point of balance and dimensions when dismantled i.e. nose cone and wings off…….Dave

No, but it’ll all fit inside a C.130 if that’s any help 🙂

Roger Smith.

April 14, 2010 at 11:02 pm in reply to: Bought this today…. #1113989

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Cancer – the means by which humans die after radiation poisoning (I think) – still holds a lot of secrets.

We know with some sureity that someone with lung cancer who smoked 40 fags a day for 30 years got their cancer from smoking cigarettes. Yet there are many examples of persons with a similar smoking habit that remain unaffected.

Several posts have included something along the lines of “what about all the pilots who’ve been sat in front of their instruments for a long (cumulative) time and haven’t died from cancer”.

But so many people have contracted cancer and the medics don’t know why or how. Some of them might be because they wore a luminous watch when a child, played in an old cockpit in a scrapyard – who knows???

Roger Smith.

PS Merkle – your signature makes me chuckle 🙂

April 12, 2010 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Fire Bottles #1117066

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Do you know if the stock of Meteor spares with Classic Flight (which I’m guessing may have come from Meteor Flight?) doesn’t have any.

If it’s possible there may be one there – have you got a picture of one please?

Roger Smith.

April 10, 2010 at 9:51 pm in reply to: Brussels Salon Air Show 1939? #1118489

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Don’t think I’ve ever heard of the Renard R.37 – interesting sounding machine.

Roger Smith.

April 10, 2010 at 6:54 pm in reply to: David Boddington 1943-2010 #1118638

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Sorry to hear the sad news – forever blue skies Mr. B.

Roger Smith

April 7, 2010 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Unknown French type captured by the Germans? #1122687

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Looking at the layout of the aircraft – I would put “amphibian” very low down on the list of possibles.

Surely it couldn’t take-off/land with the lower wing on/in the water?

Roger Smith.
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