dark light
Airliner World
Combat Aircraft
AeroPlane
Flypast
Airforces
Aviation
Pcpilot
Air

RPSmith

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 1,156 through 1,170 (of 2,488 total)
1 2 3 … 77 78 79 … 164 165 166
  • Author
    Posts
  • July 13, 2008 at 8:13 pm in reply to: why dont we have a sr71 in the uk? #1199745
    RPSmith
    Participant

    more to the point – why haven’t we got a P-80 here in the UK? there are, admittedly, a lot of T-33s but we ought to have a P-80 – after all we gave the Yanks the jet engine!!!!!

    Roger Smith.

    July 13, 2008 at 12:57 am in reply to: March Field Air Museum – March '08 #1200415
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Thanks for posting these

    ….I’ve also got pictures from a visit to the Palm Springs Air Museum and Planes of Fame if anyone is interested…..Paul

    Yes please,

    Roger Smith

    July 11, 2008 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Prototype Survivors #1203481
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Prototype (but also 1st production aircraft) of AW 650 Argosy is preserved at the Yankee Air Museum, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

    Roger Smith.

    July 10, 2008 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Beaufighter fuselages built by Standard, Coventry. #1204083
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Thanks guys, I have passed your comments on.

    Alertken – I believe my mate has that reference (to do with Trade Union’s claim for piecework rates) – one of very few period documents found with the words “Standard” and “Beaufighter” together on. He thinks maybe Standard maybe only built the cockpit section of the fuselage, but that term “Standard Motor Co.’s Beaufighter factory in Coventry” is intruiging.

    Springbok – he lives quite near Gaydon and knows it well. He seems to lack confidence the the Heritage Centre has much interest/information on aviation matters these days. Thanks anyway.

    Gloster Meteors He has information suggesting that Standard recieved an order to construct Meteor centre sections (Mk.3s?) but that this order was transferred to SS Cars (later to become Jaguar) also in Coventry. But were any actually built at Standard’s Canley factory before production commenced at SS Cars’ Holbrooks factory?

    Roger Smith.

    July 10, 2008 at 10:34 am in reply to: Beaufighter fuselages built by Standard, Coventry. #1205011
    RPSmith
    Participant

    BUMP!

    July 9, 2008 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Pull-push #1206014
    RPSmith
    Participant

    I give you the ultimate push me pull you (although not post war), the Caproni-Maroni C2 ‘Scud’ experimental fighter, ironically without armament! Apparantly it could reverse direction in flight!:D:confused:

    http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/way-weird/weird.php

    something wrong with my calendar – It says July 9th not April 1st

    Roger Smith.

    July 9, 2008 at 9:54 am in reply to: What did the Germans ever do for us? #1206523
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Autobhans = Motorways??

    Roger Smith.

    July 8, 2008 at 11:38 am in reply to: What did the Germans ever do for us? #1207984
    RPSmith
    Participant

    I remember a discussion a long time ago about a possible relationship between the front 3-sided part of the canopy of the Fw 190 with the Gloster Meteor. Don’t remember if there was any conclusion.

    Roger Smith.

    July 7, 2008 at 7:36 pm in reply to: Old Cambrian Paint Schemes? #1208495
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Thanks for the info Anon.
    Looks to be a great representation from the photos I’ve seen – hope to see it close-up one day.
    Have you built any other replicas – or plan to do so?

    Roger Smith.

    July 6, 2008 at 10:13 am in reply to: Old Cambrian Paint Schemes? #1210289
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Thanks Jon,

    I’ve sometimes wondered how long a fabric covereing on an aircraft could last outside, given a high level of care and maintenence, before needing a re-cover. I guess one of the biggest dangers is water geting inside at the timber in the structure. Some internal pictures would be good.

    Roger Smith.

    July 5, 2008 at 7:44 pm in reply to: Something for the weekend… #1210803
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Waddington?

    Roger Smith.

    July 3, 2008 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Concorde G-BOAD Badly Damaged in NY #1212868
    RPSmith
    Participant

    I’m with Pete Truman – much as I like Concorde (and the fact that we Brits, with a little help from the French :diablo:, managed to ‘outdo’ the mighty US aircraft industry) I am at a loss that so many have been preserved and, in the UK, have not sought to keep a 707.

    Roger Smith.

    July 3, 2008 at 10:12 am in reply to: Old Cambrian Paint Schemes? #1213642
    RPSmith
    Participant

    As a matter of interest can you tell us (me) more about the Rapide replica – or is it a FSM?
    What’s it made of? has it fabric covering or fibreglass? who made it? how old it it now? how has it stood up to the UK weather? etc., etc.

    Roger Smith.

    July 3, 2008 at 10:01 am in reply to: Anyone going to Oshkosh? #1213759
    RPSmith
    Participant

    This thread makes me sick (with envy :mad:)

    :D:D:D

    Roger Smith.

    PS have a great time.

    July 2, 2008 at 9:59 am in reply to: Retirement of RAAF 707 causes panic. #1214657
    RPSmith
    Participant

    Who on earth said anything about giving up flying old aircraft?

    Not particularly ‘old’ aircraft but light/general aircraft (into which category most ‘old’ types fall) may now be under threat – some ‘high-up’ bod was reported on the UK news last week as saying that light aeroplanes could be used by terrorists to fly into populated areas.

    Roger Smith.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 15 posts - 1,156 through 1,170 (of 2,488 total)
1 2 3 … 77 78 79 … 164 165 166