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May 14, 2006 at 9:56 pm in reply to: BBMF Lancaster Flypast this Sunday #1286222

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VIS IN LINCS

Yes, it was a bit grotty in Lincs today, with a bit of light drizzle etc. However, it did not seem to cramp the Lanc’s style, as I saw it over a village fete at approx 11.00 and then at approx 15.30 it was skirting round Boston to follow the River Witham towards Coningsby. Just thought: if it was following the river – the vis must have been grotty!

May 14, 2006 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Buccaneer Difrences #1286277

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BOMB DOOR/BOMB BAY FUEL TANKS

The Bucc’s bomb door fuel tank and the bomb bay fuel tank were quite different things. The early new-build aircraft for the RAF (XW serials) were not built with the bomb door fuel tank, I recall having marshalled many of them in on their arrival at Honington in 1970/1971. The bomb bay fuel tank was used by both the FAA and the RAF. Do not have my Bucc notes to hand but I suspect that the bomb door fuel tank was not cleared for carrier operations. Confirmation anyone?

May 4, 2006 at 7:57 pm in reply to: Will it be at Legends???? #1300852

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LOST CONTAINERS

Ships losing containers is not unusual. I read a report last week of a fire in a container on a large container ship while it was at sea. To get to the seat of the fire and save the ship the crew chucked 30% of the remaining containers into the oggin!

April 7, 2006 at 8:19 pm in reply to: All Change for RAF West Raynham #1334413

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DOME TRAINER

Damien

Bids closed on the sale offer early March but not yet heard the outcome.

The dome trainer you highlight was put in during the 1980s for use by the Rapier Training Unit when training RAF Regiment gunners in the fine art of surface-to-air missile systems. It is not an original wartime building.

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March 14, 2006 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Superfuellers #1346939

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Jaybeebee – I doubt the chassis you saw was an Octopus. For fairly obvious reasons, Octopi were eight-leggers.

March 13, 2006 at 11:52 pm in reply to: Superfuellers #1347494

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FODEN SUPERFUELLER

If I can discover how to attach a picture, the vehicle depicted is a Foden version of a Superfueller. The AEC was the same size and configuration but carried the famous AEC ‘Blue Triangle’ front end.

February 27, 2006 at 5:21 pm in reply to: RAF Skellingthorpe #1368413

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Military or Civil

I seem to remember some old crop sprayers telling me that they flew from Skellingthorpe – Tiger Moths, Austers and Pawnees probably.

January 9, 2006 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Chipmunk's 60th – are you a fan?? #1344513

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GYPSY!!!!!!!!!!!

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Gipsy, please!

December 16, 2005 at 12:02 am in reply to: Ray Hanna #1371603

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EULOGY

Warbirdfan:

I have read on another Forum that Tudor Owen, who gave the Eulogy at Parham today, was also the author of the Obituary published in The Times last Saturday. I doubt that the actual words used today will be published but you will probably get a good idea of what was said by looking at The Times of last Saturday.

November 19, 2005 at 10:51 pm in reply to: Hendon Sabre #1403200

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COSFORD LIGHTNING TO BE VERTICAL?

Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, I have heard (and I forget from whom) that a Lightning in the new Cosford exhibition is to be displayed in a vertical position. My source indicated that it was not a problem coming up with a suitable pedestal to take the loads (something up the jetpipes to attach to the engine mounts?) but it was hell of a lifting/slinging problem getting it from the horizontal to vertical position without damage. My source also indicated that other aircraft at Cosford, in addition to the Lightning and Sabre, will mounted in ‘imaginative’ attitudes.

October 26, 2005 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Halton 1985 #1338278

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NEW WORKSHOPS

The pics at the front of the thread were mainly (but not all) taken in “New Workshops”. The key is in the steel trusses of the roof, which denote New Workshops. Photos taken in Old Workshops can be distinguished by long, narrow bays with brick walls and ‘Belfast’ style wooden roof trusses.

As for getting the aircraft into Old and New Workshops, the words Queen Mary spring to mind. Few of the aircraft located in the workshops were ever flown in – perhaps the odd Sycamore helicopter – certainly in jet era. Cannot be sure about things 85 years ago!

October 16, 2005 at 6:13 am in reply to: Percival Pembroke – Spyplane #1347460

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BERLIN CHIPPIES

David – check out Tony Geraghty’s book “BRIXMIS – The Untold Story of Britain’s Most Daring Cold war Spy Mission” (Harper Collins 1996) – to get a handle on what the Chippies were doing in Berlin. They were not of limited use! The Chippies worked the Berlin Zone, the Pemmies the corridors between Berlin and West Germany.

September 20, 2005 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Goodwood Revival aircraft pics #483985

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Napier Bentley

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Thanks for posting the picture of the business side of the Napier Bentley. Those exhaust flames were really cool!! I was watching it smoke away from the chicane at the start of the pit straight, passing a whole load of smaller cars as it did so, only to be overtaken again on the bends.

September 20, 2005 at 11:45 pm in reply to: TIGER MOTH PRANG AT KIDLINGTON #1383943

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Thanks for the gen chaps.

September 16, 2005 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Leuchars 05 #485310

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Bunker

Pitrevie (not sure about the spelling)?
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