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  • February 7, 2006 at 11:22 am in reply to: Something Swedish? #1397447
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    Nice pictures, thanks for posting!

    BTW, I think I read somewhere that the Swedish Air Force museum will expand with a third display hall in 2007. Does anyone know for sure?

    January 25, 2006 at 10:15 pm in reply to: Number of Blackburn Ripons in existence? #1415813
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    As far as I know the Ripon and Baffin were the same aircraft more or less. Royal Navy Ripons were equipped with Napier Lion inline engines and Finnish Air Force Ripons were equipped with radial engines. The Baffin was basically a Ripon with a radial Pegasus engine.

    January 18, 2006 at 11:24 pm in reply to: British aircraft with RR Ghost? #1426891
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    What about the de Havilland Venom, whose production totalled 1,143 aircraft including 742 RAF Venoms and 295 Sea Venoms?

    You are of course true, I didn´t make this “rumour” up however. Still the Venom wouldn´t stand much chance against the MIG-15,NA Sabre or the Ghost powered SAAB 29 or am I wrong? I guess my question really is why did RAF choose the Sabre instead of a Bristish product?

    January 9, 2006 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Fairey Firefly to Denmark? #1344508
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    It appears that the Firefly is not owned by the museum, at least not yet. If you check the other aircraft in the collection you´ll see that many aircraft are borrowded from other museums.

    January 6, 2006 at 11:03 am in reply to: Fairey Firefly to Denmark? #1348746
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    I believe that the Firefly Mk.1 SE-CAW is under restoration in Sweden. It is owned by the Swedish air force museum but, maybe they will loan it for some years?

    September 29, 2005 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Airworthy Spits? #1371403
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    Famous is of course a better way to describe it, sorry about that. I still don´t understand the interest in this particular aircraft, when there are so many other Spitfires around (especially MkIXs)…

    September 29, 2005 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Airworthy Spits? #1371615
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    A bit off topic, but what is so special about MH434 really? Why is it so notorious?

    September 2, 2005 at 8:59 am in reply to: Duxford Bolingbroke #1414696
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    As far as I know the Finnish example was built under license in Finland. Were there any differences between British and Finnish built Blenheims? I know the Finnish Blenheims could be equipped with skis.

    September 2, 2005 at 5:47 am in reply to: Duxford Bolingbroke #1414886
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    Maybe a stupid question but, what is the difference between a Blenheim and a Bolingbroke?

    August 17, 2005 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Swedish Osprey SE-AYR #1342415
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    Alex,

    Yes, that´s the one. I guess you could try to ask the forum at http://www.sff.n.se. Maybe you will have better luck there?

    HTH
    Martin

    August 16, 2005 at 9:48 pm in reply to: Swedish Osprey SE-AYR #1343312
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    Alex,

    As far as I know the wreck was recovered in 1985 and is currently stored pending rebuild in the near future. Have you tried to contact the SAF museum? BTW there´s been a book written on the subject.

    HTH

    August 4, 2005 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Originality of restored aircraft #1359680
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    Don´t get me wrong, I think it´s great that these aircraft are being restored and I admire the work restorers put into it. But when they call an aircraft with only a minor percentage of original parts for “2542” then I think it´s wrong.

    This way you could theoretically clone a dozen of Hurricanes out of a single wreck and all call them “R4118”. I know it doesn´t matter that much, but I just think it´s a little bit deceiving that´s all.

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