This is me moving the DC-3 from Ipswich airport to the 390th BG Museum at Parham in early 1995. Now moved on.

I like the part where they say the people of Essex have signed a petition to support the Spitfire flying over Suffolk….

Many more from Suffolk signed it, some effort was put in to canvas opinion, I suspect the dissenter was still a lone voice.

There is no way a laden fire engine will cross a soft, wet field.

Hi tankbarrell, on about tanks, and “Bouncing Betty” mines, I didn’t know until recently, that the HUMVEE was designed with the same width between wheels as the same as on their tanks. It appears that the tanks would set the mines off, and the Humvees would travel in the tracks of the tanks.safely.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Hmm, an M1 tank has track centres of 112″ and a track width of 25″ giving a between track dimension of 87″. HUMVEE is only 85″ overall so it would not fit in the track path at all.

It seems to be an American radial engine problem, but not just for those fitted to aircraft. A friend’s Sherman tank,( a Canadian M4 A1 ) is fitted with a down-rated Wright Whirlwind that requires the proceedure before starting.

Unfortunately this requires some poor B****r to use a hand crank and rotate it through 70 cycles.:eek:

I don’t have that problem on mine, despite having 30 cylinders, none of them collect any oil!

It used to be a slightly tricky westerly runway if not much headwind, will be better at the new length.

If used unladen it would be exempt from testing, would qualify for free, historic tax and could be driven on a pre 1997 B cat driving licence. If you carry anything in the trailer, it would all have to be plated and tested, would need to be taxed private HGV, assuming used privately only and you would need a C+E, the old HGV1 to drive it.

Honington.