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July 28, 2014 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Merlin engine valuation #925665

Bunsen Honeydew
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Hi,

Can anyone help out with providing valuations for updating our museum insurance policy please, or point us towards an organisation that can offer Independant advice?
Thanks

Good point. How do you obtain robust Insurance values? The activities of a few people on evilbay have completely distorted the market. There isn’t a Stanley Gibbons for aviation artefacts so what do people do?

July 28, 2014 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Seen on ebay 2014 #925786

Bunsen Honeydew
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Talking of scams:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271560108600?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D271560108600%26_rdc%3D1#ht_10096wt_6269

The regular attenders at Cockpitfest will recognise the stand and know that it and the helmets don’t belong to the seller.

As far as I’m aware the seller is well known for this and has been reported to evilbay. Perhaps it’s time to invoke EU Proceeds of crime legslation

July 28, 2014 at 1:32 pm in reply to: An invitation to all Cockpiteers / Exhibitors! #925792

Bunsen Honeydew
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So who is going?

This looks like a terrific opportunity to show the public what we do and maybe generate some interest. It’s certainly a way to meet people who worked on and flew the types your cockpits came from.

Come on, there’s nothing worthwhile on the telly and no aerojumbles on, get down/up/across there.

I can’t drive but I’m doing my best to take something to display.

July 28, 2014 at 1:13 pm in reply to: German V1 shrapnel. #925806

Bunsen Honeydew
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I found a large piece of V1 skin at Mudchute on the Isle of Dogs. Wife wouldn’t let me bring it home.

July 28, 2014 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Aircraft Constructor's Inspection Stamps. #925812

Bunsen Honeydew
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Could you please not scan things from books and then post them on the internet without crediting the source.

The Author……… (one of)

Which book? I want a copy

July 15, 2014 at 9:35 pm in reply to: Sopwith Snipe E6655 at Hendon – quick question #930492

Bunsen Honeydew
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And another quick Snipe question.

Silver overall but why the light grey patch below the cockpit?

July 15, 2014 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Help please RAF tank identity #930497

Bunsen Honeydew
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A brass plate on the end states “RAF. D G No A10087”

RAF Could be Royal Aircraft Factory, which would make it very old.

July 8, 2014 at 12:47 am in reply to: Spitfire X4650 #866622

Bunsen Honeydew
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At Damyns, we can lock them (and anything else valuable) away overnight in a secure area.

Funny, people have said that should be done to me but no time limit was mentioned.

No, the real problem with security at any display is when the paying public are around. You need eyes in the back and sides of your head. Two issues, theft and accidental damage. Some of this stuff is coming up to be 100 years old and it’s delicate to say the least.

July 7, 2014 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Spitfire X4650 #867342

Bunsen Honeydew
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Hi there,

Collecting log books is something I have always wanted to get into but can never find the starting point of buying them.

Regards

Jason

I started with my Father’s, now I’ve a fair collection of log books and associated paperwork. The problem comes with paying for them, prices have soared in recent years, helped along by evilbay. Then again, if it wasn’t for evilbay a lot of them would have been thrown out.

Storage is difficult, I’m currently buying steel travel trunks to put them in for safety from fire and water, any other suggestions would be appreciated, along with ideas for temporary display at events like Cockpitfest and Damyns Hall, main issues there being security and light.

June 28, 2014 at 1:10 am in reply to: Help identifying a stick top please. #876482

Bunsen Honeydew
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I’d like to see some photos of the cockpit the stick is located in.

Please?

Pretty please?

Tony

No you don’t, it’s a money pit

June 26, 2014 at 7:55 pm in reply to: De-act 30mm Aden cannons for disposal…. #877821

Bunsen Honeydew
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I have one but it’s broken, not by me, and could do with another in better condition.

What about inert ammunition, or drill or ballast rounds?

June 17, 2014 at 1:24 pm in reply to: TSR2 Anniversary Event #886443

Bunsen Honeydew
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As mentioned on the Cockpit-Fest thread this proposed event has been firmed up and I understand that the NAM website will be amended accordingly in due course.

However I have to share the following text of an email that has just landed on my computer, along with some coffee:

“TSR-2 Day an excellent idea. Would certainly attend if event confirmed. Might I also suggest (on the Southfield site, possibly) a large bonfire to round-off the event complete with effigies of Dennis Healy, Roy Jenkins, and of course Harold Wilson. A winner.”

If that email came from a forumite, brilliant – now to mop up the remains of the spilt coffee from my keyboard!! 😀

How about including the American delegates to the IMF at the time and sitting them on top of a cardboard and wood F-111?

June 17, 2014 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Cockpit-Fest 2014 – 14th & 15th June 2014 #886449

Bunsen Honeydew
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OH NO!!

That’s our wedding anniversary, and my sister-in-law is also getting married on the same day too!!! So we’ll be at her wedding…

Sorry, but that’s two good reasons not to be there… 🙁

May have to loan Len’s helmet to FlyingSaucer to display for the event…

My anniversary is the week before so it’s close but I don’t mind hospital food.

Is Flying Saucer attending?

June 16, 2014 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Cockpit-Fest 2014 – 14th & 15th June 2014 #887399

Bunsen Honeydew
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” the non-glamourous, non-pointy nosed cockpits “

Begging PM sent

June 16, 2014 at 12:59 am in reply to: Biggin Hill Festival of Flight Saturday 14th June 2014. #887888

Bunsen Honeydew
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There was a an advertising banner on the fence but I’ve seen little else locally

Lots of posters in shop windows around South East London.
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