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July 18, 2006 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Last RAF crewed Canberra flight Tuesday 18th July #1290032

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Certainly not the last RAF crewed flight as there’s a display and flypast at the Marham Families Day on the 27th…

Oooops. forgot the families day event at Marham.

Apologies for the inaccurate header folks.

June 21, 2006 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Anson C.19 VM351 #1327250

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Built at Yeadon . c/n 266324.
Issued to 395MU Communications Flight .
Rhodesian Air Training Group Communications Flight.
5FTS.
4FTS.
FCW Benson.
31 Met Comms Sqn (CB-N)(CB-M).
Handling Sqn.
RAF Transport Command .
24 Group Communications Sqn.
Southern Communications Sqn.
Soc and sold 1968.

Excellent pic of VM351 Air Britians – Anson File by Ray Sturtivant.

351 was one of 6 Annies flown from Bovingdon to mark the withdrawal of the type from RAF service on 28 June 1968.

Hope this helps.

June 21, 2006 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Anson C.19 VM351 #1327598

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David,

taken fom Air Britian – Anson File and TAHS Civil registers 1919-1985.

VM351 sold 1968.
Registered as G-AWSB on 21 Oct 1968.
Sold to USA as N7522 on 5 Nov 1968.

Not on the UK register for long at all.

June 18, 2006 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Canberra B2 #1331294

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Just found this one out of my archives, taken around 88-9 shortly after arrival from Salmesbury.

Lesb has a couple of interesting pics on his canberra site. http://www.bywat.co.uk/

June 18, 2006 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Canberra B2 #1331299

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Phil,

Built 1954. To 61sqn then transferred to 15 sqn. Converted to TT18 . transferred to AAE&E in April 1968.
Sept 68 to 15MU and finally ( as shown in your pics) with 7sqn based at St Mawgan.

Soc and sold to BAC on 10 Nov 1981 and to Salmesbury for storage.
Sold on to Flambards theme park Helston Cornwall for display. Sometime later the airframe was disposed of with the cockpit section later noted at Bruntingthorpe in 2002.

Lesb can no doubt fill in the rest of the history.

May 19, 2006 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Lightning XM172 on the move soon #1278516

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Fantastic news Neil,

May 19, 2006 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Huey – 21509 #1278524

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I for one will be keeping a look out over the week end (Usually flies low over FY6 en route Morecambe bay area).

Well done Neil and good luck Phil.

May 18, 2006 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Jet Provost info'…? #1279935

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any chance of XP558 (possibly in a Macaws scheme) also please, as i’m sure the current owner would like to see them……. 😉

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Not sure about Macaws scheme (firmly in the ask Albert category) but I will search through my records later this evening.

May 18, 2006 at 11:28 am in reply to: The Future of Aviation Preservation #1280239

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Sea Vixen,

Have a look on the ICC site

http://www.internationalcockpitclub.org.uk/sales.php

Nice S.2b and sensibly priced.

May 18, 2006 at 9:44 am in reply to: Jet Provost info'…? #1280398

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Dave,

XN549 Con No PAC/W/11804
Delivered to RAF 01/12/61
To CFS
To 1FTS
SOC 21/3/73 and to 1SoTT as 8335M though marked as 8235M.
To storage RAF Shawbury.
Sources: Air Britian XA100-999
ukserials.com

I will have a look through my JP archive ( bear with me its getting quite extensive) for an in service pic.

May 14, 2006 at 10:40 pm in reply to: BA Collection News 28-04-06 #1286043

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David,

David, Such a crying shame that they have to end up shredded and carted of. One can only hope that thirty years down the line the remaining sections are still with us.

I know where you are coming from regarding the 707. future visitors to East Fortune will see a front end of a 707 and its significance will not be apparent.

Running around looking for some-one or some group to lay the blame on will not bring the aircraft back. I for one have no desire to apportion blame.

May 14, 2006 at 10:17 pm in reply to: BA Collection News 28-04-06 #1286058

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Badger, DB

Given the simplistic nature of the kids question and the fact that not everyone knows the full story , what answer would you have given ?

Not so much wide of the mark, simply relaying what was passed on to me earlier this afternoon .

May 14, 2006 at 5:28 pm in reply to: BA Collection News 28-04-06 #1286601

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Overhead earlier today at Cosford.
Little lad ( aged about 7):
Dad ? Why are they smashing up the aeroplanes?
Dad:
Cos the people preserving our history don’t like them

Pretty much summed it up for me
Who cares who is ultimatley to blame. A sad loss for future generations.

May 13, 2006 at 6:48 pm in reply to: Printing quantities of my book – need advice! #1287922

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Will not make it to legends this year, but can I pre-order two copies?

I am working with people closely connected with Roly’s EE/BAC days and I know they are all going to want copies as well .

Snapper, I reckon on going for the 1000. As Moggy said breaking even at around the 650 mark.

Roly was a well known and respected pilot both during and after the war and there are many folks out there who who inspired by him. There is sure to be a lot of interest up here in the North West.
As an aside Eric Bucklows ( also ex BAC Flight testing crew) book ‘Coronation wings’ ran to 2000 copies of which he has sold over 1000 to date.

May 9, 2006 at 5:10 pm in reply to: The Day-Glo thread…. #1293347

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Me posting red? shicks , guess thats why I’m stuck in the corner.

Seriously, I think its difficult to distinguish , maybe some of our more knowledgeable forumites could elaborate.

Albert should be back on board next week, so I think we can expect more informed debate.
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