Great fun to watch… and now available on BBC iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pmbmx/James_Mays_Toy_Stories_Flight_Club/

Happy Christmas everybody 🙂

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Pete

…and many thanks and best Christmas wishes from me and members of the LEMB too you and the rest of the team Matthais… I don’t get here as often as I’d like, but this thread is one I always keep an eye on, so thanks for the regular updates 🙂

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Pete

Looks like more footage of Michael Rinners Bf109G-6 project?

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Pete

Perhaps not Clint, as you may have seen on our own LEMB thread dedicated to DG200, not if the colour profile seen in an article titled “‘Le Cirque Volant de Duxford Le No 1426 Flight” by Phil Butler in Aero Journal No.24 (April/May 2002) is to be believed :diablo:

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Peter D Evans
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According to page 22 of “Captured Me109’s” by J.Jackiewicz & M.Wawrzynski [Kecay, 2007] the small white disc on the rudder contained the Kitzbühler mountain goat associated with 1./JG51 unit emblem, similar to the emblem seen here but without the blue left/right edges and obviously on a white disc…

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Peter D Evans
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I was trying to find my thread on grips…..cannot

Was it the thread that included possible fake Me163 control grips Tony? If it was, we had a direct link to the thread from the LEMB, but when I click on it, I get the “Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator” error…

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Pete

Having taken time to download, read and try to digest the reports findings I have to say that unlike many of the post-accident threads which appear here (and elsewhere for that matter) I have found many of the knowledgeable comments here of great interest. Having said that, the fact that a life was lost has made me feel slightly uncomfortable with my need to learn more about why this tragic accident took place. My sphere of aviation interest is pre-jet age, but having worked as aircrew out of Dux, I have always been keen to understand more about what goes into keeping these wonderful old types airworthy…

As for the pilots failings, its clearly evident to me that the blame should be spread evenly from the very top to the very bottom. Hindsight in a wonderful thing and I just hope that lessons are learnt by the whole warbird community and we are not sat here discussing another tragic loss of life again…

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Pete

To add weight to what CeBro posted above, in part one of their excellent two issue article “Testing the Enemy’s Arrow” [Aeroplane, March 2002] Phillippe Ricco and Phillippe Couderchon do indeed make mention that when testing the ejector seat mechanism in the Do335M-14, when the seat itself was reinstalled, the team involved found that the leather cloth headrest was not only stuffed with horse hair but with human hair too. As a result, the padding was replaced.

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Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator