We had a thread on this image over on the LEMB when it first appeared on eBay back on 11th January 2011 and the general consensus was that it was a Klemm Kl31/Kl32
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…and from me too…
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Its back again!!! Note this that it is just the spade grip… I’d be no good on Police 5 🙂
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I’ll call you Trigger in future Baz… now I know how Rodney felt on “Only Fools and Horses” :dev2:
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…brass…. I think, and it looked in fairly good condition Baz. However, given my opposite area of interest, I didn’t really take a detailed look, it was its apparent removal from TB885 and its subsequent recovery from Kenley that caught my eye. It definitely wasn’t available as “Buy it Now” and had no bids either, so it was either pulled by the seller or snapped up by somebody who knew what they were looking at…
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😮 Blimey, that was quick… for those interested, it was a grip and column…
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Another Spitfire relic, adversed as being taken from post-dig Mk XVIe TB885 in the late 1950’s
http://cgi.ebay.com/Genuine-Spitfire-Spade-Grip-Mk-XVIe-TB885-/26080963049
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Couldn’t agree more with the last comment Septic… its not as if there isn’t plenty of scope for a museum with the amount of available land. Perhaps part of the old Station HQ building could be converted?
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Understood TO, I perhaps think we have two distinct requirements of which the one you mention would be better suited for the museum visitor touring a site with a need to learn more on what he/she is looking at rather than relying on what can be basic information displays.
The radio earpiece suggestion would purely be a system to run in conjunction with the official PA and operating on good old fashioned radio waves rather than the need for WiFi etc. My local Championship football club operates on AM during their season and having something similar at Duxford on airshow days that could be received on portable devices or earpieces would certainly appeal to me, especially during the flying. I’m sure that Fairford operated a dedicated AM channel a few years ago too although we only used it for traffic reports before and after the event…
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Great idea… I think they provide a similar service for Test match cricket with the BBC’s Test Match Special programme carrying commentary, albeit I think that this is just a simple radio earpiece radio with a single channel to their Long Wave service.
With regards Flying Legends, you could easily use the same system, if only to pipe the airshow commentary exclusively through such a system thus allowing those of us who just want to watch and hear the aircraft to do so without the need to be subjected to background noise. Important announcements etc during the display can still be piped via the existing loud-speaker system, as can the general chat either side of the display. The good thing is that if such a system was a success, operating frequencies maintained and batteries can be replaced, the earpieces would be reusable too…
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Many thanks for the swift response guys 🙂 I agree, it is indeed an interesting album, albeit covering quite different and possibly unrelated topics…
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Cheers for that James, appreciate your comments…
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As fabulous as ever Brian… thanks for your regular visual updates 🙂
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How well does that Sigma 120-400mm do with flying shots when the subject matter is further away, say at an airshow, when the subject matter is moving? Before I sold it, I had a D90 with a 50-500mm and struggled with getting nice clear shots like the one above.
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Thanks James, thought it was just me. Although it appears now to be working, does it appear to anybody else to only picking up threads from after the recent outage?
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