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June 25, 2003 at 2:05 pm in reply to: For Seafuryfan.. #2108146

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i can’t remeber where i found them… but its WG565 which i believ is still flying in Canada? no idea about the background of the shot but the buildings and the staff don’t look very military so i suppose it could be either pre-delivery (but the chaps don’t look very ‘British’) or possibly when it was first aquired from the Canadian Navy… perhaps one of canadian ‘readers’ can help!

heres another view..

June 25, 2003 at 12:07 am in reply to: The FlyPast game – A proposal #2108280

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won’t those bulldog clips on her back go rusty first time she goes in the sea… design fault if you ask me…

Now show us the front!!!!!

June 24, 2003 at 11:43 pm in reply to: For Seafuryfan.. #2108287

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did someone mention ‘health and safety’ in another thread!

June 24, 2003 at 11:29 pm in reply to: Ashley's Airspace Update #2108317

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But seriously Ashley..

it’ll be an interesting logistical feat when they do come to dangling the aeroplanes…. hopefully yourself or someone will be on hand with a camera to record it for us !

June 24, 2003 at 11:25 pm in reply to: RAF Roundels #2108323

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thanks for all that chaps…

on a related point, is it correct that the a/c operating in the far East used the ‘2 tone’ Blue roundels so as they weren’t confused with the Japanese ‘rising sun’… seems logical..

June 24, 2003 at 11:20 pm in reply to: look at the size of that….. #2108327

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I had the same problem trying to get to the front of the Shak at Newark the other week….

hmmm the small person is probably R1… no no thats a japanese motorbike..

June 24, 2003 at 11:16 pm in reply to: BBMF this PM #2108333

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I’ll have a pint of ‘old hooky’….

June 24, 2003 at 11:04 pm in reply to: look at the size of that….. #2108343

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yeah and you’d bound to want to ‘go’ again as soon as you got back…

June 24, 2003 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Ashley's Airspace Update #2108347

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I always used pale green cotton or nylon fishing line as that blended into the bedroom wallpaper… I suppose nowadays you could have then digitally removed like the strings on the Thunderbirds puppets…

you could also use the orange tissue paper around the exhaust stubs on the Spits…. and black painted cotton wool to simulate an a/c ‘hit’….

June 24, 2003 at 10:48 pm in reply to: Lancaster Question #2108370

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thanks for that Kev… the article I read implied some sort of strutural problem, which was what intrigued me.. I’m sure that Lancman will be able to enlighten us..

June 24, 2003 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Ashley's Airspace Update #2108372

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ah, aeroplanes on bits of string.. reminds me of my bedroom about 30 years ago…

talking of the TSR 2… did we to the bottom of why a panel from the Duxford one is at Newark ? I think Joe mentionned it a while back…

The SR71 would look impressive hanging up… especially if you scrunched up some orange tissue paper and hung it out of the tail pipes…

:p

June 23, 2003 at 10:27 pm in reply to: i'm sure you've seen this before #2108907

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…must’ve been one hell of a mod to the undercarriage!!!!

😀 😀

June 15, 2003 at 11:52 pm in reply to: Raf Faygate – Sussex #2110961

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no not really… I received the back issue of ‘After The Battle’ which had an article about wartime a/c recovery in the area and the role of 49 MU… seems like they had it quite well set up with stripping of the a/c on site then the big lumps going off to Adderbury in Oxfordshire for melting down/disposal.. . so doubt if theres any large lumps were dumped on site.. The article was written in the 80’s and all that the author found was a couple of small pieces of what may’ve been a/c skin laying around.. the dismantling site appears to have been under what is now the wood yard so anything that was disposed of on site would be difficult to get at, buried under large logs and in a clay soil.

as an aside, theres a local company called Park Aviation about 2 or 3 miles from the WW2 site which seems to scrap/dismantle more modern beasties.. last time I peered through their gates there was the front end of a Harrier and a midget submarine! they are also ‘credited’ with scrapping Canberras and Phantoms..
I wonder if it was started by an ex-49MU man who got a taste for dismantling aeroplanes!

Neil.

June 15, 2003 at 6:18 pm in reply to: CockpitFest Newark #2111071

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well I had a good day, but will have to retire to the pub to recover from the autojumble plus the cockpit-fest… first time i’ve been inside a Vulcan… yeaaah!!! sorry i must act my age sometime! was suprised at the lack of space… was also impressed with the numerous variations on seating layouts on the canberras..

was looking at the instrument panel display – how much of the stuff for Spitfires and the like is available.. what sort of money does it take to get together instruments/control column etc to recreate an instrument panel ??

Neil.

June 14, 2003 at 11:23 pm in reply to: conninsby #2111117

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yep I understand that theres a reasonable amount of the original runway still there…. it was used by crop sprayers and light a/c in relatively recent times… the top end of the extension (east end of the airfield) is still in quite good condition – used for bike drag racing 3 or 4 times a year… unfortunately its cut off from the rest of the airfield by a minor road! last time i was up there watching the bikes there was a Robin which appeared to be doing engine runs (thats a Robin as in french,small,single prop not Robin, red-breast, flapping wings, worm eater)…

glad you enjoyed sitting in on the taxi run… I enquired about that recently but must admit the price put me off .. I may have to treat myself at some stage though..

Neil (cheapskate!)
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