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  • March 31, 2025 at 1:06 pm in reply to: IWM Spitfire #1130115
    pagen01
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    Actually when you look at that list (not to mention the componants, such as the Beardmore Inflexible main wheel) of what’s at the science Museum it is about as significant an aircraft collection can be.
    Small, with no fat on – perfect!
    I know we can bang on about what hasn’t been saved, various museum policies etc, but the above is a great example of foresight in saving some hugely signicant airframes.

    March 31, 2025 at 1:05 pm in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Needed – Can you help??? #1130017
    pagen01
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    Hi Pagen,
    Can you get me info on these please?

    The demolition of East camp is getting under way now, and within it are three Bellmans. They are a metal framed and metal clad hangar and were designed to be ‘transportable’, though I wouldn’t have thought the are very transportable now. Unsure on size, guessing 120′ by 200′, REF will know.
    I think the contracts for demolition and removal are probably well in place, so I’m guessing one of the companies would need to be contacted aswel as DE.
    Be a big job to dissassemble, and of course planning and reassembley will be something else.
    I know that the Malta Air Museum looked at relocating a similar size and construction type from Luqa to Ta Qali, but turned out to be cheaper to build a new hangar.

    First one was built at Usworth, so local link there.

    Please PM your specific questions, cheers.

    March 31, 2025 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Help to ID RAF helicopter #1129857
    pagen01
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    Whirlwind HAR.2 I would say, but could also be HAR.4.
    Colour scheme looks different as it has a light main colour (guessing again, at yellow) with what appears to be white underside.

    March 31, 2025 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Help to ID RAF helicopter #1129786
    pagen01
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    It does look like a press demo of sorts, I was wondering if it was the occasion where one dropped out of the sky in front of the press on an RAF launch, but that was ‘434.

    March 31, 2025 at 1:03 pm in reply to: Gutersloh Spotters website #1129608
    pagen01
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    It has to be said that there are some fantastic pictures on that site, even if you are not into that airfield. The photographers must have been well privaledged to have had those opportunities on a German airfield at the height of the cold war.

    March 31, 2025 at 1:03 pm in reply to: Aircraft Hangar Needed – Can you help??? #1129623
    pagen01
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    Are they not hangars for let, as opposed to up for sale, removal and rebuilding?

    March 31, 2025 at 12:58 pm in reply to: Clinging to life at Predannack #1128520
    pagen01
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    Helicopters?! Some!:o
    You might have to check out demobbed for that, there was a really nicely painted SAR Wessex, and another one on its side, but I didn’t take details.

    March 31, 2025 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Wild Weasels!! (2002 Thread!!) #1128179
    pagen01
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    Damn it caught again, I’m genuinely embarressed!

    March 31, 2025 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Wild Weasels!! (2002 Thread!!) #1128193
    pagen01
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    I can’t see owt:confused:

    March 31, 2025 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Venomous #1128203
    pagen01
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    Cracking shot of a lovely aircraft.

    March 31, 2025 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Venomous #1127491
    pagen01
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    Agreed. But why the hell do they insist on fitting those bloody underwing tanks! They were never fitted ‘in period’ during RAF service. And yes I know its an ex Swiss machine.

    Accuracy. One thing AACF has never been big on!

    You’re talking the language of complete and utter lets be nice please…, RAF single seat Venoms could and indeed did carry underwing tanks.

    Irrespective of our views, or what is ‘right and wrong’ the owners of these wonderful jets are entitled to do what they wish with them.

    March 31, 2025 at 12:52 pm in reply to: Any Chance Of A Shackleton Returning To The Sky? #1127421
    pagen01
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    ….the aircraft heads away from you

    It’s either heading towards you or going away from you;)
    Agree with the sentiment though:)

    March 31, 2025 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Boeing Stratocruiser Landing Attitude #1126847
    pagen01
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    VC-10s do appear nose down on landing, but they definately touch down on their main gears first.
    Must admit I thought Britannias did aswel.

    I have often wondered about the Strats landing attitude, which seems more pronounced than the ’29 and ’50.

    March 31, 2025 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1126853
    pagen01
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    Nice find although rather poignant. Pic on the front shows if i’m not mistaken John Derry with his wife Eve talking to actress Ann Todd, whom i believe became close friends with John.

    You’re not mistaken, and isn’t that David Lean far right, he was Ann Todds Husband at the time. They became close to the Derrys at the time of making the ‘Sound Barrier’, an all too prophetic film as it turned out.
    Nice item by the way.

    Notice page 3 was pretty saucy even back then!

    March 31, 2025 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Duxford – BoB film – Late August 1968 – Over And Out. #1126646
    pagen01
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    Nice evocative pic.
    Out of general interest, how many Buchons are left in the UK, and how many of those are flyers?

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