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July 11, 2012 at 9:12 am in reply to: Cockpit-Fest USA #959216

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Wow, that must be the greatest mention of Newarks’ cockpitfest ever, and done with out Twin Otter uttering a word!
Nice clip:)

July 10, 2012 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Phantom to Bruntingthorpe??? #959541

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Absolutely agree with DB, and also wondering how Everetts have done it again!
Rather hoping that ‘597 would have made it to Cosford with the other testers, wouldn’t think that could happen now.

July 10, 2012 at 9:57 pm in reply to: RAF Propellers X or + #959671

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XV202 at St Athan, on the day the crew found out that they were going somewhere hot!

Hercules C.3 XV202 3 March 11 by jamtey71, on Flickr

I remember with P-3s (same engine) that you could always tell when it was soon to start as the props were changed from + to X, was it the same with Hercs?

July 10, 2012 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Raf St Athan #959680

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No, it’s all at twin peaks, he’s standing on the (long) disused runway.

July 10, 2012 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Vampire Label #959861

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Flunt is a Swiss abbreviation for Flugluntertank, or under wing tank, so Bruce is likely to be right!

July 10, 2012 at 10:57 am in reply to: Whirlwind HAR9 helicopter question #960703

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Just a thought here, I would think that David Gibbings who is the Westland archivist would be worth trying for information, much of the Fairey archive went to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, wondering if some of the Westland SARO stuff may have aswel?
Mr Gibbings can be contacted by PMing Judwin.

July 10, 2012 at 9:32 am in reply to: Raf St Athan #960791

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Before we all get carried away (like Bruce clearly has in the vid!), the equipment is loaned across from the Welsh Government (via now vacated DSG) and remains on site as part of the hangar itself, it will benefit the new tennants, Cardiff Aviation, as well as other companies on site – all part of a new enterprise zone initiative.

Also this has very little to do with historic aviation!

July 9, 2012 at 9:47 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread (August 2011) #961262

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Erm, he is isn’t he?

July 9, 2012 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Airworthy Vampire for sale #961270

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Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying one is more attractive than the other, but it wasn’t that long ago that it seemed that there were Vampires and Venoms, including single seaters, all over the sky, most seem to have been grounded or exported since, which suggests to me something about their desirablility here. Will someone want to bring back one here for $125,000?
Hard to believe that there are only two flying Vamps (both trainers) left in its home country.

July 9, 2012 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Airworthy Vampire for sale #961815

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Certainly not the ones I’m aware of, though I suppose the status of the spare engine is the deciding factor.

Seems expensive for a Vampire, the WWII type comparison is a bit tenuous really, it really is a post-war jet trainer.

Also worth noting that Jetguy has operated both types, so I guess he’s aware of the comparitive running costs!

July 9, 2012 at 5:25 pm in reply to: Two C54s on the way to North Weald!! (old, old, old thread!) #961825

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Catalina thread here, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=117872

July 8, 2012 at 10:40 pm in reply to: DH Hatfield, Leavesden and Chester ATC logs #962671

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Received your last Lee, but you need to make room in your PM box for my reply!

July 8, 2012 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Sea Prince Colours!!! #962700

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I am sure one of the party pieces from her airshow act (and one of the more popular parts for the public with no aviation knowledge) was to fly around with one undercarriage leg up and the other down. The hydraulic system was split which made it possible to retract/extend each side independently.
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The only hydraulic system on the Prince/Pembroke family is the wipers, everything else is pneumatic, not sure how they isolated one u/c side from the other.

July 8, 2012 at 9:06 pm in reply to: Sea Prince Colours!!! #962703

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…we are trying to decide which authentic colour scheme we will use to re paint her – probably grey with dayglo bands and wing panels. Was she ever painted differently? were her bands ever trainer yellow?

Basically the Sea Prince trainers initially wore the all over silver with a golden yellow training band applied around the rear fuselage and each wing.

then went to silver with dayglo nose, tail, and outboard wings, and white fuselage roof.

Finally wore the all over light aircraft grey with dayglo applied as above

WF128 570-CU

WF118 619-LM

Please, oh please, go for the all over silver, dayglo orange nose, tail, and wing sections, and white fuselage roof with thin cheatline scheme – the scheme just prior to going into the light aircraft grey and dayglo scheme. No other preserved Sea Prince is in these colours.
Attached pic by friend Chris England of WM739 shown in this scheme.

Hopefully see you at the hangar soon!

Sea Prince T.1 WP321 G-BRFC 30 May 12 by jamtey71, on Flickr

July 8, 2012 at 8:36 pm in reply to: DH Hatfield, Leavesden and Chester ATC logs #962872

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I’ve been trying there as well re early Vixen stuff, and meeting a brick wall, frustrating as there is possibly a great archive ready to be tapped into. I really want to find the document that John Wilson wrote about the flight trials.
In fact Bruce has been the best DH resource so far!
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