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April 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm in reply to: What Made You Smile Today III? #1870555

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A friends dog at the beach earlier:

April 16, 2011 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Russian transports' glass noses #1082419

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I really have to take issue with that statement, we flew, and as far as I am aware crews are still flying, highly accurate air drop missions in Afghanistan where loads are dropped within 15 feet of the DZ marker.

That’s a bit of a pisser, when I was involved the safest place to be was the aiming point as it was garanteed to be the one place a pallet wouldn’t land. It wasn’t unknown to set up a BBQ & lawn chairs etc:cool: then wait for daylight to go looking all over the Mojave desert to find out where the hell everything landed.:mad:
I never heard of anyone getting hurt (or flattened into the landscape) but there were a couple of near misses when personal had wandered away from the safety of the target area… One guy was taking a leak, had a pallet land about 15ft in front of him & then suffered an attack of the screaming abdabs as he was tangled up in one of the chutes as he tried to run away.. :diablo:

April 16, 2011 at 7:20 am in reply to: B17 Mary Alice #1083032

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Well you certainly won’t want to look at that thread I started with some old Dx photo’s….

April 16, 2011 at 1:39 am in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1083125

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April 16, 2011 at 1:37 am in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1083179

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A few more.

April 16, 2011 at 1:09 am in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1083269

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That brings back some memories – I even remember taking those shots. 1988 I think.

ZRX61 – we were all a lot younger, thinner and had more hair in those days!

I have more hair now 🙂

April 16, 2011 at 1:07 am in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1083274

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How many of that crowd are still there?

April 15, 2011 at 6:21 pm in reply to: B17 Mary Alice #1083855

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I’ve just posted another update on the WIX thread 🙂

I felt the need to comment on the quality of that patch on the flap.. 😮

:diablo:

Someone at Dx needs to invest in the some of these guages:

Available here:
http://www.aircraft-tool.com/shop/detail.aspx?PRODUCT_ID=AE1007

April 15, 2011 at 5:57 pm in reply to: B17 Mary Alice #1083864

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I have a recollection of one of Sally’s spares on Mary Alice might have been used during “Memphis Belle”, but unless I’ve got the dates wrong that would be seven years later, so if true the engine would have needed a bit of work!!

One of the planes threw a cylinder off during the filming which lead to an engin swap. IIRC, the police bought the cowl back the next day after it was found in some farmers field? Can’t remember which aircraft, but it had a dent in the leading edge of the horizontal from the cowl hitting it.

April 15, 2011 at 4:20 pm in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1084016

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ok, that makes sense, it was saving the pics at 300dpi.

April 15, 2011 at 3:48 pm in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1084127

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The chap stood by Grumpy walked in the hangar one day with his family, pointed to the side of the aircraft & delivered a minor bollocking for not having one of the mission symbols painted black for the one night mission they flew. He was the Radio Op.
I also posted that pic on JS’s facebook page & he asked if I remembered his name, I don’t.. does anyone else know?

April 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1084131

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Wasn’t the Mustang and Coke Can during restoration after a wheels up landing (was hung on for fun while in the hangar)?

I also have a pic of the pile of bent blades. I have a couple of pics of me in the rad hole wielding a bucking bar while Danny deafened me with the rivet gun.

Which begs the question ~ which one were you in when you took the picture ?

I think it was Mother & Country, I know the one where I’m wearing the orange bailer twine *safety harness* was taken in M&C. In that pic the woman nearest the camera is the pilots missus I think. You can tell it’s not Tallichets plane as it’s not knee deep in MacDonalds wrappers & KFC boxes etc….
Nice job of the photo tweek 🙂

Now I’ve finally figured out how to use my scanner I’m going to get hold of the PA908 album & scan the pics from that.

April 14, 2011 at 10:02 pm in reply to: A Couple Of Old Duxford Pics… #1084661

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ok, I went back & changed all the pics to attachments so you don’t need a bigscreen TV to view them.

April 13, 2011 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Today, I have mostly been….. #1084861

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I had a couple of tool scores this week. The first was Horrible Fright (Harbor Freight) were having a clearance deal on post dollies. Down to $5.97 from about $16.. so I bought their entire stock as the steel it good enough quality to machine to otehr shapes for tinbashing…

& the second was being informed that Amazon was having a helluva deal on US made Nicholson files with up to 90% discounts. I bought 5 sets in total & will likely never have to buy another metal file again as long as I live. Ended up with about $375 in files for about $40. I picked up Maintenance sets, Machinist sets & Gen Purpose sets.

First order:

1 “Nicholson Maintenance File Set, 9-piece, with Flat/Mill/Half-Round/Round/4in Hand/Taper, 6″ Length/8″ Length/10″ Length”
Misc.; $9.24 (usually $79)

1 “Nicholson General Purpose File Set, Half-Round, Mill, Taper, 6″ Length/8″ Length/10″ Length”
Misc.; $6.68 (usually $47)

1 “Nicholson Maintenance Hand Kit With Ergonomic Handles, 9-Piece, 6″ Length/8″ Length/10″ Length/12″ Length”
Misc.; $9.53(usually $115)

followed closely by a second order:

1 “Hand Tools: Their Ways and Workings”
Aldren A. Watson; Paperback, 416 pages; $15.61

1 “Nicholson General Purpose File Set, Half-Round, Mill, Taper, 6″ Length/8″ Length/10″ Length”
Misc.; $6.68 (usually $47)

1 “Nicholson Machinist Hand File Kit Without Handles, 7-piece, 7″ Length/10″ Length”
Misc.; $8.48 (usually $87)

April 13, 2011 at 5:41 pm in reply to: B17 Mary Alice #1084870

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If the roof was sealed on the inside it could cause condensation problems which would make the place very damp. At a guess I suspect that the unsealed concrete may be designed to soak up a certain amount of the moisture from the air to cut down condensation.

I think thats parts of the problem, moisture is absorbed by the roof, gets contaminated with salts from the concrete & then ends up being released again when it gets dry inside the building…?
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