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  • June 20, 2006 at 9:21 pm in reply to: Tempest II #1328360
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    Won’t there be a pile of Bristol Centaurus engines in the States that have been removed from Sea Fury racers,

    Mike Nixon has been known to dabble a bit with Centaurii…. & altho I can’t quite see his shop from where I’m sat, I can see the mountain on top of which it resides 🙂

    June 19, 2006 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Vulcan XM655 stokes the fires. #1329659
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    ZRX61,

    XM655 will never fly again, despite being in excellent condition and the youngest Vulcan surviving, the cost of restoration to airworthy condition would be

    I did invest $10 today for Wednesday’s $75m lottery jackpot, I’ll let ya know how it goes… altho given my location, I’d probably make a play for the one sat at March AFB… 🙂

    June 19, 2006 at 11:41 pm in reply to: Scale Spitfire #1329662
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    Bloke on one of the bike boards I frequent is into r/c submarines… He lost one in a lake a few weeks back when it “disappeared” into the depths. So he finds a local Army scuba club to go look for it.
    He gets a shout from one of the divers saying “We found it!”
    & another promptly surfaces along with a 13ft Russian Akula class sub…

    er, nope, wrong r/c sub.. LOL!!

    June 19, 2006 at 11:15 pm in reply to: Low Flying Meteor spotted at Derby #1329734
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    Meteor? are you sure it’s not named after the Royal Enfield motorcycle? 🙂

    June 19, 2006 at 11:08 pm in reply to: Vulcan XM655 stokes the fires. #1329739
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    Is there anything that “physically” stops it flying, or is it just paperwork & money etc?

    June 17, 2006 at 8:55 pm in reply to: 146 WING, Needs Oar Point #1331609
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    As a former member of of the 146th MAW ACC I was kinda confused myself…

    June 17, 2006 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Caravelle? #1331613
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    There’s one parked at Van Nuys airport.

    June 13, 2006 at 4:30 pm in reply to: 3 VC10's buzzing Cambridge… #1334889
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    Hang on, what have I missed here, when were the VC-10’s overflying my favourite city and why.

    It was practice for some bloody great flypast deal in London. The 3 VC10’s came over on 2 different days & then there was a another flypast practice with the VC10’s, some Canberras & C130’s (I think that was the line up).
    On the day of the big show in London some Tornado’s buzzed the town center on the way home, 4 of em in a diamond IIRC.
    It may have been ’90 or ’91….?

    I used to live just around the corner from the pool, never went in there tho.

    June 13, 2006 at 1:47 am in reply to: Honington Open Day #1335244
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    Last time I was there (Mid 80’s) we were driving past a hangar when I mentioned seeing a couple of Lightnings in one of em. I was told “You didn’t see them, they aren’t here” LOL!

    June 12, 2006 at 5:02 pm in reply to: SR-71 scrapyard survivors #1335416
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    After the first *retirement* a load of parts ended up in SoCal salvage yards. I remember seeing rudders in the local paper advertised for $500.

    June 12, 2006 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Rolling the Lanc.. #1335418
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    Dizzy Addicot barrel rolled a (no self loadng cargo) VC10… much to the surprise of the wagon dragons in the back….

    June 10, 2006 at 12:27 am in reply to: B.o.B. Lanc this evening #1336246
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    There is no such thing as a ‘stupid’ question….

    … but there an an awful lot of inquisitive idiots…

    Trying to remember where I first heard that….I have a feeling it was Dx 😉

    June 9, 2006 at 2:13 am in reply to: avro york gets its wings #1251639
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    on for the first time since i was in shorts (nearly)…

    Whoa 😮 They were working on that when I was there 15 years ago

    June 3, 2006 at 7:42 pm in reply to: What ever became of…. #1258256
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    LOL! the word is “carafe”

    May 31, 2006 at 4:41 pm in reply to: Looking for colour codes of aircrafts #1263567
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    Heres a couple:

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