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May 31, 2005 at 1:04 am in reply to: Good to see the French can afford to insure Pink Lady #1367401

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Yes £2k. That is my personal estimate for the increase in insurance cost for this one flight.

Take the number of flights or the number of hours flown in one year and divide in to the premium. You can cut the sums to suit your spin.

They could always try a bit of fund raising in the US, the amount needed for one years premium is basically bugger all in the scheme of things…

May 30, 2005 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Good to see the French can afford to insure Pink Lady #1368239

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the £2k extra insurance

Thats IT??? 2 lousey grand?

One thing no one has mentioned:
SallyB is now classfied as an airliner for insurance purposes.. surely that means they can now take paying passengers for joy rides…. The going rate in the US is about $300-$400 for a jolly in a B17…. Just strap a half dozen witless anoraks in the back & ya have a new source of revenue for SallyB…

May 27, 2005 at 8:47 pm in reply to: The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress being looped #1371928

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Vc-10, the guy rolling it sound’s like, yes I am going to do it now, so he did :p .

The BOAC pilots thought it was great, but no one told the wagon dragons sitting back in the self loading cargo compartment & apprently they weren’t too happy about it for some reason…
Was Addicot a test pilot on the VC10? I seem to recall hearing something about him being involved in it & that would explain why he was flying it back from the US without paying passengers…

May 27, 2005 at 8:40 pm in reply to: John Romain – BBC Look East #1371944

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John Romain taken at ARC/HFL open day last year. Who? John Romain?????

He must be stood on a box in that pic…. I think it was Hoof who named him “Shetland Pilot” 😀

May 27, 2005 at 2:29 pm in reply to: James Bond film aircraft #1372721

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I asked him if he had done much civil flying and he replied he got some time in the family plane. I asked what sort (expecting to hear a warbird) and he replied the family Lear.

It’s based out of Van Nuys, Corky has an office over at Clay Lacy’s place. You wouldn’t beleive the fun those 2 have in Lears, few years back the pair of them formation barrel rolled 2 of them near Malibu just off the beach.

May 27, 2005 at 2:14 pm in reply to: 'Sally B' insurance woes – BBC National news #1372739

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What if it was put on the US registry & got a N number?

May 27, 2005 at 2:27 am in reply to: That Embarrassing Moment #1373494

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another that has stayed quiet till now, when you are pressuretesting a cylinder in a c172 (or any piston type for that matter) and you plug in the airline to the adaptor, make sure the piston is at the bottom of the stroke and not near the top!!!, other wise WOLLOP, i got one dead arm for about 5 mins. lucky me no one saw 😉
Greg

Years ago doing a leak down test on RareBear, We had about 8 people hanging on the prop to stop the engine turning …. :rolleyes:

May 26, 2005 at 3:16 pm in reply to: James Bond film aircraft #1374687

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How about that Vulcan, is that one in a museum?

It’s still at the bottom of my pool 🙂

I should point out that when I said “one of my local boozers” in the other post I meant local by US standards, it’s actually 75 miles away & I only go there on Sundays (when the place is teeming with fine Malibu totty). I’m in Lancaster, the BD is in Calabasas..

May 26, 2005 at 2:55 pm in reply to: James Bond film aircraft #1374854

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One of my local boozers has a BD5 on a stick that they claim was in a Bond movie, it has the correct paint job etc….
Wasn’t that the one Ray Hanna flew? Or maybe Skip Holm?

May 26, 2005 at 2:41 am in reply to: WWII RAF training field in California #1375552

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Well done that man, The surprize is Quartz Hill Airfield, I know it was on L8, cus thats where I live, but about 3/4mile east of the field, Ride dirt bikes down there a lot. You can almost see my house in some of the pics LOL!
Didn’t realise quite how many of the old buildings remained at War Eagle, often ride past it on the way to Willow Springs raceway 🙂

May 25, 2005 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Can anyone ID this scrap relic? #1375700

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I think I have a full set of B25 manuals in the garage, but theres no way I’m going out there to check the parts book when it’s 110deg in the shade right now… 😮

May 25, 2005 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Can anyone ID this scrap relic? #1375880

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My guess is that it’s from either a wing root where the cables turn 90deg to go out the ailerons, or possibly the tail (if it’s B25) where the cables go from the fuselage out towards the rudders…

or I could be talking thru my hat… :confused:

How wide is the groove in the pulleys? If they are 1.5in pulleys it looks to be about a 3/16 – 1/4in cable?

May 25, 2005 at 10:18 pm in reply to: la "Bataille de Angleterre" – It's a metric thing. #1375888

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er, why is there a huge Labrador’s face staring back just to left of St Pauls?

yeah, I know it’s an illusion 🙂

May 25, 2005 at 10:14 pm in reply to: la "Bataille de Angleterre" – It's a metric thing. #1375890

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What exactly are you going to do with it, anyway??

Wallpaper the stairwell? 🙂

May 25, 2005 at 10:06 pm in reply to: That Embarrassing Moment #1375896

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While trying to shoot some stored Caribous in Madrid,

I always thought they were native to Canada? :p
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