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June 17, 2008 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Newark Cockpit Fest #1230843

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[QUOTE=jack russell;1259775]Us girls were there, not with a Cockpit sadly, but with the ever growing story of Lancaster W4270 and her crew(may sound familiar to Peter). We had a great time in Hanger 2 with our display, met some fantastic people who were very helpful and advised us where to continue our research along different lines.

Hi there,

I was there on the Sunday with the Stirling Project so unfortunately missed your display. Is there anywhere on the web where we can find out more about the story?

cheers

John

June 13, 2008 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Aviation/War Films: What made you laugh and cry…? #1233814

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Sad – As the U-boat finally slips under the water following the air raid in Das Boot.

Funny – almost everything in Memphis Belle (IMHO)

June 12, 2008 at 4:18 pm in reply to: Nissan Huts #1234766

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IIRC, soldiers were/are always told to break step when crossing any bridge.

June 4, 2008 at 9:17 pm in reply to: When will the RAF be not as I knew it? #1240173

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When I left Abingdon in 1989, the OSD for the Jag was 1991. I left the mob in 1995 and joined the MOD as a (un)Civil Servant in 1997 in the Jag IPT and ended up managing the Life Extension Contract which was supposed to take the airframe to 7500 hrs but was then reduced to 7000. At one stage the OSD was proposed to be 2014 but progressively got cut back until its untimely demise last year.

The truth is that the aircraft are getting absolutely beasted and with no prospect of replacement many of them will soldier on with ‘sticking plaster’ solutions.:mad:

Perhaps its time to start building Canberras again:rolleyes:

June 3, 2008 at 11:20 am in reply to: WW2 Aircraft Wrecks in the English channel(2008) #1240856

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A few years ago there was a documentary on the search for Glenn Millers Norseman. They found a likely suspect in the channel, but there was very little left of the metal components. In such a saline environment with strong currents and an active fishing ground, the likelihood is that very little that is salvagable survives, but occasionally planes are found such as the Spit on the beach.

John

Oops Fournier boy beat me to it!

May 20, 2008 at 1:13 pm in reply to: What civil aircraft are you? #1179048

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G-AJDL

Vickers Viking:cool:

May 11, 2008 at 5:20 pm in reply to: Aircraft Number List V2 #1187215

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Hi

121 followed by A, B, E, O and S were for operational Jags

type A is French attack
type B is UK trainer
type E is French trainer
type S is UK strike

O was seen on items like weapon pylons

type M was the short lived french Maritime version, not T2 as listed

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John

May 11, 2008 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Another British Aircraft Becomes Historic #1187219

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F3 Tonka?

April 27, 2008 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Can anyone identify this instrument panel please? #1198050

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definitely not Chipmunk:)

John

April 25, 2008 at 1:22 pm in reply to: RAF Chipmunk Livery Question #1200514

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XM692 kindly supplied me with some photos of WP927, but if anyone out there has pics of her at any stage of her career, they would be most welcome.

John

April 22, 2008 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1203418

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Sorry to open a philosphical argument but surely wouldnt incorporating the original into the project give the project more originality and history than a reproduction. Obviously everyone has, and is entitled to their own opinion but that is my feeling.

Hi,

I have had similar thoughts on this matter and where possible we intend to incorporate as much original equipment as possible into the reconstruction of the cockpit section. In this case however, the control column has been sectioned for instructional purposes and would be inappropriate to put into the cockpit. However, it is a godsend in that we can temporarily build up the missing sections of casting so that we can create new moulds. We have drawings of some of the items and some originals as well, so we will try to be as sympathetic as possible with the re-build.

John

April 22, 2008 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1203579

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There’s another one in the Netherlands. The story about it still hurts in the hearts of some people.:cool:

Cheers

Cees

Hi Cees,

Would that be the one that the owner wants a lot of money for?

Junk Collector mentions that this is yet another Stirling Control Column back in the UK, I wasn’t aware that there are any others can anyone elaborate?

John

April 22, 2008 at 7:51 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1204391

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Hi Jag, great to see these updates and info, and really good news that the project is moving forwards. Would love to see more pics (especially the U/C crate). I have some original diagrams of the Stirling U/C and the way it works, immagine you already have, can scan them if you do want them.
It would be good to see a total project update and what you already have done and what parts you have, just for us newerbies!
Is this the only UK Stirling project?

One of my old WL795 colleagues is ex Stirling aircrew, liked it as something to fly in, hated it as something to go to war in!

I’ll take some pics of the RAFM u/c crate that we have on loan and post them at the weekend. Unfortunately it will have to return to them soon. As for more info, we have recently re-vamped our website so that it is less ‘clunky’ and should be easier to use (see link below)

April 21, 2008 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1204723

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Hi David,

Thanks for the encouragement.

We understand that the aircraft that this column came from may have crashed during the Arnhem operation and whilst we are looking further into this, have any of our Dutch colleagues any further info on this item?

cheers

John

April 21, 2008 at 8:36 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #1204744

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I’m sure that many of you will have heard of the aircraft exhibits held at Delft University in Holland. After some protracted communication the University authorities have kindly donated a complete, albeit sectioned Stirling Control Column. We intend to carefully dismantle it and use the parts as patterns to manufacture 2 new ones, it will then be re-assembled and displayed in its current form as it is a great exhibit in its own right.

John
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