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  • in reply to: Gannet airborne #988354
    hampden98
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    Anyone know if there are any plans to display it this year?

    in reply to: General Discussion #273181
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    What they did brain surgery at the same time!?

    My favorite expression is `S H I T Storm`.
    Apologies if it offends anyone but hopefully in this mad world I can get away with it!

    in reply to: Back in the day #1873659
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    What they did brain surgery at the same time!?

    My favorite expression is `S H I T Storm`.
    Apologies if it offends anyone but hopefully in this mad world I can get away with it!

    in reply to: Half-naked display. What's the issue? #989909
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    I like aircraft that are open to inspection. It’s also great for kids. I remember as a kid being fascinated peering into aircraft.
    Painting the Hendon Wellington as a trainer and opening up I think is a mistake. I’ve always seen the Bomber Command hall as telling the story of
    Bomber Command. It is impressive walking into the hall and being presented with the Lancaster. It is a moving experience walking through the bombed out
    factory, listening to the Dambusters exhibit and hearing about the aircraft that didn’t return. I think the Battle and Wimpy add to that story.
    They (Lancaster and Wellington) are the only two intact large WW2 bombers in the museum (the Halifax is a wreck). I think they tell the story best as intact Bombers.

    I do like the idea of showing the aircraft under repair.

    in reply to: Veterans get screwed again !!!!! #991979
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    Interesting Subject header/comment Firebex, but your http link looks a bit suspicious with all those jumbled letters. I will not open it and suspect few others will. Care to elaborate on the subject and explain where the link will take us?

    The OP posted a twitter link which resolves to this;

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/raf-bomber-command/10225585/Dozens-of-Second-World-War-veterans-denied-Bomber-Command-clasp.html

    in reply to: RAFM Wellington #992239
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    So will they remove the turrets to depict a trainer?

    in reply to: 50KG bomb discovered at RAF St Eval #992248
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    Watching the news report it shows the crater left by the disposed bomb and the damage it caused to the plastic water pipe.
    Whoever laid the original pipe was lucky not to set it off!

    in reply to: 50KG bomb discovered at RAF St Eval #992744
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    So how viable are these old wartime bombs.
    Presumably any energy in the fuse would have discharged long ago or is there potential that they could just go off?
    I amazed that these things are not popping off all over the place with the amount of ordnance dropped here and in Europe.
    Especially the chemical fused ones.

    in reply to: General Discussion #273608
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    Get them to repair the blasted potholes in the roads.

    Don’t you mean “give em the bloody shovel” !

    in reply to: I reach for my gun ! #1873995
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    Get them to repair the blasted potholes in the roads.

    Don’t you mean “give em the bloody shovel” !

    in reply to: Mosquito from the cockpit video, what a view! #996411
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    I was wondering why they kept the engines running for so long after returning to the hard stand. Could it be they boiled an engine?

    Could have been steam venting. Running the engines to cool down perhaps?
    I was there Saturday and it was hot.
    Sunday possibly more cloud but hotter? I was in Toronto Sunday and boy it was a scorcher. Nice to see the Hurricane and Corsair fly over.

    in reply to: Mosquito from the cockpit video, what a view! #996780
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    Do all Mosquito’s have a fighter stick? I thought they had a spectacle style yoke?
    BTW what’s with the smoking Lanc engine at 13:59?

    in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #997488
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    We have had an airworthy P47 in the UK for at least 30 years.
    Wasn’t there a Blue and Red one. Then Fat Albert. Now Snafu. That’s not bad going really.
    While I’m sad to see an aircraft leave they had to leave from somewhere to appear here 🙂
    Looking forward to what might be replacing it. Mossie perhaps?

    hampden98
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    Didn’t the Gazelle do poorly in the Falklands war being vulnerable to ground fire?
    IIRC the first casualty of the war was a Gazelle. Other helo’s being a lot more rugged.

    in reply to: B17 gains a new 'little friend' (Merged) #1000022
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    Some nice air-to-air, besides the unusual subject:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23500679

    I wonder if his suit has any practical applications?
    Bet the military are interested. Can you imagine flying in the SAS with those!

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