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  • April 2, 2010 at 2:12 am in reply to: Can anyone help, where is this airfield? #1128490
    steve_p
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    Well done. I think you have it nailed.

    April 1, 2010 at 3:18 pm in reply to: Victor for Sywell Airshow? #1129238
    steve_p
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    Sad to hear that the Victor is attending. They must have cancelled the mass Valiant flypast to clear a slot for it….

    ..possibly.

    March 25, 2010 at 12:43 am in reply to: Can anyone help, where is this airfield? #1138092
    steve_p
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    The layout looks Russian.

    Steve P

    March 11, 2010 at 3:46 am in reply to: Hendon archives access experience? #1152847
    steve_p
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    Thanks guys.

    Best wishes
    steve p

    March 10, 2010 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Hendon archives access experience? #1153066
    steve_p
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    A while ago it was reported here that Hendon now has a copy stand so that you can now take digital photos of their documents. can anybody confirm this?

    Best wishes
    steve P

    March 5, 2010 at 10:11 pm in reply to: Wooden bombs on decoys WW2 #1158130
    steve_p
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    That would make a lot of sense. I wonder if these wooden bombs that turned up on dummy airfields were simply target markers to help the land and sea based gunners find the target?

    I am suprised that nobody has come up with a stores ref no. for them.

    Best wishes
    steve p

    March 5, 2010 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Wooden bombs on decoys WW2 #1158228
    steve_p
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    I’m baffled as well. I find it hard to believe that the RAF would have put aircrews at risk for such a minimal gain. Further, it would not have been sensible to let the enemy know how good our intellegence was. Dropping dummy bombs on dummy airfields would have given the game away.

    Isn’t it possible that these wooden bombs were, as they said on the label, smoke bombs? Who says that all bombs have to to have a metal casing? The dummy bomb story just sounds like fiction to me. I doubt if the work of a historian who has not searched through the records at Kew will convince me otherwise.

    Best wishes
    Steve P

    December 10, 2009 at 11:23 am in reply to: Lockheed Hudson turretless counter weight query #1114373
    steve_p
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    Wouldn’t the counterweights have gone in when the turret was installed, rather than when the turret was taken out? I seem to recall that the turreted hudson had weights forward of the CoG, possibly for this reason.

    December 6, 2009 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Engine Rotation Direction #1117871
    steve_p
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    Weren’t the Merlins in the Hornet handed? I’m not sure if they count as limited production.

    For the hornet, an extra gear was added in the reduction gearing to make the prop turn in the opposite direction – i think 😉

    November 18, 2009 at 10:17 pm in reply to: MBR2 Flying boat #1135658
    steve_p
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    Dug out my monograph on the type. Its in the Ukrainian magazine “Aviation and Time” issue 1/2004.

    The publication has loads of photos to illustrate the variants, both military and civil, scale drawings, and some colour profiles.

    The magazine surfaces in the UK from time to time and can sometimes be bought on ebay. For anyone interested in Soviet aviation it is a must buy.

    November 18, 2009 at 9:40 pm in reply to: MBR2 Flying boat #1135664
    steve_p
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    What do you need to know? I have a good monograph on the type – but it is in Russian. 😮

    November 17, 2009 at 10:56 am in reply to: Any WWII British Fleet Air Arm films? #1136885
    steve_p
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    Ships With Wings is probably one of the worst films ever made. If you can believe that a bent nail is a dockyard crane you might be able to watch it to the end. 😮

    I seem to remember that the special effects department had nothing more than a collection of models and a fishing rod. The script was dreadful too – it involved a FAA plot to destroy a vital aquaduct if I remember correctly.

    There is an nteresting but very brief glimpse of one of the Fairey F4/34 prototypes ending its life in a ball of flame on a (studio) carrier deck.

    November 9, 2009 at 2:09 pm in reply to: .303" cartridges from ex 3 Group airfield #1144288
    steve_p
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    Isn’t the incendiary one tracer?

    November 9, 2009 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Inter-war marine aircraft around Malta #1144342
    steve_p
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    Well silly me. Thanks!

    Edited…

    Seems to me that there is a need for a good book on the Fairey IIIF family. Time to start prodding some writers? :dev2::D

    November 9, 2009 at 11:04 am in reply to: Inter-war marine aircraft around Malta #1144365
    steve_p
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    My Putnams tome confirms the IIIFs. Didn’t all Gordons have radial engines?

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