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July 27, 2006 at 5:00 pm in reply to: General Discussion #363935

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Saving Private Ryan?????????????????????????????????????

How on earth can anybody say that SPR is historically accurate? :confused:

The beach that Captain John Miller and co landed upon on D Day had a large number of British Tommies landing on it too. When you watch the film however you see hardly any British Tommies at all. 😡

On the other hand the number of Americans you see all through the film makes me wonder if the Brits played any part in the liberation of Europe at all! 🙁

July 27, 2006 at 5:00 pm in reply to: The most accurately portrayed Hollywood history films #1951404

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Saving Private Ryan?????????????????????????????????????

How on earth can anybody say that SPR is historically accurate? :confused:

The beach that Captain John Miller and co landed upon on D Day had a large number of British Tommies landing on it too. When you watch the film however you see hardly any British Tommies at all. 😡

On the other hand the number of Americans you see all through the film makes me wonder if the Brits played any part in the liberation of Europe at all! 🙁

July 25, 2006 at 8:01 pm in reply to: Latest News on "Dambusters" remake #1278755

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Judging by the blatant Americanising of other WW2 movies how many B17s will we be seeing flying with 617 squadren?

I think the inclusion of historically accurate names (Nigger) will play second fiddle to the aircraft if Spielbergs Private Ryan is anything to go by. Despite the British Army landing a considerable number of men on the beaches of Normandy on D Day you only get to see a handful of British Tommies wondering around.

July 25, 2006 at 11:57 am in reply to: Pak F16s are to be sub-standard and threat to the national security of Pakistan #2560437

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‘Substandard’

With the incredible pace of developments in military aircraft surely an aircraft is ‘substandard’ as soon as it leaves the factory if not the drawing board?

What will determine how substandard the PAF F16s turn out to be will be the quality of the pilots sat inside them.

Put an incompitent pilot into F22 and that aircraft will perform poorly but put a fully competant, highly skilled pilot into a PAF F16 and he should be able to perform near miracles with the technology available!

July 22, 2006 at 7:40 pm in reply to: First Flight #1282901

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My first flight was with the ATC flying out of Hurn airport, Bournmouth.

It was in a DH Chipmunk, WP840 on the 22nd June 1991 and I flew in her twice more my final flight being almost exactly 12 months later. 😀

I was bitten hard by the flying bug and the only reason I haven’t made progress towards my PPL is the old £££££££££££££££s! 🙁

July 22, 2006 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Light aircraft pics #1282906

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You can’t have pictures of light aircraft without including one of these….

July 22, 2006 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Spotted #1282921

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Earlier in the week a B1B did a couple of circuits of nearby Boscombe Down before heading off in a northerly direction.

Any idea why? :confused:

July 22, 2006 at 11:21 am in reply to: The Steve Young Chipmunk memorial thread #1283221

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I’ve managed to find a few photos of Chipmunk cockpits, sorry if it offends anyone that they are not complete aircraft! 🙁

July 22, 2006 at 9:45 am in reply to: Building a Chipmunk from scratch #1283387

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Agcat, I wasn’t planning on using a Gipsy Major engine but choosing a more economical modern engine.

Stuart G, I had seriously considered buying a complete Chipmunk (WP840?) but because of their age thought it would be far cheaper to run a new build airframe.

DHfan, I realise it would be quite a substantial undertaking to build a complete aircraft but think, in the long term, it would be very beneficial.

QldSpittey, considering the popularity of the Chipmunk would have thought copies of original design plans would have been quite easy to find?

The only thing I still don’t know about building an aircraft is the total cost!

July 19, 2006 at 9:56 pm in reply to: The Steve Young Chipmunk memorial thread #1287555

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How much?

How much of an aircraft can be replaced before the airframe has to be reregistered?

I only ask because I know WP840 has had at least one new engine and is about to have a new set of wings and I’m thinking there isn’t much left of the original airframe.

How much of the remaining fusalage would need to be replaced before she would have to be reregistered?

Or wouldn’t she ever? :confused:

July 15, 2006 at 8:48 pm in reply to: The Steve Young Chipmunk memorial thread #1293535

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I recognise that second one 😀

I simply put WP840 into Google and viewed the first 25 sites (or so) and took any decent pictures of her that I found.

Any more news on how she’s coming on?

July 14, 2006 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Runaround Englandshire 29/5 #475396

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BAe 146 N521XJ

I never realised the Americans had ever bought any BAe 146s, I thought one of the many American manufacturers would have made a similer aircraft over their side of the pond.

Although I guess it shows just how good British Aerospace aircraft are! 😀

Pity the Solway Lightning is looking so unkempt… 🙁

July 14, 2006 at 2:20 pm in reply to: The Steve Young Chipmunk memorial thread #1294603

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Earlier this year, a Chipmunk engine was passed to us. It was the one used to trial the VP propeller on the prototype Chippy. Attached to it were engine bearers and firewall. The firewall is distinctly pre production, and certainly handmade. I believe these to be the last surviving parts of CF-DIO-X!

Bruce

What’s happened to the rest of this piece of aviation history? Over the last 60 years the Chipmunk has become regarded as a classic aircraft, I would have thought that more than a few pieces of the engine would have survived.

🙁

‘sniff’ sorry but I am actually quite upset by this.

July 12, 2006 at 9:18 pm in reply to: The Steve Young Chipmunk memorial thread #1297352

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I’ve managed to find two photos of the Chipmunk prototype, CF-DIO-X!

Isn’t she beautiful….

July 9, 2006 at 10:31 pm in reply to: The beautiful Tu-22M Backfire #2569386

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Tu-22, what the F1-11 tried and failed (just) to be!

The Russians sure know how to build sexy planes, MIG-29, Tu-22, Su-35!
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