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  • in reply to: Football Club Names #1895587
    Gooney Bird
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    The difference between Football and Rugby is….

    Football is a Gentlemens’ game played by yobs.

    Rugby is a yobs’ game played by Gentlemen.

    That should wind a few people up!

    in reply to: Southend Airport progress? #572367
    Gooney Bird
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    Are they still going to move the church?

    in reply to: Southend Airport progress? #572379
    Gooney Bird
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    Yes runway 06 – certainly a good spot for photographs!

    in reply to: Luton Airport #1126126
    Gooney Bird
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    Do you have any other photos of Luton from around that time?

    Here is my contribution but I can’t remember the year.

    in reply to: Southend Airport progress? #572601
    Gooney Bird
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    It’s looking good – nice photos by the way. Thanks for posting.

    in reply to: Luton Airport #1126292
    Gooney Bird
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    The 737’s were actually registered VRL, VRM and VRN.

    in reply to: Bristol 170 Mk.32 Superfreighter #1129899
    Gooney Bird
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    She’s beautifull

    She certainly is – a fantastic bit of workmanship!

    How about tackling a Vickers Viking next in the same scale?

    in reply to: Vickers Viking Query #1134812
    Gooney Bird
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    I was wondering if anyone could identify a Vickers Viking for me? I was looking at a head on photo (taken possibly in 1950s) of one in Rhodesia so the airline could not really be made out but from the angle I could make out the registration KN at the end, possibly JKN. However it can’t be G-AJKN (this is a Miles Gemini) so does anyone have any ideas? I have looked on the internet to see if there is a list of regs of all Vikings produced but could not find a complete one.

    Could be G-AIKN which was finally owned by Continental Airways and stood engineless outside the BKS hangar at Southend for many years. I believe it was eventually scrapped in the mid-sixties!

    in reply to: Bristol 170 Mk.32 Superfreighter #1148586
    Gooney Bird
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    In case any of you don’t know what an Airfix Superfreighter looks like here is one I made in the nineties when it was briefly re-released.
    Colin

    I still have an unmade one still in its unopened box! One of these days I shall sit down and make it!

    in reply to: General Discussion #319424
    Gooney Bird
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    The fact was that Wogan said what we all thought. A very clever and entertaining man! That idiot Norton is not a patch on him!

    in reply to: Eurovision Song Contest #1902331
    Gooney Bird
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    The fact was that Wogan said what we all thought. A very clever and entertaining man! That idiot Norton is not a patch on him!

    in reply to: General Discussion #319578
    Gooney Bird
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    The whole thing is an absolute load of rubbish. I think we should pull out and leave it to the third world countries to battle it out to their hearts content!

    in reply to: Eurovision Song Contest #1902423
    Gooney Bird
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    The whole thing is an absolute load of rubbish. I think we should pull out and leave it to the third world countries to battle it out to their hearts content!

    in reply to: Austers at Hastings #1152072
    Gooney Bird
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    Herte is a colour photo taken at Ipswich – the black and white photo was taken at Sothend when it was owned by Southend Corporation.

    in reply to: Austers at Hastings #1152081
    Gooney Bird
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    Here’s a photo from the Auster Club magazine showing the demise of G-AIZY.

    Martin

    How very sad. I did my solo X -country in IZY from Ipswich-Cambridge-Luton-Ipswich in March 1965!

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