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  • January 16, 2011 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Retail park Propellor on mount #1154597
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    Google Heathfield Retail Park and all will be revealed!

    January 16, 2011 at 9:23 am in reply to: Heyford RF-101 Voodoo What is this town? #1155752
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    I agree with Mike. The angular field patterns are the giveaway. Did you ever wonder why German aircraft had straight line camouflage patterns and the RAF had wavy ones?

    January 12, 2011 at 9:37 am in reply to: "post war " Horsas #1089086
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    I actually “found” Horsa TK979 at Queensferry around 1963. Noticed it one day while driving past. The elderly owner was quite apprehensive when I knocked on his door and asked about it. “It was come by quite legally he said”. He relaxed when I assured him that I was not from “the Ministry”. It had come from RAF Hawarden, about two miles away in the late 1940s/early 50s. All the N Wales ones came from here when they were sold off to farmers etc. TK979 was only a fuselage section about ten feet long, the identity being stencilled on the frames. I think it was or had been used as a chicken house.
    The best one was at Rhuallt Hill. It was long fuselage section painted black and complete with yellow-ringed roundel. It was often misidentified as a Lancaster!

    January 9, 2011 at 10:45 pm in reply to: 34 MU location 1950-1953? #1091048
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    No 34 MU moved from Sleap to Stoke Heath (adjacent to RAF Tern Hill) on 1/7/48. Disbanded into No 24 MU on 1/6/56 but remained at Stoke Heath.

    January 8, 2011 at 12:16 am in reply to: Interesting vid #1092853
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    Thanks for posting. That is truly amazing. Pity though that it has been ‘stretched’ to wide screen. The Tchaikovsky’s a bit ‘busy’, some Gorecki might have been better. Minor complaints aside, it’s still brilliant!

    January 7, 2011 at 11:49 am in reply to: W/O Alec Dawson Payne 610 Squadron Battle of Britain #1093809
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    Gerry
    I passed the details about W/O Payne’s passing to my friend who is the Secretary of the 610 Squadron Association in Chester.

    He tells me: “The news was totally unexpected as we had not known that he was still living, nor did the BoB Historical Society. Would it be possible for you to find out more on this ex-610 pilot as I know you are a member of the forum? His home location would be useful, address details of next of kin and his place of burial would be good.”

    We appreciate that you may not want to reveal some of this information but perhaps you can PM me to discuss, please. The 610 Assoc has a great deal of info on its former pilots and it would be a pity if W/O Payne slips through the net.

    Dave Smith

    December 31, 2010 at 11:07 pm in reply to: USN Aircraft Identification needed please #1100701
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    And the AG code indicates CVW-7 – Attack Carrier Air Wing 7. Not sure about the carrier it referred to. AG was USS Independence but that may have been in a later era. Someone will know!

    December 30, 2010 at 10:51 pm in reply to: Derelict airframes at Gatwick #1101459
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    You obviously know Gatters better than I do!

    December 30, 2010 at 9:07 pm in reply to: Derelict airframes at Gatwick #1101542
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    I have it on good authority that they are buried under the perfume display in Terminal One Duty Free. Barring a miracle, they are unlikely to appear at Legends …

    December 23, 2010 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Dig 1940 #1107194
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    Forgive my flippancy. Those brief colour clips were indeed incredible.

    December 23, 2010 at 11:39 am in reply to: Dig 1940 #1107212
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    An excellent effort, Andy, could only have been improved by the appearance of Jacqueline Bisset on the boat in wet t-shirt, as in The Deep …

    December 12, 2010 at 9:25 am in reply to: Proctor query #1118836
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    It is almost certainly with No 2 Radio School at Yatesbury. They had three digit codes beginning with 2, but the DM is strange.

    December 8, 2010 at 11:14 am in reply to: German WWII RAF Bombing propaganda poster #1123357
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    Just found a note that the artist for both those pictures was Bronislaw Linke. The aircraft skeleton is entitled Luftwaffe.

    December 8, 2010 at 10:35 am in reply to: German WWII RAF Bombing propaganda poster #1123362
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    The one with the skeleton Stuka is an original painting of the fate of Warsaw during the 1944 Uprising. It was done by a famous Polish artist whose name I am trying to remember. He may have painted the other one as well.

    November 20, 2010 at 10:49 pm in reply to: Czech airman not forgotten. #1141102
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    A touching gesture. I thought this was an ancient Russian tradition but maybe it is common to all Slavic nations?

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