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  • June 4, 2009 at 9:34 am in reply to: The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Airmen's Obituaries #1224171
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    My local garden centre book section is selling them remaindered for a fiver.

    May 26, 2009 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Airspray(Colchester)Ltd #1160874
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    Here’s another: very grainy – and the light must have got in at the beginning of the film – Super Cub at Portsmouth on 24 Aug 1960.

    May 14, 2009 at 10:15 am in reply to: Twin Engined bomber on Norfolk beach? #1173091
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    Moggy, look at Easytide and click on the free predictions, then find the nearest point to the Manchester 🙂 wreck.

    May 13, 2009 at 2:07 pm in reply to: BNP and a Polish Spitfire #1174628
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    Oh! Sorry, I should have checked first. Senility setting in!

    May 11, 2009 at 4:04 pm in reply to: New C-82 Packet website #1176887
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    Excellent job, Simon. I found something useful on the site straight away; the fact that the TWA C-82 I saw at Orly in the 1960s still exists! It was called “Ontos” – Greek for “the Thing”.

    May 1, 2009 at 7:53 pm in reply to: What airfield is this? #1187628
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    Never thought of Bovingdon. I think you’re right as it looks very much like the background to the B-17 beat-up in The War Lover.

    May 1, 2009 at 5:50 pm in reply to: What airfield is this? #1187784
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    I’m surprised nobody has identified the airfield yet. If it isn’t Hurn, it could be Blackbushe…

    April 30, 2009 at 8:54 am in reply to: What airfield is this? #1189481
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    Hurn?

    April 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Underwater Recovery #1201751
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    Sorry for the silly comments but we all knew that the real experts would come up eventually with some useful information!

    April 16, 2009 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Underwater Recovery #1204335
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    Leave that P-38 alone!:)

    April 10, 2009 at 8:01 pm in reply to: Filton as Airfield #803, 9th USAAF #1210141
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    I don’t know Filton well enough to comment but I can say that none of them are at Speke. Could be Sydenham or Renfrew but I doubt it. The hangars appear to be Butlers, a USAAF type usually erected by their own engineers. The A-20 in one of the photos, 43-10170, went to the 410th BG and was lost in action.

    April 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Filton as Airfield #803, 9th USAAF #1210687
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    Maybe the resident Filton expert is away for the weekend?! I have just remembered the Footnote site. (Google the name.) I have just checked this and found several excellent shots of P-51s at Filton, some with mechanics, one of which just COULD be your Dad! The captions say they are USAAF personnel but some look like civilians. There is also an A-20 shot with houses close in the background. That should help with pinning down the site on the airfield. Footnote is not terribly user friendly but if you get the WW2 section, then the USAAF aircraft section,and put Filton in the search box, you should get 17 images, although some are duplicated. Haven’t tried Avonmouth yet or Bristol so there may be other stuff on there.

    April 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Filton as Airfield #803, 9th USAAF #1212046
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    Hi Ned, can’t help much with info on Filton specifically but I’m sure someone will be able to. There were a couple of articles in FlyPast about ten years ago entitled “The Naked and the Cased” all about aircraft deliveries through Avonmouth etc. Lockheed Overseas Corp operated similar activities at Liverpool’s Speke Airport, Renfrew near Glasgow and Belfast Sydenham, supported by MRRS’s. Phil Butler’s Liverpool Airport history has photos of wartime work at Speke, including British civilians involved in US aircraft assembly.

    April 2, 2009 at 4:00 pm in reply to: F-101A/C Voodoo #1220491
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    PhantomII, glad those were of use. The middle one, 60027, was an F-101C, don’t know about the others.

    April 1, 2009 at 7:12 pm in reply to: F-101A/C Voodoo #1222008
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    These are all I’ve got but probably not much help. They were noisy beasts!
    I remember a static display one had “Have Gun, Will Travel” painted on the nosewheel door. That was the title of a TV western series of that era.

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