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  • March 24, 2009 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Royal Navy.. the Weird, the Wacky, and the Wonderful. #1231100
    adrian_gray
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    I think he meant the Mosquito TT39… good description of it!

    Adrian

    March 24, 2009 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Storch #1231103
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    Deal Peter,get in line the rest of you,I offered first! 😉

    Drat, that puts my bottle of Bombardier into context, doesn’t it?

    Adrian

    March 24, 2009 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Royal Navy.. the Weird, the Wacky, and the Wonderful. #1231554
    adrian_gray
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    It must have been mine – one my dad took at Farnborough in 1955. Here it is again:

    Ooops… 😮

    Still, it’s reappeared, which was the original idea.

    Adrian

    March 24, 2009 at 10:38 am in reply to: Royal Navy.. the Weird, the Wacky, and the Wonderful. #1231934
    adrian_gray
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    Pete TRuman (I think!) posted a shot of three in the air together recently – you might want to try looking for his recent posts? Not a great shot – airshow box brownie sort of thing – but how many pics can there be of three Seamews?

    Adrian

    March 23, 2009 at 10:10 pm in reply to: Poling (Chain Home) Radar Station #1232252
    adrian_gray
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    Anyone ready for the German photo of the crash site of Bader’s Spitfire yet…..???!!

    Well, someone told me on Sunday that he’d flown from Great Sampford (though I haven’t a clue about his source…), so I’m up for it.

    Seriously, it’s really interesting to see an unusual aspect being covered especially as I’ve spent a (very cold!) night camping at the old Drone Hill radar station on the Scottish border.

    Adrian

    March 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm in reply to: HEADCORN SUNDAY #470994
    adrian_gray
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    *drool*

    Love the Balbo – thank yu for sharing them. Must get back to Lashenden (:diablo:) one day soon!

    Adrian

    March 23, 2009 at 3:24 pm in reply to: RAF Brize Norton 16th and 20th March, 26 – 08 #487974
    adrian_gray
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    Very nice, Nick! I often see the RAF from Oxford, or from Port Meadow, but the only time I’ve been close to Brize was playing cricket at Carterton. It’s good to see stuff from a bit closer! How long a lens do you need to get a shot from that road, I wonder? :diablo:

    Seriously – good to see!

    Adrian

    March 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Boscombe Down 17th and 19th March – Diamond Hiptastic #487980
    adrian_gray
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    Oh boy, someone really hit G-DOSC with the ugly stick, didn’t they?

    Adrian

    March 20, 2009 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Storch #1235833
    adrian_gray
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    It would certainly be nice if she was – she’s so redeolent of the period, and beautiful to boot. Oh to be in the situation where I could consider not playing with my Miles monoplane because I have lots of other wonderful aircraft.

    You are a very lucky man, and I’m dead jealous!

    Adrian

    March 20, 2009 at 12:59 pm in reply to: Post-War Aircraft Disposal (Dump/Landfill) #1235890
    adrian_gray
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    Ah, now, they should get Danny Baker to present any TV program, so if all the metal has turned to Daz….

    Adrian

    March 20, 2009 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Timewatch – Sat 21 March – 8pm #1235896
    adrian_gray
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    Currently running on the front page of the BBC news site:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7952995.stm

    Adrian

    March 20, 2009 at 10:48 am in reply to: Storch #1236091
    adrian_gray
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    Thanks for the update & comments!

    A beer drinker. Hmmmm.
    *starts scheming*

    Adrian

    March 19, 2009 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Storch #1236784
    adrian_gray
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    Thank you for… well, I’m not quite sure what now, seeing as everyone seems to have started a thread about the Storch, but thank you for sharing your wonderful aeroplane with us!

    I really must get to OW again this summer to see the Hairywaffe and, if I’ve got my darkroom sorted, I might even have a couple of period cameras handy too for the snaps. Sorry chaps, not Leicas (I wish!), but a Welta Perle and a Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor.

    The last time I saw a Storch in the air was the hideously wet display at Duxford in 1982, when I was 10, so I’m really looking forward to seeing what she can (sensibly – no scaring us with YouTube-worthy factory demonstrator stuff, please!) do.

    Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh.

    Adrian

    March 19, 2009 at 9:19 am in reply to: Shuttleworth in the snow #488148
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    Cue theme from Twilight Zone…

    Adrian

    March 16, 2009 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Conningsby Airshow 1986 #1162318
    adrian_gray
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    I know it was the first public appearance of the Tornado F2’s, with, from what I remember, ballast in place of the nose radar

    Ah yes, in line with the policy of radars being named Blue something, this was apparently known as “Blue Circle”. 😀

    Adrian

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