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June 18, 2008 at 10:00 am in reply to: Vulcan Crash on Anglesey? #1229809

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I bet that goddess will be chuffed to bits with the ‘later’ offerings…

…jeeps, trucks, aeroplanes, helicopters! 😀

The worrying thing is that she now has jeeps, trucks, aeroplanes, helicopters to throw back if she gets grumpy!

Adrian

June 16, 2008 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Harrier crash today, pilot O.K. #2491525

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Bad news for the Harrier, good news for the pilot… Hurrah for MB!

I can’t help thinking that there is some spluttering about that little mobile video clip… would you want Tom, Dick or Harriet poking round your latest warplane with a camera if it fell in their field? Or am I jusy being unduly cynical?

Adrian

June 16, 2008 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Vulcan Crash on Anglesey? #1231849

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Who knows, what we don’t dig up and flog today might one day become famous…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/celts/pages/llyn_cerrig_bach.shtml

(a slightly facetious reply to pageno1, I’ll admit, but it might not just be the RAF who get snotty if you start dragging the lake – you might find Baldrick and his pals on your door, inviting you to find out if Caesar was telling the truth about the wicker man…)

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June 16, 2008 at 12:47 pm in reply to: A sensational looking Queens Birthday Flypast (Merged thread) #1231941

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Let’s just say that it was a bleedin’ awful weekend of cricket, and I should have stuck to watching the gliders at WOTG…

Adrian

June 16, 2008 at 11:59 am in reply to: Has Anybody Heard Anything From Jules Horowitz #1231968

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Given that the 99th BG were in North Africa and Italy, I’d say that that’s the same chap.

Work PC wants an upgrade to see it – will have to have a look-see at home.

Adrian

June 16, 2008 at 9:47 am in reply to: A sensational looking Queens Birthday Flypast (Merged thread) #1232088

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Just wondering if anyone knows where the three-ships went when the flypast dispersed?

Was playing cricket within blimey-that-glider-was-low of Weston-on-the Green and what looked like two of them went by in the far distance – which ones I couldn’t say, as they really were just two small specks and a fat speck. Heading for Brize?

Adrian

June 11, 2008 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Sunny Sunday at Headcorn #510620

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Very nice! I’m especially pleased as the white dot on the hillside above the registration of G-BUUI is my old school… or East Sutton Park young offenders institution, not that there was a lot of difference between them some days!

I spent many a Saturday afternoon at Headcorn, and much more time watching parachutists too. Ah, happy days!

Adrian

June 6, 2008 at 8:31 pm in reply to: Spotted #1239299

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Just had what i believe to be 2 Gnats fly into Northolt for the photo day on Sunday, only heard the first one that is why I say believe, the one I saw was in Red Arrows markings. Also saw a Harrier GR.9 coming in while I was still at work.

Yes, two Gnats in the company of a Jet Provost spotted over Oxford. Not sure where theyw ent next, but they did a couple of ciruits over the east of Oxford before the vanished. Last time I saw two Gnats together would have been the Essex Show in about 1981 – the last season the Reds flew them… Arrr, when oi were a laad…

Adrian

June 6, 2008 at 2:56 pm in reply to: What Type Of Aircraft Did You First Fly In? #1239556

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Nothing very exciting – Robin DR400 2+2 out of Headcorn some time around 1985-6-7.

And here she is 😀

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-BGRH&distinct_entry=true

Adrian

June 6, 2008 at 2:50 pm in reply to: The Great Crusade. #1239557

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Sadly, I noticed yesterday that Collins diary for 2008 records June 10th as the anniversary…

Perhaps a simple slip, in the throwaway comment for each day, but it’s sad they can’t get something so important in world history right.
Thanks for launching this topic, Kev. We will remember them.

Adrian

June 2, 2008 at 10:11 am in reply to: Spotted #1241038

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Saturday morning 10-11 o’clockish, something in the far distance to the north of Oxford that looked and was flown as if it might be a single-seat fighter – too far away to tell more, though.

Tiger Moth 9pm-ish Sunday evening again over north Ox.

Apart from that nothing more exciting than R4118 winding the gear out on finals into Kidlington…:D

Adrian

May 28, 2008 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Vulcan final test flight on friday. #1172174

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On PC without sound, so please excuse if I’m utterly contradicted by the news report!

Holy cow, that’s going to make a mighty racket in Cambridge! I was surprised to see on Saturday how low the puddlejumpers are as they come in (OK, I know they have to reach the ground somehow, but I’d forgotten just how close Marshall’s is to habitation) – if the Vulcan comes over that way, every car alarm and burglar alarm for miles will be set off.

And I won’t be about to see it… 🙁

Adrian

May 23, 2008 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Competition – Name the types. #1177503

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Not to mention a line up of fire engines that would make any enthusiast weep if they saw them together today! Isn’t that a KV-cab ERF at the end?

Plus, as someone else says, what I presume is the prototype Victor in an astonishing black, red and silver livery (this is in the pic from the other end) and three aircraft that look identical in shape but with different colour schemes – is that the Avro 707s? And what’s the big slab-sided thing on the left-hand edge?

Adrian

May 20, 2008 at 9:41 pm in reply to: What civil aircraft are you? #1178246

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Would that be similar to a Gipsy Moth? 🙂

Oh alright, if you insist, a Gipsy Moth! 😮

Adrian

May 20, 2008 at 4:21 pm in reply to: What civil aircraft are you? #1178729

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G-AAGG is a long-since de-registered Avro 504K – apt, given what a dinosaur I am! And the girlfriend is a Gypsy Moth.

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