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October 19, 2006 at 1:08 pm in reply to: Team Guinot colours and on ebay #1247418

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What a great idea for marketing skin cream – “After hours on the wing, you will be just as lovely as when you were on the ground!”

Is it slipstream-resistant?

Adrian

October 18, 2006 at 3:42 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1248397

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwqYh995YhU&NR

Not especially low, but about the only chance most of us will have to see a GeeBee in the air. How the hell does something that shape fly? It had a pretty nippy rate of roll, but I bet it rolled a whole load slower against the torque!

Adrian

Edit: No longer present tense, dammit.
Edit some more: Can’t type…

October 11, 2006 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Station 166 USAAF 9th airforce (Willingale) #1255672

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I think Pete has nailed it, Hornchurch. Two different Spains Halls!

Adrian

October 11, 2006 at 10:54 am in reply to: Station 166 USAAF 9th airforce (Willingale) #1255861

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I wondered that as well, Pete – if there is a Marauder it may be near another Spains Hall, as Colin’s dig was much closer to London.

Pity we never met up for a beer – such is life!

Adrian

October 10, 2006 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Station 166 USAAF 9th airforce (Willingale) #1256601

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They used to display other B.26 artefacts relating to the 387th, including the R.2800 spinner from (one of) the Group commander’s a/c that ‘went in’ near Spains Hall (I.I.R.C).

Would be interested in hearing more if you know it on this one – didn’t know any Marauders came down our way!

Adrian

October 4, 2006 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Me-109 #1265212

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Given the number of items such as cockpit perspex missing, and the hole through the middle of the swastika, one wonders how much is battle damage and how much is post-crash “souveniring”.

Adrian

October 3, 2006 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Leeuwarden Open Dagen photos [3.1MB] #544436

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An aerobatic team displaying a Hercules…now I’ve seen it all!

(OK, I know it’s not their main attraction and I presume that it’s their support aircraft, with RATO for extra drama, but all the same it is a pretty bizarre concept!)

Adrian

September 30, 2006 at 10:18 pm in reply to: New Topic.. Airfield Identity! #1270788

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I haven’t a clue what the name is, but a list of Thor missile sites should narrow it down – those strange concrete shapes have got to be Thor pads, haven’t they?

Adrian

September 30, 2006 at 4:31 pm in reply to: Old Warden on Sunday #1271330

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Well, the weather forecast is interesting but we are going to risk it. So if you see anyone clutching a Box Brownie or two, that’ll be me – stop and have a chat and I’ll try not to be too boring!

Adrian

(by the way, this is what I mean – see article at: homepage.ntlworld.com/…/history_glossary.htm)

September 30, 2006 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Spotted #1271485

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Well if the nice people with the two biplanes with full-height rudder flashes will fly a bit lower, maybe I could stop calling them thingies and tell everyone here what they are!

See them 2 or 3 times each summer over Oxford heading North-south aor back again, good and high, so all I can make out is that they are fixed undercart biplanes and appear to have the rudder flashes. And they NEVER come over when I have the binos handy!

Adrian

September 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Waffle about remaking The dambusters #1271490

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One to make aircraft fans the world over wince, squirm and generally choke on their popcorn.

Dick Grace – “Crash Pilot”

Adrian

September 30, 2006 at 3:57 pm in reply to: 'Terence the Tug' came out to play. – Dux 29 Sep 06 #1271500

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I think Terence needs a makeover then he might not be so camera shy…

Indeed, judging by the bonnet fit the poor thing has been parked by Braille a few times…

Adrian

September 29, 2006 at 11:32 pm in reply to: New Topic.. Airfield Identity! #1272314

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WE HAVE A WINNER!

Yes, it is Beaumaris – perhaps you’d like to share the thought process behind it? Or have you had to rummage through a vast stock of back issues?

It is taken (with a stupendously crappy camera) at the far end of the old slipway looking up it across the coast road to the hangar. Aircraft used to be slipped down the slipway from the SIDE of the hangar and over the road before they reached the water.

One of the two floatplane Spitfires was tested there, and I believe that they installed the RAF’s required modifications to Catalinas and the like there.

I’m impressed (read smug) that I came up with such a stumper – pity I don’t have any other pics to share.

Hope no-one got their blood pressure raised too badly!

Adrian

September 29, 2006 at 4:27 pm in reply to: New Topic.. Airfield Identity! #1272921

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Post 63 – Cowes?

Nope, had Cowes a while back, I think. I’ll recap for you – an unusual Spitfire variant flew from there, it’s on an island, interesting means of getting aircraft into the hangar, not in England… I think that is all the clues so far?

Adrian

EDIT: I can see I’m going to have to pop in over the weekend to see how this goes! One last clue – A********e Monthly published a photo a few years back of a Coronado here…

September 29, 2006 at 3:14 pm in reply to: New Topic.. Airfield Identity! #1273124

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You’ve got me confused too…Its a high altitude shot showing four East Anglian airfields. I’ve no idea what Sandown has to do with it!

Sandtoft, perhaps?

By the way, we knew about Molesworth – any fule kno!

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