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  • March 16, 2006 at 9:33 am in reply to: Can you ID this 1970s TV kids drama #1345727
    adrian_gray
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    Really?! I bet it won’t have the original cast though, won’t be the same without em!

    It may be a very different movie if they can get George Peppard in it, given that he’s dead…

    George Romero as director, anyone?

    (Blimey! I am gloomy today – have I missed a tablet?)

    Adrian

    March 15, 2006 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Just how many Hart derivatives were there? #1346404
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    Hartebees, Hardy..

    Yep, Hardy popped into my head as I was walking back from town. Grr! Hartebees – South African variant with a name like that?

    Adrian

    March 15, 2006 at 3:11 pm in reply to: IMAM Ro 37 wreck discovered in Afghanistan! (link) #1346442
    adrian_gray
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    Wonder What else is there…?

    Given the photos a while back of Hawker Hart/Hind/Audax airframes (OK, I forget which, and there are sooo many variants) the correct answer to that question is probably “almost anything!”.

    Of course we must be aware that somene – Afghan Government? – presumably has a title to these, so there must be more to retrieving them than just rolling up with a regiment and a big carrier bag… mustn’t there?

    Adrian

    March 15, 2006 at 10:47 am in reply to: Ray Hanna's Film & TV Credits #1346573
    adrian_gray
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    To hopefully restore a certain amount of normality to this thread – this is from the Ray Hann tribute thread on pprune:

    http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2447703#post2447703

    First post on the page, first pic of MH434 on the ground. I’m guessing from the skyline that it’s the far end of the taxiway at Duxford – unfortunately the rellies I had just over that hill have now moved. Rats!

    Anyway, is that not the most staggeringly evocative photo?

    ADrian

    March 15, 2006 at 9:30 am in reply to: Bolingbroke on floats #1346609
    adrian_gray
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    Don’t show Graham Warner, or we’ll never see the Blenheim at Duxford again! :diablo:

    On a slightly more serious note, what role was it envisaged for, I wonder? The drag from that lot must have been horrific and by about 1940 the Bolingbroke was hardly the fastest on the block anyway. There were dedicated ASR types (Walrus) available and I can’t see it as a freighter on the lakes.

    Maybe it was just too much gin?

    Adrian

    March 14, 2006 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Can you ID this 1970s TV kids drama #1347076
    adrian_gray
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    Well well, I can’t be as daft as I look!

    Adrian

    March 14, 2006 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Can you ID this 1970s TV kids drama #1347089
    adrian_gray
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    I vaguely remember seeing some of the one Nick remembers when I was recovering from having my appendix out in 1987 – hence the vagueness!

    Possibly called Sky Pirates?

    ADrian

    March 14, 2006 at 10:07 am in reply to: Shuttleworth (Autumn Air Display) #473600
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    Superb! The Edwardians were a highlight of my visit – though let’s face it nearly everything was a highlight. It took three straight days of listening to the blues to get the smile off my fizzog! 😎

    And the Tutor just looks so evocative in that sunburst finish…

    At risk of blatant advertising, by the way, I’ve finally posted my Autumn display pics from my Box Brownie that I’ve been banging on about over on Historic for months a few threads back. Next time I’ll hope for a little softer light and use slower film, but you’re a bit limited with just three f-stops and a 1/30th-ish shutter speed. Nonetheless I find something appealing about using a 1930-ish camerra to snap 1930-ish aircraft. Maybe I’m just a bit pots?

    Adrian

    March 10, 2006 at 12:33 pm in reply to: OW Autumn Airshow – at last, my Brownie pics #473657
    adrian_gray
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    Cor, high praise indeed given who it’s come from!

    Yes, I was fairly pleased – if I could still get into the darkroom at work I might have been able to do a bit more with them, but they’ll do. I think the Jackaroo is probably the best lit and framed of the lot and those old Kodaks produce astonishingly good pictures when you consider that they are just a tin box with a piece of glass in a hole at the front.

    Maybe next time we are both at OW you can have a go with my kit and I can have a go with yours? :diablo:
    (something tells me I might be a bit lost – I can only just cope with the number of controls on a box camera!)

    Adrian

    March 10, 2006 at 11:11 am in reply to: OW Autumn Airshow – at last, my Brownie pics #473689
    adrian_gray
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    And the rest – these are a bit better, less reflection off doped canvas! Also a bit more cloud, so less bright.

    Adrian

    March 10, 2006 at 10:55 am in reply to: D.H.82 Jackeroo (Is that right?) #1351409
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    It is easy to tell which one you is which with regard to ‘OIR and ‘NZT (apart from the colours :rolleyes: ).
    ‘NZT has a full length turtle deck whereas ‘OIR has but a short one…

    *spits tea over keyboard*

    How did I miss that?

    Adrian 😮 😮

    March 10, 2006 at 10:26 am in reply to: D.H.82 Jackeroo (Is that right?) #1351541
    adrian_gray
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    Very nice! I must confess that when I saw a Jackaroo in the flesh for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised at how good they actually look, having always thought of them as a “moff” with a greenhouse. The 1930s-esque colour schemes that G-AOIR & G-ANZT wear also help!

    Would I be right in thinking that you might just have a little to do with one of the aeroplanes in the background?… :diablo:

    Adrian

    March 10, 2006 at 10:04 am in reply to: D.H.82 Jackeroo (Is that right?) #1351562
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    Found it – on a roll from my Box Brownie, which I only got contact-printed yesterday!

    One Jackaroo, at Old Warden in 2005 (or is that the 1960s?)

    Adrian

    March 9, 2006 at 4:04 pm in reply to: History in the making? #1352818
    adrian_gray
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    Over Chatteris… Explains a lot if you ask me! :diablo:

    Adrian

    March 8, 2006 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Trolley Accs…I need to get out more! #1354325
    adrian_gray
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    What…don’t you have the Ian Allan book Elsans at War?!!

    Now that really is full of sh… I’ll get me coat!

    Adrian

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