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  • in reply to: Hurricane Aerobatics #755236
    adrian_gray
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    Not in the slightest bit jealous. No, not even a tiny bit. Honest.

    in reply to: Spitfire P8187 in Fresh Water #755238
    adrian_gray
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    I have a feeling that “Allison Johnson” turned out to be someone posting bovine ordure (Windermere Sunderland comes to mind), if so I doubt you’ll get an update.

    in reply to: Buried……. Bf109! #755286
    adrian_gray
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    Interesting – I couldn’t see the WIX thread at all – in fact, it looked as though no-one had posted there in days.

    ETA – how the hell did he get out of that in one piece? I certainly wouldn’t have turned down a glass of something strong if I’d just been extracted!

    in reply to: Fairly Flycatcher #755332
    adrian_gray
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    I saw it once at Duxford, and seem to recall that it made a rasp that made the Harvard sound possibly muted. Wonder how much of that was to do with the bigger engine?

    in reply to: Scampton #755333
    adrian_gray
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    Yes, Wethersfield – saw it on the Beeb website earlier.

    in reply to: SPOTTED 2023, what have you seen? #755524
    adrian_gray
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    Whooshed over my head in North Oxford as I cycled home. You know what, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll ever spot anything else!

    (incidentally, apparently there’s B52s very high transitting from Spain to Norway, but flagged on FR24. Methinks sabres are beinng rattled)

    in reply to: RAF Museum Midlands? #755581
    adrian_gray
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    Kidlington has been London Oxford for at least 20 years. They reckon that you can get to London faster than from Gatwick, which Ican well believe.

    adrian_gray
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    Holy carp – where did those turn up?

    in reply to: Spitfire IX MA764 Bound For Turkey #756551
    adrian_gray
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    That’ll soon planish out!

    in reply to: SPOTTED 2023, what have you seen? #756693
    adrian_gray
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    Ah – I started one too, I’ll leave that to die and add to here, you all know what I’ve spotted anyway, as there’s not a lot else round here at the mo!

    Weekend before last (14-15th), Skyvan heading into Brize Norton. Quite funny to watch as it was taking, doubtless for ATC reasons, the same path into Brize as the Globemasters and A400s – so was making an enormously wide circuit, and descending very gradually indeed!
     

    in reply to: Palestine circa 1918 #756816
    adrian_gray
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    Splendid, thank you! I wasn’t aware that Hurley was in Palestine at any point, so I’ve learnt summat.

    in reply to: Palestine circa 1918 #756887
    adrian_gray
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    Fascinating, thank you! Do you know what the colour process was? It looks sharper than autochromes, but I can’t remember when Dufaycolour arrived (1932, sez Uncle Google, so it’s not that)

    in reply to: Spitfire survivor…how many? #757152
    adrian_gray
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    …especially as another new member has posted exactly the same link in a thread that it seems to bear no relation to!

    in reply to: Carolyn Grace #757408
    adrian_gray
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    Oh hell. That’s the second piece of really bad news I’ve had in five minutes, but thsi really trumps the first.

    in reply to: Woodford aerodrome Avro Cheshire UK #757462
    adrian_gray
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    It does sound an unlikely story but then again, after the fun of the Burma Spitfires, who’d have thought someone would dig up a wing on Orkney?

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