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  • June 24, 2005 at 1:38 pm in reply to: So my recognition skills are lousy… #1425038
    adrian_gray
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    I have had a little Google for the Spartan Arrow, and it might well be it. I got the impression that the tailfin & rudder were a bit squarer and were silver rather than blue as in the picture I found. Other than that, it was a pretty good likeness. And it was at a fair distance, so… If Barton is within an Arrow’s flight of Oxford, I think it was probably that.

    A Stampe? Good suggestion but at that distance I’m fairly sure I’d have mistaken it for a Tiger Moth!

    Adrian

    June 24, 2005 at 1:00 pm in reply to: So my recognition skills are lousy… #1425165
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    The Skyvans do parachute training at Weston-on-the-green,and I think based at Kidlington.

    Great – In which case, I think we can fairly safely put last night’s one down as a Skyvan – so I do know a few aeroplanes that aren’t S******e’s…

    Still mystified by the first one though.

    Adrian

    June 24, 2005 at 11:47 am in reply to: So my recognition skills are lousy… #1425350
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    Sounds like it could have been a Skyvan then. Thanks, Moggy. I have seen something at Kidlington that might have been it a while ago, but the view over the fence is lousty and there were other things in the way. I wonder, given the time it took to reappear, whether it was wandering over to Enstone. However it came by at least three times, all after 10pm. Most odd.

    As for the biplane JDK is correct – it was NOT the Utterlys! I’m certain it was between wars, British and civil. And I’ve never seen quite like it before either. No doubt we’ll get it between us…

    Adrian

    June 23, 2005 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Finnish flying Gloster Gauntlet fighter, photos #1426693
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    Looking silly again! Ah well…

    Thanks for the link M’sieur WebPilot – what an amazing time capsule that Hurri must be! I fear, however, that teh ravages of the worm on the fabric may make it very hard to conserve the original paint if it is ever restored. (oops! Off-topic again!)

    Adrian

    June 23, 2005 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Finnish flying Gloster Gauntlet fighter, photos #1426751
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    I can’t help thinking that the Alvis mill would look less odd if it was painted in camouflage to match the fuselage. I can’t believe that the restorers would miss this – presumably that odd orangy-brown cowling is as per an original colour scheme?

    Adrian

    June 23, 2005 at 3:26 pm in reply to: Mystery British WWII prototype. #1426908
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    Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

    Good grief! That’s the first picture I’ve ever seen of one with some sort of scale – it’s HUGE!

    Didn’t one break up in mid-air very nearly taking an eminent test pilot (Michael Daunt?) with it? Or am I getting it muddled with rather a lot of other planes?

    Adrian

    June 21, 2005 at 7:52 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1429874
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    Anybody identify the aircraft in the background (which are sharper than the consul…)?

    Hmmm. Reminds me of a Hastings, but I’m not sure that they sit high enough. Anyone got a piccy of a Tudor to hand? That’s got to be a good bet.

    Adrian

    June 10, 2005 at 10:05 pm in reply to: Vimy Progress #1346832
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    Good point Adrian. The Vimy’s the ONLY airoplane I’ve seen that makes the Shuttleworth Boxkite look speedy! 😀

    And staggering just how long Vimy derivatives such as the Valentia were in service – I seem to recall they (Valentias) were used in Iraq early in WW2 for carting stuff about. Obviously a versatile beast.

    I can’t imagine trying to reach Berlin from France in one so the Atlantic… They’re barking! Best of British, chaps, and may the winds always be fair!

    Adrian

    June 10, 2005 at 1:33 pm in reply to: Vimy Progress #1347770
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    The other driver was a gutsy Aussie who has flown three vintage aircraft to Australia from the UK – a Harvard, Avro Avian and a Vimy. Name?

    Lang Kidby?

    Adrian

    (by the way, hope they don’t get a headwind. HAving seen her in the UK roundabout 95-98 it is astonishing just how SLOW she is even on a still day!)

    June 7, 2005 at 1:21 pm in reply to: HISTORIC FLYING AT AUDLEY END #1353408
    adrian_gray
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    Debden 1992?

    Adrian

    June 7, 2005 at 11:08 am in reply to: HISTORIC FLYING AT AUDLEY END #1353657
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    I remember going to Saffron WAlden at just about the time that their first four Spits were finished – and it seemed that all of them were in the air over Walden that day being run through their paces. Lovely!

    Adrian

    June 6, 2005 at 8:22 pm in reply to: 65 hp Versus the Atlantic #1354391
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    This looks like it.

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    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Adrian

    (ie flamin’ ‘eck, wouldn’t want to get within a hundred yards of that, never mind FLY in it!)

    June 3, 2005 at 2:36 pm in reply to: What happened to 'Uncle' & 'Skull'? #1360600
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    I can’t remember how much of his work as a “Spy” was mentioned, but Michael Bentine (yes, him, Square World, Goons & all) was an Intelligence Officer and he did write about it in his autobiography.

    Adrian

    June 1, 2005 at 9:26 am in reply to: Here's a big one, What is the most beautiful Historic plane ever built.Pic's too. #1364511
    adrian_gray
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    Here you go Mr Adrian 🙂 , a few Gnat’s shot’s from Axl’s Plane Gallery for ya mate 😉

    Oooooooooooh, lovely!

    Thank you, Phil!

    Adrian

    May 31, 2005 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Here's a big one, What is the most beautiful Historic plane ever built.Pic's too. #1365061
    adrian_gray
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    Well chaps, lots of interesting suggestions… lots of regular ones… but does no-one else find the Folland Gnat dead cute?

    Adrian

    (Barracuda? BARRACUDA!!!!! Oh come on! I was taught by someone who flew ’em, and though it flew like a sack of manure!)

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