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  • February 8, 2005 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Hurricanes and Mosquitos!!!! #1376500
    adrian_gray
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    Hmm, will have to check that booklet again then!

    Agreed on the “significant amount”, though – must have been a lot to make such an impression!

    Adrian

    February 8, 2005 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Hurricanes and Mosquitos!!!! #1376730
    adrian_gray
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    Lots of wood in a Mossie, not as much in a Hurricane…. Maybe you should rethink your work experience again….

    I dunno. There was an awful lot more wood in the early Mk1s than later ones. As an ankle biter stood round a hole in a field in 1978 I remember being amazed by all the little pieces of wood coming out, with the little brass pins in it shining like they were new. Turned out that the plane had been refitted with a pair of very early wings – presumably so that a Hurri on active service could have the metal ones while a ropy old one at an OTU had to make do with the old ones with much more wood in.

    Adrian

    February 8, 2005 at 11:53 am in reply to: Wednesday:- Duxford whos coming? #1377271
    adrian_gray
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    Beware of the pun in the sun

    Bags I first one to make a rude remark about De Havilland Canada Beaver! :dev2: By the way, when you post a message, is this young lady anything to do with the little doobries at the bottom left of the screen saying “Increase size” and “Decrease size”?

    Adrian

    (sodding off to let the thread get back on track, seeing as it was vaguely important, now that I have suucessfully bought the tone down to gutter level)

    February 8, 2005 at 10:37 am in reply to: Big-up for the Shuttleworth #1377295
    adrian_gray
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    And there I was thinking that it was rather a good description! Ah well…

    Apologies for confusing you and thank you for confirming my suspicions. Once it flies again we can ask the pilot about all those castor oil fumes…
    And I really must get my hindermost region over to Old Warden!

    Adrian

    February 8, 2005 at 10:03 am in reply to: Wednesday:- Duxford whos coming? #1377408
    adrian_gray
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    And of course you’ll post a few pics here so that everyone can see just WHY you are not at Duxford…

    Adrian

    (phwoar! just look at the Twin Cyclones on that!)

    February 8, 2005 at 9:54 am in reply to: Big-up for the Shuttleworth #1377414
    adrian_gray
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    Is that a real twiddly castor oil burner on the front of the M1, or do my eyes deceive me?

    Adrian

    February 2, 2005 at 5:20 pm in reply to: 20 years on….. #1384364
    adrian_gray
    Participant

    Seen a lot worse… As they say, on a scale of one…

    Adrian

    January 28, 2005 at 9:43 am in reply to: Lancaster NX664's wings #1390367
    adrian_gray
    Participant

    Well I am not so ignorant now!

    What can I say except “WOW!”! And Good Luck! (unfortunately my D-at GCSE French does not run to saying it in French…)

    Adrian

    January 27, 2005 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Lancaster NX664's wings #1391087
    adrian_gray
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    Laurent,

    Excuse my utter ignorance, but what is the story behind your wings, and how much else is there?

    Adrian

    January 26, 2005 at 6:16 pm in reply to: Psychedelic Monster #1393039
    adrian_gray
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    Like the “L” plate!

    Does anyone else remember the “tailpiece” on Duxford’s B29 when it came over first? Just a bit of plywood with “The End” painted in it, I think…

    Adrian

    January 21, 2005 at 9:55 am in reply to: Nose Art (2005 Zombie) #1406134
    adrian_gray
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    Wasn’t Marge Richard Bong’s wife/girlfriend?

    Still a hell of an artwork. However I’m afraid my fave has got to be… yes… sorry folks, but I can’t post a piccy as I just don’t have a screen long enough to fit a whole B24 on… Yep, The Dragon and it’s Tail.

    Adrian

    January 20, 2005 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Hanging around in Belgrade – March 1990 #1408085
    adrian_gray
    Participant

    Ta! Will have to investigate those!

    Adrian

    January 20, 2005 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Hanging around in Belgrade – March 1990 #1408112
    adrian_gray
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    YU-ABP is a Ikarus 214-P is the twin
    Not sure about the ‘whirlwind’ you mention I assume you mean Mil4 1203?

    No wonder I didn’t recognise the twin – never ‘eard of it!

    I presume Mil4 is a helicopter? If so no, I’m talking the silver fixed-wing twin sandwiched between two photos of the Icarus S-49.

    Adrian

    January 20, 2005 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Hanging around in Belgrade – March 1990 #1408301
    adrian_gray
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    And on the subject of “wottissits”, what is the strange silver thing in the seventh photo of the second batch? Looks like someone tried to build a prone-pilot Westland Whirlwind! And how about the derelict twin that looks rather like a Hudson with a Mosquito canopy? Something Tupovlev or Petyakovlev at a guess, but…

    What we need is the guidebook – and a translator!

    Adrian

    January 20, 2005 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Yet More Old Photos. #1409034
    adrian_gray
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    Boscombe Down.

    Septic

    Thanks, shows much I know!

    Adrian

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