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  • January 21, 2018 at 11:57 am in reply to: Vulcan XH558 flying between and below the hills and mountains… #774016
    adrian_gray
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    Often been up to Dodd Wood, but usually looking for Ospreys, nut Vulcans!

    Thanks for posting those, stratofreighter.

    Adrian

    January 21, 2018 at 11:50 am in reply to: "The Last Blitz" look-up please? #774019
    adrian_gray
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    Thank you gentlemen, that’s really interesting. I wonder whether conventional air ops over London had stopped post-invasion? I do recall that the book covers Operation Gisela in March 1945.

    I fear You are giving me ideas – now could I track down the actual sites of the V1s that crashed in the parish I went to school in in Kent? No… bad idea! Don’t start…

    Adrian

    January 17, 2018 at 10:26 pm in reply to: Disused airfields you can walk around. #775737
    adrian_gray
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    Bradwell Bay has been mentioned at least twice – considering a flaming great nuclear power station was built on one side of it, there’s a lot left to see.

    Adrian

    January 17, 2018 at 9:25 am in reply to: Disused airfields you can walk around. #776342
    adrian_gray
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    The perimeter track at Great Sampford is absolutely intact, to the point where some of the drains still run, but there’s next to no infrastructure left – it’s just tarmac in a field.

    RAF Wethersfield is pretty much all there (though mostly Cold War rather than WW2), but you’d need to arrange a visit as its still (just) MOD land – the museum there has a Facebook page.

    trouble with the south east is there’s been lots of roads built, and where better than a disused airfield to quarry hardcore…

    Adrian

    January 15, 2018 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Never seen before in public – 8mm WW2 footage of the 325th Fighter Group #777164
    adrian_gray
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    I’m pretty sure that the Dornier turned up in a small photo in Flypast in the last couple fo years.

    Love the way the chap climbing into a P47 has to mountaineer up the side.

    Adrian

    January 14, 2018 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2018 #777723
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    On the Harvard (hopefullly being given a chance to RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRASP!), what’s that pipe apparently running right through the exhaust pipe?

    Adrian

    January 13, 2018 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Kermits Napier. #778506
    adrian_gray
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    Presumably they also built special mechanics who could work on it, with eight fingers with six joints each on each hand?

    Adrian

    January 13, 2018 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2018 #778519
    adrian_gray
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    It looks as though there was some serious struggling with the light going on on the 12th! Mind you, all worth it for Pen Pusher’s photo of the fiery Buchon start.

    Adrian

    January 5, 2018 at 9:51 pm in reply to: Grandpa's Great Escape #781692
    adrian_gray
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    The fact that it’s a children’s book ought to be a bit of a clue.

    Adrian

    December 29, 2017 at 4:38 pm in reply to: Looking for a reliable dataplate maker #786061
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    You could fundraise for the Whitley by selling Spitfire “restoration projects” on ebay…

    I’ll get me coat.

    Adrian

    December 17, 2017 at 5:38 pm in reply to: 214sqn B17 Crash March 45 #790994
    adrian_gray
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    The night of 3/4 March was, I think, that last time there was any significant Luftwaffe activity over the UK. Three intruders were lost – two, interestingly, whilst attacking cars. Last Luftwaffe losses in the UK if you except a defection on May 2nd.

    Adrian

    December 9, 2017 at 11:11 am in reply to: "Vulcan in a roll" #794636
    adrian_gray
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    Every time I see that thread title I think of chicken in a basket…

    Adrian

    December 7, 2017 at 5:11 pm in reply to: 76yrs on… #795531
    adrian_gray
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    Pearl Harbour. Took me a good second and a half.

    It’s why Sabrejet is singing “Part Time Punks” that has me bemused.

    Adrian

    November 29, 2017 at 9:43 pm in reply to: Cranfield Lightnings #799822
    adrian_gray
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    I have asked questions here in the post with a note that yes, I could Gurgle it, but you get a better standard of digression and side-interests here.

    Adrian

    November 23, 2017 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Chasing a story of a Spitfire in a tree #803489
    adrian_gray
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    I hope you had a good look at Deborah, Andy!

    My grandfather might well have seen her in the distance – he was following the “G”s across the fields at Ribecourt.

    Adrian

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