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September 9, 2015 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Can anyone help identify the location of this Luftwaffe Scrapyard? Images attached #887793

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No 4 is a Henschel ground attack aircraft – Hs129, and I think the next three photos show the rest of it’s fuselage.

Adrian

September 9, 2015 at 12:04 pm in reply to: Can anyone help identify the location of this Luftwaffe Scrapyard? Images attached #887890

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The complete aircraft is an early Dornier Do17 – possibly Do17P or M, judging by the inline engines. Flying Pencil will tell us more of he spots it!

Beyond that I’m afraid I can’t help.

Adrian

September 6, 2015 at 9:26 pm in reply to: Spotted (2015) #890845

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Something making a noise suggestive of elderlyness over East Oxford mid-afternoon, looked more fine-boned than a Harvard, followed a minute or two later by a yellow Piper Cub and a similar looking aeroplane in blue and white.

Adrian

September 4, 2015 at 7:38 am in reply to: P/O R H Shaw #892988

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That was my thoughts exactly, Andy – but I wanted to post a link of some sort, and it’s actually very hard to find anything with an image online. It turns out there’s quite a nice photo on, of all places, the next village’s Wikipedia page – here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Valence#/media/File:PO_Shaw_memorial_Chart_Road.jpg

Thank you for pointing that out – now you’ve confirmed it I will also make a note where it was posted elsewhere yesterday.

And may I also say “Well done!”.

Adrian

September 3, 2015 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #893037

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I’m just glad someone’s finally risen to the bait – I think there’s been a stack of potato boxes over the far side as long as i can remember, and one day someone had to link them with buried Spitfires…

Adrian

September 3, 2015 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #893218

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More than a few 🙂

A few years ago I was playing cricket at Great Chesterford on one of my rare trips to Essex, and was faced with the dilemma of whether to watch the ball or the Spitfire. Luckily the batsman hit it into the other side of the outfield, so I could carry on enjoying it belting past!

I take it if you are farming there that you are one of the select few who know which of those crates have Spitfires in, and which just spuds?

Adrian

September 3, 2015 at 9:02 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #893543

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Lovely view from the field opposite whilst I was combining 🙂

A few wonky swaths, are there?:dev2:

Adrian

September 2, 2015 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Douglas Bader's pre war MG sports car up for auction #893975

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You have to wonder whether someone in the past put a new body on the chassis, and a new chassis on the body. That sounds unlikely perhaps, but I believe there are several Jaguar D-Types out there that share their identity with another car. In those cases, one was rebuilt from the spaceframe chassis, and one from the monocoque space frame.
(this is my understanding of what happened. I am not an expert!)

Adrian

September 1, 2015 at 6:46 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #894759

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Skyvan G-PIGY was parked by the green sheds all day (The Skyvan is the one in the foreground):

That is very, very cruel, and very funny!

Adrian
(big fan of G-PIGY)

September 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm in reply to: 'Nazi' Gold Train reported found in Poland (Aviation related, honest!) #894895

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Good job I wasn’t drinking tea when I saw Andy’s post, or Britain At War would have been getting billed for a monitor!

I noticed yesterday, through the rain, that there is a very suspicious looking stack of crates next to the roundabout before the M11 one, heading from Sawston, complete with poster advertising the Duxford Soap Box Derby. Have they been checked for Spitfires? I think we should be told!

Adrian

August 31, 2015 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Spotted (2015) #895596

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Also on the 30th to general delight – they come over much less often than they used to, and tend to be further away – a Spitfire, no doubt from DX, over my parents pad at Great Sampford late afternoonish. Low and giving it a judicious amount of wellie, real pleasure to hear. A little further away and slower coming back an hour or so later, but come back it did.

There was also a pusher-propellor amphibian. I know I saw several at Headcorn back in the 1980s, but I haven’t a clue what they are!

Adrian

August 28, 2015 at 9:28 am in reply to: Full-size V1 Flying Bomb project #898098

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Very, very impressive. Well done, Anon!

Adrian

August 27, 2015 at 12:34 pm in reply to: 75 years ago today – 26th August 1940 #899068

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Agreed, trumper, I’ve never seen it before. I believe that the German casualties of the day, at least those who died locally, are still in Saffron Walden Cemetery rather than at Cannock Chase, while Edwards is buried, I think, at Brookwood.

I was hoping to find the account of the raid in one of Hector Bolitho’s books, but it seems to be in Essex. I guess it’d still be in copyright as well, so perhaps a good thing?

Adrian

August 27, 2015 at 10:34 am in reply to: 75 years ago today – 26th August 1940 #899096

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Spotted on Facebook overnight – apologies if you can’t read it, it’s a personal post so I cannot link to a site:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207394687768723&set=gm.10152924821832531&type=1&theater

Adrian

August 26, 2015 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Hunter Crash at Shoreham (First AAIB report released) #899851

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Good to see that wanting to make a quick buck has overcome the temptation to hang on and send to the AAIB.

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