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May 1, 2014 at 10:13 pm in reply to: James Goodson RIP #927879

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I corresponded briefly with his son a couple of years ago. Very sorry to hear of his death but, as Bruce says…

As a member of the RAF, he flew from Great Sampford, and I’ve forgiven him for not being impressed by the place!

Rest in peace, sir.

Adrian

April 30, 2014 at 10:13 pm in reply to: SPOTTED 2014 #928159

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Shorts Skyvan in dark colour scheme I thought it used to be white

Mentioned upthread a few times (mostly by me…). I’ve had a look at airliners.net and there’s a photo of G-BEOL taken in March in white/blue livery, so I reckon that G-PIGY must have had a paint job. She flew over about 7.15 this evening heading West to East, very low, with the rear door open – not her usual modus operandi!

Adrian

April 30, 2014 at 8:07 pm in reply to: SPOTTED 2014 #928232

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Looks probable – it was a long way off, but closer to this than the other one on their site!

Adrian

April 30, 2014 at 10:25 am in reply to: Pink Spitfire question #928364

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At risk of sounding like an expert, which I’m not, I think Mark12 is right about it being Agfa film stock. The “allied” equivalent would be Kodachrome, and the red roundel (and possibly the pink?)would be much more obvious on that. From those I’ve seen online, Agfa stock was much darker, more greens in it, whereas Kodachrome was noted for its reds.

I guess you’ve probably seen a lot more unrestored period Kodachromes than I have, Mark12?

Adrian

April 20, 2014 at 1:51 pm in reply to: SPOTTED 2014 #931159

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Playing cricket near Swindon yesterday, a lot of gliding activity going on in the distance, noted a couple of times an older style glider all over yellow with a red nose, no idea what.

One or the other Skyvan still trundling porcinely round Kidlington (all-over dark blue).

Last weekend a Jungmann flew very low and slow over North Oxford heading South down Port Meadow – so low and slow I was waiting for it to try to land! An interesting comparison to the next aircraft that came over – a Globemaster II heading into Brize!

Adrian

April 1, 2014 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #934966

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Loads of deserving former Dakota bases scattered around the country that would be appropriate for it ! Duxford doesn’t have a massive significance in the Dakota story .

Great Sampford, on the other hand, was where Daks landed and towed off the Horsas used in Operation Riff Raff (practice for the Rhine Crossing). That’s Daks landing, and taking off towing gliders, on a Sommerfeld matting strip laid for Spitfires!
(there was very nearly a very Freudian typo in there).

Adrian

March 31, 2014 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Moggy injured in flying accident 31/3/14 #935764

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Say something that needs moderating, he’ll be here like a flash!

Seriously, hope you are on the mend, and that the aeroplane isn’t as bad as it looks. You are still with us, that’s what matters.

Adrian

March 26, 2014 at 11:54 am in reply to: All black Whitley roundel colours #940660

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It’s not on orthochromatic film, is it? That might explain the odd colours…

Adrian

March 24, 2014 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Some Photos of Heathrow in the 1960's #942239

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Somewhat randomly I’d guess the weird slide size is either cut down to square from a half-frame camera (ie half the normal width for a 35mm frame), or taken on 127 film with a Purma Plus. I don’t think there’s any way of finding out which as the film will have been cut to mount it which will have removed any numbers on it in the latter case (and besides, why should you pull your grandad’s slides apart just for that?), but other than the Purma range square format cameras with negs that small were pretty uncommon in the UK. I think there might have been a (very rare) square-format Ilford 35mm camera, plus the American Mercury camera or the German Robot range, but that’s about it until you get to TLRs taking 127 film, which would give slides around 40mm square, so called “Superslides”.

OK, back to aircraft!

Adrian

February 27, 2014 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Stupid road signs #1869077

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Finstown. Isn’t that just the funniest name?

Hilarious by gray1720, on Flickr

When I get a mo I’ll upload a pic of the three-feet long double yellow lines up the road…

Adrian

February 27, 2014 at 12:48 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #964800

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This is a Griffon too…

I am seriously considering creating a personal archive of Bob’s posts to cheer me up on bad days. Starting with the tea-spitting moment I twigged his avatar!

Adrian

February 26, 2014 at 12:27 pm in reply to: V1 Victim Finally Gets a Named Grave Marker #966106

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Bravo Mr Saunders, and Bravo Mr Munday as well!

I’m surprised, given that she is listed in the CWGC site under Civilian War dead, that Doris has no CWGC stone – is that pending, or are WW2 civilian casualties recorded on the roll but not given a tombstone?

Adrian
(considering trying a WW1 non-commemoration for size, but there’s a strong piece of evidence that says “unlikely”. Ah well.)

February 26, 2014 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Some Essex Archives #1869314

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I can’t imagine anyone arguing that WW2 bombing reports aren’t relevant to historic aviation.

If anyone wants to see the originals the ERO has an online search called SEAX here: http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/

However, there’s at least an eight-year backlog in items to be added to the catalogue, so there’s no promise they’ve actually made it on there.

Adrian

February 24, 2014 at 10:11 pm in reply to: Canadian Warplane Heritage – Lancaster- 2014 UK tour #968250

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It’s not a word I use very often, and I try to use it in the old-fashioned sense of something that fills me with awe.

The prospect is AWESOME!

When was the last time two airworthy Lancasters were seen together I wonder?

Adrian

February 20, 2014 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain Images #972449

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I love the washing hanging on the aerial wire!

Me too! Anyone fancy a Facebook campaign or similar to get the RAF Museum to restore theirs to that configuration?:dev2:

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