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March 31, 2025 at 10:04 am in reply to: A Messerschmitt Bf 109 G 6 for sale #1092321

Warbert
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Is it just me or does the nose look as if it’s drooping?!

Initial thoughts were something is not quite right, but the more I look…

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

March 5, 2019 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Spitfire PT462 joins the 'belly landing' club 27/02/19 #815741

Warbert
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I would say it looks bent. If you line it up with the panel lines at the top of the fuselage near the exhaust stacks, it’s not pointing the same way.

March 4, 2019 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Spitfire PT462 joins the 'belly landing' club 27/02/19 #815940

Warbert
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Also if you have a look at the photo, I certainly wouldn’t call that a smooth grass runway!

July 16, 2018 at 11:52 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2018 #804018

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Went Saturday and it was an incredible display, one of the best in recent years.

I hope I won’t be bombarded, but to me and my companion, the Spitfire display has lost something. Fantastic to see the large formation passes, but when they broke to display in their sections; I feel the aircraft displaying on the other side of the field were lost. The machines running in front from right to left were great, but I would have liked to have seen the other aircraft close up. I know Legends is a tight ship, but I would have loved a solo display like the Mk I at the Air Festival, or even the two sections swap half way through.

Having said that it really was a terrific show!

January 30, 2018 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Stunning new images of P51's on Korea. #770058

Warbert
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Can anyone tell me what that lip of metal is behind the spinner on the upper cowling?
Is it an oil collector ring similar to the one found on a Hurricane? I don’t think i’ve seen it on a Mustang before.

I believe so. Peter Teichman has something very similar on the nose of his aircraft.

November 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Belgium Stampes #834231

Warbert
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Yep, they’re Tigers! Look at the fuse and the tanks. No doubt.

Cabane Struts are a giveaway too!

June 22, 2016 at 1:47 pm in reply to: RAF Museum Hendon – Closure / Dispersion of Battle of Britain Hall #847463

Warbert
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I was there on Monday and have to admit that I had missed the fact that this was happening.
Having been a visitor since it opened, I think in 1982, it was a bit of a shock.

Upon questioning one of the attendants, a very nice chap told us, most of the original ‘few’ have now passed away and the younger generation have no idea about who these chaps were!!
Sorry but isn’t that why you have museums, to educate the likes of the younger generation about an aerial conflict that turned the tide!

Terrible shame….
Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

May 2, 2015 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Curtiss P36 at Chino #920667

Warbert
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Looks beautiful.
Can’t wait to see the P-36 in formation with the Hawk 75.
Knowing TFC’s previous aircraft movements, can’t help but think it is too close a type the Hawk 75 and that aeroplane may move to pastures new?

Either way we are very lucky to have these Warbirds coming and going from the UK skies.

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

April 27, 2015 at 11:39 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #925647

Warbert
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A long shot, can anyone tell which show these images are from?

Looking behind the Swordfish it looks as if it is maybe the Ruskin painted DC-3s. Would make this 1981.
The Varsity is there too and would have still been flying.

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

October 7, 2014 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Season Highs & Lows #854912

Warbert
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Highs – Lancasters x 2 – DH 88 back in the air – Travel Air Mystery Ship at Old Warden and many more.

Biggest low…no Autumn airshow at Duxford. Used to go to Old Warden for the autumn show and think on leaving, one more show to go to in a fortnight.
Miss that, but understand the logistics of why.

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

July 5, 2014 at 10:04 am in reply to: P51 Down in the US #869024

Warbert
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Now confirmed the victims were John Earley, the plane’s owner, and his flying instructor, Michael Schlarb.

RIP Both of you 🙁

April 25, 2014 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Excellent Photos. #929839

Warbert
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Nice to see the pictures of Spencer Flack just about the time he would have taken delivery of Sea Fury G-BCOW in 1978.
I can remember standing just about where Eric Hayward is as a 12 year old boy, down at Elstree, thinking, wow this is a big machine!

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

October 21, 2013 at 9:26 pm in reply to: John Lewis. ex Chief Pilot, Shuttleworth Collection #995550

Warbert
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his displays in AR501 were legendary

Indeed I remember looking forward to John’s displays in the Gladiator or Spitfire Vc, usualy at the end of the Shuttleworth displays in the late eighties and early nineties.
Beautiful flowing displays with the aircraft seeming to be within the airfield boundary most of the time.
The Spitfre displays were always finished with a double roll.

Blue Skies Sir.

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

June 7, 2013 at 11:31 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #970229

Warbert
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It was while ‘Piece of Cake’ filming was going on in 1988. Ray, Mark and Pete Jarvis IIRC. MH434, NH238 and PL983.

Wow, a quarter of a century ago!

I was only out by 12 years:highly_amused:

Can’t believe that, I remember seeing it as if it were yesterday!

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com

June 7, 2013 at 10:17 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #970401

Warbert
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The Hannas did something very much like this with, I’m pretty sure, 2 Mk IXs and the Mk XI back in 2000 or then abouts.

Albert
http://www.warbirdsim.com
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