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  • November 13, 2009 at 4:55 pm in reply to: If No "Dambusters",What Could Be Made? #1140506
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    I would make the Monty Python’s WW1 epic ‘ Biggles Fly’s Undone’

    Dave :diablo:

    November 12, 2009 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Messerschmitt In Bedfordshire Barn? #1141266
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    The Lincoln trailer is outside by the Otley building. It must be just over 20ft long to get the glider wing inside. It is the top half of the rear fuselage, you can just make out part of the G-37-1 markings on the side.

    Dave

    November 12, 2009 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Messerschmitt In Bedfordshire Barn? #1141290
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    The fuselage section of the Tyne test bed Lincoln is still at the gliding club. It has been used as a trailer for a Slingsby Tutor for years. I haven’t seen it open for some time. As it takes me nearly five minutes to get their, I will pop up to the gliding club and take a photo at the week end.

    Dave 🙂

    November 10, 2009 at 8:35 pm in reply to: EON Olympia 2b #1143147
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    The Meise was designed in 1939 for the Olympic games. Gliding was going to be part of the 1940 games, but due the the war this never happend. The design was taken over in England after the war by Chilton Aircraft Company, they sold the rights to EoN. In France it was built by Nord 2000.

    Dave

    November 9, 2009 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Inter-war marine aircraft around Malta #1144082
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    I think Fairey Gordon’s where built for the RAF and Seals where used by the Fleet Air Arm.
    This is a photo of Fairey Seals.

    November 7, 2009 at 10:35 pm in reply to: EON Olympia 2b #1145618
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    Well done for saving it. Oly’s 2b are a nice glider. How much work dose it need? My Kite 1 is coming on slowly.

    Dave

    November 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm in reply to: The other monthly mag #1152843
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    I have sent photos in, some years back {over five years) and did get them back some months later. They didnt use them.

    Dave

    October 31, 2009 at 5:42 pm in reply to: Unidentified Aircraft Canopy #1153671
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    It looks a bit like an Miles Martinet canopy. We use to have one at Bletchley Park, when we had a museum.

    Dave

    October 30, 2009 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Where Is Mark 12? #1154357
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    When i spoke to him last about 4-5 weeks ago he was of on holiday.

    Dave

    July 30, 2009 at 7:06 am in reply to: Who do you think you are? – Kate Humble #1164912
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    As a person who has never heard of Kate Humble before i found the programe very intresting. But i am always surprized that the people they have on ‘Who do you thing you are’ how little they know about their grandparents.

    Dave

    July 28, 2009 at 7:42 pm in reply to: Post your Firefly pictures here. #1165879
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    How not to land on a deck.

    July 22, 2009 at 11:22 pm in reply to: Slingsby Kirby Kite Prototype #1171049
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    Chris Wills has a great collection of photos. I haven’t contacted him yet. If i remember right he had Fuff Singsby’s photos. I have contacted a few people from Dunstable who have photos.
    I have been told that the enclosed canopy was made from a GAL Hotspur canopy. But i will remake the open dog collar. All the bulkheads are different to the Kite 1 and the wings out board of the air brakes are not the same. My father did scale drawings of the Kite 1 some years ago and now trying to redraw the prototype. Early Kite1’s differ from late producton Kites to!

    Dave

    July 19, 2009 at 11:58 am in reply to: Slingsby Kirby Kite Prototype #1174817
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    Thanks K8B
    Terry Perkins got the Kite from a scout hut in Tavisock street in Dunstable, a week before the hut was burnt down. The remains where picked up from the London gliding Club by Peter Underwood (my father) and myself well before 2006. I think it must be around 10 years ago. Terry died 5 years ago.
    I found this photo in an old Wingspan magazine, shame is not in good condition.

    Dave

    July 19, 2009 at 9:58 am in reply to: Slingsby Kirby Kite Prototype #1174935
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    Eric

    Yes it is the old Dutch minimoa, that lives at Dunstable. When i was cleaning the rudder up you could see where the red band and a bit if the circle where the swastika use to be, also on the fuselarge the nose was orginally red to just behind the cockpit. The photo shown is of the Minimoa before it flew again and a picture of the Kite fuselarge when it was in better condition.

    Dave

    July 18, 2009 at 7:42 am in reply to: Slingsby Kirby Kite Prototype #1175921
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    Eric

    The Kite was kept in a damp trailer for years. Yes i intend to restore it to airworthy. The last Kirby Kite 1 BGA400 we had we sold the other year to instuctors at Haddenham (Thame). I have helped my father restore the Harbinger,Minimoa some years ago. Now working on a Grunau Baby 11b. I hope to restore the Kite prototype as it was pre war, varnished plywood and clear fabric. Just as Frank Charles the speedway rider had it.

    Dave 🙂

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