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March 2, 2004 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Concorde in New York #1565674

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…and this, also from the flight deck of Intrepid, a close-up…

March 2, 2004 at 8:00 pm in reply to: Supermarine Attacker question #1565702

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I have a set of Attacker Pilot’s Notes and there is no mention in there of having to dab the brakes or perform any other specific actions to get the tail up during take-off.

I’ll have another good look at it later and double check though.

February 24, 2004 at 5:57 pm in reply to: What is this ?????? #1602929

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Interesting. I think it looks rather sexy! Certainly a change from your usual LearJet type biz jet.

February 24, 2004 at 5:27 pm in reply to: What is this ?????? #1602958

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De Havilland did have plans to produce a ‘business jet’ version of the Vampire (as did Hawker with the Hunter incidentally) but I don’t know if it ever came to anything.

Is that what this is maybe, or a modern day version of the same concept?

February 23, 2004 at 4:54 pm in reply to: The Cockpit Thread #1604389

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Gerry, as a general rule-of-thumb the Mosquito bombers had yokes and the fighter and fighter/bomber variants had a stick.

Presumably the thinking was that with a fighter you’ll need one hand on the stick and the other on the throttles when in a scrap, although I have heard it said that it was easier to chuck the Mossie around with the yoke.

February 23, 2004 at 12:30 pm in reply to: The Cockpit Thread #1604777

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Gerry, the most common Mossie with “gun nose” was the FB.VI (plus the Canadian and Australian equivalents). There are many cockpit pictures on the Mosquito Page website (link attached).The Mosquito Page

February 19, 2004 at 1:26 pm in reply to: The Cockpit Thread #1608452

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Morris Minor maybe? 😉

(sorry, just couldn’t help myself!)

February 14, 2004 at 12:22 am in reply to: The Cockpit Thread #1615724

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Mig 21…

February 7, 2004 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Transparency Scanners #1820770

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Jessops do their own brand film scanner. It’s about 130 quid I think.

Have a look here, sounds pretty good value for money to me.

February 4, 2004 at 6:18 pm in reply to: I just cried….. #1824059

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Originally posted by John Cooper
Can I just ask this question if you owned one Spit worth £1-2 million weather it was a dual or single seater would you really like someone with under 10 hours flying on type on an extremely rare kite to fly your aircraft by taking off and landing? Somehow I don’t think I would, and how realistic was the proposed documentary when there isn’t too many Luftwaffe kites to dog fight against.

Well I quite agree, but that wasn’t my point. I wasn’t suggesting they allow an inexperienced pilot to bounce an expensive Spitfire off the ground. The advertised purpose of the programme was to give a modern young pilot the same training as a BoB pilot received before being expected to go into battle. That was clearly never going to be achievable.

I was just pointing out that what was expected of those pilots back in 1940 is almost unimaginable to those of us whose future they safeguarded.

February 4, 2004 at 3:19 pm in reply to: Favorite Airshow Moments (Zombie 2004) #1824099

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Absolutley agree Damien. That 15 Hunter formation at Kemble for the type’s 50th Anniversary was a real cracker:D

February 4, 2004 at 3:12 pm in reply to: I just cried….. #1824101

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But wasn’t the point of the series to give a bloke the same amount of training on Spits as real BoB would have received? In the 9 hours (or whatever it was) they received they were expected to fight the might of the Luftwaffe AND take off and land!

February 3, 2004 at 2:29 pm in reply to: I just cried….. #1824279

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I’d just like to echo everything that’s been said here about last night’s episode.

I must admit to have been slightly disappointed by the series up until last night. Not because of the content of the series (the recollections of these old pilots has been humbling in the extreme) but by the focus of it which has been a BoB documentary rather than the promised commentary on Dave Mallon’s training. It just didn’t do what it said on the tin!

Now having said all of that, my opinion changed 100% last night at the point when three things happened – Pete Brothers took control of a Spitfire again, a great big lump appeared in my throat and tears rolled down my cheeks. You could just see it all coming flooding back to him and he looked liked he’d been doing it non-stop since 1940.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Thank you Carolyn Grace and Channel 4 for making it happen.

January 29, 2004 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Lancaster book #1825061

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Wonder if they’ve got any plans to re-publish “The Mosquito Manual” too? Seems a shame not to complete the series.

January 17, 2004 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain flight sims #1826985

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I agree with Damien 100% on this. I bought Rowan’s BoB and NEVER managed to play more than about 30 seconds of a mission before it crashed back to the desktop or froze the PC. I got the exact same results on 2 entirely different computers – different hardware spec., different OS, they were even different colours.

It’s was such a pile of cr@p and annoyed me so much that I didn’t even bother expending the effort to take it back to the shop, I threw it in the bin and tried to forget this bug-riddled junk ever existed.:mad:

Must admit though, I still have a great big soft spot for European Air War. It’s a bit long in the tooth now, but I had great fun playing it.:)
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