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  • in reply to: Yesterday TV Good Friday. US Eighth AF #952331
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    I just switched to ch12 and found that “Yesterday Has Gone” and it’s been replaced by DAVE. YESTERDAY is now on ch19.

    in reply to: Britain Drops "Aero" #968723
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    does ‘aeroplane monthly’ get sold as ‘airplane monthly’ in the states?

    in reply to: Horsemen at DX Twice this year #990549
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    Now with the Horesman confirmed surely all the other owners of P51’s in Europe will be gathering around them with the theme of US 8th AAF arriving in the UK here is a mouth watering potential display

    P51’s — Its a bout time, Marinell, Jumpin Jacques, Miss Helen, Ferocious Frankie, Dream Girl, Nooky Booky, Miss Velma, Janie, Lucky Lady VII, Scat, Danm Yankee, Trusty Rusty, Excalibur, Old Crow (or whatever she is called now) 44-72811 (from Germany) and if they bring some mounts with them too 🙂

    And the static Big Beautiful Doll from Lambeth could be wheeled out.

    in reply to: I know the punchline but not the joke… #990722
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    Well if you’re saying that he sounds the final ‘e’ in Focke to make it sound a little like the word “Fokker” then that’s the correct pronunciation. The final ‘e’ is sounded in German words.

    The ‘W’ in Wulf should sound like a ‘V’ in English so the correct pronunciation is something like Focke(r) with the ‘e’ sounded as if there’s an ‘r’ to follow it and Vulf.

    The one way it shouldn’t be pronounced is Fock Wolf.

    PP

    thanks Peter for correcting me, I did have a slight feeling that might happen. Don’t english people mostly say “Fock Wolf”.

    My french based uncle always tells me for pronoucing Storch and Buchon as we would in english.

    byetheway, I like the joke and will try and use it.

    in reply to: I know the punchline but not the joke… #990734
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    I’ve noticed that John Sergeant refers to FW190s in his documentaries as Fokker-Wulfs.

    in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #997880
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    Daz -the First World War was fought in full scale not 85% !

    What scale is your SE5a?

    in reply to: Spitfire, seafire variants/Marks #1007208
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    Another thought,

    Mk.VIII – did not have clipped wings (unless Mark12 tells me differently!!)

    Mk.VIII – JF299 – had a low back fuselage

    I’m not mark12, but here’s a clipped winged VIII:

    http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205209416

    in reply to: Dambuster Lancaster model photos #981860
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    Or they might wait until after filming?

    in reply to: Dambuster Lancaster model photos #982285
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    Could this also explain why JJ has no Mid Upper Turret?
    I only hope they improve the black and white mosquito film of the drops. It always annoys me in the original when that dark black blob falls from the light grey mossie!

    Of course they will. Got access to a Mosquitoi now!!

    in reply to: 5 Australian Spitfires stored at Point Cook? #988749
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    So you are suggesting that a museum staffed presumably by people interested in aviation history wouldn’t know anything about five historic airframes stored within yards since they don’t own them?

    Sounds unlikely to me.

    Moggy

    I think he’s suggesting that like Area 51 in Duxford some airframes are hidden from the public or at least not allowed to be photographed.

    in reply to: Boulton Paul Defiant returns to Hendon #991228
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    I saw it on 23rd December. Not much to see yet, all wrapped up inside Battle Of Britain Hangar.

    in reply to: Fieseler Fi103R-4 Reichenberg Restoration #996872
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    Is there another one in the background?

    in reply to: Spitfire HF Mk.9 RR232 #1001922
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    It did.

    Mark

    Thanks Mark, I’m not often right. I do like the earlier rudder, it reminds me that the the IX was a long-lived stop-gap hastley upgraded from a mark V. I suppose he could have completed the look with an earlier air filter, but I guess that would affect performance as no one else (I think) has done it.

    in reply to: Spitfire HF Mk.9 RR232 #1001931
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    Beyond a basic familiarity, I know very little. The fin and rudder look to be a slightly odd shape with a bit of a bulge on the leading edge, Perhaps it is the camera angle.

    I have seen some Mk9s with a pointy fin and rudder – or, did I imagine it ?

    I would have thought that RR232 would have originally had a broad-cord rudder, but I might be wrong (as usual) and the owner has chosen to fit an earlier style rudder.

    in reply to: Spitfire HF Mk.9 RR232 #1004041
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