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March 22, 2009 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Mig reconnaissance variants #1233636

Loony Toons
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I’ve got Putnam’s MiG Aircraft Since 1937 which was co-written by Bill Gunston & Yefim Gordon. I’ll p.m. you some scanned pages as examples so you can decide whether to buy or not.

Thanks
Dave

March 10, 2009 at 10:59 pm in reply to: can anyone remember Middlesborough late 80s early 90s #1168569

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Scott,

The book “South Bank Dornier: South Bank, Cleveland 15 January 1942” , by Bill Norman has the full story ….

On 27 November 1997, a group of building workers clearing land for redevelopment at South Bank, Cleveland, unearthed the remains of a Second World War Dornier Do217 bomber of the German Luftwaffe unit Kampfgeschwader 2 (KG2). The aircraft had crashed there in January 1942, minutes after being hit by gunfire from a merchant ship anchored off Hartlepool and seconds after colliding with the cable of a barrage balloon flying high over the river Tees. The blazing bomber plummeted on to the railway sidings of a local steelworks, where it made a crater some twelve feet deep. At that time, the sidings were being used for essential war work and so, after the charred bodies of three of the four-man crew had been recovered, most of the wreckage was bulldozed into the crater and the track was re-laid. The body of the fourth member of the crew was not found – until 1997. This book tells the full story of this German bomber’s operation over the Tees on 15 January 1942 before it collided with the barrage balloon. It also describes the chance `rediscovery’ of the wreckage and its occupant in 1997 and the latter’s subsequent interment in a Teesside cemetery during a ceremony attended by the German Consul-General to Great Britain, the German Air Attaché, three local mayors, representatives of twenty-two ex-Servicemen’s associations and some 200 members of the general public.

Cheers
DG

January 1, 2009 at 2:37 pm in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1176611

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Scott,

Some additional info into ‘FC accident –

http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/publications/bulletins/september_2007/piper_pa_38_112_tomahawk__g_olfc.cfm

Cheers
Dave

October 4, 2008 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Spitfire L1094 – Lost 4 Nov 1940 #1187490

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L1094 Built at the Supermarine factory as part of a batch of 97 aircraft in contract B527113/36. First flew on 2nd September 1939 and delivered to 65Sqn at Hornchurch four days later. Aircraft suffered damage during operations on 8th August 1940 and damaged again by a Bf109 on the 22nd.

Transferred to 610Sqn at Acklington on 27th October 1940, but dived into the ground eight days later at Eglingham, Northumberland during an aerobatics practice killing the pilot. The aircraft was struck off charge on 12th November 1940

Sgt. Miller : Pilot : Killed

July 10, 2008 at 12:31 pm in reply to: RIAT Saturday No Tickets On Sale On The Day! #1204849

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To be fair, I seem to remember the organisers announcing this shortly after last years show after the airfield was full on the Saturday, but much quieter on the Sunday due to people listening to the weather forecast. Their only mistake was not formally communicating this in good time, so assume they left this as an open decision while they monitored ticket sales?

Personally, I couldn’t decide which event to attend so I’ve bought advanced tickets for both 🙂 We’re leaving Newcastle at lunch time tomorrow, doing Fairford Sat, Duxford Sun, then home!

April 29, 2008 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Magazines In Need Of A Good Home #1196209

Loony Toons
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Hi William

PM sent

Thanks
Dave/LT

April 27, 2008 at 9:06 pm in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1198063

Loony Toons
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NEAM Forum

Hi All,

A new NEAM forum is now up & running at – http://neam.myfreeforum.org/

Thx
Dave

February 12, 2008 at 5:35 pm in reply to: 57 OTU Pictures & Info #1271486

Loony Toons
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Hi Phil,

Check PM

Cheers
Dave

February 9, 2008 at 11:56 am in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1273833

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LL – Have you set up the shop as an independent trading operation to comply with Charity Commission SORP regulations? Depends on turnover I know but just a thought!

Thanks for the heads-up. At the moment its just via PayPal (who take a cut for the use of their services) as the turnover isn’t expected to be too high at the moment.

Dave

January 2, 2008 at 3:53 pm in reply to: Stolen Hurricane flies into history books #1320286

Loony Toons
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Thanks Alex

January 2, 2008 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Stolen Hurricane flies into history books #1320477

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I want to add the story behind this to our ‘Historic Events in North East aviation’ section of the NEAM website (http://www.neam.org.uk). I’m short of a few details…..

The Hurricane was coded A-PA, but does anyone know the serial? (I don’t have a copy of the story published in the June 2003 edtion of AM)

The aircraft was destoryed by allied bombing. Does anyone know the exact date?

Thanks in advance
Dave

October 29, 2007 at 7:13 pm in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1302265

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NEAM Website

Thanks for the comments Bruce,

All comments and even criticism (in moderation 😉 ) are welcome. Otherwise we’d think the website is perfect and nothing would be changed. As I said, some of the information is incomplete but I thought the time was right to launch as a phase one.

Phase two will be a complete review of all exhibits and their history. Phase three will focus on significant aviation events in the North East of England (some pilot data has already been added).

While the above ‘projects’ will be progressing, John will be providing restoration updates similar to the ones posted here. We may shift these from the web’s news section into a ‘Blog’ to keep the updates as dynamic as possible.

Cheers
Dave

October 29, 2007 at 3:59 pm in reply to: North East Aircraft Museum…..updates #1302501

Loony Toons
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NEAM Website

The NEAM website has been re-designed / updated & re-launched at http://www.neam.org.uk. Some of the information on the exhibits is incomplete, but you’ll see the type of coverage we plan to introduce moving forward.

Let us know what you think!

Cheers

October 3, 2007 at 8:43 pm in reply to: ROC posts – Nuclear role #1243318

Loony Toons
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I recommend “Cold War – Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989” published by the English Heritage (ISBN 978 1 873592 81 6) & reprinted in 2007. I purchased my copy after visiting the bunker in york. It has a whole chapter on the subject.

September 14, 2007 at 7:27 pm in reply to: Torbay Aircraft Museum #1263796

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While researching for another project I found this in an Air North Magazine from November 1988. The whole article reads….

“The Torbay Aircraft Museum has been disbanded. Owner Keith Fordyce is moving to a new home nearer the Torbay seafront and as space is limited he has been forced to put the majority of his collection up for sale. Auctioned by Sotherby’s on October 19th were:

Proctor G-ANYP/NP184 Sold £950, to be restored to airworthiness
Messenger 2A G-AKEZ/’RG333′ Sold £480, to be restored to airworthiness
Anson C.19 TX235 Sold £220, Snowdon Mountain Avn. Museum
Dove G-ALFT Sold £1450, Snowdon Mountain Avn. Museum
Chipmunk T.10 WB758 Sold £5200, to be restored to airworthiness
Provost T.1 WV679/7615M Sold £2000
Meteor T.7 WF877 Sold £1500, Aces High, North Weald
Sea Hawk FB.3 WM961 Sold £1300, Snowdon Mountain Avn. Museum
Vampire T.11 XE995 Sold £600
Sea Venom FAW.22 XG629 Failed to sell
Dragonfly HR.3 WN499 Sold £550, Snowdon Mountain Avn. Museum
Whirlwind HAS.2 XJ933 Sold £800
Whirlwind HAS.7 XN299 Sold £3200, Royal Marines, Portsmouth
Sycamore HR.14 XG544 Failed to sell

Replica’s Spitfire (BAPC.69), Hurricane (BAPC.63) & Me.109 (BAPC.74) all failed to sell
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