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December 8, 2005 at 9:24 am in reply to: South African Caribou #1381421

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C9-ATE is indeed rotting away in Benoni. C9-ATD and C9-ATV were with Interocean Airways during the late 1990’s but I have no idea where they are now.

October 26, 2005 at 8:21 am in reply to: When was the last air to air dogfight considered to be #1338729

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Yep it would appear they are a thing of the past, as for the last dogfight i would have imagined it would be the Falklands, unless someone knows otherwise

Definitely not the Falklands, SAAF was having dogfights in 1987/88 and others even later. (As already sated.)

October 18, 2005 at 1:18 pm in reply to: OKINAWA AIRFIELD #1345255

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Here is another showing an American attack on installations on Balik Papen by 150 Liberators, Mitchells and P-38’s from the 13th US Army Air Force. Balik Papen was a great oil refinery centre on the South East coast of Borneo. The assault was the heaviest up to mid-June 1945.

Japanese planes and ships had for three years been supplied 3 million barrels of oil annually.

October 18, 2005 at 1:10 pm in reply to: OKINAWA AIRFIELD #1345261

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For fear of the the ‘Steve Bond effect’ – no expression therefore no interest, may I say thanks for posting and sharing a fascinating and emotive image.

Any more like this?
Mark

I can understand the frustration caused by the “Steve Bond effect”, especially when someone ask’s you to post pictures! :confused: Then after you have searched high ‘n low for the photographs, scanned them and posted them, then your posting is ignored 😡 :confused: 😡

Anyway, since you have asked 😉 I have quite a few. Here is one which is of the damaged centre of Hiroshima. If I remember correctly it was taken a year after the atomic bomb was dropped.

October 16, 2005 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Photos at the Rock #1347119

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A few I managed to dig up, but can’t remember when I took them, possibily 2002.

October 11, 2005 at 6:39 pm in reply to: Airworthy Venom's And Vampire's #1355502

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South Africa’s one seen flying on Saturday!

October 10, 2005 at 11:49 am in reply to: museums in thailand #1356874

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hello out there i will be going to thailand in late october, can someone tell me where the aviation museums in thailand are as i would like to visit them yours dick kamarooka.

The Royal Thai Air Force Museum on the eastern side of the Don Muang Air Force Base/ adjacent to Bangkok International Airport, one of the finest in South East Asia.

October 9, 2005 at 10:47 am in reply to: Airworthy Venom's And Vampire's #1358664

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The SAAF Museum in South Africa has one flying and a couple in storage. In fact it should have been flown by Glen Warden yesterday at Makhado AFB.

September 25, 2005 at 12:04 pm in reply to: Avro Shackleton; South Africa (Sat. Photo) #1379179

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No worries, fascinating pictures! I haven’t quite got my head around Google Earth but it is excellent! I’ve tried to find a few airfields in the Eastern Caprivi without success……..ie Mpacha! :diablo:

September 25, 2005 at 11:15 am in reply to: Avro Shackleton; South Africa (Sat. Photo) #1379327

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After (unexpectedly) finding a vulcan at an american air force base (barksdale) I’ve managed to track down the Shackleton that lives at Thunder city (ysterplaat airport), here it is:

Thunder City is at Cape Town International and the flying Shackleton “P” 1722 lives with the SAAF Museum which is at Ysterplaat.

September 23, 2005 at 1:36 pm in reply to: More Coltishall Pictures #483852

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Another one of a 31 SQN Tornado GR.4 sporting the new Brimstone missiles.

September 21, 2005 at 9:25 am in reply to: More Coltishall Pictures #483931

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A few shots I took on Friday.

September 5, 2005 at 9:14 pm in reply to: If you had one pilot which one would you choose? #1409862

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Thanks old chap.

Yea Gods he lives ! 😀

September 5, 2005 at 12:29 pm in reply to: If you had one pilot which one would you choose? #1410993

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My vote goes to Pilot Officer Prune 😀

That man is totally indestructable and would scare the cr@p out of anybody 😮

August 31, 2005 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Tankers #2079581

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MPACHA: Firstly thank you for the compliment, I’ve been working really hard on getting my board up to a standard of quality service.

Anyway back on topic, I remember seeing in a book back in the mid 80’s a pic of Taffy fitted with four Gabriel launchers and what looked like two Bofors 40/60 guns (I could be wrong but back then most guns looked like the same things we had on our patrol boats). and I remember hearing that she was deploying to Mozambique or Namibia (again age is getting in the way here- I was in High school back then).

Yes she was fitted with two 40/60 Bofors forward, two 20mm above the hangars and six 12.7mm MG’s. The missiles must have been after my time, but the “four” launchers fits with the number removed from the Strike Craft. The press reports would have been of her deployment to Namibia at the time when the Angolan War was getting ugly.

Ja, where were these missiles placed on the Tafelberg?
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