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  • January 21, 2009 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Tiger Moths Banner towing #1234545
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    Hi Tangmere….

    Would love to include the images if possible 🙂

    Just tried to PM you, but your messages box is full.

    Any chance of you dropping me a PM with your contact details?

    Steve

    January 21, 2009 at 8:33 am in reply to: Tiger Moths Banner towing #1235342
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    In answer to GASEA’s original question, I guess that it was a case of someone earning a bit of extra money from Dunstable’s gliding tugs!

    If anyone has any pictures of banner-towing, or glider-tug Tigers in use, please drop me a line. I’m looking for a good shot or two for a forthcoming book!

    January 20, 2009 at 9:28 pm in reply to: Hatfield Aerodrome 1938 #1235674
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    A bit more on G-ACSS.

    It was due to be flown in the race by Chris Staniland with a Mr. Hopcroft as observer.

    On a pre-race test flight, Staniland lifted off a little early and the aircraft dropped a wing, hitting the wingtip on the ground. It, according to Henshaw, saved the occupants lives by stopping the aeroplane doing a flick roll and hitting the ground inverted!

    We tend to forget just how lethal these aeroplanes could be.

    Henshaw gleefully quoted an RAF Group Captain looking over his Mew Gull on the eve of the race, commenting “It would have been cheaper to have bought a revolver!”

    January 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Hatfield Aerodrome 1938 #1235954
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    Great photos.

    I don’t believe that is Mr Henshaw in the overalls. In fact if anyone is Henshaw, I suspect its the young chap with the curly hair, in tweeds with his back to the camera.

    The aircraft appears to be Edgar Percival’s own aeroplane G-AFAA and the event is most likely the 1938 Kings Cup Air Race. WHich Henshaw of course won in G-AEXF.

    I haven’t got Henshaw’s ‘Flight of the Mew Gull’ book available to me, but I seem to remember a comment about the Comet being damaged on landing in a flight just before the race?

    Well worth getting a copy, if you haven’t got one already. A brillant read!

    January 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Happy birthday, Winkle! #1235965
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    Hear, hear. A living legend and a delight to meet. Many happy returns Eric!!

    January 15, 2009 at 11:25 pm in reply to: Vintage Aircraft Club – Snowball Rally – 17 Jan #431603
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    Try this one. .com rather than ,com works rather better :diablo:

    http://www.turwestonflight.com/

    January 9, 2009 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Napier Sabre list? #1168080
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    One, I understand, at Personal Plane Services, Booker (High Wycombe).

    January 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm in reply to: My attempt at making a Tiger Moth Video #1172500
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    Very nice indeed. Oh for nice warm open cockpit-flying weather here in the UK!!:D

    January 4, 2009 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Spitfire, Mosquito, Sparrowjet, Mew Gull, Tipsy #1173266
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    What a great find – well done Gordy!!

    Love the Battle of Britain filming footage (1:09.00)

    And the Swordfish (briefly) in formation with the 892 Sqn Phantom! (1:13.33)

    And of course, the Tipsy Trainer – Coventry Air Races??

    December 23, 2008 at 11:14 am in reply to: Barton(Beds) Aerodrome #1184384
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    Nigel Ponsford purchased a pair of Luton Minor wings off the Midland Air Museum (which evolved out of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society) some years ago.
    I had been on a “wrecks and relics” trip with Bob Ogden (camping, travelling in his Mini Cooper S) around North England/South-Mid Scotland (c. 1970)when we found a pair of Luton Minor wings in the roof of a barn on a farm in the Edinburgh area (working from memory here). Roger Smith.

    Could these have been the wings in question?

    December 19, 2008 at 11:35 am in reply to: Capt. Ron Gillman #1187708
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    I’ve got a copy somewhere – did you want to know about the book?

    Thanks James,

    His writing style looked so entertaining, I’ve just ordered a second-hand copy – hopefully my Christmas reading!!

    December 15, 2008 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Very rare exhibits for Sywell Aviation Museum #1192217
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    At last TT. You’ve found something that flies nearly as well as the FRED!! 😀

    December 15, 2008 at 11:19 am in reply to: Which Tipsy Belfair is this? #1192572
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    G-AFJR was the second British-built Tipsy B to be produced at the Hanworth factory in 1938.

    It differed from the later Tipsy Trainers by having a slimmer wing section and no leading edge slats. It flew faster but had distinctly ‘sporting’ stalling characteristics!

    It was subsequently rebuilt in 1958 at Sherburn in Elmet to closed cockpit Belfair spec, alongside G-AOXO, G-APOD and the now sole flying survivor G-APIE.

    It is now being restored for static display at the Brussels Air Museum.

    Loads more info and photos at Willem Ronge’s excellent website: http://www.tipsy-histories.com/

    December 13, 2008 at 11:36 am in reply to: RAF at 90 on BBC2 #1194916
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    ………..but don’t forget that it was made for an audience who have little or no interest in aviation history and who would switch off – or turn over in search of a re-run of the last dose of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ or ‘The X Factor’ – if they found that it was a real historical documentary. It’s probably in consequence of that fact that we’re using this forum!

    Sadly I agree, but I can’t see that this will have inspired any of them to keep watching……

    The director and script writer lost the plot about half way into the programme and although they had some excellent source material (and no doubt a budget to die for), they missed a great opportunity.

    “The Incredible Mr. Spitfire” documentary was on satellite in the hour before and demonstrated just how it could, and should, have been done.

    December 13, 2008 at 11:30 am in reply to: Lunch #431846
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    I can fully recommend Sywell’s Pilots Mess, although recently it, and the airfield have not been open due to the heavy rain/snow etc, which has waterlogged the runways and manoeuvring areas.

    Once the weather improves, definitely one to put on your list.

    Can also recommend the food and ambience at WLAC, White Waltham.

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