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  • February 6, 2008 at 11:29 am in reply to: Self Landing aircraft (2004 zombie thread) #1277387
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    Does this count? 😉

    February 1, 2008 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Unveiled Today – G-AJRB! #1282785
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    Euuwww drool on the carpet :p

    Oh, it can take that. When it was parked outside at Sywell, it used to have a swimming pool in the cockpit! 😮

    January 29, 2008 at 3:04 pm in reply to: HP Hastings #1287485
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    They along wth Vickers Varsities, were operational with 6FTS at Finningley as (very noisy) flying classrooms for bomb aiming and navigator training until at least the end of 1975.

    Used to regularly disrupt my lessons in school through the early 1970s, growling about over NE England. 🙂

    January 28, 2008 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Unveiled Today – G-AJRB! #1288579
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    Lovely! 😎

    January 28, 2008 at 10:22 am in reply to: Unveiled Today – G-AJRB! #1289364
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    Aaaaaaargh. The anticipation!!!

    Look forward to seeing the pics. Congratulations to Richard and all the Eggesford team. The old girl deserved just such an owner!

    January 25, 2008 at 2:28 pm in reply to: Tempest restoration #1292691
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    Just came across this: http://www.bianchiaviation.com/main_ie.htm

    (Click on the ‘PPS’ button then scroll down the page!):cool:

    January 24, 2008 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Mersey Mystery Propellor #1293401
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    Hi Atcham and all, after looking through the Cooksley and Rimell “WW1 British Aeroplane Propellers” publication it looks very similar to that fitted to a DH4, these could be RH or LH tractor type.

    Andy

    The shape’s similar Andy, but the DH4 or DH9 propeller, is I think, quite a bit bigger.

    January 24, 2008 at 8:56 am in reply to: Mersey Mystery Propellor #1293947
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    Doh….I hadn’t noticed that!! 😮

    I still reckon its a blade from a propeller for an RAF V-8. The earlier Renault propellers used on Farmans and early BE-2s had a much slimmer blade.

    January 23, 2008 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Mersey Mystery Propellor #1294345
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    Certainly the shape of the blade and the sheathing would suggest its a blade from a four-bladed propeller for an 80hp RAF V-8 engine.

    That could equally be fitted to a BE-2, RE-8 or even a DH6 trainer. The sheathing really only came in about 1915/16, once the RFC had discovered their propellers fell to bits every time they flew in the rain!!

    Sadly the main data would have been stamped on the boss, which is of course missing.

    If you need a more appropriate home for it, we’ll be happy to display it alongside our BE-2 at Sywell !!! 😉

    January 23, 2008 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Where is this Museum? #1294358
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    It is another cautionary reminder that old aeroplanes need a lot of time-consuming and often expensive, maintenance even to maintain them in static condition.

    So many people have made the mistake in the past in thinking that acquiring the airframe is the end in itself it’s not. With aeroplanes, like the missus, its the maintenance costs that add up :diablo:

    I have to admit the video though is emotive. The Ride of the Valkyeries theme seems to suit it perfectly.

    January 23, 2008 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Blind Landing Vulcan (old thread) #1294362
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    Blind landing Varsity

    It was an article by the late Neil Williams, who while at RAE Farnborough, flew a ‘talkdown’ approach into Bedford in a Hastings, below established minima, based on the fact that the Varsity was flying circuits.

    It was only after he landed after eventually breaking cloud over the lights at 75 feet, that he saw the words ‘Blind Landing Experimental Unit’, on the side of the other aeroplane.

    His article was called “Where Angels Fear to Tread”.

    Brilliant thread this. Welcome to ‘Paddy’ Grogan , who I’m sure can supply many other similar tales ……please!!

    January 23, 2008 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Tempest restoration #1294562
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    Would be lovely alright – but I suspect the difference between getting a Centaurus into running/flying condition and doing the same for a Sabre would be somewhat different. Is there a running Sabre anywhere in the world?

    I was once told, by a company that had costed a Sabre rebuild, that the labour on the strip-down alone, came to about the same as the overall labour costs for rebuilding a Merlin!

    😮

    January 23, 2008 at 9:34 am in reply to: How cool is this….the awesome power of the Piper Cub! #1295197
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    An unbelievable achievement!

    Mind you, not the only crazy thing done with a Cub.

    How about prop-swinging, in the air?

    Does anyone know anything more about the picture??

    January 19, 2008 at 6:54 pm in reply to: VAC Turweston activity? (as if !!) #433790
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    Ho hum, what do the VAC do to deserve such lousy weather!:(

    Still, it gives me another few weeks to put the Tipsy back together in time for the next event!

    January 18, 2008 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Best Preserved Airfield? #1300759
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    I know I’m biased being based there, but Bicester is one of the last all-grass “expansion era” airfields to survive fairly intact. It has a unique timewarp quality – and the Windrushers Gliding Club are working very hard indeed to keep it that way.

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