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  • September 7, 2004 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Leuchars Airshow – 11th Sep #1560123
    stringbag
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    I’d say the odds are against the Fury myself attending about 5/95 🙂

    September 7, 2004 at 11:12 pm in reply to: One for the whirlybird fans #1560125
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    XP404 is stored with the Helicopter Museum at Weston-Super-Mare.
    Not sure what ‘clothes’ it is now in though, or how complete it remains.

    September 6, 2004 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Anybody got any info on the Seahawk? #1561929
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    The RNHF Sea Hawk is still awaiting its seat harness at Yeovilton, at the moment.

    The Meatbox has recently had its annual maintenance check at Bournemouth with de-Havilland Aviation, and flew back up to Coventry last week.
    Tragically Air Atlantique have just lost their main Meteor display pilot due to the Canberra crash at Marham.

    September 4, 2004 at 10:40 pm in reply to: Canberra crash last night #1563273
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    I think Paul Morris had volunteered to become Brian Grant’s Sea Vixen apprentice down at de-Havilland.
    A sad loss to the airshow scene.

    September 3, 2004 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Canberra crash last night #1564535
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    Marham had a pool of four T.4s I think, two of them in store at Shawbury.

    September 3, 2004 at 10:44 am in reply to: Canberra crash last night #1564661
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    Very sad news.

    September 1, 2004 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Current status of Seafury VR930 ?? #1566409
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    The smoke, if it was blue in in the picture, is quite normal for a Centaurus.
    Lovely sight 🙂

    September 1, 2004 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Current status of Seafury VR930 ?? #1566476
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    I’m told that it will be either Dave Mackay or Paul Stone (that will fly VR930 at displays this season, should everything go to plan.

    September 1, 2004 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Current status of Seafury VR930 ?? #1567224
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    ive a vidio of another RNHF pilot Don S (someone)…? He seems to really put the fury wg655 through its paces much more than anyone else ive seen flying a Fury…. Is he still around ?

    That is Don Sigournay. He is not active on the airshow circuit currently, though that may change next season 🙂
    He is one of the crew that is due to ferry the Gannet T5 over from the US.

    He only flew the Fury for one season, 1990. He later took a break from RNHF flying until 1996 when he returned to fly the Firefly.
    During the 1996/7 winter he went to Amjet in the US to get current on the Sea Fury, in preparation for displaying VR930 in 1997.
    It sadly never happened.

    September 1, 2004 at 10:18 am in reply to: Current status of Seafury VR930 ?? #1567345
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    I grew up watching John BT’s displays in TF956 and WG655, it would be great to see him fly VR930 but I don’t think it’ll happen.
    He’ll just have to make do with flying another historic FAA warbird next year if all goes to plan 🙂

    Must admit that John’s brief Skyraider display over Yeovilton in July was most excellent 😀

    August 31, 2004 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Current status of Seafury VR930 ?? #1572382
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    I think it will be Mike Abbey in the long term, but not sure in the short term.
    Phil Shaw is probably the most current Fury pilot, but he is now retired from the FAA.
    I’ll make enquiries 🙂

    August 31, 2004 at 10:25 am in reply to: mystery hunter #1585754
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    I still think it could be the one from Aberporth myself.

    August 30, 2004 at 2:31 pm in reply to: mystery hunter #1591898
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    Looks to be ‘clean’ too, well apart from that dangerous looking cone.

    Joking aside, it looks like a F.1 – possibly the one from Aberporth?

    August 29, 2004 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Shoreham on Sunday #1598919
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    Excellent photos – nice to see the ex-FRADU Hunter is looking well down there.

    August 29, 2004 at 11:04 pm in reply to: The Transair JP team #1598921
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    Thanks guys, all we need now is a close-up of G-VIVM to complete the set.

    I find it very surprising about the lack of photos anywhere on the team, and the Strikemaster team as well.

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