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  • in reply to: Bournemouth Aviation Museum #1321237
    Crewdog
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    Is the Hawker Fury still airworthy? Does it appear at airshows?

    Hawker fury G-CBEL is still airworthy although when she last flew I’m not certain as she doesn’t appear to have been particularly active on the airshow circuit this year. Whether she is still owned by John Bradshaw is also up for discussion as Feb 2007’s Aeroplane quoted John Bradshaw as having sold G-CBALbased a kemble, I was never aware he had another Fury:confused:

    in reply to: Red Bull Sea Vixen. No more sponsorship. #1325677
    Crewdog
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    If word’s been out for so long how come this seems to be the first post? Yes apparently the contract was due to end 1st this year but it still has to be something of a shock.

    in reply to: Red Bull Sea Vixen. No more sponsorship. #1325686
    Crewdog
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    Crikey mate, 😮 choose your title better next time !!!!!

    got your attention though

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1330903
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    The can burners may have to be replaced, so it had to be stripped back down again. A pity, but we have to follow the party line on what the CAA want.

    Not nice to see it sawn in half, but there again, all planes have to have it down at one time or another.

    That’s a real shame XR537, I thought is was progressing so well, your guy’s at Dehav must be heartbroken to have to strip her down again when she was so nearly ready to fly

    in reply to: A few pics #1331370
    Crewdog
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    One or two pictures. I do not know who took them, where or when. Perhaps you can fill in some of the details.

    1 Hunter GA11 XF365
    2 Gannet AS1 WN346
    3 Sea Vixen FAW2 XP924
    4 VC-47D 43-49409
    5 Nimrod MR1 XV247

    Glyn

    The Vixen is Definitly NOT XP924 (G-CVIX). XP924 is a new build FAW 2 not a FAW 1 conversion to FAW 2 standard as the vixen in the picture appears to be. The biggest give-away that the pictured vixen is a FAW 1 conversion, is the pilots canopy, which on FAW 2 Aircraft is a complete blown canopy, not a frame and panel one as the FAW 1 and the aircraft pictured. Another difference was the observers hatch, which on the FAW 2 was all perspex whilst the FAW 1 was metal with a very small perspex window. to convert a FAW 1 to FAW 2 standard all that was done was the addition of the overwing pylon booms that allowed for extra fuel tanks and additional electronic equipment.

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1258855
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    I thought there might be problems, as I have been in constant touch with G-NATY’s owners awaiting an official launch date. Suddenly it’s all gone very quiet!:( I don’t understand why this one is having problems when G-MOUR, G-RORI and others don’t? Can anyone explain?:confused:

    as the engine is out albert I’m gonna take a wild guess and say a problem with the engine perhaps? shame, it sounded great when she last ran up! could it be my previous information has come true, I hope not:(

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1261099
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    Sneaky Peek In the De Hav Hanger

    looks like the prophecy has come true! managed to sneak into Bournemouth Museum before they shut shop for the Christmas Period and I was greeted to a festive but very forlorn scene in the engineering hanger. Poor old XR537 sans engine, sans tail, on jacks with what must be a dismantled engine wrapped up beside her.

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1333348
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    Towing the party line XR537? Good to know your guys at De Hav won’t have to pull that beautiful old girl apart! I wasn’t at any of the above, I decided to become one of the may ‘spotters’ at the museum for the day. Glad I did G-CVIX doing a run and break over the museum :diablo: nothing comes close. 😀

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1334900
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    XR537

    XR537 whats the big fuss going on at the moment? I was down Bournemouth today to see the sparrows do their thing and there was a vicious rumour going round that the C.A.A. (C.omplete, A.rs****e, Authority) want your guys a De Hav’s to either remove the engine for inspection or replace it all together! Any substance to the rumour or is it just hot jetpipe gas? 😮

    Crewdog
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    XR537 what more can I say than, can i vote for you on may 4th?!! 😀 Never a truer word hath been said on this forum or any other forum than this man ladies and gentlemen. Private aviation in this country is a dying breed ladies and gentlemen, if it’s not our government with their pen pushing beaurocratic edicts designed purely to create jobs for the boys and to suppress the ordinary people then it’s le frogs and der krauts with their eu comrades :diablo: . I care not what owners and operators have to do to keep their machines in the air in order for the general public to appreciate this nations fine and long tradition of aviation heritage, where innovation was the name of the game and rules where meant to be broken. To the oh so whiter than white purists that seem to populate these pages I have these words for you, p**s right off, if you want to see a vixen or any aircraft in their origional colours go and read your boy’s own papers, aircraft illustrated or salivate over them in some dark and dusty museum where they sit a sad shade of their former selves 😡 These aircraft where not built to sit idle on the ground gathering hanger dust, bird cr*p and grafitti from bored visitors, whose minds are numbed with the yellowing placards of ‘This WAS ………………………it USED TO…………’, they ARE built to fly!!!!!!!!!! :p to XR537 and your boys at De Havillands, you all do a fantastic job in the face of such overwhelming oppression from higher powers and the purists. You all should be rewarded for your dedication to breathing life in to a dying industry. I have probably stirred the hornets nest but these men (and women??) ladies and gentlemen are heroes in alot of peoples eyes for bringing to them the joy of seeing such impressive and rare aircraft to life and showing them in their natural element (the sky :rolleyes: ). What ever means are necessary to keep them there so be it!

    Crewdog
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    ahh ok well understood XN923

    in reply to: Gnat XR537 #1314087
    Crewdog
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    well done XR537 I shall now go a bash my thoroughly ill informed source repeatedly round the head for giving me duff jen. Your boys at De Havillands should be proud of XR537 she looked fantastic when I last saw her

    Crewdog
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    XN923 your dad an organiser then? Manston if she does go to the states I think DH still plan to operate her out there, the new owners appear pretty taken by her and would like to keep hold of her. Y11F, absolutely pal!!!!! I have to admire the VTTS boys but to be honest they are living in dream world if they are planning to run without any sponsership, the insurance alone is crippling nevermind the fuel bill. DH are still making a loss with foxy lady even with corporate sponsership. Unfortunately the airshow circuit in this country is running dry and very fast to through the health and safety spoilsports and the penpushers at gatwick.

    in reply to: How big is your cheque book? Gnat for sale. #1315404
    Crewdog
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    😮 shouldn’t touch that one with a barge pole guys, word is the airframe is only suitable for scrap and the engine has minimal hours left on it

    Crewdog
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    you know what you’ve got to do then bigvern, indeed all of us if we want to see her fly, and that’s lobby the airshow organisers to bin the decidely boring extra 300’s and their kind and cough up the cash for foxy lady. or if there are any rich benefactors in our midst, come on guys give De Hav’s the money to pay the fuel or else the only thing you’ll see of foxy lady is an air test and then her gathering dust in De Hav’s hanger for the rest of the year or perhaps the rest of her days

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