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December 24, 2002 at 5:09 pm in reply to: Nose Art #2097832

Bob
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RE: Nose Art

Seems like I’ve resurrected a dead parrot here!! And yes the theory is thin at one end, fat in the middle and thin at the other end….

Re: driving on the left – there are quite a few countries that still do it the proper way.
The rest are all Henry Ford’s fault – when he first built his Model T he said to his designer put the wheel on the right side, but the designer was drawing the car from the front!! The rest is history……..

December 21, 2002 at 1:22 am in reply to: Nose Art #2098196

Bob
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RE: Nose Art

It goes back to the days of Knights on horseback. The knight would carry his shield, bearing his coat of arms, on his left arm thus leaving his right free to dispatch his enemy. Same reason we drive on the left!
Also the aircraft captain sits on the left and the aircraft was invariably named by him, so the artwork was on the port side.

As Ann Elk said “It is my theory, and mine alone…” (apologies to non-Python fans!)

December 10, 2002 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Duxford get-together Sun 5th Jan #2098940

Bob
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RE: Duxford get-together Sun 5th Jan

Is that because they heard that Snapper is willing to paint the ceiling!!!!

December 10, 2002 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Duxford – Wednesday 11th Dec #2098944

Bob
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RE: Duxford – Wednesday 11th Dec

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 10-12-02 AT 04:36 PM (GMT)]I am volunteering for the onerous task of warming up the models – ( err, the female models I hasten to add :))- and official bacon butty taster.

December 8, 2002 at 12:13 am in reply to: Duxford get-together Sun 5th Jan #2099187

Bob
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RE: Duxford get-together Sun 5th Jan

Jan 5th? Hmmmmm, that may be pushing the hangover envelope to its limit but I’ve asked Santa for a can of Pledge and a yellow duster, so just show me the nearest Spit!!!!

:o)Hic~~~~~~~

November 24, 2002 at 3:57 pm in reply to: Uncle Adolf's gift to the youth of Germany – Christmas 1944 #2100228

Bob
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RE: Uncle Adolf’s gift to the youth of Germany – Christmas 1944

Reminds me of that old Luftwaffe joke –
“What is pink and Luftwaffe grey and goes red at the flick of a switch?”
A Salamander pilot bailing out……..

OK, I know its a variation on the frog in a blender joke but one does have to ask how the hell did you bail out? Switch the engine off first?

November 24, 2002 at 3:49 pm in reply to: (Zombie thread from 2002) 558 hopes dashed ? #2100231

Bob
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RE: 558 hopes dashed ?

Seems as she’s in pieces now, whats the betting she just gets stuck into packing crates for the eventual journey overseas?
Or am I being sceptical?

November 21, 2002 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Norton Airfield (Sheffield) #2100532

Bob
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RE: Norton Airfield (Sheffield)

According to my Omnibus Edition of Military Airfields in the British Isles 39-45, Netherthorpe does not exist.

Any other clues?

November 19, 2002 at 11:04 pm in reply to: (Zombie thread from 2002) 558 hopes dashed ? #2100661

Bob
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RE: 558 hopes dashed ?

Now maybe I’m missing something but where is XH558 advertised for sale on eBay?
The small link on the TVOC webpage is for eBay, but there are only paintings, video, models etc for sale.
Not the actual aircraft.

So has some bright spark journo looked at the TVOC site, seen the eBay link and put 2 and 2 together and got 558?

Bob

November 19, 2002 at 10:57 am in reply to: (Zombie thread from 2002) 558 hopes dashed ? #2100726

Bob
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RE: 558 hopes dashed ?

>I cant help but think WHY oh WHY did this whole project
>hinge on the HLF. Even I know that they WILL NOT give money
>for anything that is going to fly or run and work as a
>mechanical thing. I am sure that it even says that in their
>application pack so I dont understand why they even went to
>HLF.

Wrong – http://www.dukeofgloucester.co.uk/heritage.htm

Its been done for a sodding train!!!

Disgusted
Tunbridge Wells
(well OK, Cambridge!)

November 17, 2002 at 12:02 am in reply to: Tempests #2100899

Bob
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RE: Tempests

>Hi All,
>
>Try having a look at the Tempest web site, it’s very good.
>
>http://user.tninet.se/~ytm843e/tempest.htm
>
>Cheers,
>Neilly

I followed a link from this site to here –http://www.rojasbazan.com/index.htm – are these really models!!
I want some of them for Xmas!!!

November 10, 2002 at 10:56 pm in reply to: Plane Clothed Detective. – tonight 10pm Wings! #2101323

Bob
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RE: Plane Clothed Detective. – tonight 10pm Wings!

Just a bit of an update I suppose – the programme followed Bob Collis and members of the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum during their search for remains of Stirling N3756, Lancaster HK773 and a USAAF B17, all of which crashed in East Anglia.
I’ve never been to the N&SAM but having seen this programme a visit may well be on the cards.
I’m sure the programme will be repeated again soon for those of you that missed it.

November 7, 2002 at 9:40 pm in reply to: Propeller fetish #2101569

Bob
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RE: Propeller fetish

I’m partial to the pointy end too

Looks like Ashley has been by with her trusty polisher!
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November 6, 2002 at 11:25 am in reply to: Which Spitfire is this? #2101713

Bob
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RE: Which Spitfire is this?

>I have one question…
>
>How the hell am I supposed to polish it, it’s suspended from
>the ceiling? Huh? 😉

A very, very, very long feather boa?…………:)

November 4, 2002 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Which Spitfire is this? #2101846

Bob
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RE: Which Spitfire is this?

Info from “Spitfire – The History”

Mk IX
BS435
3324
EA (Eastleigh)
FF 31-8-42 (First Flight)
611S 2-9 (Squadron)
CE (Cat E – badly damaged)
ops
5-2-43 (history ends)
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