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March 28, 2007 at 10:06 am in reply to: May events at Kjeller aerodrome, Oslo #1260248

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Thanks for that Cavok. Don’t worry about language difficulties – your English is excellent. Besides, I doubt if any of us speak Norwegian! Incidentally, it’s great to see Scandinavians on the forum.

I hope, within the next year or two, to take the Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Cruise, so may be able to see your museum. Perhaps the shipping company would be interested in sponsoring you and giving details to their passengers who come from around the world.

Bri 🙂

March 23, 2007 at 11:27 am in reply to: Sabres fitted with Martin-Baker Mk5 seats #1265056

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Your pilot would be glad he won’t have to use a North American seat. I think the RAAF lost more pilots in those seats than they saved. The Sabre escape system was bloody dangerous!

Is your Sabre an Avon Sabre?

Bri (ex-RAAF groundcrew) 😎

March 23, 2007 at 11:09 am in reply to: General Discussion #321444

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Just an abreviation of Gasoline….A volatile mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived chiefly from crude petroleum and used principally as a fuel for internal-combustion engines.

Bathroom…..A room containing a sink and toilet

So where’s the bath?

Bri :dev2:

March 23, 2007 at 11:09 am in reply to: Bathrooms? #1934013

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Just an abreviation of Gasoline….A volatile mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived chiefly from crude petroleum and used principally as a fuel for internal-combustion engines.

Bathroom…..A room containing a sink and toilet

So where’s the bath?

Bri :dev2:

March 22, 2007 at 11:03 am in reply to: SQUID MISSILE? #1266028

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Thanks to you all for enlightening me. It was called a missile in the report on the sinking of U-boats after WWII.

Not strictly aviation related, but the history of the Hedgehog was wonderfully-well described by Commander Cherry in his book ‘Yankee RN’. That is a weighty tome, but a fascinating read if you can find a copy.

As an American serving in the RN, he was put on a lend-lease destroyer (‘Battersea Power Station’ to ratings, because of four stacks!) and his cabin was located forward. The first Hedgehog was mounted on the bow and, when fired, ended up down in his cabin!

Bri 🙂

March 20, 2007 at 4:04 pm in reply to: EIN132 operated by DC-10? #552960

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Are passengers still flying in the DC-10? Rather you than me, mate.

Spoke to an airline pilot recently about the DC-10, and he said “Don’t you mean the Death Craft Mark 10” !

Bri:diablo:

March 20, 2007 at 3:38 pm in reply to: Aviation museums with good access by public transport #1267793

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To my mind, Cosford is a better museum with more to see than Hendon – and they are both free!

Don’t worry about the station name, there’s only one at Cosford. Seven hours? Where on earth did you get that from?

To enlarge on my previous suggestion for Brooklands Museum – it has a real live (well not live!) Concorde, which you can take a ‘flight’ in (extra £4) and a number of other airliners you can look in. Plus a Wellington undergoing reconstruction, and other warplanes. Also a collection of cars and record breaking cars. A great day out, but it is not free entry.

All museums have websites.

Bri 😀

March 19, 2007 at 5:23 pm in reply to: AA Pilot was 'six times over limit' #553439

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Reminds me of the sad occurence many years ago when an American captain of a cargo plane turned up rolling drunk. He had a Japanese crew, and they all felt unable to disobey or reprimand him because of their strict upbringing.

So the plane, loaded with cattle, crashed and all crew (and cattle) died. I read about that in Aviation Week magazine.

Obeying orders at any cost should not be the way of things.

Bri 🙁

March 19, 2007 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Aviation museums with good access by public transport #1268941

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For the RAF Museum, Hendon, use Colindale underground station, it’s closer than Hendon station.

Brooklands Museum is a walk from Weybridge rail station, half an hour from London Waterloo rail station.

Trains to RAF Museum Cosford go via Wolverhampton. Change to this line at Birmingham New Street.

Midland Air Museum (MAM) can be got to on blue and yellow 539 bus from outside Coventry or Warwick rail stations. Ask driver to drop you off at Bagginton Post Office, then it’s a pleasant walk from there.

All the above museums are worth going to.

Bri 🙂

March 16, 2007 at 11:13 am in reply to: The beast goes Stateside #554532

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BIGGER WAS BETTER THEN

Strange how people who told the World that the huge 747 was the way forward years ago, when it was first introduced, but now say the opposite!

As I remember, Boeing pushed the bigger plane, with hundreds of seats, against loads of smaller airliners.

Bri :diablo:

March 14, 2007 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Comet on National Geographic Last Night (13th) #555316

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Not another conspiracy theory…

Bri 😉

March 13, 2007 at 11:09 am in reply to: World's Most Boring Airport? #555815

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Let’s have a few more details, people. Then we can make a comparison.

Bri 🙂

March 11, 2007 at 4:59 pm in reply to: unusual air combat encounters #1277775

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Wirraway?

I thought the only thing a Wirraway might have shot was a farmhand: the plane’s nickname in the RAAF was the ‘flying chaff-cutter’. That was because of the racket its engine made!

Bri 😀

March 9, 2007 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Glassed-Nosed Me262 #1279453

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Looks like it was designed to carry around Reichsmarschall Goering to me…

Bri 😉

March 9, 2007 at 11:28 am in reply to: Tu-144 information? #557729

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Biased TV reporting goes on and on.

In a recent TV prog I was amazed and not a little incensed to be told that the Tu-144 crash was the fault of the British for feeding wrong information to industrial spies from Russia, because the wrong tyre material was used on the Russian plane!

GRRR!

Bri:mad:
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