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August 4, 2017 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Aircraft struts WW2 ??? ID's anyone. #782582

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This may help. There’s a pretty powerful spring in there.

John

August 4, 2017 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Aircraft struts WW2 ??? ID's anyone. #782693

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I was wondering if the remaining strut could be a compression strut from between the wing spars?

John

August 3, 2017 at 11:11 pm in reply to: Dunkirk film – Merged For General Updates And Chat #782878

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I went to see this film tonight, My verdict, utterly disappointing jumble of rubbish. A relentlessly grinding awful sound track with even Nimrod almost unrecognizable and with comic book gunfire. Yes I have fired a good few rounds in my time on ranges and had 303 rounds whistling over my head, all be it in the butts at Bisley. It does no honour to anyone, bar a few cameos. That cheapskate burning Spitfire at the end was laughable, but thank goodness they didn’t burn a real one.

John

August 2, 2017 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Lysanders but look at the codes…. #783448

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Yes, I do have a paid Photobucket account for a little while longer. I have an aversion to advertising and glossy dross on websites. However I don’t think I’ll bother to fork out the 500 bucks that photobucket now want. I think they are unethical and greedy. Just how many people like me with my 25 quid a year are they going to lose. I suspect rather more than those who will take up the 500 bucks offer.

Indeed I think that the chance conversation in Australia was just in the nick of time.

John

August 1, 2017 at 10:20 am in reply to: Lysanders but look at the codes…. #785041

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Jagan,

Thank you for the kind words. These things often happen by chance. Elizabeth (Liz) and her husband Robert were fellow guests attending a family wedding in Australia. As my host and some of the other chaps had an interest in aviation, I was able to arrange a visit to Point Cook, via the good offices of another forumite James Kightly. It is a small world.

Conversations over dinner led to Liz speaking of her late fathers wartime service in India and Burma. this allowed me to ask my usual question”are there any photos”. Liz replied that she thought there were as her dad had been a keen photographer. It was some months later at another family occasion, that Liz told me she had just rescued a trunk her mother was about to throw out as “just some old stuff of your father’s from India” and there were quite a few aeroplane pictures and diaries. The photo’s duly came to me to be identified and the diaries led Liz to think about creating a book about her fathers wartime experiences. The result is Clipped Wings. Thank you to Jagan and other members of the forum who’s input to the original thread helped with the finer detail.

We lose so many pieces to the jigsaw of aviation history every year because stuff is thrown out or it gets on ebay for silly prices and ends up with collectors who lock it away.

John

July 14, 2017 at 1:08 pm in reply to: British and Colonial Prop Clock #795079

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F.2B’s could be fitted with Falcons with even serial numbers which were Left handed and Right handed which were odd numbered, these being in the majority. The left hand props had a Blue band on each blade.

John

July 6, 2017 at 10:35 am in reply to: Ex Yatesbury aircraft #801659

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As Sabrejet says. there would be a Small Arms repository for the usual stuff like the ‘Snow Drops’ pistols and personal Sporting weapons, although all we got were wood truncheons. I do remember that the Officer I/c the Motorbike club was a P.O. D’eath. He was guard commander on one occasion. It was two hours on, four off and tea made with Carnation milk and one RAF bicycle. One man for the whole of the Cherhill site and the only person I ever challenged was the boiler man whom no one had seen fit to mention was on site.

Cherhill was up a narrow country road which led to the tiny Yatesbury village. There are RFC graves in the small church yard. Wednesday afternoons was sports afternoon which for me was Egyptian PT (lying on your bed reading) or the Moonrakers Gliding club at Netheravon or Upavon.

One of the senior instructors and also a Radar instructor at Yatesbury was a Gliding Champion,John Williamson whom I believe was the son of Henry Williamson the author. (Tarka the Otter amongst others) another instructor at Moonrakers was Dick Stratton of the SR.53 test team.

John

July 5, 2017 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Ex Yatesbury aircraft #801802

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My only memory is of the Lancaster? fuselage and banging my shin on the main spar as I climbed over it to gain access to the cockpit area. Where did that one go?
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I just noticed this . I think that your Lancaster was in fact the Lincoln (1960). I too remember the main spar and ‘shocking’ some other trainees by connecting an electrical Megger tester to a radar cable and accidentally touching the braided armoured sheathing. Made ’em jump.

John

July 5, 2017 at 1:50 pm in reply to: S.F.C.A. Lignel 20 #802213

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Creep away. Marboussin’s are an interesting family.

John

July 5, 2017 at 11:02 am in reply to: Ex Yatesbury aircraft #802363

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Cherhill airfield and the hangars were just over the horizon, off right.. In Desk pilot’s picture are the wooden huts which made up Yatesbury I think I was in Z.26 at one time. Also visible are the lagged heating pipes between the billets of which half were redundant. Some armourers were rumoured to have put a brass door knob filled with cordite and fired it along a stretch of these creating chaos in the huts.

John

July 2, 2017 at 3:12 pm in reply to: S.F.C.A. Lignel 20 #805287

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A couple of versions of the Mailett Lignel series.

John

July 2, 2017 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #805297

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Venom’s were a development of the Vampire family so with the exception of the T.ll two seat pilot trainer in the photo, there are single seat fighter and two seat night fighter versions as well as naval variants of both Vampire and Venom . The main visual difference is the broader tipped wing with a straight training edge on the Venom’s and the addition of tip tanks. The Venom had the larger Ghost engine.

John

June 30, 2017 at 9:29 am in reply to: Ex Yatesbury aircraft #806995

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So did I! The only one I know for sure is the Venom NF.3 WX905 which is now at Newark Air Museum on which I did my Gee 3 exam. The prototype Meteor DG202 the former gate guardian is of course now at Cosford. It was initially refurbished in the near hangar.

The other hangar was the school and later the training hangar.

John

Cherhill hangars taken in the 90’s

June 28, 2017 at 7:41 pm in reply to: S.F.C.A. Lignel 20 #808373

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There was a Lignel 46 Coach flying up to the mid 50’s but it seems to have disappeared soon afterwards.

John

June 22, 2017 at 10:37 am in reply to: Amelia In The News Again. #810814

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We are sorry to report that having forgotten to take the dogs food with us, bones were found, but were unfortunately consumed by.. the dogs.
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