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November 10, 2003 at 3:20 pm in reply to: Lots of familiar faces in here… #2106706

Mark V
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I asked Bob if he was completely certain that his aeroplane would be in the RAF Mausoleum permenantly and he said it would. He also said in explaining his decision “everyone has to go out to pasture eventually!”.

November 10, 2003 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Blenheim: Initial AAIB Report #2106710

Mark V
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Hi Mark,

Recallling from Graham Warners book, what was driving the recriminations against the captain of Blenheim No. 1 was his (the captain’s) complete refusal to accept any blame for the incident which resulted in the total destruction of the aircraft, to the extent that the alternative would have been to allow an untruth to emerge: that the aircraft had a technical failure of some kind.

November 10, 2003 at 9:28 am in reply to: Doug Arnold Spitfire Rebuilds #2106787

Mark V
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No – the wings are new build but the fuselage is not really ‘new build’ as widely quoted as it uses many parts from ML417 which were discarded when that aeroplane was reconfigured back to single seat at Booker in the early 1980’s.

November 7, 2003 at 9:43 am in reply to: 109E7, just for fun. #2107242

Mark V
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Excellent work Dan !! 🙂

November 7, 2003 at 9:16 am in reply to: TFCs P38? #2107247

Mark V
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Yes he has – two P38s has got to be enough for anyone!

November 6, 2003 at 2:24 pm in reply to: TFCs P38? #2107407

Mark V
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Lovely pictures on that site as usual – saves a lot of air fare money too. P-38 is very nice indeed and it would be very wonderful to have it over here. I suppose we will just have to ‘wait & see’ what happens next Spring/early Summer as it could not be flown across until then anyway beacause of the weather.

November 5, 2003 at 10:51 pm in reply to: Spencer Flack's aircraft #2107597

Mark V
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Yes he did, I certainly saw him fly it at Duxford several times around 1988.

November 5, 2003 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Bomber Command Film #2107602

Mark V
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Its an amazing film – although some of it was actually mocked up using a scrap fuselage on the ground that had been split in half!

The most amazing sequences are the mass Lancaster taxi out in the twilight at Hemswell and the FIDO landing scenes at Sturgate.

Cozens was an interesting man, having commanded 19 squadron at Duxford in 1938 at the time of the introduction of the Spitfire in to RAF service, becoming Hemswell station commander by 1943.

November 4, 2003 at 1:42 pm in reply to: favorite mustang and spitfire #2107938

Mark V
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The Spitfire XVI runs on a Packard built Merlin 266 🙂 , the V-1650 is a Mustang engine.

November 3, 2003 at 1:20 pm in reply to: What was the most ingenious development for aircraft during WW II? #2108221

Mark V
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Mark G,

I think you are right. That was an unequalled masterstroke that produced the finest British heavy bomber of the war. What a genius Chadwick was but how he must have kicked himself for not getting it right in the first place.

(that last line was, of course, a humorous remark 😉 )

November 3, 2003 at 11:01 am in reply to: What was the most ingenious development for aircraft during WW II? #2108257

Mark V
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Marauder,

The change was essentially due to the poor altitude performance of the Alison V-12. With installation of the two stage supercharged RR Merlin the Mustang became the best high altitude escort fighter of the war.

October 31, 2003 at 4:35 pm in reply to: £21,000,000-00 on the AirSpace Museum, good value? #2109287

Mark V
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Does it? There is a Vulcan already in the Superhangar at Duxford!

October 27, 2003 at 4:42 pm in reply to: All quiet on the Duxford Front #2111241

Mark V
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In what way was it “less restrictive” Steve – just interested. I do not have a problem with it (Paul Day being one of the worlds most experienced Spitfire pilots) 🙂

October 27, 2003 at 11:45 am in reply to: All quiet on the Duxford Front #2111323

Mark V
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Nice pictures Yakrider – thanks for posting. Any idea who flew the Spitfire T9?

October 25, 2003 at 11:23 pm in reply to: LA-9 Arrives #2111844

Mark V
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I would put rather more faith in Nigel Lambs words than any of the garbage written in the ‘press’.
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