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  • February 12, 2012 at 10:46 am in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing – 2012 #1065794
    TwinOtter23
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    Obviously your reputation precedes you sir! 😀

    (Your visit came up in conversation with one of the staff members on Friday!) 🙂

    That’s a nice view down the site in some very nice light – shame about the cold! Looking forward to seeing ‘Saturday’s Set!’

    I understand that a ‘partial fix’ has been made to yesterday’s burst pipe in the gents.

    February 11, 2012 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing – 2012 #1067018
    TwinOtter23
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    Glad you made it and eventually managed to get on site through the ‘ceremony of the keys’ and all of the frozen locks!

    With very low temperatures overnight I gather they’ve had a few problems with frozen locks on the aircraft that are displayed outside; although I understand the reserve plan has been put into operation and that the Varsity (in the relative warmth of Display Hangar 2) has been open today!

    I hope that you got some good photos! 🙂

    February 10, 2012 at 8:05 pm in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing – 2012 #1067631
    TwinOtter23
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    If it’s really bad weather there might not be anyone there when you get to Newark! 😉

    Joking aside I would think that things should be OK tomorrow, but a lot of the ‘snow-cover’ has thawed off the aircraft today – :confused: anyway I thought that you were planning to try to photograph ‘Nimbus 500’ broomsticks tomorrow!!

    February 10, 2012 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill's ex-gate guardian Spitfire replica is up for sale #1067636
    TwinOtter23
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    I’m not sure whether this helps or not!

    IIRC one of the Poyser ‘mock-ups’ arrived at Newark in poor condition in the late 1990s or perhaps early 2000. Unfortunately it suffered additional damage in heavy winds whilst in the Southfield Site; it was taken away for repair and never returned.

    It had a brown and green paint scheme – sorry I’m not a Spitfire expert! 😉

    February 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm in reply to: Aviation books – where to sell? #1068145
    TwinOtter23
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    I cannot resist – have a stall here!! 😀

    February 10, 2012 at 10:45 am in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing – 2012 #1068359
    TwinOtter23
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    Open as normal!

    Another ‘weather watch /opening status report’ has been added to the museum website this morning!

    The museum is open and hopefully the Open Cockpit Week that is due to start tomorrow should go ahead as normal – however people are being advised to check before they set out! 🙂

    February 9, 2012 at 8:57 am in reply to: Dayglo paint on aircraft #1069498
    TwinOtter23
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    On 10m rolls – certainly available in the UK; I guess local supply may be different in other countries.

    Sadly not really amongst the aviation maintenance tapes that I am sometimes involved with!

    February 9, 2012 at 7:48 am in reply to: Dayglo paint on aircraft #1069508
    TwinOtter23
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    The most common widths available are:

    25mm
    50mm
    75mm
    100mm

    Other sizes can usually be cut to order.

    Project wise the museum where I volunteer is in a similar position!

    Good luck with yours!!

    February 8, 2012 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Dayglo paint on aircraft #1069866
    TwinOtter23
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    There is ‘some’ useful information on this topic in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=108391 🙂

    February 8, 2012 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Minworth Aircraft Yard Photos – does anyone have any? #1070176
    TwinOtter23
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    Worked for a company who sold CM UK some packing equipment – IIRC they are now based in Suffolk somewhere!

    February 7, 2012 at 11:10 am in reply to: Newark Air Museum Briefing – 2012 #1071494
    TwinOtter23
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    Vulcan XM594 – clear for delivery!

    Twenty nine years ago, on 7th February 1983, at about this time (1110 hours) the museum received the green light for the delivery of Vulcan XM594 to Winthorpe – an anniversary that has been briefly remembered in this week’s Object of the Week item on the NAM website! 🙂

    February 6, 2012 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Roadrunner #1071845
    TwinOtter23
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    Typo(s)!! 😀

    February 6, 2012 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Roadrunner #1072573
    TwinOtter23
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    I don’t believe that the museum was ever interested – to help answer another forumite’s question I was just reporting on a telephone call that was made to the museum last week . From what I understand this particular Wessex was “…..too good to turn down!”

    The museum’s Wessex HC,2 XV728 has been tucked up nice and warm inside Display Hangar 2 since 2004/5 – it may even see a few visitors next week if we get enough cockpit openers out!! 😉

    February 6, 2012 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Auster AOP.9 Identity Assistance #1072620
    TwinOtter23
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    A brief update from over the weekend – if you post around here thanks to everyone who responded ‘off-board’, it’s greatly appreciated. 🙂

    Plus one further complication – the current wing set that will hopefully be used in any possible rebuild is not the original one that came with the fuselage! 😮

    February 6, 2012 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Roadrunner #1072706
    TwinOtter23
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    I’ve since been advised that the figure quoted in post #10 included delivery! 😉

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