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  • October 12, 2010 at 7:36 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1111201
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    Way back in 1962 the CFI was killed at Carlton Bank due to a T-21 blowing over in high winds.

    October 11, 2010 at 6:00 pm in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1111628
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    For Jim Jobe & Soggy,
    The height climb by Derek Piggott in the T-21 is related in the book ” The Powerless Ones ” by Michael Cumming 1966(author of Pathfinder Cranswick). The Home Command Gliding Instructors School at Detling entered the Sedbergh at the 1953 National Gliding Championships at Camphill,Derbyshire. On 17th July 1953 Red 31 believed to be WB925 climbed to a 15,240 feet gain of height with no oxygen and landed at Waltham airfield near Grimsby. The passenger was Flt/Sgt Brian Whatley. In recent years he was living in Australia and Derek Piggott got to meet him again.

    October 11, 2010 at 8:21 am in reply to: Anna@DXIndianSummer10/2010 #533398
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    Lovely photos ! I was opposite Sally B and what a great show the superb weather was just amazing.

    October 11, 2010 at 8:07 am in reply to: Duxford this Sunday 10 October 2010 #1112323
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    It was a great day,fantastic weather,no traffic problems and the continuity and quality of the flying was excellent. Cannot really single out any particular display but enjoyed Sally B with the 3 P-51s opening the show and the 2 F-15s flyby well done Lakenheath. Rare to see an Apache helicopter display also. The Cosmic Wind was a great rolling performer as well as the Rothmans tribute with the Pitts(hilarious lady commentator !) Brendan O’Brian stole the show with his Piper Cub landing on the moving truck. Cracking flybys by the Golden Apple F-86. Well done to all the pilots and the atmosphere was great. 😀

    October 10, 2010 at 6:37 am in reply to: EASA Doom and Gloom – Annex II Engineers Please Read!!!! #1113329
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    Tongue tied and twisted ,just an earthbound ………..with apologies to Pink Floyd !

    October 8, 2010 at 1:23 am in reply to: Canberra Display Team, help needed please #1115525
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    Try this earlier thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=77733

    October 7, 2010 at 2:51 pm in reply to: Duxford this Sunday 10 October 2010 #1116291
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    I’ll be there going with friends . I can remember sitting in Sally B at the Biggin Hill Air Fair in 1975 and seeing her on the Duxford apron that year.

    October 7, 2010 at 2:46 pm in reply to: B-17G Nose aerial ? #1116297
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    Thanks ,the Gee whip was standard fit,this aerial is the much chunkier one,come on all you B-17 fans someone must have the definitive answer ?

    October 7, 2010 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Interesting website on ww2 bomber sqn ops #1116303
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    Thanks for posting some interesting wartime aircraft in “Misc Photos” also.

    October 7, 2010 at 2:39 pm in reply to: Eagle radar #1116309
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    Yes thanks for replying I had seen this. I may try Boeing archives or Maxwell AFB to see if they have the B-17 fit.

    October 7, 2010 at 2:37 pm in reply to: My Visit to ?Newark #1116312
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    Many thanks to Twin otter and others for the help. Its amazing that we all look at aircraft photographs and often miss certain aerials and their purpose even authors.

    October 7, 2010 at 7:54 am in reply to: Air Britain Simmonds Spartan histories #1116892
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    Dave, excellent web site and feedback to help the researcher.

    October 7, 2010 at 7:07 am in reply to: My Visit to ?Newark #1116910
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    On the HP Hastings photograph can anybody tell what the wavy aerials are between the fuselage and inner engines ?? Thanks

    October 2, 2010 at 7:49 am in reply to: Mustang dug up in Frinton, Essex #1122292
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    The aircraft was P-51D of the 339thFG,503 Fighter squadron, serial 44-15560 coded D7:V named “Oswego Special” Captain John W Gokey baled out 11 December 1944 over Frinton,Essex.
    picture of Capt Gokey here thanks to Little Friends http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gallery.php?Group=339&Style=item&origStyle=list&Item=82&Temp=1136&searchString= P-51 in the photo is an earlier Mustang not the D version.

    October 2, 2010 at 7:33 am in reply to: Whats your best antique shop find #1122306
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    A hardback copy of the “Flying Flea” by Henri Mignet,publishers Sampson ,Low & Marston for £5 in a Hitchin antiques shop,back in the seventies.
    In the sixties I had cycled as a teenager to Alan Troops airstrip at Wellingore,Lincolnshire . He had built and hopped a Flea in the thirties and the surviving fuselage was suspended in a barn. He had a copy of the book and I was on the lookout for my own copy.

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