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  • March 3, 2008 at 9:34 pm in reply to: This is in my local Cemetery ? #1249526
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    Corrections to the last post . Frederick Gower was famous to do with the Gower-Bell telephone system,hence being able to be an aeronaut. He was the first husband of the American Lillian Nordica. his body was never found and i believe Albert Guerrier was more likely washed up at Falmouth.

    March 3, 2008 at 9:21 pm in reply to: This is in my local Cemetery ? #1249531
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    A Frederick A Gower disappeared on a ballon flight across the English Channel in 1885. Could Albert Guerrier have been one of the crew men washed ashore at Le Havre ? Frederick Gower was dating a famous opera singer Lillian Nordica at the time.

    This may not be the answer but if somebody can check the dates in 1885 we may have a positive outcome.

    March 3, 2008 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Bellanca Crusair id and subsequent history #1249841
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    EI-AKR was registered G-ASRD on 25.3.64, if it is the aircraft in question ?

    March 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm in reply to: RAF Woolfox Lodge – Map or Photos #1249865
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    Airfield Focus No51 Woolfox Lodge £4:95 from GMS Enterprises. Excellent booklet and diagrams on the airfield , or try in reference libraries “Wings Over Rutland” by John Rennison or “Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland” by Roy Bonser.

    March 3, 2008 at 3:16 pm in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1249875
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    Well said megalith ! The lack of news and general bad feeling is not going to do aircraft preservation any favours in the future.

    March 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm in reply to: "The Man In The Sky" film 1957 #1250697
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    Hello Newforest,

    Glad you saw the film ,nice to see hardly any cars in the street’s and no mobiles !! There were 2 Bristol Freighters shown in the film, one having maintenance in a hangar. This is G-AIFM which is the aircraft that ended up in the southern boundary ditch,but was repaired. This film is a lovely record of Wolverhampton airfield before the dreaded housing estate swallowed it.

    March 1, 2008 at 7:32 am in reply to: RAF Henlow clear-out, what caused it? #1252068
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    The relics like the Stirling parts from Mickle Fell were at the workshops at Cardington in the nineties,when i went to view my dad’s Tempest V NV778 which he flew at Pembrey.

    February 28, 2008 at 2:29 pm in reply to: RAF Henlow clear-out, what caused it? #1254151
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    All of the T2 hangars and the old “pickle” factory hangar No 194 were demolished around 1994 due to repair costs and health and safety concerns. I remember the work party from Lyneham coming to dismantle the Comet C.2. The flight deck and seating was as it was left on it’s arrival day in 1967 ?

    February 24, 2008 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Lancaster ED749 #1258840
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    ED749 joined 100 Squadron as FZ:B 12/5/43 to 28/6/43. It flew 41 ops with 100 Squadron and was re-coded frequently HW:S/K/J/B. It was flown by P/O Shaw alot and flew it’s last No 100 Squadron op on 14/6/44, It was coded BH:S at No 300 Squadron.(Lancaster Operations by Ian Reid ,an excellent source of info on No100 Squadron Lancaster’s)

    February 23, 2008 at 8:27 am in reply to: Dumped Airliners #1259854
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    DC-6B N8CA c/n 44102, C-47 XA-JIH,XB-RTC and XB-NAE.

    February 22, 2008 at 8:13 am in reply to: Hanover street mitchells #1260986
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    I was an Ops officer at Luton Airport and managed to get into the hangar at midnight . They had already been painted and the nose art done that evening(fast work !).

    February 22, 2008 at 8:02 am in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1260996
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    Everybody in England are struggling with high costs in mortgages,food and fuel plus ever increasing red tape. Companies are down sizing or relocating to India. I think TVOC are in cloud cuckoo land if they think they can raise this sort of cash each month.

    February 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm in reply to: BA 777 Emergency Landing Short of Runway at LHR #552528
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    I am appalled at the FOD(foreign object debris) found . The military have a strict FOD policy, why is this not being policed better at civilian level ?

    February 19, 2008 at 2:28 pm in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1264716
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    Please don’t rely on the BBC ,they could have publicized the first flight a lot lot better ,which may have got more world support.

    February 19, 2008 at 8:19 am in reply to: RAF Woolfox #1265149
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    It was, and the ground floor front office look’s to be a RAF Police guard room when the Bloodhound misssiles were there in the late fiftie’s. Tried to get permission to view but very odd farmer ! when i rang him a few years ago.

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