bloodnoki seem to recall its everett aero.
bloodnokits funny to see the mention of malta , i’ve just got off the phone from an ex airforce friend of mine who’s father was in the navy on the malta convoys. after his death last year his diaries were found detailing one of his convoys, and they are now in the museum there. she mentioned that only last week his freedom of valetta certificate came through.
what i didn’t realise until she told me was his diaries were put up on the BBC website by a local legion member, and are now up for the nation to see.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/25/a4101625.shtml
bloodnokthose are the ones parked up at bentwaters.
bloodnoksorry to be picky, but is it just me, or is the fin not quite the right shape?
bloodnoka chap on another forum contacted the local MP, and as you can see his reply is looking quite favourable…..
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A reply from Timothy,
“Dear Mr Best,
The story is quite complicated, so please bear with me while I explain.
South Cambridgeshire District Council is preparing its Local Development Framework, which essentially sets the parameters for permitted development within South Cambridgeshire until 2021. The Council has produced a draft plan which was published last year. Objectors then had the right to propose further sites on which they which they thought building should be allowed. A Document including these “Objection Sites” was published in June. People had the opportunity to comment on the Objection Sites proposals until 28th July.
One of the Objection Sites was the area next to the M11 which Grosvenor Estates think would be a good place for a Motorway Service Area.
Many people have written in about these proposals. They can be viewed on the District Council’s website. I have ensured that the County Council has opposed the proposal, as have the parish councils of Duxford, Hinxton, Whittlesford and Ickleton. So has the Imperial War Museum, where I am on the Executive panel and I have registered my opposition in a personal capacity. All in all I count one person having supported the proposal and over 160 against.
In my view there is very little chance of the objection site being included in the Local Development Framework. Two previous proposals for this site have been rejected in the last 15 years, the latest in 2001 on appeal. It is now up to an Inspector to conduct an Examination in Public and his or her decision will be binding. I cannot see that any Inspector would want to overrule a predecessor, as all the previous points remain as valid today as they were then.
Even in the unlikely event of the Inspector agreeing that the site should be included in the Local Development Framework we are still a long way from a formal planning application. Any planning application coming forward would be subject to all the normal rules for such things, which would permit people once again to register their objections. At that stage the outcry would be even louder than this time.
I am quite sure that Andrew Lansley knows about this proposal, though I have not seen any written opposition from him. This is, after all, a District Council matter and there is little he can do at this stage in an official capacity.”
bloodnokwell its nice to see that when 1,350 die its not regarded as a ‘huge loss of life’ !
bloodnokemail addy for the loal MP if anyone fancies a chat with him
[email]timothy.stone@cambridgeshire.gov.uk[/email]
bloodnokYeah, but… is possible this landing? (chute and air brakes deployed on air). Perhaps the photo is also “photoshopped” . I think the plane was in fact on the ground and added to other photo on air. But… just an opinion.
whilst stationed at RAF Valley we had a load of jordanian mirage F1s come in, these deployed their brake chutes in the air, and kind of flopped onto the runway. at first we all thought they’d got it wrong, but over the course of the week it seems that it was standard practice.
bloodnokOn another forum, someone posted this. I hope thye dont mind me posting it. It made me laugh, and cry at the same time:
A major new Hollywood film…
DAM BUSTERS II or WHO YOU GONNA BOMB?
Hollywood’s authentic story of the Six-Seventeenth Eagle Bomb Squadron Of the Royal British Air Corps.
THE INTRO….
It is 1941. Hitler has invaded Europe and England alone fights back Aided by a handful of international volunteers, including GI Gibson (Tom Cruise)an American pilot who had already had a key role in winning the Battle Of Britain.
Intelligence has identified that the destruction of a giant dam in central Germany is the key to Allied victory.
THE FIRST RAID….
A raid on the dam by the British Lan-Casters of the 6-17th is ordered, to be led by its war-weary cockney CO (Michael Caine). The crews are filmed boarding the Confederate Air Force’s Liberator.
A background of sun-drenched Texan prairie substitutes for Scamppington
Air Force Base and the East Anglian Fens in January.
Colour-enhanced black and white library shots are then used for the Raid – DC-6 engine start, taxiing Halifaxes, Spitfire mass take-off, formation of B24s, Lan-caster at night, bombs dropping from a Mitchell, a B-17 and Focke-Wulf Condor being shot down, the FAA’s Boeing 707 crashing in flames.
As with all US aviation films since the invention of “talkies”, the aircraft soundtrack consists only of the roar of Pratt & Whitney radial engines, specially recorded during a Harvard mass flypast at the annual Oshkosh air show.
But the raid is a failure, and only GI and his crew survive to try again. Danny De Vito plays the part of the bomb aimer.
THE WEAPON….
After the disastrous first dam raid, it is obvious a new type of weapon Is needed. By chance Barn S. Wallace (Morgan Freeman), the leading US scientist And aviation expert, is in London explaining his invention of the jet engine to an unknown British engineer, Frank V. Tel.
Thinking back to his childhood, Barn remembers skimming rocks across a Lake in native New Hampshire, and quickly comes up with a design for a Bouncing bomb – but it is too large for any British aircraft to carry.
THE AIRCRAFT….
Fortunately, Wallace has brought with him to England the only example of his latest bomber design, the B-29. Cut to the CAF’s B-29, painted gloss caramel and vivid green with French roundels, being pulled from its Hangar at Midland, TX, so that GI and his crew can test fly the new bouncing munition over the neighbouring Scotland, and prepare for the raid.
THE RAID….
Shots of Cruise and gang boarding the B-29, plus take-off shots over The American Midwest. Then computer-generated images for outbound flight, the final – and successful – bombing run using the last remaining weapon on board, and the dogfights on the return leg.
Throughout, the standard CGI conventions are used. All WW2 single-seat fighters fly at a minimum Mach 0.9 in +7g manoeuvres, while any multi-engine aeroplane drones along straight and level at 130 kt.
THE COMMAND CENTER….
In a map-encrusted bunker, Barn waits tensely for the results of the raid.
Although the news is of success, he starts to become saddened by the loss of aircrew involved. But, just at that moment, a well-spoken Home Counties WAAF officer (Catherine Zeta Jones) in a starched Virginia McKenna military blouse appears, bearing a tray of Starbucks mugs.
She utters that immortal line – “Cocoa Latte, Sir?” – and all is well.
Information comes in that the flooding from the broken dam has flooded Hitler’s bunker (clip fromChaplin as the Great Dictator), thwarting the launch of a new V3 rocket aimed at the Summit Conference being held in buckingham Palace, London, England.
The water also slows the Russian advance, allowing Patton (Harrison
Ford) to capture Berlin and Eastern Germany for the Allies.
THE LANDFALL….
Meanwhile, with three engines blazing and feathered, Gibson and the surviving crew nurse the crippled B-29 back across the Channel.
They just manage to climb over the White Cliffs of Dover to see in the Near distance the welcoming runway lights of their Lincolnshire airfield.
Having studied brain surgery before joining up, the B-29’s chirpy Australian assistant cook (Kylie Minogue) saves the lives of injured crew members as the bomber belly-lands onto its home base. It slides to a halt a few Feet from the control tower, where Winston Churchill (Dan Ackroyd) watches proudly.
Also in the scene, in a technology enhancement, is Ronnie Reagan on his horse Trigger.
THE FINALE….
GI stands framed by the blazing wreckage of a redundant Fokker Friendship airliner bought especially for this scene.
Since a wholesome happy ending is mandatory in today’s commercial cinema, in a final shot he is joined by “Native-African-American”, his loyal dog. Despite the pair of Artificial legs and prosthetic tail fitted after being injured in three major road accidents on the Great North Road during his master’s absence, the Labrador bounds joyfully into the sunset with some dame called Vera Lynn singing about the White Cliffs.
bloodnok1. 1/24 focke wulf 190 (was so much better than some of the other 1/24 kits when it came out)
2. DH 88 comet racer. very old kit, with no details.
3. ME109 seemed to have made quite a few of these!
bloodnokPerhaps you’re right Lancman. Perhaps that’s not been accounted for, and everyone has overlooked that fact.
You really are a special person. Ashley starts a new thread, asking for the sniping etc to be left behind, there appears to be good news on the horizon, and you feel the need to bring up a completely irrelevant fact regarding the undercarriage, as if it was some sort of sordid shameful secret, that will bring the project back to it’s knees. Well done.
lancman brought up a very relevant point,in what else isn’t finished.
i have first hand experience in working on large,long term ‘dead’ aircraft, and then bringing them back up to airworthy status.
i know full well that many times when the customers rep is due to make a visit, a bit of visible progress is needed, and large bits are bolted on, or panels are temp fitted.
perhaps the vulcan has had the same done, just for the roll out.
the hard part comes when everything is going back together, final fit, and the functions side of things can take an age on old aircraft, with components that have previously been servicable just breaking because they’ve been sat for a while.
its not out of the trees yet, and i hope they’ve bugeted for snags during the rebuild stage, and don’t just expect it to go back together and work first time.
i’m a great fan of this project, and hope that it does get back in the sky, but knowing a few of the people involved in the project, i know that getting the aircraft rolling out of the hangar is the easy part, there’s still quite a mountain to climb.
bloodnokthings seem to have generally tailed off over the last few years. having grown up (and still having parents living there) directly in the flightpath of fairwood, there’s been a noticeable derease in traffic.
you used to get quite a lot of biz jets popping in, a lot of military traffic (mostly hawks and C-130’s)using the circuit, plus lots of general aviation, but these days its only the odd biz jet, not much in the way of military stuff, and the general aviation is a lot smaller than it used to be.
its a far cry from its hey day in the 70’s when you had dan air heralds and viscounts in and out all the time, there used to be a beautiful red beech staggerwing based there, as well as a havard. the gliding school was up every weekend, there was a big parachute school there, and it even used to have a great airshow there. (i still remember seeing a vulcan doing touch and goes there one airshow.)
bloodnoki have to admit i have a strong disliking for this kind of ‘documentory’.
they spend 2 hours telling you if you look at certain facts a different way, this or that MAY have happened.
unless any startling NEW facts have been unearthed, then its just a question of interpretation.
this isn’t a dig at the bader documentory in particular, but all the programs that are like it.
bloodnokWhy do so called historians who weren’t even born at the time keep trying to question our military acievements? Maybe they think it sell more books!
i don’t think they are trying to question the achievments, but perhaps be a bit more objective.
a lot of contempory accounts were very biased and hardly objective, and a lot of susequent accounts/books have been lazy and used previous accounts as references.
perhaps these modern historians are just trying to be a bit more objective and step back and look at the battle of britain in the context of what it did to stop the invasion.
there are lots of incidences where historic events are interpreted quite differently when looked at with all the facts, and the objectivity of time. quite often upsetting the enthusiasts who think they know so much.
bloodnokI am a little confused about the two posts above. Both of which originate from the same IP address as the one immediately above them.
It is in no way detrimental to Marshalls to point out that they have had a nice little contract for as long as the lottery money lasted, delivering, I am sure, their usual level of exemplary engineering excellence.
Now the money has come to an end it is of no consequence to them that the aircraft will never fly, though doubtless they wouldn’t have wished it so.
Yes I have been involved in arranging sponsorship deals in the past, but life is too short to take on all the hopeful (and hopeless) cases who wander along with ill thought out proposals for gifts of money dressed up as commercial sponsorship.
Moggy
i don’t think having unsubstansiated digs at one of the main contractors involved in the project is very helpful at all…… or are you party to to the full terms of the contract?
for all you know mashalls may have been doing it at a cut price rate, or even at cost.
why just a dig at marshalls and no other contractor?… or is it that they are relatively local to you, so its ok to have a dig?
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