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March 22, 2010 at 1:59 am in reply to: Air Power Radio – Aviation show #1141502

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Beaufighter book author on this week

Just a quick update for everyone this week on Air Power Radio we have CAF coming on to talk further on the B29 FiFi restoration as well as their flying B24 Liberator. We also have Guy Wainman author of “Astonishing Luck” coming on to talk about his fathers amazing life story flying bush planes to Beaufighters for RCAF 404 Squadron.

The live show airs on Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 10am EST. and will be available after in the show archive. Visit http://www.airpowerradio.com and click the listen now link to go to the radio show. Also you can enter our online draw for a chance to win a copy of “Astonishing Luck”

January 1, 2010 at 1:58 am in reply to: RBL Replica Spitfire #1094938

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Knowing the author of the document and a few members of the team that put the RBL spit together it really disgusted me when I heard from them the other day about what was going on. If the purpose of the legion is not to promote remembrance of the sacrifice of those who fought then what the hell is it? When they are talking about doing away with the legion halls though you know you have a board of idiots at the helm. It is the end of the year when are the public nominations for your legion board and kick them the hell outta there.

I just hope the guys can purchase the spit for a reasonable price so they can continue to go out and do the work that it was built to do.

July 17, 2009 at 4:04 am in reply to: T-33 down #1177286

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another link with photo
http://photos.trentonian.ca/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=24675631&event=797244&CategoryID=29954

June 17, 2009 at 5:15 am in reply to: My two fave things – Spitfire and beer – all combined! #1211110

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The one veteran that comes visiting each year from the Aleutian islands campaign said he did a flight once with the drop tank fitted on his hurricane filled full of booze. Almost his first and last when it gasped for fuel on final. For the most part though the ground crew consumed the alchol from the instruments as that area was under a complete alchol ban during the war.

June 7, 2009 at 10:43 pm in reply to: 109 (minor) prang in Canada… #1220140

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Just to add a tid bit if the obstructions to the runway were valid the poles would have been painted red and white and been illuminated as per transport canada spec. The only thing now is to see what comes out of this legally with the said owner of the 2 poles. I hope Transport Canada charges him and sets a precedent so that future morons can not endanger aircrew and aircraft in such a manner again. A couple years ago another idiot in Ontario did a similar stunt by building a concrete silo at the end of a private field; was ordered to remove it by transport canada and the municipality. No incident came about but the municipality did have the stones to quickly come in and dynamite the silo – sending the owner the bill for removal.

June 7, 2009 at 2:29 am in reply to: 109 (minor) prang in Canada… #1221354

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Just got back from the Russell group show and apparently the adjacent land owner is actually a pilot so there is definitely criminal intent being he would be aware of the danger this posed. And no the poles are not off to the side they are directly in front of the end of the grass strip; one wooden hydro pole and the other was a metal flag pole with an additional solid rod attached to the top (this one is bent right over by the impact with the 109). A miracle that plane and pilot came away from this.

June 6, 2009 at 3:31 am in reply to: 109 (minor) prang in Canada… #1222408

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That is terrible news that it had to come to this because of one landowners stupidity. I am just glad to see that the pilot and plane both survived. I hope transport Canada hangs the son of a ****h who put the poles up – better yet use his pole and hang him from it.

May 17, 2009 at 1:48 am in reply to: British WW2 Full Size Replicas, Where Are They? #1168719

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I think 1.5M is a little to conservative being that would be the cost to build the necessary jigs and tooling to start off with. For 3 aircraft of aluminum build the price tag would likely be closer to 3M USD each.

February 10, 2009 at 2:09 am in reply to: Seafire video – WOW!!! #1211418

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Great video, was just looking through the other ones on Jim Smith’s collection and saw the MONTANAIR Mustang. Does anyone have any info on this 80% scale P51 especially the twin v6 setup used on it?

Cheers

January 7, 2009 at 11:32 pm in reply to: Orillia Kid info required #1169863

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Yes I think you are right I was talking to his wife and he did have a personal aircraft that was not TB752 that she recalls. If she can find his log books we are going to have a look through and see if we can find anything. I am intrigued to see if his plane is still flying.

January 7, 2009 at 1:45 pm in reply to: Orillia Kid info required #1170227

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Zwitter that is great thank you for the link. Do you know if the plane in the picture on the link is TB752?

Amazingly Orillia has quite a large number of RCAF and RAF spitfire pilots, a few are fortunately still with us.
One other I would like more info on is RAF pilot George Clegg.

Thank You

Flying Officer Frederick W Town (destroyed an He111 with TB752)

more here:
http://www.spitfire.memorial.museum/pilots.htm

January 7, 2009 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Orillia Kid info required #1170336

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According to Freds wife (he passed a few years ago) they found his spitfire several years ago in a scrap yard or something and it has since been restored. She did not have any further info on her husbands plane other than when it was found it had “Orillia Kid” painted on it. I would like to find some more information for her on the plane and a picture would be amazing if in fact 752 is the aircraft.

Cheers
J

January 6, 2009 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Cutting Aluminium Sheeting #1171169

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The best thing to cut that thickness of aluminum with is a hand router with a straight highspeed bit. Turn the router rpm up fairly high and clamp a wooden guide offset to the line you want to cut and then just move it smoothly along the guide until your piece is cut. I did this at first before we got our cnc router table and it makes for a very nice cut. The main difference between the cnc and this is that you are the one controlling the router. All the other methods mentioned short of using a metal shear will produce a rougher cut and require a lot more finishing to get a good clean cut line. Note: you will need at least a 2hp router.

Just thought this might help as we have done a fair amount of this building our spit.

January 6, 2009 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Orillia Kid info required #1171176

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I am not sure but this is a starting point, I may have got the name wrong also I believe it is Fred Townes who is the pilot. Too many names to try and remember these days. Is there a database anywhere of 403sq pilots that I can search out to get any more info?

January 6, 2009 at 2:56 am in reply to: Hucclecote/Brockworth defence fighters? #1171783

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It wouldn’t surprise me that there was some truth in this story of planes with no ammo. I know a fellow who flew st.lawrence anti sub patrols early in the war and the hurricanes were never armed on these patrols. If a u boat was spotted they would have to return to base to be armed. He said by the time they ever got to where the uboat was spotted it was all over the RCN had already depth charged the hell outta the spot.
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