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April 7, 2021 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Cockpit section insurance? #764613

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Well I have yet to sort out the insurance side of it, but I have my cockpit!

I have manage to save the cockpit of Adam RA.14 Loisirs F-PFUG.

Already made a start on restoration, but having to fit it around work, which is easier said than done when stored at work, but I won’t do stuff whilst “on the clock”.

Long way to go but I have no timescale as such.

Now to source some appropriate French instruments in due course.

March 25, 2021 at 9:47 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2021 #764778

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Legitimate business flights are permitted too.

We’ve had our fair share of post maintenance, engine health, maintenance positioning flights, commercial training and the odd business flights at work.

March 23, 2021 at 10:26 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #764805

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Incredible how many small parts it takes to make up just the section you are doing at the moment.
Top work as ever.

March 16, 2021 at 9:41 am in reply to: How the mighty has fallen (Quiet) #764861

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Sadly depressing isn’t it?

Something I heard a few years back which sadly strikes all too true…
“If manners and common sense were an App – everyone would have and use it”

March 5, 2021 at 9:50 am in reply to: General Discussion #220216

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I try to follow it whilst at work (BBC Sport updates mostly) and miffed I am missing the return of cricket to terrestrial TV.
What I have caught (no pun intended) has indeed been an uninspiring England team and, as you say, incredibly low run totals and short matches.
Here’s hoping I can at least catch some on TV sometime soon.

March 1, 2021 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Wings Over Wairarapa 2021 – NZ's first show of the season #764981

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Great set of photos and quite a varied line up too by the look of it.
As said PropStrike and Sopwith have said, lucky to get your tickets swapped and how unfortunate for the organisers to loose the Sunday.
Thanks for sharing them.

February 26, 2021 at 9:38 am in reply to: Parnall Imp – where? #765012

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Loving this thread.
It is just the sort of thing the forum used to be all about.

February 26, 2021 at 9:32 am in reply to: Spotted 2021 #765013

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It was Midland Aeroplane Company that lined them up. Two were based and one had finished maintenance with the other being a crew ferry.
I agree the Red/white/grey scheme would be a nice AEF memory.
One of the based ones – away at Duxford for annual at the moment – is one I flew at 5 AEF (Cambridge) which was my squadron’s allocated AEF.

February 26, 2021 at 9:08 am in reply to: Spotted 2021 #765015

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We had 2-LOUD one of the ex-AAC Allouettes fly past work yesterday.

(Okay a bit of a cheat I know as I work on an airfield, but we had Tiger Moth ‘DIA in for fuel and a line up of 4 chipmunks on the ramp before two flew off home)

February 24, 2021 at 9:47 am in reply to: Little "Eastern" Biplane for You to Name #765041

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Doesn’t look overly substantial, even for a homebuilt. Almost model like.

I think it could be a Yak-52 in the background and the “red thing” is possibly a Letov ultralight design.

February 21, 2021 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Melvyn Hiscock #765068

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I only met him a couple of times, and as folks have said before, he was a lovely chap. I used to love following the rebuilt and his other posting on here.
Blue Skies Melv, and thank you.

February 21, 2021 at 11:58 am in reply to: How the mighty has fallen (Quiet) #765069

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I am 50 later this year, and been into aviation all my life with 23 years of aircraft marshalling experience (from gyros to C-17) and very lucky to work running a vibrant (COVID restrictions apart) GA airfield with a range of types based and visiting.
My interest is mostly vintage and classic types of the GA variety, but not exclusively.
Been on here for almost 17 years now, but that is due to not really finding it until then.
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February 18, 2021 at 3:16 pm in reply to: General Discussion #220223

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Oh dear, he’s been watching films again…

Just the one today, Sabotage (2014).

Starring:  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard

Plot: (From IMDB.com)
“Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.”

Right, I saw a trailer on a streaming platform and thought it looks quite interesting, so gave it a whirl. Not a bad film, but then not brilliant either. Extremely graphic in parts (just to warn those not happy to see such things), the film builds from the opening sequence with the successful raid and then continues into the group being killed off one by one. The camera work was deliberately shakey, which at times was off putting and not really necessary and I felt a distraction. It was annoying how when on raids the team could dispatch one of the “bad guys” with a double tap, plasterboard walls were shot through and various things destroyed and yet in the chase at the end the bullets seemed to make hardly any impact on anything and the team’s aim became shockingly bad even allowing for them swinging around in moving vehicles.

It was watchable, but not going to rush to watch it again that is for sure.

Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1911925273?playlistId=tt1742334&ref_=tt_ov…

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February 15, 2021 at 2:46 pm in reply to: General Discussion #220224

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And then a third (This lockdown has at least given me time to watch some films and TV for a change).

Ghosts of War. (2020)

Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Kyle Gallner, Alan Ritchson

Plot: (From IMDB.com)

“Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.”

Okay, the plot as described did not necessarily fill me with much hope, but I wanted to watch a film I hadn’t seen before and this piqued enough interest for me to give it a whirl. I am quite glad I did to be honest.
The film seems a little odd in it’s beginning but, stick with it. Again another of those films that sometimes the blurb doesn’t do it justice, and certainly no hint at the twist at the end which was brilliantly done and certainly not expected.
Again contains graphic images of injuries as is the norm these days.

Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3139681817?playlistId=tt6508228&ref_=tt_ov…

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February 15, 2021 at 2:36 pm in reply to: General Discussion #220226

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The other film I watched was; 1944 [Although listed on the platform as “Forced to Fight 1944“] (2015) having a bit of a “thing” on “YouTube” regarding detecting and discovering WW2 relics in Europe, and the battles on the Eastern Front, I thought I would give this a go.

Starring:  Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla, Maiken Pius

Plot: (From IMDB.com)

“In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.”

It is a non-english language film but there were subtitles available.

A piece of Eastern Front history that I was unaware of regarding Estonia, it was a good film that gave due creedence to both sides and their feelings about the war at this stage and their involvement in it, with both sides given around the same screen time. Another good film and time I didn’t that I had wasted by watching. A worthy watch of a modern war film.

Has the now usual graphic nature of the injuries sustained by the soldiers, so those who don’t like such images, just be warned.

Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2229582105?playlistId=tt3213684&ref_=tt_ov…

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