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August 28, 2005 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Top (British) Aircraft Designer #1422785

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Sir Sydney has to be the top of my list, Hind to Harrier what a great man!
The others would be De Havilland, RJ Mitchell, Chadwick, Sopwith.

August 28, 2005 at 7:51 pm in reply to: TV Head's up #1422788

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Great, I’ll give it a look.

August 25, 2005 at 10:50 am in reply to: Rules is rules.. #1428652

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I received the same email this morning. Apparently there are proposals to have a building or something else named after Mr Doe.

August 25, 2005 at 12:19 am in reply to: Rules is rules.. #1429108

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Couldn’t resist forwarding bits of this string to Richard Littlejohn at The Sun.

Response within five minutes “Bloody typical. RL.”

Watch this space as they say!

Nice one, let’s hope it gets a bit of press then!

August 24, 2005 at 6:28 pm in reply to: This could easily be "somewhere in France, 1940" #1429494

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Fantastic shot, shame we won’t have our resident 109E staying in the UK. 🙁

August 24, 2005 at 11:17 am in reply to: Airspace #1430101

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The AAM is hardly in the historical context of Duxford either but it’s a nice place. The major lesson learned from Sir Norman is that you need to be able to chop and change things without incurring serious bills for removing pieces from the building to do so! The same mistake is not about to be repeated on Airspace.

A shrine to British aviation achievements has been long overdue, and if airspace fills that void then that’s fine by me.
Duxford is a historic place and the vast majority of the place still remains so, but you are not going to fit the entire collection in the exsisting Belfast hangars. Would you rather the outside aircraft such as the Concorde and Vulcan rot away like the Shackleton then? I understand that the Shack is being bought in for restoration once the building is complete, a real positive for having the work done.

August 23, 2005 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Rules is rules.. #1430491

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Good man!

Any more gonna rock the boat and fire off an email, or are we gonna just argue about what the BBMF should wear and whether a Canberra should join the flight? :dev2:

August 23, 2005 at 9:19 pm in reply to: Rules is rules.. #1430715

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I sent a very strongly worded email to [email]info@crowboroughtc.co.uk[/email]
No doubt they’ll just ignore it, but it’s worth a try! :rolleyes:

August 19, 2005 at 10:59 am in reply to: Heads-up for Warthog fans #1340350

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we could be seeing quite a bit of Apache activity in the near future. 🙂

I’m in Claydon, and we’re already seeing quite a few of them around here. I was lucky enough to have a hangar tour a couple of weeks back, and there were nine of them in there. The Wattisham Apache unit goes into overdrive from November.

Back on track, I do feel that the A-10 is the last of the “real” aeroplanes, triple redundant flight control system, two hydraulic and then you’re down to good ole’fashoned pulleys and cables!
How popular is it? Well when asked what they would like to fly, 77% of USAF Academy student pilots said they’d prefer the A-10 over anything else!

August 19, 2005 at 10:41 am in reply to: Fatal Crash Tiger Moth G-ACDJ #1340361

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That’s awful news. Condolences to the familes and friends of both. 🙁

August 18, 2005 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Heads-up for Warthog fans #1341179

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Some of us can get REAL close to them…. Spent an enjoyable time escorting Public Affairs within 200ft of runway edge for departure of A-10’s & F-16’s today… Sitting in the sun watching planes close up & getting paid for it…God I hate this job!!!!

Lucky sod! 😉

August 18, 2005 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Heads-up for Warthog fans #1341388

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Indeed they are missed. I grew up in Suffolk and the A-10’s were a big part of my childhood, hardly a day would pass where you didn’t see them whistling along right down on the deck (well the 250ft NATO limit anyway! 😀 ). Sadly I didn’t make it over to Lakenheath yesterday, too busy decorating the living room! 🙁

August 15, 2005 at 7:10 pm in reply to: My Grandad's Old Finningley Photos #1344256

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Nice pics. It’s certainly 1980 or before, as the Red Arrows are still equipped with the Folland Gnat. I think I’m right in saying that the team converted to the Hawk in the winter of 1980/81.

August 14, 2005 at 1:21 am in reply to: I'm happy #1345429

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Nice one, flying open cockpit is a great experience. I was given a flight in a Stearman a while back and loved it! 😎

August 14, 2005 at 1:14 am in reply to: Sea Fury Data Required #1345466

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Are you one half of the David Hanvey / Paul Barry duo responsible for the existing freeware FS9 Sea Fury?
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