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  • in reply to: Brookland piccies part 2 #1825123
    Ant.H
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    Hi Steve,
    First and foremost,welcome aboard! 🙂
    Glad to hear the Vanguard is still being run,I’ve yet to see her in action.I’d be grateful if you’d post the engine-run/taxi dates as Brooklands is on my list of ‘must see’ museums this year and it would be great to see the Vanguard run.
    Just out of interest,what will the aircraft’s movement over to the car park mean-will she still be as regularly run over there?

    Cool pics Andrew,thnaks for sharing.:cool:

    in reply to: Skyraider Has Departed #1825307
    Ant.H
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    I believe the P38 that TFC allegedly purchased is now up for sale again,so it looks unlikely that it will ever cross the pond.Needless to say I hope I’m wrong.

    “Most of all I want to see everything fly away that flew in.”

    I’ll second Snapper’s comments.

    in reply to: Kb976 #1825312
    Ant.H
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    “FireflyAS.6 Strathallan 1977”

    Which one was this and what’s become of it??

    in reply to: Hendon Sunday #1825313
    Ant.H
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    Curses here too!! I’d be up for it any other time,but I’m going to be away up north over this coming weekend. 🙁

    in reply to: Heads Up Tv Prog #1825314
    Ant.H
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    Ah yes,I’d forgotten about the Hunter.Don’t think he enjoyed that too much though. 😀

    in reply to: Heads Up Tv Prog #1825369
    Ant.H
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    Don’t forget JC has also had a trip around the pylons at Reno in the back seat of a P51…

    in reply to: Skyraider Has Departed #1825378
    Ant.H
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    I know it’s a bit ‘lighter’ than most of the stuff that usually appears at Legends,but it would be nice to see the Friedkin’s Grumman J2F Duck amphibious floatplane. 🙂

    in reply to: Heads Up Tv Prog #1825380
    Ant.H
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    “Yes,Mogs but you wouldn’t turn down a chance to go “hands on” like Clarkson did!! Ungrateful t****r! “

    :confused:

    If you mean his F15 ride,I think he did take the controls for a bit.He performed a couple of rolls atleast IIRC.

    in reply to: Horten program C4 (2004 Zombie) #1825382
    Ant.H
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    I believe the NASM’s Horten IX is missing it’s outer wings, which is probably one reason why it’s not been placed on public display sooner.

    in reply to: Hendon Pub. Did we reach a consensus? #1825513
    Ant.H
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    I think the general consensus was that eating something out of the gutter outside the museum was better than eating in it! 😀

    in reply to: Shorts Belfast #1825515
    Ant.H
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    “All things considered though it is Junk and it would be better served a the local pub in a can.”

    Unfortunately the RAF agreed with your point of view at the end of the ’70’s and sold them off to commercial operators.As a demonstration of how wrong they were,they were leasing the aircraft back from these commercial operators just a few months later when various odd-sized bits of equipment needed flying down to the south Atlantic when the Falklands war broke out!! Doh! :rolleyes:

    in reply to: Shorts Belfast #1825539
    Ant.H
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    Wrenchbender,
    The Belfast was a very good aircraft which could carry (and still carries) a very useful payload.Sadly,only ten were ever built so Shorts never went to the trouble of building jigs for everything and alot of bits were built by hand.This made each aircraft unique,so that one set of cowlings wouldn’t fit another aircraft etc,so I can understand why the mechanics thought it was a pig.
    So,in response to your criticism,it’s a good aircraft in every respect except for the problems with interchanging of parts.

    in reply to: Fairey Rotodyne #1825540
    Ant.H
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    I believe Airfix re-issued thier Rotodyne kit a couple of years ago,so it might not be too hard to get hold of.

    in reply to: Supermarine Graveyards #1825621
    Ant.H
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    On the subject of Spitfires landing on carriers,there were a relatively small number of Mk.V’s which were fitted with arrester hooks,but didn’t have the folding wings.They were used by the FAA to train future Seafire pilots.
    One of these,BL628,survives today in Australia and is currently under restoration to airworthy condition in stock Mk.V configuration.

    in reply to: Brooklands Air/Motor Museum — Lots of pics. #1825641
    Ant.H
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    Lovely pics Andrew,thanks for sharing.I like the Wellington shots particularly.:cool:
    Did you get any shots of the Vanguard/Merchantman by any chance?I caught a fleeting glimpse of it through the trees from a train a few weeks ago and she looked to be in good shape-any ideas how often they do engine runs??

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