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February 28, 2004 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Post Raid Recce Pic – Ulm #1581351

Ant.H
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Hi kiethmac,
Interesting pic (and the others too). 🙂

“Diving intervention perhaps?”

Well you could perhaps say that diving intervention prevented the church from recieving a direct hit,but also it seems likely that the churchyard would’ve acted as a fire break,so the fires from the residential areas didn’t spread to the church.The large slates on major buildings like that were also much heavier,so it was less likely for them to be blown away by the blast of the bombs and therefore wouldn’t expose the roof timbers to the following incendiaries-it was the incendiaries and the fires they started which caused the most damage.

February 28, 2004 at 7:56 pm in reply to: DH Comet G-ACSS #1581428

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Thanks for the info folks,looks like i’ll have to wait another year to see her airborne.

“I love seeing old aeroplanes fly but this is one of a small number that is on my list of “should not be flown due to historic value”.

I sympathise with your point of view gbwez,but to my mind there isn’t too much weight to the argument in G-ACSS’ case.She was a bit of a basket case before she was restored,something like 80-90% of her was newly built.She has the original provenance of ‘SS ofcourse,but she’s not as historicly significant as some in terms of her components.You have to wonder whether anything would’ve been made of her remains if she hadn’t been restored to fly in the first place and the same could also be said for Black Magic.

February 27, 2004 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Latest Mod Aircraft Sale #1585595

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I’d heard some time ago that XE601 was time-expired,so if true she’d need a complete strip down and rebuild before she could fly again.Personally I’d prefer to see her stay on display at Boscombe.

February 27, 2004 at 8:41 pm in reply to: Kemble – 20 June – Guess What #1585818

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“Note the waves from the Carrier, seems to be doing a sharp turn to port after the accident, maybe back into the wind ?”

It could be that they were turning back onto thier original course after the SeaHawk landed.They would’ve turned the ship into wind for the aircraft’s landing.
It may also be that they wanted the wind to blow across the deck to try and carry any ensuing fire over the empty side of the deck rather than down the deck and/or towards the island and other superstructure on the starboard side.
Just my tuppence worth…nice pics btw 🙂

February 26, 2004 at 9:49 pm in reply to: ME262 update #1591931

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Good news,thanks Woody. 🙂 Best wishes to all involved.

February 26, 2004 at 9:16 pm in reply to: Music and Aircraft………. #1592014

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Speaking of ArkRoyal,there are some excellent pics which have just been posted on airliners.net of RN Phantoms,a Gannet and a Bucc operating from the Ark and HMS Heron (Yeovilton).

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?&specialsearch=military&maxres=500&nr_of_rows=500&first_this_page=15&page_limit=15&sort_order=photo_id+DESC&thumbnails=&engine_version=6.0&nr_pages=34&page=

February 25, 2004 at 11:18 pm in reply to: Beverley moving to Fort Paull #1601313

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I dunno what’s there at the moment,but there’ll be an enormous heap of desert camouflaged corroding magnesium to see there in a couple of years…
Of all the stupid bl*ody places to put an aeroplane.It’s even dafter than that Concorde sitting on a raft in NY…:rolleyes:

February 25, 2004 at 12:04 am in reply to: Late Marque Spitfire Exhausts… #1602297

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“All photos between 1989-1995.

Mark”

Ah,well in that case I’d guess the Spit show I saw her at was the ’96 rather than the ’98 one.

February 25, 2004 at 12:01 am in reply to: Celebrities and their machines #1602300

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Nope,the machine in the Great Escape movie was a Bucker Bestmann. 😉

February 24, 2004 at 11:59 pm in reply to: P-38's to be recovered in May 2005 #1602305

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Does the new recovery plan include the Forts?As I understood it,they were both badly twisted and crushed by the movement of the ice over the decades,thier large size meaning that the tail was caught up in one flow and the nose in another etc,pulling the machine apart.I can’t imagine there is much to be gained by recovering the B17’s.
The P38’s on the other hand seem to be a very tasty proposition.Good luck to all involved!

February 24, 2004 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Late Marque Spitfire Exhausts… #1602333

Ant.H
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Hi MarkV,
I believe AR501 had the three stack exhausts untill 1998.I remember seeing her on static display at the Spitfire show at Duxford that year with the 12-stub exhausts.IIRC,she had 12-stub exhausts during her time as an instructional airframe at Loughborough,but I’ve no idea when those might’ve been fitted.It’s possible she spent the last of her service flying days with them I suppose.

February 24, 2004 at 9:59 pm in reply to: air atlantique #1602585

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Absolutely wonderful news,thanks philo. 🙂 Am I alone in wanting the Meteor repainted in her silver/black/yellow target tug colours??

February 24, 2004 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Help save the Beverley #1602588

Ant.H
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Nothing yet Philo…

February 24, 2004 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Museum of Flight threat avoided #1602621

Ant.H
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I’ve never been to EF and I can’t see myself getting there anytime soon,but still i’m very happy to hear that they’ve dropped thier proposal.Excellent news! 🙂

February 24, 2004 at 12:07 am in reply to: Lancaster FM212 project update #1603641

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Great news Peter,thanks for the update :cool:.It’s great to hear that she’ll be going undercover once she’s down.
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