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  • August 10, 2009 at 1:38 am in reply to: Avro Lancaster KB882 Edmundston New Brunswick Canada #1159718
    RMAllnutt
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    Great to see her being preserved as a post-war RCAF Lanc… she looks beautiful! Hope they can get her inside sometime soon. Thanks for posting.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    August 7, 2009 at 8:58 pm in reply to: The Fighter collection latest container. #1160197
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    Not on most Seafires they don’t.

    You’re right… I was referring to Peter’s Mk22 comment. If it were a seafire wing of course, there’d be a second fold near the end as well, wouldn’t there? Or was that deleted on later mark seafires?

    Cheers,
    Richard

    August 7, 2009 at 3:53 pm in reply to: The Fighter collection latest container. #1160262
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    Are you sure they are not Spitfire 22? 😉

    Mark

    You old tease! Wings are way too short for a spit… as they go right to the fuselage, don’t they? Surely the outer wing panels from a sea fury.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    July 30, 2009 at 3:54 am in reply to: Forgotten Ordnance #1165022
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    I remember a childhood friend of mine finding some small mortar rounds in his garden in Datchet, just across from the Thames… seems an odd place for such things, but I distinctly remember seeing the damaged tail pieces sitting in his garage window back in the mid-seventies.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    July 28, 2009 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Post your Firefly pictures here. #1165875
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    It was totally destroyed, but, still in large easily recognisable sections. I remember standing and watching it being loaded on Grange Rd onto the RN low loader for the journey back to Yeovilton.. enough to make yer weep.!

    Thanks… very, very sad day that. Poor lads. I suppose the remains were scrapped then.

    Richard

    July 28, 2009 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Post your Firefly pictures here. #1165890
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    Not to be ghoulish, but does anything survive of the RNHF Firefly WB271?

    Richard

    June 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Spitfire Mk16 TD135 #1213818
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    I saw it at Geneseo, New York about 20 years ago. It was owned by Dr.Bill Anderson at the time, but he sold it on I believe, and I have no idea where it is now.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    June 8, 2009 at 5:52 am in reply to: Henry Allingham #1220041
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    Thanks for that… what an amazing chap. Happy birthday Henry Allingham, and many thanks indeed for your service.

    Richard

    June 3, 2009 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Prototype Survivors #1224733
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    Add to that the third prototype YF-111A at Amberley, she pre-dates the crew escape module and is fitted with ejection seats, as far as i am aware it is the only surviving Aardvark prototype

    The first prototype YF-111A (63-9766) survives at the Edwards Air Force Base Museum. The Chanute Air Museum in Rantoul, Illinois has the second YF-111A (63-9767). It was also the first to be flown by an Australian too. I had no idea the third prototype survived, or that it was in Australia either… excellent! Two of the prototype F-111B’s survive also, although only one is complete. The first FB-111A (67-0159) survives too. And finally, the prototype EF-111 survives at Mountain Home AFB. So… quite a few more prototype F-111’s than I had realized.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    June 3, 2009 at 12:49 am in reply to: Prototype Survivors #1225905
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    Howard Pardue’s XF8F-1 Bearcat
    NEAM’s XF4U-4 Corsair
    NASM’s XP-59A Airacomet, XP-80 Shooting Star, XH-44, XHOE-1, YH-19A, XR-4C
    Chanute Museum YP-84A, YF-15, YF-111A, YF-105B, YB-58A, XB-47

    A goodly chunk of XP-51G survives which is being restored, plus the complete XP-51 as already mentioned.

    Kermit Weeks has the prototype Hawker Tempest II

    There are a couple of YF-23’s out there, and the prototype YF-22’s too.

    More prototypes survive than you’d think, but it’s a shame that more were not kept. That story about the prototype DH Hornet is sucha a shame.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    June 2, 2009 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Comet at Lyneham no longer doomed….! #1226169
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    Here’s another thought… and it is a little far out in some respects due to the potential costs involved. However, the RCAF operated a couple of Comets at one time. The Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa has a cockpit section of one of them. Dismantled, the Comet might just fit into their storage hangar. I have no idea how interested they would be in having a Comet, but it is a thought at least.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    PS. Would a dismantled Comet fuselage fit into a C-17? The Canadian Air Force might be able to use the exercise as a major training opportunity.

    June 2, 2009 at 3:09 am in reply to: Comet at Lyneham no longer doomed….! #1227201
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    Would the Comet have a good home at the Museum of Flight in East Fortune? It is not exactly a large airframe, and could probably fit in the Concorde hangar… they’d make rather fitting bookends for British jet passenger aircraft, no? They could probably even get lottery funding, and there aren’t many airliners on display in Scotland either. In fact, I think the Concorde is the only jet airliner on display anywhere in Scotland at present.

    Just a thought.

    Richard

    May 23, 2009 at 3:44 pm in reply to: Piaggio P166 flying survivors #1162860
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    Wilson “Connie” Edwards has several P.166’s and P.136’s in storage at his ranch in Big Spring, Texas. You can see several of them in this thread from WIX…

    WIX Link

    Scroll down to the photos… there’s a lot of other rather “interesting” stuff there too… the whole thread bares reading.

    Piaggio really did make some beautiful aircraft, if somewhat unconventional.

    Cheers,
    Richard

    April 17, 2009 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Off-Topic > Cutty Sarks' "sister-Clipper" needs your help #1202354
    RMAllnutt
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    Just signed the petition myself… hope it works. Again, it seems that the news is not getting out. This boat needs to be saved…. seems like your work on the Lincoln is repeating itself Mark. Well done for making us aware of this ship’s plight.

    Richard

    April 17, 2009 at 4:43 am in reply to: Halifax Cockpit Project #1203786
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    Astonishingly beautiful work Cees… my hat is off to you! Many congratulations on your efforts!

    Cheers,
    Richard

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