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July 10, 2015 at 5:48 am in reply to: Coast BBC2 – Tonight #865634

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Anyone else notice Mike Lithgow’s Swift among the clips….not mentioned though.

June 8, 2015 at 3:37 pm in reply to: Lost Javelin #893607

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….And I wonder if anyone will ever find the one that crashed into the Bristol Channel during the flight trials…..

June 5, 2015 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Local air museum to close #895645

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David Burke….sent you e mail….

June 3, 2015 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Local air museum to close #896822

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No Cobra or H-21 thenZRX?!

May 21, 2015 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Steve Hague #906336

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Having witnessed Steve chairing many a BAPC meeting with wit and drive,like XH558 he will be impossible to replace…even if he was always rude about helicopters !

May 17, 2015 at 9:14 am in reply to: Retirement of CH-46 #909678

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None operating outside the U.S. now with the military but Marines due to retire their last few later this year. Columbia and the US State Dept believed to still be operating them in Afghanistan on support missions and Columbia have a fleet of ex US commercial and Swedish 107 s on logging,firefighting and similar heavy lift work.

May 12, 2015 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #913195

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I do agree with the comment about the AAM building. That’s what happens when you commision an “iconic” architectural masterpiece…..very expensive,totally out of place and thoroughly impractical! Norman Foster wasn’t it? I remember him visiting another aviation museum and offering to design a building…..cost then 20 years ago…£8 million. The museum said No and built a practical and larger building for less than half million which has served it we’ll ever since.

May 1, 2015 at 6:04 pm in reply to: STUNNED… there is an Airacobra sitting in a Russian Scrap yard #921570

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I visited the Khodynka collection in the early 1990s. The aircraft were distinctly unairworthy then…and they bulldozed their Mil Mi-6 on site…the bas#ards!

May 1, 2015 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Helicopter museum update ongoing……. #921588

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Thanks Stratosphere….fill in a Trip Advisor report for us would you? It would be nice to trump the Grand Pier!
J.Boyle…there are lots of helicopters we would like but we have to be realistic regarding undercover space. An H-34 would be nice but a Huskie would be nicer due to the unique technology. And we keep looking out for an H-21 too,if you happen to trip over one somewhere…oh and a Mil Mi-6 or Mi-26 then I could live on site!
We would also love a Cobra but the US government is impossible to deal with. We’ve just wasted six months chasing an OH-58 that was in the UK on loan to Shrivenham Defence College before being allocated for scrap.Despite pleas to the authorities in Washington etc to buy it if it couldn’t be loaned or donated and filling in and sending various forms at the Army’s request they eventually just went ahead and scrapped it without even advising us of the outcome. So we didn’t even get a chance to bid.

May 1, 2015 at 5:43 pm in reply to: RAF Colerne #921596

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I recall visiting Colerne in the mid fifties…Hastings,Brigands and my first ever flight..in an old Anson.(VM341) in 1956.also visited in Nov 1957 and flew in even older PH624 when I also noted Canberra WH874, various Chipmunks ,Meteors,Hastings,Shackleton and a Lincoln. Years later I photod some of the Colerne museum collection out to grass…especially recall the Avro 707 dismantled near the fence. At least they were later saved.

April 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Helicopter museum update ongoing……. #925305

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QH-50D now on display with blades on and restoration of control tower block also under way,with fencing of additional land following lease signing at beginning of April. Once fully fenced plan to relocate Westland 30 gate guardian there but meanwhile gearing up for big SciFi Stars of Time event this Saturday. Come and see Caroline Munro(ex Bond girl), Jack Sparrow double and other attractions…oh and a few helicopters too!

March 30, 2015 at 7:18 pm in reply to: Helicopter Tail Codes (Especially On Westland Wessex's) #865083

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And both Air Britain and ” Fleet Air arm Helicopters since 1943″ are excellent value for money….real devotion to aviation history by volunteers that deserves to be rewarded…BUY THE BOOK!!

March 25, 2015 at 6:23 pm in reply to: The Helicopter Museum update #869943

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RN decorated Helicopter pilot Jerry Grayson visiting us from his home in Australia this Sunday…signing copies of his book” Recue Pilot”. Took part in the Fastnet Yacht rescues and was film pilot for Treasure Hunt series with Anneka Rice ,Black Hawk Down and James Bond movies.
Should be an interesting day.

March 25, 2015 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Classic Flight Announce Newquay Closure #869954

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Three big empty hangars at Weston super Mare and a fourth with open space could be too. On the basis that the collection would create employment ..a prime requirement here and would boost tourism ,might be worth a punt?

March 21, 2015 at 6:46 pm in reply to: Hart Hind Bulldog Wapiti Atlas Siskin Hurricane & others steel testing #874385

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A very interesting topic. We have a Cierva C30A frame at the Helicopter Museum which some are keen to restore but which has quite a lot of corrosion etc. I wonder what type of iron that is made of.I assume it didn’t need the strength and format to withstand the same stresses as a Demon etc but the C30s were built by Avro so …..
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