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  • in reply to: Flying DC6 #1266848
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    Lelystad: Arrival/Departure times?

    Hello,

    According to http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=74137 DC-6 G-APSA will be flying to the Hamburg Airshow together with G-AMPY, the Anson, DC-2 and another two Dakotas.

    Is DC-3 G-AMPY the only Air Atlantique/Classic Flight aircraft that will land at Lelystad this week? Or will the DC-6 and Anson also make a (return)visit to this airfield?
    If so, any ETAs/ETDs known for both propliners?

    Many thanks in advance for all information given!

    in reply to: Saab Tunnan #1293426
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    Grounded again?

    Oh dear…

    Dutchmen take note! Last year both the Tunnan and the Vampire trainer staged through Leeuwarden Air Base for a fuel stop! Perhaps this time as well?

    Stratofreighter
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    See http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=73497 for more information on participants for this German airshow. You won’t see many events with a VFW 614 and Hansajet in attendance! Not to speak of the many propliners…

    in reply to: Hamburg Air Show participants list #1293966
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    The VFW 614 will be D-ADAM, the last remaining flying example, in service with the German Aerospace Centre DLR.

    I think the HFB 320 HansaJet will be a static example, one that will have to roaded in though…
    See http://www.hansajet.de/indexeng.htm for a very interesting project to bring one back to airworthiness, in her birthplace Hamburg no less! They already have an example on which to work on.

    A pity that http://www.hansajet.de/frames/fs-start.htm has not been translated yet, the recently acquired example is not the Turkish TC-LEY because of ever changing demands by the selling party…

    The Hansa Jet to be restored comes for Manching, can’t find her exact identity at present…

    in reply to: XH558 First Flight #1295040
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    And so has your arrogance!!!

    John.

    Seconded. Fortunately most of us don’t meet the species of “armchair critics”, that Bruggen130 so forcefully represents, on a daily basis….

    Stratofreighter
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    Only two days to go…

    in reply to: Hamburg Airport Classics Dakota flight #1260150
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    Several British enthusiasts have already registered their interest but I guess Classic Flight/Air Atlantique could still use some more!
    The last edition of Hamburg Airport Classics was back in September 2003 and apart from the Aviodrome’s Dakota Fly-In in May 2006 no major propliner event has been staged in Europe since…

    in reply to: Let's try to save the Brussels Air Museum collection #1277023
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    I guess David was highlighting the ineptitude/unwillingness of certain Belgian authorities…

    If you can read French then take a look at the comments on
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/BAM2007/signatures.html .
    Yes, the Belgians certainly know how to value their own governmental bodies/organisations!

    The term “une petite histoire belge” can be translated as “a typical small Belgian story”. Not exactly flattering…

    Or “Petit pays, petite gens”… Small country, small(minded) people… And “people” means “authorities”…

    Plus “A usual way they do things in Belgium?? Again!!”…

    in reply to: Let's try to save the Brussels Air Museum collection #1277484
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    Threads that get the “sticky” status somehow tend to be ignored by most people. To keep this campaign in the spotlight I think it is best to “bump” the thread once a while…

    Can perhaps this thread be re-named to something like “Brussels Air Museum neglect PHOTOGRAPHIC evidence?”

    But now more importantly: Can EVEN MORE pictures of Vissenaken or possible other Belgian storage sheds in use by the BAM be posted by people who have been there?

    There are already lots of photos on-line showing the dismal state of the Brussels Aviation Hall , but images of Vissenaken are few and far between.
    Examples: http://bamfbamrs.fotopic.net/c853965_1.html .

    Pictures showing the storage shed(s) at Vissenaken would also help much!

    in reply to: Cutaway diagrams of Westland Whirlwind #1279078
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    Mike Badrocke drew a cutaway back in the early eighties. You still see them from time to time.
    Am at work at the moment so I can’t scan but I do know that Aeroplane M… (you know, the competitor to Flypast) had a Database article on the Westland Whirlwind (the fighter, not the helicopter!) less than three years ago.

    in reply to: Brussels Air Museum (Please read it) #1283892
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    The petition is multi-lingual, a donation is optional.

    Well, you don’t have to donate, just registering your name and/or letting your opinions known will suffice.
    I can certainly understand the concerns voiced at
    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/BAM2007/index.html .
    There aren’t that many museum renovation projects being undertaken where the exhibits are already moved even before the budget has been outlined!

    And the premises to where the aircraft are moved to… Well, the word “run down” could be considered a complimentary description!

    in reply to: Dutch DC-2 Flies Again #1288269
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    James, I was indeed somewhat lazy… :diablo: . Am glad you stepped in! 🙂

    in reply to: Carvair written off? #1288280
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    Dutchman Aad van der Voet got permission to put up three “post-crash-photos” on his website.
    You will find them at http://www.oldwings.nl/content/n898at/n898at.htm .
    This accident could so easily have taken lives… The crew were lucky to walk away!

    in reply to: Dutch DC-2 Flies Again #1288730
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    Err… I thought there were only 4 DC-2 airframes left in the world, half of which at Lelystad, the other half on poles in Oz, and one of them airworthy – also at Lelystad. Where’s this 2nd airworthy example located?

    Hello Ronald, I strongly suggest you visit this page:
    http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC2%20Photographs.htm .

    There are two complete examples left in Finland for starters!
    N1934D is the second airworthy example as seen at
    http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1146905/L/ .

    in reply to: CL-44 skymonster @Bournemouth – status? #1289108
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    Newforest, according to local spotters at Bournemouth-Hurn nothing seems to be happening at all at the moment around “Guppy”. And yes, they pass her by each day hoping to see something like an engine test…

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