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  • December 29, 2012 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Scrapping WW2 aircraft in North Africa.. #989027
    D1566
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    Lots of Spitfire bits …. I have a feeling they were not taking proper care of them! 😀

    December 26, 2012 at 11:43 pm in reply to: Were Bf.109s meant to be rail-transportable? #992309
    D1566
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    A bigger question, to me, is why should a vehicle as quickly transportable as an airplane be designed to ride a railcar? I can understand rail-transportable tanks or artillery pieces, but 300-mph airplanes?

    There is also the point that by using a train, 40+ aircraft could be delivered by a crew of 3 men in one go – rail transport was about the economics of scale.

    December 13, 2012 at 8:44 pm in reply to: What Did You Do In The War Dad/Mum/Grandad #1011112
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    My late father joined the RAF in 1940 and completed his pilot basic training, he was seriously injured in an accident at SFTS and was invalided out, ending up in the Colonial Service in Nigeria. Postwar he did 29 years with BOAC/BA.

    Mother joined the WRNS and was an intercept morse operator with the Y Service, based at Scarborough and Flowerdown (Winchester) Postwar she too worked for BOAC.

    Both Grandfathers were army in WWI, one infantry and the other RAMC.

    December 10, 2012 at 10:53 am in reply to: A26 accident in 1993 (no one hurt) #1016401
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    Right engine failed on takeoff…should have aborted long before rotation.

    If they were aware of it early enough.

    December 8, 2012 at 9:07 am in reply to: And the Banned didn't play on? #941466
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    It may sound dramatic but this could be the end of this forum as a meaningful resource if the situation is not resolved. I suspect that a lot of users will go elsewhere, partly as a matter of principle and also as the quality of the forum will diminish measureably.

    December 7, 2012 at 6:45 pm in reply to: If you thought the Whirlwind project was mad.. #942193
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    Hmm – don’t fancy ‘guessing’. For me it would either be pull one up from just off Broome, or hope the plans are in fact down the back of someone’s sofa.

    But these Chinese Lanc repros – tell me more!

    I don’t think that any remains off Broome are suitable for ‘pulling up’, apart from the fact that they were blasted into scrap before the weather did its bit for 70 years, are they not a war grave?

    November 30, 2012 at 12:22 am in reply to: Hellcat found off Miami. #952513
    D1566
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    Pity it’s not an Avenger:D

    …. or five Avengers 😀

    November 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm in reply to: Westland Wyvern alive or dead ?. #959818
    D1566
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    Leave it there is best, great for a bit of deja’vu but the Trumpeter kits are in a different league & absolutely superb!

    There it did indeed stay, but it would not be the sort of kit that you would buy to build, more as a collectible item.

    November 24, 2012 at 7:45 am in reply to: Westland Wyvern alive or dead ?. #960030
    D1566
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    I have just seen a Frog kit of a Wyvern in a shop, unopened, £65.

    November 24, 2012 at 7:43 am in reply to: Grumman Wildcat cockpit GoPros #960032
    D1566
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    It must be good being him 😀

    November 24, 2012 at 2:33 am in reply to: TE311 To Fly This Year. #960127
    D1566
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    Top job BBMF people with the restoration 🙂

    Here is TE311 at Biggin Hill, BoB display on 15th September 1973 serving her time with the Demonstration Flight.

    Was this before the wings were made ‘easily’ removeable?

    November 23, 2012 at 1:14 pm in reply to: bit stormy #960959
    D1566
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    At least three people in that picture not wearing hats, its no wonder the country went to the dogs.

    November 23, 2012 at 7:42 am in reply to: bit stormy #961090
    D1566
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    But what was the USS Saharan striped polecat doing off Southend-on-Sea anyway? 😀

    November 22, 2012 at 6:31 am in reply to: What would everyone would like to see fly in 2013? #962652
    D1566
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    The Seafire SX336 would/will be nice to see back in action.

    November 22, 2012 at 3:30 am in reply to: bit stormy #962679
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    Good effort, trying to land on that deck … 😀 amazing that there is so much left … :rolleyes:

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