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  • June 3, 2004 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Scratch built 1/48 scale Hurricane! #1815858
    Tuck257
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    very impressive, shall have to get my modeling stuff out.

    May 26, 2004 at 5:13 pm in reply to: D-Day Duxford press commotion #1829339
    Tuck257
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    Well how tight can you get,
    I don’t mind sending down £8.00 to get one of them in.

    May 20, 2004 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Yak – a close one. #1552370
    Tuck257
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    David, all display pilot take a risk ,they may be small risks but they are there. Yes well regulated they may be ,but the risk is there. I may drive to work but the risk is greater if i then take the car and race it. Any pilot can fly from A to B with hardly any risk but then when that same pilot goes out and flys a display that risk increases.

    May 20, 2004 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Yak – a close one. #1552408
    Tuck257
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    Lets face it accidents do happen, no one wants them to but they happen.
    These pilots are there to entertain us, they know their life is at risk everytime they strap in, but they still do it.
    The Yak pilot was very lucky, he knows he got it wrong and his life was saved by chance/luck call it what you like. Will he fly for out entertainment again? Yes.
    If these pilots are not out there, then these aircraft are sat in museums.
    Is that what we want?

    May 20, 2004 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 #1552451
    Tuck257
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    So how many genuine Bf109’s are still flying (if any), i missed black 6 flying and would love to see and hear one in the air.

    May 14, 2004 at 9:41 pm in reply to: Why the Spitfire is THE greatest…. #1555926
    Tuck257
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    Spitfire beer advertising campaign!

    Much as I know you love the Spitfire I have to disagree, it is not THE greatest. It is a pretty plane, but give me a Hurricane anyday. Anyway it is Friday afternoon so don’t get me into deep discussion 🙂

    There is only one aircraft that can be classed as the greatest and that is the Hurricane. You can keep your Spitfires and Mustangs but the aircraft for all weather ,all terrain, any situation was the Hurricane.

    May 14, 2004 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Halifax Dedication #1555929
    Tuck257
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    Peter, YAM are only a small concern and have done alot for the memory of fallen aircrew, this is the nearest anyone is going to get to seeing what a Halifax bomber looks like. With a small budget this is a remarkable aircraft, it is not intended to fly or taxy.
    York being the the major grave yard of most of the serviving Halifaxs including Friday the Thirteenth it’s with pride that Elvington (YAM) has managed to build this fine aircraft.

    May 14, 2004 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Tomahawk, Kittyhawk, or Warhawk? #1555962
    Tuck257
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    Which name do you prefer for the Curtiss P-40 series?

    The Americans christened the entire series the Warhawk, while the British used the name Tomahawk to refer to the P-40B/C (and similar export models) while all variants beginning with the P-40D all the way to the P-40N were known as Kittyhawks.

    Which do you prefer?

    Kittyhawks, sounds better to me. Best to ask all the ww11 pilots what they called them, wonder if they were as confused as us?.

    May 3, 2004 at 10:48 am in reply to: NX611 to fly ????? #1562459
    Tuck257
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    I shall have to agree with pauls thoughts on how good it would be to see some of the other bomber types running their engines up.
    We have a Lanc flying and a few in museums, but where is a Hampden, Stirling, Whitley.
    Let the nation see what one of these look like close up, even better taxing. They don’t need to fly but just to come alive.

    May 2, 2004 at 11:47 pm in reply to: New Film: The Few #1562521
    Tuck257
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    Many thanks Janie

    May 2, 2004 at 11:31 pm in reply to: New Film: The Few #1562534
    Tuck257
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    Flood,

    Thats funny because we have a gentalmen from Maine who was a memeber of the Eagle Squadron Joined up Spring of 1940 posted MIA Fall of 1940 memeber of the all American Yank Squadron better know as the Eagle Squadron.

    The BoB records show that the first Eagle Squadron were operational prier to the open German Ops in the summer of 40

    To get the record straight, No71 squ reformed on 19th Sept 1940 at Church Fenton with American volunteers, (Eagle Squ). In Nov 1940 equipped with the Hawker Hurricane MK1.
    The first squadron confirmed kill was a Bf 109F over Lille by P/O Dunn on the 21 July 1941.

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