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April 11, 2016 at 8:22 pm in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #889828

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Liz, do you know please where the Chipmunk went? DHC-1A’s are a very rare item in Oz (though not in NZ, oddly).

Sorry to hijack your Tiger Moth thread.

Cheers, Rod.

No worries 🙂 I don’t actually, but I can ask next week. I suspect it’s staying in Canada.

April 11, 2016 at 5:26 pm in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #889911

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Imperfect………..

I take you are aware of this organisation………. http://www.dhmothclub.co.uk/ ??

Absolutely, I’ve been in touch with Stuart who has been very helpful, and am in the process of applying to join 🙂

April 11, 2016 at 2:27 pm in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #890008

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Should have reread my post. Meant canadian, indeed. Thank you for correcting me.

Rego is as quoted in rhe document, which also misquoted the tigermoth, so that makes sense. Do you know what happened to the Chippie?

The Chipmunk was listed for sale as a restoration project at the same time as the Tiger. It also has been sold.

April 10, 2016 at 3:11 pm in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #891022

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Congratulations on the start of a wonderful project ! I have an orphan interplane strut that may be good for patterning if you need such things – send a PM with address and I will send it on, simply because you live in the most beautiful state of the Union ! I am based in Melbourne, Victoria so can fossick around to see if any VIA records remain. I suspect that VIA was a sub contractor to the RAAF for Tiger Moth work during the War so there may be something in some dusty RAAF archive. Can’t do anything tomorrow, just will keep an eye out if looking through records for other things. Enjoy you project, Ed.

Thanks so much Ed! I don’t know where the History cards are kept but as you can see from the scan above it’s pretty difficult to read, would love to get a better photo or scan of the cards pertaining to A17-370. I’d also love to know the extent of the work they did on her in 1943 and what modifications were made, if any of those files exist!

I will be paying her a visit today and will check on the interplane struts to see what condition they’re in, will get back to you on that 🙂

April 10, 2016 at 3:09 pm in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #891024

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Alright, A17-370 she is!

Gordy of ADF Serials located the History card for A17-370 and it shows the aircraft being sent to Victorian & Interstate Airways for overhaul on 19-8-43. I don’t know how many aircraft VIA would have been working on at a time, but that seems to line up really well with the 27-9-43 date on the dataplate of her vertical tail.

It does appear she had an incident of some sort in February of 1944, but I genuinly cannot make out enough of the writing (in part because I’m not familiar enough with the vocabulary and abbreviations of such things) to understand what happened. I will attach both pages of her History card here for the curious. I hope to use these known dates and locations to hunt for photos of her in service… that is one of my ultimate goals 🙂

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April 10, 2016 at 1:22 am in reply to: ID/Research help – Australian Tiger Moth, unknown history #891415

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Well, there is this 2003 freight sheet linking export A17-307 to VT-CUO, by SC Moitra Technical Training.

Interesting, that’s a bit later than I was told. But looking at photos on their website, the hangar looks like it could very well be the one where I have photos of the aircraft before it was exported.

I will definitely reach out to them and see if they can share any more info about the aircraft than what came with it on paper, thanks!

Is there any chance of getting a scan of that document?

October 3, 2015 at 12:22 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #862663

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I just wanted to thank everyone from this thread I was privileged to meet during my recent visit of Duxford and Goodwood. I’d have done so sooner but have been recuperating from a Parisian virus brought amongst our group by a sneaky Canadian just in time for our return to North America. It was an absolute pleasure and honor to stroll the grounds of Duxford for a week, everyone was lovely and so helpful, I can’t wait to come back and visit again. Perhaps this next time I will be able to stick around long enough to earn a coveted blue coverall.

JT-10 (SL633) is still at Duxford for another month or so, pending completion of a requisite inspection. Once that is finished, I expect she will be boxed up again and returned home. It has been insinuated that certain persons would prefer to keep her at Duxford, and may attempt a bait & switch using the Airfix 1:1 scale plastic model. Keep a sharp lookout for me. 😉

August 22, 2015 at 12:25 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #906602

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One for our watchers on the West Coast – A certain Spitfire departs from Duxford for Shoreham just after 4pm today

SL633/N633VS outbound to Shoreham by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Duxman

Flikr — https://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/

Wow, love this angle!

August 21, 2015 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #907216

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How is it decided which Spitfires and Hurricanes would go where for the BoB celebrations?

Each owner makes that decision in their own way… there are many factors that may come into play, but not all factors matter to all owners. And then of course, even after a decision is made, sometimes circumstances change.

Factors may include (in absolutely no particular order):
Pilot availability
Aircraft status (in annual and ready to fly or needing maintenance)
Ground crew support available/required
Aircraft appearance fees
Hotel/food/fuel support
Whether the aircraft was invited by the event
Personal relationship between aircraft owner/operator and event organizers
Prior experiences at said event
Requirement for any additional insurance, or any limitations riding on current aircraft insurance that conflict with event
Owner/operator comfort and confidence in the planned flying display and fellow pilots/crews
Owner/operator comfort and confidence in the safety of their aircraft while on static display and during the “off hours”
Forecast weather, both at the event and en route to the event
Hours of flying that will be accrued with travel and demonstration flights
Historical significance of the event (or bragging rights for participants)
An overall feeling of where the event falls on their personal risk<———–>reward scale

There are probably another two dozen or so factors, but they get to be very specific and vary a lot, so no need to touch on them here. Basically it’s all the same sort of factors you would have to weigh up to decide if you were going to take your vintage car to a particular car show or race.

August 14, 2015 at 12:59 am in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #914309

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A few more Spitfire departure shots from today.

Spitfire departures to Humberside by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Spitfire departures to Humberside by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Spitfire departures to Humberside by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Duxman

flikr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/

Lovely shots of SL633, thanks! The one you have on your Flickr that show the pilot “missing” from the cockpit gave me a start, until I realized he was bent over and checking on something! I look forward to word of her safe return after a fun weekend 🙂

July 21, 2015 at 11:51 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #853938

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Staring at my screen with a silly-looking grin on my face… lovely collection of clips, thank you so much!

July 20, 2015 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #855141

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Duxford Sunday 19th July:

Warbird activity today was confined to the Classic Wings Spitfire flights, and the return from Fairford of some of the Duxford fleet:

Lovely landing shot, happy to see her back at her temporary home, safe and sound 🙂 Our pilot is homeward-bound to Seattle now and so she will probably remain static for a while, but someone will have to take her up in August for her next couple of appearances. Any volunteers? 😉

July 16, 2015 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Saturday at Flying Legends – just some of the images I shot, hope you like them? #456062

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Yes, I have one of JT-10 but I was shooting mainly video so only got it on the ground….but here it is 🙂

Lovely 🙂 Thank you!

July 14, 2015 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary (2015) #860355

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Just out of interest can any forumite provide a details of the pilots and their aircraft for Legends. Thanks.

I can’t speak to any except SL633 (in her 1946 Czechoslovakian Air Force markings, JT-10). She is owned by Historic Flight Foundation based near Seattle, WA and was shipped over to the UK for the entire summer to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Our Founder, John Sessions, has been her sole pilot since restoration, with the exception of a few test-flights by John Romain of ARCo. We may have to find a substitute pilot for some of her August dates because we also have airshow commitments here in the U.S with the rest of our collection. We will see. She is scheduled to appear at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford (July 16-19), Humberside Big Wing (August 12-13), RAFA Shoreham Airshow in Sussex (August 22-23), Goodwood Revival at West Sussex (September 11-13), South of England Battle of Britain Day Sortie (September 15th), and close with the Battle of Britain Anniversary Airshow at Duxford (September 19-20). A synopsis of the history of SL633 is here: http://historicflight.org/hf/collection/spitfire/spitfire-backstory/

July 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Saturday at Flying Legends – just some of the images I shot, hope you like them? #456239

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Very nice shots! I love the view of the crowd line opposite all the Spitfires. Did you get any of SL633 (JT-10)?
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