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  • April 2, 2013 at 7:49 pm in reply to: Seabed to be mapped for aircraft remains #944837
    waghorn41
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    Wonder if they found anything resembling a Spitfire Vb about 10 miles off Littlehampton – though I suspect it broke up on impact and ended up scattered.

    March 28, 2013 at 6:13 pm in reply to: No 249 Squadron Scramble Picture #949234
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    What date is the photo? Just wondering as my uncle flew with 249.

    March 2, 2013 at 10:20 pm in reply to: HFL Hunters and Gannet at St Athan #977059
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    Just catching up with this thread, great pictures of the Hunters, especially XL573 with the engine out. Brings back memories of my time doing the same, happy days. 😀

    February 27, 2013 at 6:55 pm in reply to: Hunter parts? #980794
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    It’s a long time since I looked closely at a Hunter, and even longer since I worked on one but the two larger ones look as if they might be from the wing root area, the others could be from almost anywhere as the Hunter had lots of panels like these.

    February 23, 2013 at 4:10 pm in reply to: RAF Colerne Photos? #985782
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    I have some pictures of WJ676 but they were taken at Wroughton.

    Also, Colerne in 1974 was the host to the RAF Model Aircraft Championships – r/c, control line and free flight.

    February 16, 2013 at 3:49 pm in reply to: If the Flypast Forum folded, where would you go to? #994827
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    Well I may be a newcomer here but I’d certainly miss the place. Having been in the RAF and had a minor hand in some preservation work in the past this is where I get all the latest news and hear from some very knowledgable people on various subjects which I would probably never know about otherwise. So, in short, keep the forum going!

    February 10, 2013 at 2:47 pm in reply to: Airfix – anyone able to help the RAF Museum? #1002008
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    Think I had all the ones they’re looking for :rolleyes:
    Looking back, I built so many of the range there can’t be many I didn’t have. So long ago now…

    January 31, 2013 at 4:21 pm in reply to: What book would you like to see on the big screen? #936770
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    “Round the Bend” by Nevil Shute

    January 29, 2013 at 6:16 pm in reply to: 45/58 Squadron hunter Wittering 1974 #940075
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    If she did fly like that, and I suspect she did, it would only have been briefly as we never received her for servicing with the double markings.

    I worked in ASF on the Hunter team, where were you Steve?

    January 28, 2013 at 8:36 pm in reply to: 45/58 Squadron hunter Wittering 1974 #941517
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    That’s fantastic Steve, just what I needed. I thought the markings were the other way round but looking at your photos I can see now that they added the 58 behind 45’s. Now to build a model of it 🙂

    Of course the question as to why I didn’t have a camera – well I understood it was ‘not allowed’. Had to get permission when I was at Northolt a couple of years later even though it had a public viewing area!

    January 10, 2013 at 8:24 pm in reply to: Your first Spitfire #970746
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    Open day at RAF Croughton (USAF base) c1965/6. Sat in a Spitfire and a Hurricane. Next Spitfire was at Wittering in the 1 Squadron hangar, then this one belonging to the RHKAAF at Kai Tak in 1976. (also had the privilege of sitting in the ‘enemy’, Bf109 Black 6 on the flight line at Duxford at it’s first public display)

    January 5, 2013 at 6:42 pm in reply to: VC-10 Retirement Thread (merged) #978538
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    And there was me thinking they’d all been retired already – then yesterday I was walking down the street and heard an unfamiliar engine sound, looked up and there was a VC10 tanker heading west, presumably to Brize. It was about 13:30 over Northampton – any idea of the identity of this beautiful bird?

    December 27, 2012 at 3:43 pm in reply to: What kit did you get this year #219471
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    Matchbox Hunter T7 1417Flt / F58 Swiss AF

    December 24, 2012 at 11:38 am in reply to: What was the first model aircraft you built? #994571
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    My first kit was the Airfix Zero, back in about 1961/2 😀

    December 9, 2012 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Sywell Aviation Museum Winter Talks Schedule… #938320
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    Will definitely try to make these – especially the WW1 talk.

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