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  • in reply to: New Air Museum Opens in China #1024207
    ericmunk
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    Good god! What have they done to that Mosquito! The P40 in the background looks in a bad way too.

    They are crude replica’s containing some original parts (in the Mossie’s case only the rotted remains of the wings and some bits). Well, it’s betetr than nothing! Saw them in 2008, interesting museum.

    in reply to: New Air Museum Opens in China #1037462
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    Good god! What have they done to that Mosquito! The P40 in the background looks in a bad way too.

    They are crude replica’s containing some original parts (in the Mossie’s case only the rotted remains of the wings and some bits). Well, it’s betetr than nothing! Saw them in 2008, interesting museum.

    in reply to: Recommended honest biographies / autobiographies #1026916
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    Oh, and there’s the great definite book on Otto Lilienthal, not only a bio, but also many many of his drawings for his first flying machines and a lot of handwritten annotations on flight of birds, 137 photo’s of his 19th century flying, etc.. To Fly Like A Bird, there’s several versions, but the illustrated German original by the Otto Lilenthal Museum is the best.

    in reply to: Recommended honest biographies / autobiographies #1040652
    ericmunk
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    Oh, and there’s the great definite book on Otto Lilienthal, not only a bio, but also many many of his drawings for his first flying machines and a lot of handwritten annotations on flight of birds, 137 photo’s of his 19th century flying, etc.. To Fly Like A Bird, there’s several versions, but the illustrated German original by the Otto Lilenthal Museum is the best.

    in reply to: How many Comet Racers were there? #1041708
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    Probably more around now, than were originally built by DH in the first place.

    Indeed. Five built pre-war by DH. Two surviving. Plus new-built to fly in UK and NZ, flying in US, with a possible second on the way. A replica sits under tarps at the DH Heritage Centre awaiting its turn in the restoration que. There may be others.

    in reply to: 1950's/1960's Archive Part 43: Italian Aircraft #1041720
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    I-MACM is still around:
    http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1337262/

    But could do with some TLC…

    in reply to: 1950's/1960's Archive Part 43: Italian Aircraft #1041812
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    Auster I-TONE is indeed a model IV, formerly MT341. Last heard of as far as I can see in an accident in 1969. But there may be experts who know more.

    I-AEKK is a G46-3B, formerly MM32086, last heard of in 1976.
    I-AEHQ is a Fiat G46-4a, formerly MM53284.
    I-ACMJ is an Aviamilano P.19 Scricciolo.
    The indoor photos are all the same location, probably Campoformido.

    in reply to: Recommended honest biographies / autobiographies #1043340
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    Delta Papa by Derek Piggott. Hilarious stories from the golden years of recreational flying, including gliding, but also from the making of several great movies (including the Blue Max and Those Magnificent Men).

    in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1044077
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    Thanks for the offer Dave, but the missing section of our ‘new’ wing is about the only really good part of our ‘old’ wing, which will serve as a donor. So we have all the ribs, trailing edge etc.

    I don’t know why, but port wings seem harder to find than starboard ones. Something to do with where the instructor was seated? 😉

    in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1044340
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    Yeah I know. Somebody will want it sooner or later. The T21 sat in a shipping container in storage for almost 20 years… And now it’s needed!

    in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1045389
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    Two of the co-owners got around to picking up the ‘new’ starboard wing yesterday. As you can see, it is a somewhat used condition (a car plowed into it on an airfield one sunny day: the aircraft in question is actually still flying with a friend of ours!). It is however, considerably less work to fix this one (if it fits), than to do up the original wing which is suffering from considerable water ingress. The plan is to put the original structure from aft of the spar of the original wing into the replacement wing next spring/summer (when the fuselage is completed), and then do up the original port wing (which needs a new aux spar and a complete D-nose).

    Now, who’s going to tell me he has a pristine port wing tucked away in the attic? 😉

    in reply to: WW2 bomb explodes in Viersen (Germany) September 18th #1049700
    ericmunk
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    Same here. The Dutch EOD disarms about 1800 WW2 bombs, grenades and mines every year.

    in reply to: WW2 bomb explodes in Viersen (Germany) September 18th #1049727
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    I take it that the bomb exploded while they were working on it (remotely) ?

    It was a controlled demolition after the bomb squad had determined it was both unsafe to defuse or move.

    Incidently: at the same moment, a dredged up 500-lb in Hamburg was defused. Every one of them now making the news because of the blasts in München and Viersen I guess, because there’s hundreds of them defused every year in the country.

    in reply to: Missing paratrooper found September 17th #1050034
    ericmunk
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    Surely, that should read……”dropped there on September 18th 1944, 68 years ago today…”

    Planemike

    And so it does now, thanks. Disabled the spellchecker on the computer and had another cup of coffee and all is fine now.

    in reply to: Aircraft Clocks #1050063
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    One of the reason even working vintage ones are expensive, is that they still are immensely popular in glider competitions for timing of AAT tasks. A good clock will be gone in no time usually. You might find the occasional vintage clock on segelflug.de (kleinanzeigen), the specialist glider site.

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