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  • in reply to: Enquiring Spitfire polishers want to know… #1960166
    duxfordhawk
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    1) What’s your earliest memory?

    2) What is/are your most treasured possession/s?

    3) When you were a child, what did you want “to be” when you grew up? Have you achieved your childhood ambition, and if not why not?

    4) What are you wearing right now? And don’t all just answer “clothes”. what CLOTHES? 😀

    5) What’s your favourite snack?

    6) Do you have any irritating habits? If so, what?

    Just for fun…:)

    1) I remember my first day in infant school very clearly,Remember managing to fall down stairs at infant school in first year too,I do have some memories from before then too but not so clear.

    2)I guess my CDs are my most precious pocesssion i been building my collection for around 14 years,I love my old family photo’s also.I also sadly love my camera.

    3)Wanted to be a pilot did’nt make that wish,My mum always told me as a kid when i upset her to go and play with the trains at the local station,Eventually i got a job at that station and did what me mum told me 😀 .

    4)Tee-shirt and boxer shorts blue shorts green tee-shirt ok they not ment to be seen together but hell i am a rebel.

    5)Must be chocolate digestives.

    6)I fart a bit and snore when got a cold so there pretty bad habits when they happen.

    in reply to: Mark Hanna #1430135
    duxfordhawk
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    I am flying to Barcelona on Monday its a place i have never been before and i will be thinking of Mark while i am there,I was wondering if there is a train station near where Mark was lost because if time allows i could maybe lay some flowers for him.

    in reply to: Mark Hanna #1432015
    duxfordhawk
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    Much missed and never far from my mind when i am thinking of Airdisplays.
    The scene is much the poorer with out you Mark,A nice guy a great pilot and one of my heroes.R.I.P Mark you fly on forever.

    I was thinking of Mark this weekend when Ray did the Valley dive at Biggin Hill i remember a few years ago when both Ray and Mark dived as a pair in 2 Spifires,Memories like these are never forgotten,Mark gave us all many happy memories and i am sure he is smiling on us all now.

    in reply to: How do you explain your interest? #1432402
    duxfordhawk
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    It has always annoyed me to be called a “Plane spotter” as i do not go around Airfields or Airports writing down numbers,I do not stand outside Heathrow or Gatwick watching all the Airlines and noting there numbers,Its always puzzled me when you see people at Airshows walking around getting numbers of cessnas when you got the BBMF of something flying.
    What i do do i admit is try and photo all Aircraft that are at a Airshow and any of the statics that are intresting because i look at it as i am getting a record of that show for the future.
    I do try to explain to people the magic of flight the sight the sounds the smells you get at shows and tell them we are lucky to be able to see such rare warbirds still flying and should be honoured that we are able to see them and remember all those who died fighting for us to have a free today,If they can’t understand that then its their loss.

    in reply to: Biggin Hill Saturday. #1437190
    duxfordhawk
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    Nice photos Septic, anyone know if the Fury and Hawk made it down?

    I think they may have i pretty sure i heard them when i was at my mums i heard a powerful piston engined aircraft then old sounding jet what else could it be?

    in reply to: biggin hill 2morrow #1437280
    duxfordhawk
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    Given the weather at Biggin I would think they’re both still safely at Yeovilton. No sense risking them in that clag – if wx is good tomorrow perhaps they’ll arrive in the morning… hope so anyway!

    Around 7,30pm tonight a powerful piston engine aircraft and a old jet flew over my mums house but i did not see then weather was much improved by then.
    Had a feeling it maybe it was Seafury and Seahawk.

    in reply to: biggin hill 2morrow #1437385
    duxfordhawk
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    Morning was nice, show died 1/2 way thanks to solid cloud and very British wetness.

    However, I got what I wanted 🙂 so I’m happy. Sunday does look the better bet, but I’m socially comitted. (Or just comitted!)

    Anyone try Yeovilton?

    Heard the Seafury and Seahawk arrive from Yeovilton at around 7pm didnt see them though.

    in reply to: biggin hill 2morrow #1437779
    duxfordhawk
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    Forecast isn’t bad for Yeovilton, Biggin looks better on Sunday.

    Not tetchy, nice to say ‘hello’ but do you really want to stare at a face like a squashed tomato and talk about who said what % why on the forum (?!) or take pictures of unique aeroplanes? Hmmm. Easy one. I’ll be by the Dornier. Or the Seahawk. Or the Sea Fury. Or running about madly. You get the idea.

    See you there!

    I will be there both days i will be the one with a biege type jacket on and a camera welded to my left eye.

    duxfordhawk
    Participant

    Looking forward to seeing that Dornier! Makes up for losing the Connies.
    mmitch.

    Hope she fly when i attend tommow.

    in reply to: Battle Of Britain Day. #1552505
    duxfordhawk
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    We owe them all more than we can ever repay,We must never forget.

    “For our tommrow they gave their today”

    Just remember with every Merlin you hear,Every Spitfire or Hurricane you see is flying for the souls of those who gave there lives and we must remember them.
    HEROES ONE AND ALL.

    in reply to: Which aircraft wpould you like to see return #1553684
    duxfordhawk
    Participant

    Instructions are for sad buggers who shop at MFI or Ikea 😀

    Instructions are a guideline when all else fails.

    in reply to: Saturday at Old Warden #1554146
    duxfordhawk
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    The photos that I’ve had published in the aviation press have all brought in £25 each.
    All together now……. “There’s no money in publishing”.

    Rob

    Well its a pub lunch i guess so better than nothing.

    in reply to: RNHF Sea Fury #1554194
    duxfordhawk
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    Great news can not wait to see her fly touch wood she be on way to Biggin after all.
    Well done RNHF.

    in reply to: Which aircraft wpould you like to see return #1554602
    duxfordhawk
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    Any type of lightning for me. Both the P38 or a EE Lightning would make a nice return on the european scene! 😎

    J.V.

    I second that i would also like to see a Buccaneer?

    in reply to: Whose Heritage? What Takes Priority? SCRAP Sally B today #1557324
    duxfordhawk
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    I absolutely agree with Duxfordhawk’s post above. Incidentally, I rather think that the (in fact THAT) Bearcat does have quite a lot of UK history. Having watched master aerobatic pilots put it through its paces at many, many UK shows, Stephen Gray, Stefan Karwoski (sp?) being just two, over the last 20(?) years, I think that’s some history to remember…

    Cheers

    I agree i myself have seen some great shows from her and briefly TFCs other Bearcat,At the time i was only thinking War history but why should’nt peace time history count also?.

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