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  • January 30, 2009 at 10:18 pm in reply to: RAFM FE-2b restoration/rebuild #1222932
    Rlangham
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    Last I heard, from someone at the RAFM itself, it was down south somewhere for completion, and may be on display later this year

    edit – that is, a complete aircraft, not just the nacelle. I’m looking forward to seeing this more than any other project in aviation at the moment

    January 23, 2009 at 2:28 am in reply to: Ugliest Warplane #1232913
    Rlangham
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    No doubt going to upset a few here, but my choice has to be the Lancaster!

    January 22, 2009 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Airman 3rd class, Royal Flying Corps. #1233492
    Rlangham
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    True, but we usually only do events in summer, and it’s hot enough with coveralls over the wool shirt and trousers! Plus my jacket insignia is always changing, so be a bit of a pain to sew more things on/off it (it’s been marked up as Leicesters, West Yorks, Royal Engineers, no markings for the Hovis advert, and that’s just in one year!).

    Currently battling my way through ‘Notes on rigging for Air Mechanics’ published in 1916 so i’m genned up for an event at Hendon

    January 22, 2009 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Airman 3rd class, Royal Flying Corps. #1233819
    Rlangham
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    They did all sorts really, mechanic, rigging, to just starting up the engines and holding down the tails etc. I’ve got the uniform of an Air Mechanic 3rd class which I use at living history events when working with WW1 aircraft etc, also got a few documents

    January 20, 2009 at 8:55 pm in reply to: Too Many Muslims On Board… #583095
    Rlangham
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    Who’d have thought it! Letting foreign looking people on a plane to a foreign country! Next they’ll be letting them drive cars and vote

    January 18, 2009 at 3:13 pm in reply to: Air France retro at MAN 16/01/09 #478101
    Rlangham
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    Very pretty

    January 17, 2009 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Aircraft crashes off the Norfolk coast in WW2 and 1961 #1238843
    Rlangham
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    Thanks Ross, especially for the Hampden bit. I suppose seeming as Cromer is such a larger town (and probably more well known) compared to Sheringham, it would make more sense to describe it as ‘off Cromer’.

    Interesting statistics, too. IIRC, the last pulling Lifeboat wasn’t retired until 1951, and it’s the one now in the museum at Whitby (although it would have been the secondary Lifeboat i’d have thought). One of the wartime rescues that always sticks in my mind is that of Wells, the next station in line to Sheringham heading west, where a ditched Lancaster was found. The coxswain climbed up onto the aircraft and into the fuselage to check there was no one inside – it would have been very easy for the aircraft to move in the water, and trap him inside with no chance of getting out before drowning

    January 17, 2009 at 12:37 am in reply to: Aircraft crashes off the Norfolk coast in WW2 and 1961 #1160848
    Rlangham
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    Thanks for the information Kev – although the Hampden does fit, does seem to curious to launch the Sheringham boat as Cromer, at the time, had two motor Lifeboats on station, unless it was a multi-station search.

    Regards, Rob

    January 16, 2009 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Aircraft crashes off the Norfolk coast in WW2 and 1961 #1160966
    Rlangham
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    Thanks Ross – are the RNLI rescue records freely available? I’ve got quite a few books on the RNLI but wasn’t aware you could get hold of rescue records. I was at Sheringham just before Christmas, and ended up forgetting to take photos of the rescue boards etc in the boathouse as I was too busy watching the modern Lifeboat on exercise!

    January 16, 2009 at 6:42 pm in reply to: "Aces Falling" – BBC2 Timewatch #1161063
    Rlangham
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    Fantastic news, when’s the screening? I’m a member of the RAeS

    January 13, 2009 at 7:10 pm in reply to: General Discussion #295944
    Rlangham
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    Maybe ‘Sooty’ calls Prince Charles ‘Matthew’

    January 13, 2009 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Hello sooty. #1885866
    Rlangham
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    Maybe ‘Sooty’ calls Prince Charles ‘Matthew’

    January 12, 2009 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Handley Page O/100 / O/400 bomber gunships #1163994
    Rlangham
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    I think the only ‘conversion’ was the fact that the nose gunner was a dedicated gunner, as opposed to a navigator

    January 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Handley Page O/100 / O/400 bomber gunships #1164099
    Rlangham
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    Found more information on them, turns out it was just one, an O/100, and it shot down two Gotha’s. I’d imagine the handling and speed etc would be much improved without a heavy bomb load (unlike the Gotha, which actually became very unstable without a bomb load, hence the reason 75% of Gotha losses were caused by landing accidents)

    January 10, 2009 at 6:23 pm in reply to: What Are You All Reading Now! #1166402
    Rlangham
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    Just finished ‘First Blitz’, then, once I get it from the post office (only open until midday on weekdays, as my accomodation has no longer decided to accept bulky/signed for items), it’s ‘Diary of a night bomber pilot in world war one’.

    After those two i’m out of new books, so will probably re-read either ‘Green Balls’ or ‘Flying Minnows’, both superb accounts of military aviation in WW1, one from an RNAS bomber navigator and the other from an RFC fighter pilot

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