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May 28, 2007 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Hangar 11 Hurricane rebuild #1294132

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Ahah, cheers – always wondered if the guns could fire forwards, didn’t think about the synchronisation problems with the prop though

May 28, 2007 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Hangar 11 Hurricane rebuild #1294154

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while the Defiant is another type that might seem odd to see with a spade grip and gun button.

Did the gun button actually do anything, or was it just easier to use the same sort of spade grip as on the Spitfire/Hurricane etc instead of making a new one without the button?

May 28, 2007 at 11:17 am in reply to: Bruntingthorpe today Sun 27th May 2007 #1294307

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Great pics guys – spent most of the time I was there at the Beech Restorations SRA hangar, but still had a good viewpoint of the runs (the amount of spray kicked up was incredible). Didn’t get any photos myself, just a couple of short video clips of the Volpar Beech 18 running as posted earlier.

Left at about half twoish, did the Canberra WK163 turn up either?

May 27, 2007 at 6:31 pm in reply to: Beech 18 video clips #1295268

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Unfortunately not (unless you count the ferry flight from Wick-Sywell-Bruntingthorpe) – I believe the plan is to fully repaint her first before flying again (so far only the engine cowlings have been repainted, and very nice they look too!)

May 24, 2007 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Beech Restorations Hangar Brunters 27th #1297995

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Haha, oddly enough just checked the forecast – wind and rain!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2477

Says the wind is ‘southerly’ but the arrow points upwards – does this mean the wind will be blowing towards the north (meaning won’t be too bad in the hangar) or it’ll be blowing towards the south (meaning it will)? :confused:

May 24, 2007 at 1:05 pm in reply to: Beech Restorations Hangar Brunters 27th #1298244

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Just a bit of a taster for Sunday – Naval Encounter in the new hangar (sorry about the bad quality, taken on my camera phone)

By the way Phil, just sent you an e-mail

See you all there guys

May 23, 2007 at 1:47 pm in reply to: 617 Squadron Lancasters. #1298807

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Bit of an odd question, but while we’re on the subject, what happened to the modified Lancasters after the ‘Dambusters’ mission? Were they scrapped, held in reserve, given to an OTU, modified back to standard, or later modified for use with Tallboys etc? It’s something i’ve always wondered

May 23, 2007 at 9:17 am in reply to: New "Dambusters" film in "Sunday Express" #1299153

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Thank you for that intelligent and constructive contribution to the sum of our knowledge on the movie.

Moggy

And just the sort of thing I want in large text on my computer screen at work!

May 22, 2007 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Brunty 19th May #1299934

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It’s LE17 5QS John. There’s also a map of how to get to Bruntingthorpe on the main website for the airfield here

http://www.bruntingthorpe.com/images/pdfs/bruntingthorpe.pdf

(for anyone that hasn’t been before, the open day entrance is at the north end of the airfield)

May 22, 2007 at 9:36 am in reply to: Duxford 20 may air display provisional flying display #1300160

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Wow, first i’ve heard about WK163 coming to Brunty for the open day, when abouts is she turning up?

May 21, 2007 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Brunty 19th May #1300619

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Top stuff guys, the Hunter is my favourite jet at Brunty, glad to see it’ll be running on Sunday. See you all there chaps

May 8, 2007 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Beech 18 G-BKGM #1313871

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Wouldn’t exactly say USAAF schemes are the usual, at least over here anyway – in the UK and Ireland there’s only one in USAAF colours (maybe two, can’t remember what the abandoned one’s colours are).

Southern Comfort in Ireland is in civvy colours, polished aluminium
East Fortune’s is in civvy colours too
Beech Restorations is USN, and looks ace
N2500 at Brunty is in civvy colours and her new scheme also looks pretty good

then that just leaves the one abandoned on an airfield (North Weald I think), the USAAF one at Duxford and, of course, G-BKGM at Exeter

May 8, 2007 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Beech 18 G-BKGM #1314136

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Thanks for the pics – beautiful plane and interesting markings too

May 3, 2007 at 10:49 am in reply to: Auster Mk 6 / 7 Instrument Panel help. #1319423

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Ive got a couple of pics of a MK.VI cockpit Ritch that I can show you when I see you next should you still be stuck, sorry old fashioned print and no scanner.

Have you spoken To Rob Langham. Helps the guys at Brunty on the Beech and T-6. He is very much into his Austers.

On the forum as R Langham if you search members list. If you get stuck drop me an email.

Regards Martin

Hey, cheers for the mention mate, sorry haven’t got back to you earlier been real busy. I might have a few photos of an Auster 6 cockpit from when I was lucky enough to get a ride in one at Eggesford last year – I was sat on the observers seat in the back and was feeling a bit vain so took some photos of myself, so you should be able to see the instrument panel quite well. I’ll have a look when I get back from work later and e-mail them to you.

If not, contact T6flyer on here – he’s down Eggesford a lot where they have two (I think) Auster AOP 6’s, including the very nice VX113 recently restored

April 27, 2007 at 9:08 pm in reply to: unusual air combat encounters #1324937

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This is probably my favourite – in 1940, a Junkers 88 was spotted by the Observer Corps and was reported to the training airfield at Stormy Down. The CO was an RFC veteran who shot down 40 enemy planes in WWI, and, watching the Ju 88 through his binoculars and getting fed up of the Observer Corps ringing up and telling him about it, he got into an unarmed Hawker Henley and positioned himself up sun behind the Junkers and then proceeded to dive upon it.

As he started diving, the officer got a bit excited, grabbed the Very flare pistol, slid the canopy back, and when he got close to the Junkers fired the flare pistol, with the lights floating down just in front of it. The Junkers dived and headed towards the sea with the Henley still diving after it, only giving up when the rear gunner opened up and the pilot realised it would be a bit of a one sided fight!
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