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  • December 22, 2015 at 11:51 am in reply to: Old Farnborough Pictures #884256
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    Hi All .. great pics stirling. The Argosy is jumping out at me as being one of the ones that was used in Australia by overnight airfreight company IPEC …??

    December 18, 2015 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Airworthy Seafire VP 441's museum now open to the public #886263
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    …I had a brief look on google, and apparently there was some catapult trialling using the late mark Seafires for when the Westland Wyverns were expected to enter service, as they both used contra rotating props. That’s still not the same as Seafires employing the catapult “in service”.

    December 18, 2015 at 4:21 am in reply to: Airworthy Seafire VP 441's museum now open to the public #886719
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    …Hi again All .. please excuse my profound ignorance, but did the Seafire 47 ever have catapult assisted take-off ( as well as arrested landings) for carrier operations ?

    …I s’pose you could tell these old girls were getting on a bit….just have a look at her “chin” LOL!

    December 17, 2015 at 9:18 am in reply to: Airworthy Seafire VP 441's museum now open to the public #887074
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    …By Gee .. There’s not much leeway for cocking up on that airstrip……what a lovely ‘plane she is

    December 15, 2015 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Spifire Mk 22 Empennage #887679
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    Thank you Mark12 for clearing things up and explaining what transpired all those years ago….looks as though the bushrangers are still alive and well in Australia !!

    ….I also commend you on your years of Spitfire study and perseverence….What a fabulous lifelong hobby !

    December 15, 2015 at 11:38 am in reply to: Spifire Mk 22 Empennage #887945
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    Thanks for the clarification jbs .. I’m very rusty on all this stuff LOL !

    …going through the various forum discussions via google in the last 30 minutes, it is noted with not a small degree of dismay, that the tail group was sighted in an Antipodean Spitfire workshop….which to me reads Australia..??

    …A genuine question….Is the sub Continent also considered to be Antipodean ?….. the picture of the shabby, incomplete empennage in a roller shuttered workshop just doesn’t look to be in Australia ??

    December 11, 2015 at 5:06 pm in reply to: More Treasures(?) From The Garage… #890438
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    …welLINGton…?….ooops, yes Stirling

    December 9, 2015 at 8:22 pm in reply to: P-47 No Guts No Glory for sale #891574
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    Hi Fellas .. Here is the actual quote from “Famous Fighters”….I still think it’s pretty funny

    …”When, in January 1943, the U.S.A.A.F.’s 56th Fighter Group arrived in the United Kingdom with its massive Republic P47 Thunderbolts, R.A.F. fighter pilots banteringly suggested that their American colleagues would be able to take evasive action when attacked by undoing their harnesses and dodging about the fuselages of their huge mounts”…….

    December 9, 2015 at 9:30 am in reply to: P-47 No Guts No Glory for sale #892135
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    ….Having read this beautiful book, and as an interesting aside, the P47N was eventually outfitted internally and externally with an incredible fuel load of 1,266 gallons of Aviation Gasoline for the Pacific Theatre operations…..This is the equivalent of almost 29 forty four gallon drums attached here and there to the airframe….and still considered a fighting machine when the time came !!!……Hats Off to that feat…..

    December 9, 2015 at 8:37 am in reply to: P-47 No Guts No Glory for sale #892264
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    ….. William Green wrote in his book “Famous Fighters” (with words to the effect)…..”the Spitfire pilots apparently fell about laughing when they saw these big things arrive in bases across England in WW11, saying how if you needed to take evasive action, you just dodged about the cockpit for a bit”….!!

    December 5, 2015 at 10:05 am in reply to: Name this Battle of Britain Pilot #894908
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    …if it’s not Brian Lane, I don’t know who it might be….

    November 29, 2015 at 7:33 pm in reply to: RTAF Phrae Spitfire #899950
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    …Thanks Mark 12 .. I’d read the text on the first page of the Thaivisa thread and somehow got lost, then completely missed the second page showing the other pics….one of those brain farts I guess !

    November 28, 2015 at 11:20 am in reply to: Unknown propellor #901051
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    …thanks Mark12 .. i do now understand how the efforts of the prop are far outweighed by the drag of the frame…Cheers

    November 28, 2015 at 9:40 am in reply to: Unknown propellor #901063
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    Agreed. Interesting physics…think about it.

    …reading about the phenomenon has always fascinated me…can anyone please explain the physics behind it ?

    November 18, 2015 at 8:00 am in reply to: Spitfire stops play – just not cricket! #907673
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    …truth is often stranger than fiction…

    …who would’ve thought a Space Shuttle could be catastrophically bought down by a piece of dislodged foam?

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