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  • June 7, 2008 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Reducing the air show carbon footprint #1908534
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    If anyone complains about airshow pollution ask them to think about the thousands of vehicles converging on football grounds on a weekly basis. A quick calculation should show that aviation is far less polluting than football.

    May 12, 2008 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Here We Go #1186393
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    Balliol seats.

    The three seat requirement for the Balliol was dropped at an early stage and the space behind the front seats became an equipment bay on most,if not all
    production aircraft.Nice to see interest in the Balliol,it impressed me when I was at an impressionable age!

    April 16, 2008 at 12:44 pm in reply to: Bolton Paul Jet Balliol #1210774
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    While searching disused BPA offices for “anything interesting” I found a G/A drawing of a jet powered Balliol.The engine was nose mounted and exhausted below the fuselage,in a similar way to the Yak 21.(See-http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/yak21.php) I suppose it never got past the drawing stage because it looks an excellent way of welding your tailwheel tyre to the tarmac !
    Nice photo too in the local press showing the BPA chairman with the “P6 fighter jet”,he’s holding it’s wooden propeller. Like Scouse says “Gawd bless ’em !

    March 24, 2008 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Post-War Aircraft Disposal (Dump/Landfill) #1236910
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    I once enquired of a person who was in the right business at the right time to see if a buried airframe story that I had heard was likely to be correct.He replied (as near as I can remember) as follows:-
    “A lot of those stories may well be true,but you have to remember that a few years later ,when metal prices had risen,we hadn’t forgotten where
    we’d buried the stuff.”

    December 7, 2007 at 5:12 pm in reply to: How to hide an airplane [sic] factory #1255946
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    To the North of the Boulton Paul factory at Wolverhampton a complete
    dummy decoy factory was erected . It was later found that the Luftwaffe
    had both marked on their charts,clearly marked “real” and “decoy” !
    However the factory was only attacked once ,but they missed and hit
    the nearby sewage works.Smelly ,I’m told by people who were there.

    November 20, 2007 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Boulton Paul Open Day 281007 #1274147
    Balliol
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    Where is this Bolton Paul place?! And is the Defiant a replica?

    Please see http://www.boultonpaul.com for location & contact details.
    Open day details for 2008 yet to be posted,but visitors welcome on Friday
    afternoons and at other times by prior arrangement.
    (1st post,hope I’ve done it right!)
    Recommend phoning first re visits other than open days.

    Open Days 2008 are Sundays April 13th,June 22nd,Aug 17th and Oct 26th.
    (April 13 could be noisy with some runnable classic engines expected)

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