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  • January 10, 2004 at 6:28 pm in reply to: 14 flying B-17's? #2080651
    gbwez1
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    Outhouse Mouse is supposed to be flying sometime soon. Optimistic estimates are March / April, but they always seem to take longer don’t they.

    December 12, 2003 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Vulcan good news for other projects? #2095898
    gbwez1
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    I think this thread quite beautifully demonstrates that a large can of worms has been opened by the HLF’s Vulcan decision!

    December 8, 2003 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Paul Allen's Luftwaffe #2098311
    gbwez1
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    Quote from David:

    “I could compare the warbird collectors with collectors of art – they spend millions on art but seldom do they invite the public round their houses and apartments to view it.”

    I’m told that Paul Allen has not yet viewed his own collection!

    December 8, 2003 at 1:57 am in reply to: UK Restoration School #2098653
    gbwez1
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    No school is required. Join your local strut of the PFA and build yourself a plane. Anyone can do it.

    December 5, 2003 at 4:10 am in reply to: Neil Williams #2100074
    gbwez1
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    I was told he was following some railway lines in bad weather and hit the hill shortly after the lines went into a tunnel.

    November 20, 2003 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Kiosk at Duxford? #2103929
    gbwez1
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    Here’s a link to the content of some touch-screen kiosks that are in the EAA Museum. (You will need a broadband connection).

    EAA Museum kiosk content

    These were designed so that, with minimal extra effort, they could also be put on the web.

    The point being that you get two projects for the price of one.

    October 31, 2003 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Rotary Engines #2109032
    gbwez1
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    There was a really good little book on the subject done by Andrew Nahum at the Science Museum a few years back if you want to know more.

    October 30, 2003 at 3:20 am in reply to: Percival Aircraft (Zombie thread from 2003) #2110138
    gbwez1
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    I know of two flyers in the USA – a Percival EP-9 in Wisconsin, belongs to Jan Christie, and an immaculate Piston Provost in Virginia belongs to Mike Dale.

    October 28, 2003 at 5:00 am in reply to: Vulcans XJ823,XL360 and XM597 #2111039
    gbwez1
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    XM597 has had a heater and dehumidifier in the cockpit area for a number of years which helps the situation.

    October 23, 2003 at 1:40 am in reply to: Potential underwater airframe source #2112870
    gbwez1
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    The SS Breda off Oban is a very well dived wreck in shallow water that had some rare aircraft on it when it got torpedoed in WW2… friends of mine who have dived it said there is basically bugger all there, the most they ever found was a perspex windshield.

    October 21, 2003 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Shackelton for sale……again! #2113533
    gbwez1
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    Do Boeing supply DA authority for the B-17? I was under the understanding that they didn’t.

    October 20, 2003 at 11:58 pm in reply to: So whats everyones favourite Air events of 2003?? #2113864
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    Highlight of the year was seeing Michael Carlson’s highly spirited Bleriot XI display at Sun n Fun.

    October 20, 2003 at 11:51 pm in reply to: Question about aircraft lost in fires #2113867
    gbwez1
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    In addition to those already mentioned an aviation Museum in Uruguay was destroyed by fire in the late 90s. Once fire takes hold in an aircraft Museum collection – particularly when fabric covered aircraft are involved – it is extremely hard to stop.

    However, this being said I think it is factually incorrect to say that more historic aircraft have been destoyed in Museum fires than in accidents with historic aircraft. Check out the NTSB website, you can search their database of accidents in the USA. Taking just one aircraft manufacturer in one country, there have been 102 accidents involving North American types since 1993, and 58 fatalities.

    October 17, 2003 at 7:19 pm in reply to: Concorde #2115019
    gbwez1
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    We have to reserve final judgement until we’ve heard the fate of the two non-flyers. I can’t imagine Cosford won’t get one (if they want one) so fingers will be crossed at Brooklands and East Fortune I imagine. My vote is for East Fortune but having worked there in the past, I am somewhat biased. From an objective perspective it would spread them more evenly through the UK.

    Museum of Flight in Seattle is a good call – it’s a well-run Museum and if anywhere has the capability to develop and house indoors a collection of large passenger airliners for the benefit of the rest of the world – this is it.

    I am bemused by the Barbados idea. Intrepid doesn’t look good from a long term preservation perspective (not that East Fortune does) and I’m scratchng my head with Manchester a bit too – on the basis that – like Barbados – it appears that the aircraft could be used to support a profit making enterprise. I consider Concorde to be a national asset and believe it is appropriate to leave its care in the hands of non-profit organisations and cared for in the public interest rather than be exploited for private gain.

    October 8, 2003 at 11:55 pm in reply to: Jet Warbird operators – PLEASE READ!! #2119880
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    Well maybe it’s no bad thing that the issue is getting looked at. A background check before owning and operating a fast jet sounds like a reasonable proposition to me.

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