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July 19, 2015 at 8:55 pm in reply to: "Spitfire" Radio drama – Only available until 19th July #855989

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Superb – thank you for the heads up.

November 14, 2014 at 1:45 pm in reply to: Eric "Winkle" Brown to be guest on Desert Island Discs! #900796

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For those in the UK here is the Listen Again link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nvgq1

February 9, 2014 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Frightning return to flight status….. The Movie #984723

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Would it be possible to operate the Lightning with reheat disabled?

January 26, 2014 at 11:14 pm in reply to: Wellsbourne Mountford Vulcan #997270

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Shown here at the 2012 event. Very impressive, I thought. [ATTACH=CONFIG]224967[/ATTACH]

January 16, 2014 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Low Frying DC-10 Restaurant #1007157

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Which are still there I don’t know but I recall an IL62 at Havana as a bar/cafe, a Constellation at Faro which looked closed in 1984, and a DC3 forming part of a McDonalds in South Island New Zealand (can’t remember the town, it’s by a big fishing lake). The last was in a town, not at an airport.

January 5, 2014 at 11:18 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go? (2014) #931906

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It’s definitely a PS job. The Phantom is taken from this image..
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-4M/0918446/L/

The original’s pretty impressive. I wonder why its nose leg is extended? BTW is it the airfield where the Transall bounces over the road?

January 3, 2014 at 11:05 pm in reply to: A few more slides #932772

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From the Ansells and Ashfords refreshment caravans, is no 2 Halfpenny Green?

December 16, 2013 at 11:12 pm in reply to: A-1 Skyraider – How it got it Sandy name #944149

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I understand they are still a few samples left behind in SEA!

I saw 1 and wreckage in Saigon/HCMC, 1 in Huey with a 3 bladed prop, 2 and wreckage in Hanoi. The Vietnamese seem to like them

December 7, 2013 at 11:14 pm in reply to: Vietnam Exhibits #951249

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Sorry, I ought to have noted serials but didn’t. (An excuse to return!) The Chinook above seems to have a code 6086 on the tail. There’s another in Hanoi which is in Vietnamese colours with a code of 19082 on the tail – sorry, I know nothing of the US coding and serials of the period and even less about the Vietnamese system.

The MiGs (17 and the 21’s I saw) were all “allegedly” ones which had a record of downing several US aircraft.

The caption in the museum said Hellcat, referring to the French period, and Wikipaedia, for what it’s worth, says Aeronavale operated F6F-5s in Indochina. Whether there is any Hellcat in the pile is anybody’s guess.

As an aside, the repaints of the aircraft have involved replacing the stenciling, which in some cases results in garbled English. Let me know if you want to see.

December 7, 2013 at 8:36 pm in reply to: Vietnam Exhibits #951282

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AD6 at the Military Museum in Hue.

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MiG17, Military Museum in Hanoi, as are all the following.

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IL14 transport

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AD5 Skyraider

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AD6 Skyraider

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Pile of remnants of shot-down aircraft. Purports to include B52, Hellcat, and F111 parts, though it looks to me as though the bulk is C47/AC47.

October 13, 2013 at 2:13 pm in reply to: RAF Training Dome to be saved #1003857

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That’s very good news. A rare piece of history.

By coincidence we in Wolverhampton have/had (I don’t know if it’s gone yet) another simulation training aid a mile or so away at Perton. It is a tall shed from which bomb aimers hung from the ceiling over large scale images of targets to practice. I don’t know how common these are.

October 10, 2013 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Boeing 737s at Bournemouth #1006663

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Daft question but is the last one really “one”. It looks to me like a hut made out of assorted scrap bits nailed together.

September 9, 2013 at 12:14 am in reply to: Jet Age Museum opens at Staverton #958316

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What a lovely museum, and such helpful and friendly guides/explainers. Good luck to all.

August 8, 2013 at 1:56 pm in reply to: RAFM Wellington #991429

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However the Wellington is restored, I hope it doesn’t lose the patina/grime that surrounds the cockpit. Whether it was used for training or bombing, the atmosphere of the cockpit is a bit chilling to a postwar adult, used to comfort and safety in everything. The idea of flying in such a machine is frightening (though offer me a ride in any WW2 machine and I’ll take it, as would we all); the idea of flying in it while somebody else is trying to kill you is beyond comprehension.

Maybe I’ve gone off thread, but the important thing is that people should be able to understand what these machines were like, and for the steps up to look in the cockpit at the November open day I am very grateful to the museum.

Incidentally, I would support the training finish, partly for authenticity but also to commemorate the many who died during training. I recall seeing a display at Long Marston about it, and that was also chilling.

March 25, 2013 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Robins AFB Museum – Aircraft Disposals #952466

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Shame about the Credible Sport, that was a very interesting piece of history which I don’t imagine will ever be repeated. Like something from an imaginative movie.
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