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  • November 19, 2011 at 11:05 am in reply to: The yogurt knitters will hate me now! #1870040
    Banupa
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    Only 4.0 litre? You need some American muscle in your life! I’ve had 4.7, a 4.9, a 5.0, 5.7 and 5.8 litre cars over the years. All American V.8’s and all in the U.K. Somehow I never managed to get hold of a 6.6 Trans-Am… The girly 4.9 version is below 🙂

    November 18, 2011 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #471698
    Banupa
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    I really don’t know. I don’t even know where it was being worked on.
    Thank you! I haven’t changed a bit, honest.
    In the pic, did you notice the economy identity/owners plate? That was typical of Kestrel Flying Club’s operation. Cheap was always good. At one time the Auster had a cut in the fabric on the fuselage, so it was “repaired”. No, not with Duct Tape…..but with a strip of Elastoplast, in the usual pink colour.
    The end of ‘IGR was at Cranfield after a gale, when it wasn’t hangared or tied down properly.

    November 18, 2011 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #471700
    Banupa
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    No. As far as I know it was only used when we had International Auster Pilot Club flyins, which was usually in August. Neville Rogers had an Auster that was on long term re-build. I think it had been owned by his family’s farming business at one time. Not that I ever saw it, just the blister hangar that it was to be housed in. I have some other pics taken there, but are amongst the 1000’s I still have to scan, so don’t hold your breath.
    Here’s one of me in 1984 at the controls of Auster J/1N G-AIGR en route to Castle Mill from Cranfield.

    November 18, 2011 at 2:43 pm in reply to: General Discussion #286047
    Banupa
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    A bit gory? Is this better then? Observatories high up, above the clouds in La Palma, Canary Islands.

    November 18, 2011 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Non Aviation Photo Thread part Deux #1870170
    Banupa
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    A bit gory? Is this better then? Observatories high up, above the clouds in La Palma, Canary Islands.

    November 17, 2011 at 11:21 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #471708
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    If you go round the Bedford southern bye-pass towards the Great Barford exit, there is a lay-bye, pull off there and look to the left. That’s where the strip was. Looking further down the road are some power lines. Look closely and you will see red balls on the wires. They are there to stop tard pilots going into Castle Mill hitting them!
    Few pic taken at Auster Club fly-ins at Castle Mill follow.

    November 17, 2011 at 11:13 pm in reply to: General Discussion #286054
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    I can offer a robin too…..but it is in the process of being eaten by a sparrowhawk….

    November 17, 2011 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Non Aviation Photo Thread part Deux #1870209
    Banupa
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    I can offer a robin too…..but it is in the process of being eaten by a sparrowhawk….

    November 17, 2011 at 6:16 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #471853
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    Comets? These were at Lasham when Dan-Air was the largest operator of the type. To keep them in the air, Dan-Air bought up any Comets that came on the market and stripped them for parts. An engineer I knew was employed at Lasham, but left shortly afterwards, when he discovered that most of the “fitters” were actually “agricultural fitters” rather than aircraft fitters. Their skills were not compatible with the work and the final straw was finding one chap working on a fuel tank, whilst smoking a fag! Happy days…lol.

    November 17, 2011 at 4:55 pm in reply to: Quito Ecuador November 2011 #471856
    Banupa
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    An HS.748 actually flying? Amazing!

    November 17, 2011 at 4:52 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread Mk2 #1087431
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    Probe-ably…:D

    November 17, 2011 at 9:40 am in reply to: Couple of olduns #471862
    Banupa
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    Yes, I think so, but the early 1990’s recession put pay to their aviation side, including Neville Roger’s Castle Mill airstrip at Bedford, which is now a gravel pit.
    I can’t remember exactly when the Tridents entered service. I did see a 3 Trident formation though at a Farnborough show. I was at school when the 1st Comet 4 and Boeing 707 services began and saw both leaving Heathrow, the 707 trailing black smoke. I think the 707’s and DC-8 used water injection to boost power, but this gave them their characteristic black exhaust trails.

    November 17, 2011 at 9:30 am in reply to: General Discussion #286165
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    Your mutts, and I’ll raise you a pussy…:eek: It’s a stray tom in Greece, but a total wimp!

    November 17, 2011 at 9:30 am in reply to: Non Aviation Photo Thread part Deux #1870314
    Banupa
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    Your mutts, and I’ll raise you a pussy…:eek: It’s a stray tom in Greece, but a total wimp!

    November 16, 2011 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #471867
    Banupa
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    In 1985 it was the Rogers hangar…

    I think it was in for a radio fit.

    So young. Next you will be telling me you never saw the TWA Super Connies and Starliners at Heathrow. Not to mention the BOAC Argonauts and Skyways Yorks? 😀

    Come to think of it I took these at Heathrow after a busy school day…

    I never knew a Britannia was once at Cranfield. Mind you, 1985 I was only 1!

    Is that outside what has recently become the ex-patriot aviation hangar?

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