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  • September 24, 2010 at 2:50 pm in reply to: Skegness Aerodrome. #1134024
    l.garey
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    G-AHAL pre-Skegness

    A rather late contribution to this thread, but I just remembered this photo of G-AHAL when it was based at Peterborough (Westwood) in 1952, registered to a Mr G Neal, prior to its Skegness career.

    Laurence

    http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/prob1952WestwoodG-AHALsmall.jpg

    September 22, 2010 at 6:27 am in reply to: Solar Impulse #1137694
    l.garey
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    This one shows the tail better.

    Laurence

    http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/DSCF0005-1.jpg

    September 21, 2010 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Solar Impulse #1138521
    l.garey
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    Low. About 1000 feet.

    Laurence

    September 21, 2010 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Solar Impulse #1138682
    l.garey
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    Thanks for those comments folks! It has just flown back overhead going the other way! So that will be 9 hours fuel free flying in one day, but not carrying 120 SLF. It is a fantastic sight though!

    Laurence

    September 20, 2010 at 1:00 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1140589
    l.garey
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    As a regular reader and, very irregular, setter and guesser (and as I have said before), I enjoy watching the thread go by. I learn a lot, but I admit that I do not retain that Argentinian version of a Polish single engine triplane of 1928 that so often crops up. I did not know it existed nor shall I remember it.
    I once tried to start a similar thread of guessing the plane on another (local) thread, and it died a death. Only two of us suggested any answers. So the fact that this one has lasted so long, and still thrives, might mean that it is of use (and above all provides us with entertainment and instruction).
    So saying, let it be, and let’s all have fun.

    Laurence

    September 14, 2010 at 2:41 pm in reply to: Huricane serial number #1148048
    l.garey
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    Nice find Graham. What more do you know about its turning up now? I did not follow about the “sister plane”. If L1910 went to be an instructional airframe in 1943, where was that? I wonder if the door was saved when the airframe was finally disposed of, or was it replaced while it was in active service?

    Laurence

    September 14, 2010 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Heads up Google Earth has 1945 views! #1148061
    l.garey
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    You can see Alconbury just to the west of Wyton, still with its short main runway. The extension was in 1953-1955 I think. So that helps date the image, unless the whole area is made up of a mosaic taken at different times.

    Laurence

    September 13, 2010 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Huricane serial number #1149222
    l.garey
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    Kev
    According to Andy, above, it was:

    501 Sqn
    6 OTU
    59 OTU

    To 4321M (Maintenance Serial No) Nov 1943.

    So, no further active service it seems.

    Laurence

    September 13, 2010 at 5:43 pm in reply to: Huricane serial number #1149233
    l.garey
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    L1910

    Graham:

    L1910 is mentioned in post no 5 in:

    http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8710

    Laurence

    July 6, 2010 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Meteors 'found' in Syria #1089387
    l.garey
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    Resmoroh
    Getting off the thread maybe, but a sensitive subject if ever there was one, especially if (we?) are going to try to find those Meteors and the rest.
    According to Tony, what you just described is what lost aircrew were told to expect. However, there was a fate worse than death (?) for red-haired fellows. They were supposed to be so special that they would be handed over to the local ladies who would use them for their own ends.

    By the way, if you go back to the Google Earth images of a few years back (using the timeline feature on GE introduced recently) the Meteors were not there (31 December 2004). The recent images are dated 2009. So where were they before?

    Laurence

    July 6, 2010 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Meteors 'found' in Syria #1089399
    l.garey
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    My friend Tony Tubbenhauer, who flew Blenheims IVs and Bisleys from Sharjah in 1943, always uses the term “Goolie chit”. It seems to have remained engraved on his brain (not anywhere else I hope) since then, so it must have been an important part of life. I am not sure the word “Goolie” was written on the chit though!

    Laurence

    July 6, 2010 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Lincoln RE348 #1089543
    l.garey
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    I’ve already sent a message to the editor to see who is M.J.Cawsey!

    Laurence

    July 6, 2010 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Lincoln RE348 #1089581
    l.garey
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    Thanks for the clarification Pagen. I well remember that single Tyne Lincoln at Farnborough. I attach my picture of that.
    I am in touch with the present editor of the Peterborough paper who is publishing some of my old photos of the 1950s at this very moment. I shall check on MJ Cawsey, whom I do not know.

    http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/tynelincoln001.jpg

    Laurence

    July 4, 2010 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Martin B-57 #1091441
    l.garey
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    Several in Pakistan, but that’s not the question.

    Laurence

    July 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm in reply to: Lincoln RE348 #1091758
    l.garey
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    Thanks Pagen. I wonder if the photo was really by the Peterborough paper…. When I was in the Peterborough ATC (115 Sqd) in the 1950s one of our officers was Geoff Heighton, a photographer for the Peterborough paper, and I have a number of his “aviation” photos, but not that one. I wonder who took it then.

    Laurence

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