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  • April 2, 2019 at 10:55 am in reply to: "Armed" Chipmunk? #810117
    l.garey
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    Since posting this photo I have discovered where it was published, and when: yesterday 1 April, so I suspect it’s a hoax, but ,well, just maybe …

    March 19, 2019 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Ward Gnome G-AXEI and Elf G-MMUL #812787
    l.garey
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    Thank you, yes that is my dad, I have just been on eBay and bought it.

    Your Dad? I had not realised that! Maybe I missed it. So I almost “met” your Dad in 1969!

    Looking at that picture it occurs to me that my recollection of him pulling the Gnome could have been that he was hitching it to the car, or unhitching. It was a long time ago!

    Maybe you could tidy up that photo and format it and repost?? I thought I had one of my own but can’t find it so far.

    March 18, 2019 at 10:38 am in reply to: Ward Gnome G-AXEI and Elf G-MMUL #813087
    l.garey
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    I finally found a photo of G-AXEI in the Spalding Parade in 1969. It’s not how I recall it, being pulled by its owner, but maybe that was another year.

    https://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/Ephemera…8AAOSwEeFU44uk

    March 15, 2019 at 9:52 am in reply to: Fairchild Argus FZ827 #813459
    l.garey
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    Colour photos of RAF Arguses (or is it Argi?) ready for delivery from the factory show them with the wide white band in the roundel, but I wonder if they were modified in service. The photo of HM181 in post 9 looks as if the edges of the white might be hand-painted.

    March 14, 2019 at 2:08 pm in reply to: Fairchild Argus FZ827 #813595
    l.garey
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    A very interesting photo, feroxeng. Tony has filled in the details. The question of the desert colour scheme still needs a lot more research and your picture certainly helps.

    March 14, 2019 at 8:40 am in reply to: Fairchild Argus FZ827 #813668
    l.garey
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    That’s a great photo, Tony. Now to find what the desert scheme might be. Yellow or blue below? But if they were shipped in factory camouflage it could be that those arriving in the ME were repainted locally with daubs of sand-like colour, perhaps leaving the yellow as is.

    March 13, 2019 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Fairchild Argus FZ827 #813844
    l.garey
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    Thanks Tony for that comprehensive account.
    I hope I can persuade the present owner to apply a more realistic colour scheme.

    March 12, 2019 at 8:09 am in reply to: Ward Gnome G-AXEI and Elf G-MMUL #814261
    l.garey
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    “Further more the only person to exhibit the Ward Gnome in the Spalding tulip parade was indeed Ray Fixter.”

    Thanks for that dj bounce. So I was not dreaming about seeing it in the Spalding Parade, but it must have been Fixter rather than Ward. Do you know what year that was? By my reckoning it must have been about 1967.

    March 8, 2019 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Heron c/n 14130 #815155
    l.garey
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    That’s sad to see, Martin.

    March 5, 2019 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Ward Gnome G-AXEI and Elf G-MMUL #815705
    l.garey
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    Re my post 19, above. For what it’s worth the date I saw the mini-aeroplane in the Spalding Flower Parade was after 1965, so the dates correspond that it was indeed Mr Ward pulling his Gnome. Anyone else heard of this?

    March 3, 2019 at 9:15 am in reply to: Ward Gnome G-AXEI and Elf G-MMUL #816113
    l.garey
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    Talking about Spalding: I remember being at their Flower Parade, probably late1950s, and seeing a proud owner dragging his tiny new home-built along with the various floats (I don’t mean it was a seaplane – the “floats” were decorated with local tulips). I recall he was simply lifting the tail and pulling the aeroplane backwards. I have a photo somewhere but I can’t find it. I think it could have been Mr Ward and his Gnome, but I note that he only started work on it in the 1960s. Is my memory playing tricks or was it an early version?

    February 17, 2019 at 9:48 am in reply to: Miles à la française #818619
    l.garey
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    Thanks for those fascinating data Monsieur Avion. All new to me.

    The Messenger has a place in my heart as my very first flight was in G-AKKC from Westwood (Peterborough) aged about 10 I think. I also enjoyed seeing G-AIEK land on Brancaster beach around the same time.

    February 9, 2019 at 8:20 am in reply to: Were Whitleys built at Whitley? #819819
    l.garey
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    Flitzerfalke: the book is “British Military Aircraft Serials 1912-1966” by Bruce Robertson, so it lists all military aircraft of the British services, even if made abroad. So if a Canadian made aircraft of British design was in the RAF, RN etc, it would be in it.

    February 8, 2019 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Were Whitleys built at Whitley? #819990
    l.garey
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    Thanks Elliott. So we are linked through Whitley (Abbey) and St Thomas’s (see what I mean?). I wonder if my cousins kept any pieces …

    February 8, 2019 at 8:13 am in reply to: Were Whitleys built at Whitley? #820097
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    There is this photo from the Royal Aeronautical Society showing a production line. K9029 is clearly visible. I’ve searched for records of when and where it was assembled, without success, and can’t find that information in Robertson’s Aircraft Serials. Does anyone know where I might find it?
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