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  • January 26, 2015 at 1:41 pm in reply to: Identify this Lancaster please #921029
    l.garey
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    Charlie: I had a search for RN badges: the 3 props seem to indicate “engineering mechanic”. An “aircraft mechanician” would have 4 blades.

    January 26, 2015 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Identify this Lancaster please #921031
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    Oops Mike! Fortunately I said “looks a bit”. If I had flown as many hours as that Lancaster (perhaps low over salt water too) maybe I would not be looking pristine.

    Charlie: you may be right: I don’t know naval uniforms too well. Could a propeller be FAA, …or submarines?

    January 26, 2015 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Identify this Lancaster please #921040
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    I know what you mean, but these lads aren’t French. They look like English ratings ready to go off on a joy-ride. The MR3 was in service until 1956, so the date must be before then, if the Lancaster is airworthy. That lowered flap looks a bit tatty to me.

    January 11, 2015 at 6:19 pm in reply to: The 'Last Chance Saloon' – Wot Plane? Thread 2015 – Rules In Post #7 #851662
    l.garey
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    I would be sorry to see the wot plane thread disappear. I participated keenly until last year when I had nothing further to post, but I have learned quite a bit from what has been posted. I am sorry I can’t help it survive. Maybe there will be one further effort …

    December 16, 2014 at 8:03 am in reply to: Sunderland III/V/Ansett Sandringham #872098
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    A small point: according to the link given by DinoTim in post 1, it was “Ferried to Marseilles for conversion” after September 1981, but I recall seeing it there on 17 June 1981 and, indeed there are photos in the link of it at Marseilles in August 1981. I wonder what the exact dates were for its arrival and departure from Marseilles.

    November 26, 2014 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Proudly made in France #891057
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    Thanks for those excellent pictures of the MS406 and its Swiss sisters.

    My neighbour’s father (now in his nineties) flew them during WW2. I found a rather nice painting some years ago and, more recently (at Payerne Air14 in September 2014), I took this shot of D3801 HB-RCF in its new Swiss colours after having pretended to be French for a number of years.

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    November 20, 2014 at 6:27 am in reply to: Last Blenheim pilot celebrates 100th birthday #896132
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    My friend Tony Tubbenhauer is still alive and well in Australia. Blenheims (I, IV and V), notably at Sharjah in 1942 with 244 Squadron.

    November 12, 2014 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Force landing of B-17, Arabian coast, 1944 #902760
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    For information: I got the report on this from the source Ross suggested. Very interesting stuff. Engine fire, 4 crew jumped leaving (he thought) only the pilot on board, but at the exit hatch he meets his photographer: seeing the fire was all but out they went back to the cockpit and landed on the beach. Very little damage, and all the crew safe, but the remote situation and tide ended by the aircraft being written off. I am writing it up, with pictures, and will post details later. Thanks again Ross.

    November 10, 2014 at 5:58 am in reply to: Biggin Hill Remembrance Day Flypast #904961
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    Great photos. Post 1, photo 5: careful, the mag switches are on.

    October 26, 2014 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Model plans #919459
    l.garey
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    Re that last comment (about David): don’t bother, it’s already been done by an Italian fellow.

    October 26, 2014 at 12:10 pm in reply to: Model plans #919655
    l.garey
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    Graham: that’s the one. I remember the gentleman in our Peterborough model shop had one made up in the window: looked beautiful. He persuaded me to buy one and it was dreadful. Must be me.

    Mr avion: They were in a box with the fuselage and wings as roughly shaped balsa forms with square angles, so you had to carve them round with a razor blade then sand them. I remember mine turned out to be rather square and very unsatisfactory. Then you had to apply a white filler paint before the final coat of silver, and the transfers. Mine finished covered with little balsa whiskers.

    October 26, 2014 at 11:42 am in reply to: Model plans #919687
    l.garey
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    I made some of the Veron series. I think there was a Sabre. Carved balsa I think. A long time ago.

    October 26, 2014 at 11:39 am in reply to: Force landing of B-17, Arabian coast, 1944 #919693
    l.garey
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    I see what the numbers refer to: 12 = 12th Air Force, and 5 = written off. But the report I saw says the aircraft was able to take off again! Mystery. Any offers?

    October 25, 2014 at 6:31 am in reply to: Force landing of B-17, Arabian coast, 1944 #920753
    l.garey
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    Thanks for that Ross. It’s a good start. I didn’t find it myself probably because I searched for B-17 rather than F-9B. I shall order the report, unless anyone here has it already. I don’t see what the 12 and 5 refer to. Airfield codes?

    October 19, 2014 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #924877
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    I have no further news, sadly.

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