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  • August 31, 2013 at 7:44 am in reply to: ID of passenger seats at Sharjah museum #966141
    l.garey
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    Someone just told me they are De Havilland seats. As the museum Heron has its seats intact, maybe they are from the Dove that hangs up in the roof, inaccessible. Maybe they were removed from it to reduce weight.
    Can anyone confirm that they could be Dove seats?
    I hear a rumour than the museum may wish to dispose of these seats. Would anyone be interested if that happened to be the case?

    August 29, 2013 at 10:36 am in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #967727
    l.garey
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    For what it’s worth, I have traced Serge Coubasch and found him cited in “Der Motorfahrer” of 1911 as a student in Bad Reichenhall, Germany (stating that he is from Odessa, RUSSIA – it was in fact once part of “New Russia”), then getting French naturalisation sometime after 1925, then patenting a “stabilisateur de suspension pour véhicules” in Paris 1928. It might not be the same Serge Coubasch, of course, but circumstantial evidence is considerable, m’lud.

    I have never heard of him from my friends at La Blécherette, but I shall try to find out more.

    PS: RAB’s picture also looks like there is snow on the ground, and the prop-swinger looks appropriately dressed for winter.

    August 29, 2013 at 6:08 am in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #967748
    l.garey
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    Serge Coubasch got Brevet 97 on 19/09/1917. It says “09”, not “octobre”!

    La Blécherette is the Lausanne airport, but no mention of the aircraft he used.

    http://www.pionnair-ge.com/spip1/spip.php?id_article=92&page=imprimer

    August 28, 2013 at 5:59 pm in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #968269
    l.garey
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    It looks as if the aircraft is standing in the snow (or is it just the grainy film?). Could it be an early attempt to fly from snow (before they thought of skis)?

    August 28, 2013 at 2:02 pm in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #968450
    l.garey
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    It’s the underslung pod with the miniwings that gets me. No idea! I’ve gone through my biographies of the better-known Swiss pioneers of that era, all to no avail.

    August 28, 2013 at 7:50 am in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #968671
    l.garey
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    Searching frantically through my Swiss archives: no luck so far.

    August 28, 2013 at 6:08 am in reply to: Fly-In Prangins (LSGP) 17 August 2013 #968698
    l.garey
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    Merlin: yes, it is the real name. No problem in French. Nothing to do with prangs. The airfield’s other name is “La Côte”, but nothing to do with “I’ll get my cote”.
    aa: No, sorry, I was not there.

    August 27, 2013 at 5:47 pm in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #969113
    l.garey
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    Thanks for that! It doesn’t ring any bells for the moment. Older than it looks? It looks old to me.

    August 17, 2013 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #979120
    l.garey
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    This note from the British Legion seems to be a straight copy of what the British Embassy in Cairo told me months ago, and what I posted, ie that the bones, presumably those found by the Italians, had been tested and found unsuitable. The Italian spokesman told me that “their” bones had not been tested. There was a question of a second set. Active questions by me of the British Embassy via their Defence Attaché (“case closed”), the MOD UK (“our information came from the Cairo embassy”), the Italians, and the Egyptians (my mail to the Medical faculty as I was once examiner there) have led nowhere. I cannot understand why the tested bones were not suitable for DNA analysis, and I have said as much to the authorities I mention above.

    It is unlikely that anyone is going to the crash site in the short term.

    It is a great shame that no-one seems to be willing to answer some simple questions.

    August 15, 2013 at 6:02 am in reply to: Avro Lincoln #982512
    l.garey
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    See post 17. Jim and I have been trying to find news of F/L Stephens for some years but without success. He was the one who organised Lincoln flying for us ATC cadets with 7 Squadron at Upwood in the 1950s.
    Anyone know him?
    See also post 38 at http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?62312-Forgotten-Bombers-Avro-Lincoln&p=1423706#post1423706

    August 11, 2013 at 4:57 pm in reply to: ATC Squadron instructional airframes #987902
    l.garey
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    This could be the start of a very long thread.

    August 9, 2013 at 10:25 am in reply to: RAFM Wellington #990556
    l.garey
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    Vultee35: As I said in post 7, in 1961 it was already camouflaged at Bicester. I think I gave the date I first saw it there to the RAFM for their record, ie 23 January 1961.

    August 8, 2013 at 5:05 pm in reply to: RAFM Wellington #991246
    l.garey
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    But I understand that it was built with the front turret, only removed on conversion some years later.

    August 8, 2013 at 9:23 am in reply to: RAFM Wellington #992174
    l.garey
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    MF628 was at 71MU Bicester from January to March 1961. It was already camouflaged at that stage.

    August 8, 2013 at 9:13 am in reply to: USAAF Noorduyn Norseman – forced landing, Handcross, Sussex 30.12.44 #992177
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    Moggy: Be careful if ever you need to fly to Normandy!

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