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November 30, 2012 at 5:55 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #952489

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Newforest: you have put some “TF” instead of “CF” in your Vanguard list.

November 29, 2012 at 11:16 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #953508

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Neither produced by Handley Page or Vickers!

November 28, 2012 at 5:02 pm in reply to: The New "Wot Plane" Thread (For The Rules Of The Game, See Post #1) #954701

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This is that Hungarian helicopter that I posted recently after the frame was covered with stripped-off wallpaper and painted with a phoney registration.
I have seen an Auster and a Tiger Moth covered in a similar manner in the Karachi Air Force museum.
Do I get a prize?

November 28, 2012 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #954861

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daveg4otu: a nice collection of photos on those Christchurch pages.
Just a nitpick if I may. Austers GYI, HAT and JAC are not J/1Ns, but original J/1 Autocrats, later converted to Alphas (with horn-balanced rudder rather than the J/1’s mass balanced rudder).

November 28, 2012 at 11:41 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #955001

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Beachcomber: Why would it be “inappropriate”? The family want to get to the bottom of all this. It’s going back and forth like a shuttlecock, which is helping no-one.

November 28, 2012 at 11:38 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #955020

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There was also HAV at Westwood in 1952.
Note the famous Baker Perkins factory in the background. It was demolished a few years ago, and there is a new prison on the site. The airfield is houses and the new hospital!

November 28, 2012 at 11:33 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #955042

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And my ancestors, Charlie, were carpenters from “SE London”, as you note your location!
Where “near Peterborough” may I ask?

November 28, 2012 at 11:17 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #955165

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Yes, Charlie. I even wrote a bit about it (and the adjacent Baker Perkins factory) myself:

https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey/baker-perkins

In fact I was there a few weeks ago to revisit 115 Sqd ATC, which is still on the site of our old ATC HQ on RAF Peterborough.

A relevant photo would be Vampire XE887 which was delivered to 115 in 1963:

November 28, 2012 at 10:45 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #955207

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No photos of your Auster, André, but it reminded me of the civil Autocrats at Westwood airfield, Peterborough in 1952.

Two of G-AHAL
G-AIGL

Then a couple of extras at Westwood (I lived nearby):

Hawk Trainer 3 G-AIDL
Messenger G-AKKC (the first aeroplane I ever flew in)

November 28, 2012 at 9:51 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #955385

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Bruce: this thread (and the two temporarily deleted that preceded it) are so complicated it is very hard to know what was said or not said. But I think the ARIDO group mentioned on the thread (via qattara) and on their web site that the remains were reported to the Egyptians. Only a few days ago qattara (one of the ARIDO team) let me know that the Egyptians were in touch with them for details of the whereabouts of the bones.
BTW, are we ever likely to get either of the original threads back, or at least know why they were pulled, or is that too sensitive?
Cheers

November 28, 2012 at 7:38 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #955516

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That would seem to be the appropriate form of contact. The remains are on Egyptian soil after all. Perhaps, had ARIDO contacted the Egyptian authorities in the first place, after the remains were found, this would be a lot less convoluted.

I believe they did Bruce. I agree that the Egyptians must be the point of contact for the remains on their soil, but the British Embassy should be involved in that we are dealing with a fallen British serviceman.

November 28, 2012 at 6:43 am in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #955522

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Re the Meteors at Wymeswold: 504 Sqd (County of Nottingham) from 1949 to 1957 (F4 first, then F8). There were also Austers of 664 Sqd 1954-56, and from August 1955 Hunters of 56 Sqd for training, and later those of 257 and 263. In 1955/56 Rolls-Royce used it for Avon development (notably 2 Ashtons). After 1957 Fields overhauled RCAF Sabres and T-33s, plus various other civil and military contracts.

One of the Meteors in my photo is marked “FJ”. Anyone know what that applies to? It is presumably not the squadron code as that was for 3 other squadrons, according to what I have found. 504 was “AW”.

A nice site is: http://www.hoap.co.uk/who/who27.htm

November 28, 2012 at 6:05 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #955527

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Qattara tells me that his team (ARIDO) has been contacted by the Egyptian authorities, but not the British.

November 27, 2012 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #956048

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What was Wymeswold in the mid-fifties? I often used to drive past it en route across country during the late seventies.

Wymeswold was still used by RAuxAF Meteors until, I think, 1957. Then the RAF left and it was used by various maintenance organisations.

Here are some of its Meteors (sorry for picture quality: historic interest only!).

November 27, 2012 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #956107

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You ask for more, Jim? A bit more recent and in colour?
Would some Upper Heyford Open Day 14-6-1969 be OK?

C-54M 44-9100 & VC-47D 43-48913
C-97G 52-2678
Phantom XT868 VL-153
Vulcan XH534 & Victor XL165
KC-135A 61-275 (No 1 engine missing)
HH-43B 62-4533
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