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  • June 27, 2012 at 6:13 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #979468
    l.garey
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    Might the metal tag be related to the Polish oil-men’s visit?

    June 26, 2012 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #980118
    l.garey
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    Andy:
    I see what you mean, but the original does not help much. It says:

    il compito affidato dalla Direzione, dalle Autorità britanniche, dal museo RAF.

    the task entrusted by the Direction, by the British authorities, by the RAF Museum.

    What “Direction”? I suppose the British authorities are the Embassy staff, but where does the RAFM come in? There is simply a comma!

    June 26, 2012 at 4:49 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #980122
    l.garey
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    Ah: let me look at the original

    June 26, 2012 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #980239
    l.garey
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    A better translation:

    Dalla mia esperienza di medico non tardo ad identificare i resti come sicuramente umani: qualche costa, tre quattro vertebre (7° cervicale, due toraciche e una lombare) una clavicola sinistra integra, un metatarso e falange.

    From my experience as a medical doctor I did not take long to identify the remains as certainly human: a few ribs, four vertebrae (seventh cervical, two thoracic and one lumbar), a complete left clavicle, a metatarsal and a phalanx.

    Says almost the same thing, and confirms that it is a doctor writing. I for one would like to see some pictures (not on the thread, but to me in private if the team agrees). I have sent an e-mail.

    But, as I said before, we need more remains, and especially a DNA examination.

    June 26, 2012 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #980299
    l.garey
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    I agree with Mark. Until either more bones are found to confirm age and sex, or until DNA examination is done, then we must be cautious, in spite of circumstantial evidence. This is not to minimise the importance of the latest advance.

    June 26, 2012 at 1:29 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #980448
    l.garey
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    qattara: e-mail sent to you (not about the family) and PM to shepsair

    June 26, 2012 at 6:33 am in reply to: Elephants #980909
    l.garey
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    I have it from a friend who flew Blenheims with 244 Squadron from Sharjah in 1942 that during an anti-submarine patrol he was positioned for an attack on a large dark object under the surface with bomb doors open, when it “blew”. It was a whale who lived to see another day.

    Also, more recently, 8 Squadron was involved in the Jebel Akhdar “war” in Oman in 1958, and one of its Venoms which crashed on the Saiq Plateau at 2000m altitude is said to have been strafing goats. Its wreck is still there (https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey/jebel-akhdar). According to an Operations Record Book in the National Archives at Kew, in the Aden conflict 8 Squadron Venoms claimed “600 goats, 8 camels, 2 cows and one man”.

    June 24, 2012 at 1:32 pm in reply to: SRI LANKA Airforce Museum #982976
    l.garey
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    Thanks Andy. A JP was it? Very likely. Unlike me not to have written it down, but there you are! Thanks again.

    June 24, 2012 at 9:45 am in reply to: SRI LANKA Airforce Museum #983130
    l.garey
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    Last time I was in Sri Lanka (2003) I tried to get to see the Museum at Ratmalana, but it was closed. However, driving through Colombo I saw an aeroplane in a public park, apparently used as a climbing frame. To my shame I cannot find that I recorded it, so I presume there was no serial visible. And what is worse I cannot even remember what type it was. Can anyone refresh my memory?

    June 24, 2012 at 7:41 am in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread Mk2 #983251
    l.garey
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    Did you say NAVY?

    Off Portsmouth, June 1968

    June 23, 2012 at 10:09 am in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread Mk2 #984270
    l.garey
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    So do these people

    Breitling Wingwalkers, Lausanne, 2011

    June 22, 2012 at 12:29 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread Mk2 #985557
    l.garey
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    Another Mig (Chinese version) 7624. Follows on from the previous post or from 6624 just before that!
    Also from Karachi, 2006.

    June 22, 2012 at 7:31 am in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread Mk2 #986193
    l.garey
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    Another red star. Afghan Mig21, Karachi PAF Museum, 2006

    June 21, 2012 at 10:02 am in reply to: Russavia's Rapide 'How it left Duxford' #987472
    l.garey
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    Re G-AGTM:
    At the Sharjah museum in the UAE there is a wing panel from a Dominie marked “NF8”. In trying to identify its source, I decided that it is likely that it is from NF875, which was civilianised after the war as G-AGTM, but restored to its Navy identity as NF875 in 1977. After its accident in 1987 its wings were replaced by those from another one that had been damaged years earlier. So the NF875 wings went to storage at Coventry, from where one apparently went to Sharjah! G-AGTM was rebuilt with its new wings.

    Can anyone confirm my supposition?

    http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/DSCF0020b.jpg

    The wing at Sharjah

    June 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm in reply to: 'Tante Ju' at Norwich. #990272
    l.garey
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    Good to see those fine pictures Keith. I have seen it 3 times recently, the last being on 14 May on its way into Geneva. It’s a great sight, and an almost greater sound!

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