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Moggy

A stones throw away from me, and fantastic!

I asked once but didn’t get a straight response. Who had it in for Peter?

I assume that Mark12 made a conscious decision to stay away, due to one distasteful person in particular.

Who?!

I remember a Fouga Magister passed through his hands around 1984ish, and something in the back of my mind tells me Gnat, although I’m not so sure about that one.

Yes Stephen had a Fouga Magister. One taxied past us when I was strapping him into the Bearcat and he told me he’d had one. “Bloody noisy thing, I used to have one of those”.

I quite like them.

He’s right Merlin70, must have been 2006-2008 time.

Ref appropriateness of the thread. Malcolm Sayer was the major aerodynamasist and stylist/designer at Jaguar, he learnt his trade at Bristol Aeroplanes.

And perhaps, more relevant, is the fact that the B-25 had crew entry/exit access both fore and aft of the bomb, so also negating a reason to have to cross the bomb bay in event of a bail out unlike the Lanc where the forward crew had to get back over the spar to get to the rear door……

Don’t forget the 2 dorsal exits between the canopy and mid upper turret.

Consider for the Vulcan a low-level flight with a single pilot (possible in a Vulcan?): rural route avoiding built-up areas, undercarriage locked down, fixed flap setting (?), low all-up weight, single fuel tank operation per engine (no fuel transfer), single engine power setting (?) until finals…

A single pilot? Really? Who’s going to read the emergency procedures in the event of an emergency? And who will modify it to have flaps?!

I’ll have what this fellas on….