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June 5, 2008 at 4:17 pm in reply to: What Type Of Aircraft Did You First Fly In? #1239967

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Schleicher ASK-13, the next one was a C-172 I think and after that it got more exciting with several flights in a B-25. I’m still keeping track of the types that I’ve flown in and flown, useful for later in life, I’ll be able to bore half the retirement home senseless recounting them 😀

May 4, 2008 at 8:58 pm in reply to: G-CCCA Gear Collapse At Lelystad (EHLE) #1192773

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Usually an incident in which the prop hits something solid which stops the engine means a teardown of said engine. The term is ‘shockloaded’. Just think of a crankshaft suddenly stopping still while a few cylinders are still pushing on the other end. That’s liable to bend something.

A shame to see the aircraft in such an indignified manner but on the positive side it can be repaired and there were no injuries.

April 27, 2008 at 9:42 pm in reply to: Skywriting Harvards #1197936

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The FY code is said to be meant as a middle finger for the authorities..
They did not want to give it a PH registration.

Actually it already had a PH- registration, it had been PH-NKD since 1961, but the then owner re-registered the aircraft to N13FY in protest to the authorities. Both to get them out of his hair and to protest against the authorities stand on foreign registered aircraft operating in The Netherlands. I’ve seen the letter he wrote to the then director-general of the RLD about it, there’s no doubt what the FY stands for! 😀

April 25, 2008 at 7:56 am in reply to: Skywriting Harvards #1200773

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The first one in that list flew for Skylight in Hilversum for years, also as a skywriting machine at first but that activity became less and less over the years. It was put on the American registry in 1993 and as the skywriting kit was not an approved modification it was removed. It was later sold to its current owner.

Interesting sidenote: the move to an N-number was partly because of a disagreement between the owner and the Dutch authorities at the time. The last two letters of the N-number reflect this. 😀

April 23, 2008 at 9:01 pm in reply to: Do Historic Aircraft Keep The Same Registration When Re-painted? #1202241

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Have any airframes served under two different serials or once an airframe has a serial it there for life?

I’m sure that there are and have been airframes that got ‘mixed up’ during maintenance/restoration causing the major portions of one airframe to end up with the serial of another. A ‘close to home’ example: Dakota PH-PBA. This airframe was in a museum but a former owner/pilot wanted it airworthy again so an airworthy Dak was bought in the UK and the fuselages swapped. Where is PH-PBA now? Well: the fuselage is out and about flying around with its old registration but the wings, engine nacelles and tail section are still in the museum mated to another fuselage.

There are many other examples I’m sure but I’m not opening that can of worms 😀

April 13, 2008 at 9:47 pm in reply to: Airplanes that didn't make it #1213961

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First one is the Grumman XF5F-1. I’ll have to do some thinking about the second one, somehow Vultee keeps popping up in my head.
Edit: cancel that, I cannot find the type but I’m guessing that it was a competitor for the OS2U Kingfisher from Vought. Someone else will complete the puzzle I’m sure.

April 3, 2008 at 9:32 pm in reply to: The Libya SR71/Canberra pic? #1225667

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For SR-71 altitude limitations see here and here.

April 3, 2008 at 6:32 pm in reply to: The Libya SR71/Canberra pic? #1226074

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Shouldn’t it be the other way around? 😀

And on a more serious note, I have a copy of Paul Crickmore’s ‘Lockheed SR-71 – The Secret Missions Exposed’ lying about somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig that out and if it will give a clue.

March 19, 2008 at 10:12 pm in reply to: RAF VC 10 – XV103 "Major Mannock VC" #1239776

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As far as I know the title was for ‘Edward Mannock VC’, but I don’t have a photo on my site to verify that. Have you tried searching Airliners.net, Jetphotos.net, planepictures.net and Myaviation.net for ‘XV103’ to see if that turns up anything?

March 15, 2008 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Books like European Wrecks and Relics #1241958

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There is a small book that was issued in 2005 covering the Netherlands: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/?shopid=LM477ff16d75c48120c5483ce42b&action=prodinfo&parent_id=0&art=58337

The descriptive text is in Dutch but the addresses and aircraft registrations/numbers should be multi-lingual I guess.

February 12, 2008 at 9:48 pm in reply to: Air Museums in Germany #1271310

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Flugausstellung Hermeskeil could be interesting, don’t know if it is on your route though. On the site, click on ‘Luftaufnahmen’ for an aerial view, or on ‘Flugzeuge’ for a list of exhibits. It is 10-15 minutes by car from Trier.

January 14, 2008 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Martin Mars in Vancouver Harbour – Jan 15-18 #1305286

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😮

And in normal English: an interesting approach (all other descriptions that I can think of contain strong language).

January 9, 2008 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Leslie Howards DC3 #1312197

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The image on the front of said book shows the aircraft in camouflage and I think with stripes under the registration BUT this image was taken from a painting, so it may not be correct. Haven’t got the book to hand so I cannot check whether there are any other clues.

January 8, 2008 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Japanese/Indonesian puzzle (includes flying boat) #1312985

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Hello,

Seems I got more than the answer I was hoping for! Unfortunately these are all the photos available of these particular scenes. In the album were three other shots showing aircraft but these were identifiable (Catalina, P-40 and DC-3) although they showed only small bits of the aircraft without markings visible.

I’d be interested to hear more about the Hickory and Mavis. I guess that there may be a story or two behind them. I’m impressed that you were able to identify the wrecks in the background by the way Scorpion89! I wouldn’t have guessed it to be possible.

Are there other photos known to be of the same scrapyard around?

January 1, 2008 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Restoration of important types, what's historically correct or not? #1321748

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Allright, seeing the dates I got confused as I first thought the colours to be correct. Then the original question still stands of course: do 40 years in this scheme count for something, making it somewhat correct?

Personally I think not.
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