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August 31, 2011 at 10:59 pm in reply to: Boeing Launches 737 New Engine Family #570855

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It’s rash to presume having the engine directly mounted to the wing wipes out the lift in that area…I doubt if it’s that simple and they’ll do a lot of work refining the aerodynamics round there

August 31, 2011 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Penzance Heliport / Lands End #500624

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Nice shots of the S-61 at the top.
I rode it to Scilly last year for the first time and it was an intense experience….bit like actually being in an engine!….better than being in a JetRanger which I hated.
Moving the Heliport to St Erth is probably a O.K. business strategy …cuts out 8 miles of A30 which is never going to be dualled for passengers from ‘upcountry’ (not so good for Penzance resident travellers but perhaps a slight noise respite for the folks who live in Jelbert Way and Eastern Green. Ease of car access and ample parking is probably crucial.

from last year and earlier
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=74784995@N00&q=helicopter++&m=text

Jelbert Way houses next to the Heliport
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=74784995@N00&q=jelbert%20way

August 30, 2011 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Boeing Launches 737 New Engine Family #571109

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Does this mean the 737 will overtake the DC-3 in numbers produced? Or did it already?:)

August 27, 2011 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Bristol Britannia was made where? #1035711

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Skymonster lift off 28L LHR 1970
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Transmeridian-Air-Cargo/Conroy-CL-44-O-Guppy/1864366/L/&sid=8a7efcce63f115bd06ab1cfd704b807b
Loftleidir swing-tail LGW 1970
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Loftleidir—Icelandic/Canadair-CL-44D4-2/1163041/L/&sid=8d5804886ec0114441fde6396ce17df5
Tin toy CL-44 from the Sixties about 24inch long

CL-44-Flying-Tigers by A30yoyo, on Flickr

August 22, 2011 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Shoreham 2011 – some from both days #502131

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johnr…I like the geese/microlight shot very much….am I correct,the geese are nearer the camera?

August 22, 2011 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Ramsgate Airport #1042701

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Nice big image from a Google Image search on ‘Ramsgate Airport’
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vP-v_V1Arlk/R7s7gixZlyI/AAAAAAAAADI/mnNglfh9UMM/s1600-h/Ramsgate+airport.jpg

from:
http://thanetcoastlife.blogspot.com/2008/02/ramsgate-airport.html

August 21, 2011 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Ramsgate Airport #1044186

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You know this already?
http://www.aviationarchives.info/search.asp?TextSearch=X2RT

These photos are remarkable in that they’re taken by two top photographers in their fields, Norman Parkinson (fashion/Vogue magazine etc) and Charles E Brown (transport, Aviation)…curiously Charles E Brown got the pretty girls in this set. One picture which interests me is the eleventh down, labelled Ramsgate M de B….I think this must be of Mary de Bunsen (sunglasses?), previously Press Secretary at Airwork Heston, who was Whitney Straight’s press secretary/assistant, wrote the Straight Corporation’s ‘Straightaway’ review and organised the 1937 Aerial camping weekend you see in the photos. She went into the ATA in WWII and ferried Mosquitoes amongst other types, and post-war wrote for ‘Aeronautics’ under a pseudonym
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/5891435255/in/photostream

August 21, 2011 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Oost Malle (Belgium) Fly In 20 Aug 2011 #502812

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Very nice set, civilspotter….my favourite is F-BULT (Procaer Picchio)

August 10, 2011 at 10:36 pm in reply to: Great Scoops From Flickr And LIFE Archive #1059893

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Boston Public Library have some aviation photos on flickr from the 1920s/1930s

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/tags/aviation/

August 9, 2011 at 11:33 pm in reply to: London Heathrows safety record #574688

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Misaligned 747 approach LHR North Runway

Hi Longshot. That 747 that almost hit the hotels was flown by the captain alone as the first officer was ill. He established on the false localiser which took him down the ILS slightly to the right of the true localiser. Very low cloud meant he only popped out into VMC tens of feet above the hotels. The CAA and the press hounded him with talk of imprisonment even though it was British Airways’ policy to pressure crews to take flights out whatever problems the crew had. This pilot committed suicide due to the pressure and the ignominous end to his career. Sad. Because despite the ILS error he performed as a top pilot under impossible conditions and saved the day.

I’ve just been reading an article about the case on pprune….terrible shame
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/350529-true-story-2.html#post4538047

August 6, 2011 at 11:34 am in reply to: Vikings buried near Heathrow ? #1066947

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Maybe this one?
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1001312/

July 28, 2011 at 11:44 pm in reply to: Vikings buried near Heathrow ? #1080034

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Hallo Mike….A classic photo of your father’s!….having lived in the area I’ve got my doubts that anybody round there would have let scrap aluminium get (or stay) buried…it was and still is worth a bit of money….the rest of the picture gives the impression of a transport yard. A lot of Bedfont was dug for gravel then backfilled with rubbish after which there has to be a ‘settling’ period before house building can take place (if ever!)….Mick

July 27, 2011 at 11:32 pm in reply to: Transatlantic Air Race #1081192

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Hi Alan,
My lasting memory is of simulated carrier approach and bolter at the Lee on Solent air day in 1970 on the southern runway right in front of the crowd line in its finale, superb, not sure though if this particular phantom was 892 or the training unit (10 ton Budgie!) from Yeovilton 737 NAS?.
Gerry R

Yes it was spectacular!!…on a runway it couldn’t have landed on either!

July 24, 2011 at 9:49 am in reply to: Aerial photo of London Airport 1965 #478232

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……’from a fashion point of view notice that no females are wearing trousers – all in dresses and skirts! This photo tells us more about those times than just the aeroplanes in use. I guess this gives insight into why BEA publically refused to hire women as pilots! We have come so far since then’……

I think I detect irony there, Veeone…what percentage of airline pilots are women ,now?
Re the balconies on the QB one of them collapsed under the weight of Beatle fans when they were being seen off to the USA in 1964ish…they were flown on a Pan Am 707

July 23, 2011 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Manchester, Late 80s #478248

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A fine selection of rarer airlines there….in the early 90s we used to find Manchester as easy to reach from Cornwall as Gatwick and had a couple of silly cheap weeks from teletext…. e.g. £99 for a week in Morocco on a Royal Air Maroc 737 incl. hotel
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