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  • March 7, 2011 at 6:24 pm in reply to: 1950's Archive Part 1: Hendon 1951 #1095670
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    Thank you for posting these…am I correct, they are samples from your larger flickr collection? for example
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5476808989/in/set-72157626046124174/

    March 6, 2011 at 8:48 pm in reply to: C118F #1096696
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    If you go through the Fairchild ads(often for sale on eBay) for the period you find that the name Packet was still used by Fairchild for the P&W powered early C-119s (often with ‘Flying Boxcar’ as an attribute)…Flying Boxcar and later just Boxcar was used for the Wright R-3350 powered C-119F and G models

    The C-82 was officially named the Packet, but earned the nickname “Flying Boxcar” because of its shape, size, and purpose. The nickname became official with the C-119:

    http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=791

    http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=790

    March 6, 2011 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Monarch Hed kandi #495669
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    Hed Kandi….A triumph for the ‘Initial Teaching Alphabet’ I guess 🙂

    March 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm in reply to: C118F #1097037
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    The original Fairchild Packet was the C-82, the later more powerful and modified C-119 initially used the name Packet but later became known as the Flying Boxcar with the USAF although the US Marines, thev Indian AF and various European AF operators continued to call it the Packet as did the British (spotters and the press). Whatever it was I bet it was noisy and vibrating.

    March 6, 2011 at 12:32 am in reply to: Monarch Hed kandi #495738
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    Google Images and Airliners.net are your friends
    http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4IRFC_enGB355GB355&q=monarch+hed+kandi&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1417&bih=716
    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Monarch-Airlines/Boeing-757-2T7/1375650/L/

    are they Monarch girls or models in the pics?

    February 23, 2011 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Great Scoops From Flickr And LIFE Archive #1108412
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    More flickr

    Nice one, pagen01….I particularly like the photos of the departure of King George of Greece on a Lancastrian on Heathrow North in Stephen Greensted’s set

    dehavillandflyer’s photos on flickr feature De Havillands fast and slow but also a rare set of aircraft in the Congo 1961…for example
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/9190123@N03/page4/

    and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon have a few of Portela Airport ca.1943…a sample http://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/4647575772/

    February 22, 2011 at 12:33 am in reply to: Boeing model archive #1110610
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    There was a swift glimpse of a 707 type with a seriously coke-bottle type area-ruled fuselage

    February 14, 2011 at 10:38 pm in reply to: Visits at Portuguese aviation musea #524321
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    Thanks, Padidiver…nice work…looks like a Harpoon and Ju-52 at the Alverca graveyard

    February 14, 2011 at 12:47 am in reply to: Gulfstreams Topic #501197
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    The Wikipedia page on the Gulfstream I describes a G.IC with a 3.2m stretch 5 conversions by Gulfstream ….are you thinking of the Canadian stretch to the CV-580?

    Very nice image Neil. I can’t bear the thought of a Gulfstream being parted out:(

    Have any of you king people got a pic of the stretched derivative of the G1? I believe it was a Canadian company that converted existing airframes. I’m not aware of who operated the relatively small number completed. I could of course, be imagining the whole thing!:)

    February 6, 2011 at 11:34 pm in reply to: Liberator 'Ticket home' #1129155
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    ‘Ticket Home’ crashlanding Heston WWII

    Broadening this a bit does anybody know of U.S.A.A.C WWII aircraft with this name….there was a P-47 or P-51 with the name apparently, but the letter mentions a Liberator

    February 5, 2011 at 1:21 am in reply to: Is Concorde really a "British" design? (2009 thread) #1131463
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    I suspect the internal ticket prices on all Aeroflot flights before the Soviet Union broke up were somewhat artificial.

    February 4, 2011 at 11:07 pm in reply to: Is Concorde really a "British" design? (2009 thread) #1131622
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    SSTs in ‘Classless Societies’

    Ditto for Concorde in Britain and France!! 🙂

    February 4, 2011 at 11:03 pm in reply to: BOAC Mosquito G-AGGF #1131630
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    LIFE archive photo of BOAC Mossie on
    http://tinyurl.com/5rbnxt9
    and a few BOAC Mossie related pics in Stephen Greensted’s flickr album
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7691137@N06/page7/

    January 26, 2011 at 6:57 pm in reply to: DC-4 or DC-6? #504569
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    The fact that its got prop spinners rules out the Canadair C-5 so it looks like a radar nose DC-6, probably an A, B or C.The US Military procurement was 101 C-118A for the USAF, 65 R6D for the US Navy (redesignated C-118B in 1962) plus the single XC-112 (DC-6 prototype) and the C-118DO President truman’s ‘Independence’

    January 24, 2011 at 11:37 pm in reply to: DC-4 or DC-6? #505298
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    Perhaps its a Canadair C-5 🙂

    Greetings All,

    It’s been quite some time since I posted here, but I figure this is the best place to start to answer a question I’ve got regarding the Douglas DC-4 & DC-6 airliners.

    In short, how do you tell the difference between the two? What are some easy things to pick out between them that could help ID the type…specifically from a head-on perspective.

    Background: I received a series of four painted wood pallets about 24×24 (inches) in size as a gift, and when hung up on the wall in the right order they display a picture of a vintage airliner from a head-on perspective. It’s really something quite neat to have in the living room, and I love how it looks. I’m just bothered because I can’t quite ID what type of aircraft it is.

    My guess is that it is either a DC-4 or a DC-6, but I can’t tell which.

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