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Bluebird Mike

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  • in reply to: Cosford Photos For Those Unfamiliar… #1432489
    Bluebird Mike
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    Hear, hear.

    in reply to: Piece of Cake #1432500
    Bluebird Mike
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    I too hope that ‘Spitty Ace’ is released, far more in fact than I would the slightly disappointing follow up ‘Bomber Ace’.

    in reply to: Cosford Photos For Those Unfamiliar… #1432830
    Bluebird Mike
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    I know I say it every time it’s shown/mentioned by somebody, but the memory of being not 10 feet away from the Me410 when it was ground running both engines at St Athan in the 80s brings home to me just how ‘dead’ museum aircraft are.

    Man, that thing ROARED!

    in reply to: Cosford Photos For Those Unfamiliar… #1432999
    Bluebird Mike
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    I too wonder how they will get the Valiant out- I don’t know, but I assume it was ‘built in’ when the Bomber Hall went up, like the Vulcan? One wonders how far a Valiant comes apart, and whether they’ll actually have to gas axe the thing to get it out the back door? And no doubt, poor old Sugar will get shunted aside yet again. Then again, what about the Halifax wreck? You’re telling me they’ll be able to get the Valiant parts past that without disturbing it, too?

    *sigh*

    in reply to: Piece of Cake #1433519
    Bluebird Mike
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    Yes, not long after it had been on TV, really. I then saw the odd copy in places like Smiths for a year or two, but have not seen them anywhere since.

    in reply to: Piece of Cake #1433711
    Bluebird Mike
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    LOL @ Cattermole, alive and well there!

    I’ve got it on UK-bought VHS, two separate tapes, 3 episodes on each; think it was out as a doublepack, too.

    in reply to: New built Hampdens #1352997
    Bluebird Mike
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    Arrrggghhhh! Another budgie perch!!!!

    in reply to: Halifax NA337 #1359195
    Bluebird Mike
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    Excellent pics, of a superb project. Wish it were in the UK, we could do with having a whole Halifax over here!

    in reply to: Hendon- a thread awaiting photos! #1383249
    Bluebird Mike
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    As a presentation for the masses as it were, I like the ‘Our Finest Hour’ thing, but agree entirely that between shows, it spoils the BoB Hall.

    Wish they’d decide whether Sugar’s bomb bay doors are open or closed, grrrr….

    in reply to: Halifax NA337 Spreads her wings! #1392465
    Bluebird Mike
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    To further archieraf’s commets re. the Hendon Halifax, I think a lot of the info boards at Hendon need replacing; when I took my wife there for the first time, that was one of the things that she, as an ordinary punter, picked up on; a lack of info, or at least, a lack of what she wanted to know as a punter.

    in reply to: Halifax NA337 Spreads her wings! #1395435
    Bluebird Mike
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    In the words of one Murray Walker, faaaaaannnTAStic!!!

    What an absolutely marvellous sight! 😀

    in reply to: Piece of Cake #1399120
    Bluebird Mike
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    After enjoying the TV version, the best thing about Piece Of Cake is taking the excellent on-screen voices/personas back to the book, where there is so much more going on, and so much more characterisation, but now all nicely given faces/voices by the screen version.

    in reply to: BBMF Winter Servicing 2 #1399158
    Bluebird Mike
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    Well following their mess-up with the turret fairing, I’d say they don’t always know best then!

    in reply to: BBMF Winter Servicing 2 #1399905
    Bluebird Mike
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    It’s a good point raised about an H2S radome actually; asides from the costs of course, I’ve never quite understood what it is stopping one being made and fitted?

    in reply to: BBMF Winter Servicing 2 #1401364
    Bluebird Mike
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    Cheers for the answer, Fluffy; hope BAE get it right this time- third time lucky!

    Maybe that round thing in picture 1 is some sort of new air-con fan blower for the hangar? Someone said it was an engine, but I couldn’t see it myself!

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