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  • January 22, 2005 at 11:44 am in reply to: BBMF Winter Servicing 2 #1403249
    Bluebird Mike
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    Excellent pictures, thank you! Love the one looking across the Lanc’s No.3 motor. What’s going on that necessitates the removal of the mid-upper deflection cam? Wasn’t that built new just a few years back, as the previous one was ‘wrong’ somehow?

    January 14, 2005 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Hendon Founder's Day 1968 Flying Display #1423715
    Bluebird Mike
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    ‘Sqaudron Leader Johnston and his BRISTOLS…’

    You’d think the poor chap would have strapped them down or had them removed or summat…

    January 14, 2005 at 11:01 am in reply to: Hendon Founder's Day 1968 Flying Display #1424349
    Bluebird Mike
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    That’s interesting look about the Spit- listed as being from the ‘Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight’- in 1968? Further proof (there is more) that the BBMF was at least party known as the BBMF, before it officially became the BBMF in 1973!

    January 12, 2005 at 11:28 am in reply to: Locking Threads – A Dangerous Precedent #1430592
    Bluebird Mike
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    Well, I’m still stamping my feet waiting for Steve Connor to release ‘Flight Of The Blenheim’ on DVD, like he said he was going to!

    Remember that guy left waiting in the taxi cab in ‘Airplane’, and right at the end of the movie, he’s still there? That’s me, that is!!!

    January 8, 2005 at 6:21 pm in reply to: BBMF Pics #1435549
    Bluebird Mike
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    Mmmm, lovely pictures, thank you!

    Mononthefence, the 60th D-Day poppy has already been added to the Lanc- JT Rachel Warnes is shown painting it on in the Winter 2004 Linc Lanc Association journal.

    Still the nicest coat of paint the Lanc has ever worn!

    January 5, 2005 at 7:09 pm in reply to: For BBMF and Lancaster fans #1348256
    Bluebird Mike
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    Well said, that Hally-man!

    January 5, 2005 at 5:26 pm in reply to: For BBMF and Lancaster fans #1348658
    Bluebird Mike
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    Yup, Ray Leach was the Lanc’s Nav for some time I think in her early display days, and was also a Vulcan Display Flight Nav at some point, too?

    The above mentioned book is very well worth getting, by the way; there’s an absolute wealth of info about PA474’s early days in it.

    January 4, 2005 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Worst Airshow #1350496
    Bluebird Mike
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    The only airshow crashes I’ve seen were as a little kid at Culdrose in the early 80’s- a little Beaver I think it was just flipped right over into the ground- and then I saw the Mig29 collision at Fairford RIAT.

    The worst thing about that one was not the prospect of the pilots being killed- their instantaneous safe ejection was obvious for all to see- but rather, it was seeing the gut-reaction of the Blenheim crew on the ground beneath them, running towards their newly-finished Blenheim as if to throw their arms over it…now THAT I won’t forget.

    January 4, 2005 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Worst Airshow #1351244
    Bluebird Mike
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    *Loses dinner at thought of kid with helmet*

    January 4, 2005 at 10:34 am in reply to: botched-up archival footage in "documentaries" etc. #1352136
    Bluebird Mike
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    As underwater wreck exploration is another love of mine after WW2 aircraft, I’ll also step in here to say that ‘James Cameron’s Expedition Bismarck’ is a superb documentary programme, very moving and revealing, and is not to be confused with the more usual ‘documentary’ fare that gets churned out on TV these days. Given the extreme quality of the wreck exploration done, I can forgive the odd little bit of shoddy archive research!

    January 3, 2005 at 10:24 am in reply to: CWH Lancaster …..again #1353951
    Bluebird Mike
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    That makes a bit more sense then, cheers Paul!

    January 2, 2005 at 9:58 pm in reply to: CWH Lancaster …..again #1354625
    Bluebird Mike
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    Can’t argue with that then, unless they’re simply not allowed to say…until they are, sort of a thing.

    So, were our online colleagues from the BBMF simply winding us up, then? I have to say, if they were, it wasn’t very funny!

    Just what IS going on with this story, anyway?

    December 30, 2004 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Dear RAF Museum Hendon #1360484
    Bluebird Mike
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    There’s a Halifax in the Bomber Hall?

    (Goes off to fetch big torch to have a look)

    December 23, 2004 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Hurricane Mk1 – first flight tomorrow #1369198
    Bluebird Mike
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    Great news, and excellent pictures too, Gentlemen. That’s the kinda thing this forum is about- virtually ‘as it happens’ news!

    December 22, 2004 at 7:17 pm in reply to: Hurricane Mk1 – first flight tomorrow #1371180
    Bluebird Mike
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    Wow, what a Christmas present for all concerned that will be!

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