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  • in reply to: BATA-marked Lockheed 10 en-route #926798
    Propstrike
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    Any pictures ?

    in reply to: Taming the Tiger, Moth Club on You Tube #846779
    Propstrike
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    I’ve enjoyed a bunch of these videos as well as the original.

    In the next week or two I’m hoping that the strips around here will dry up enough to fly my Tiger.

    Totally itching!

    Andy

    Dry up ! There has been no rain since March ! Do you fly out of a marsh ?:rolleyes:

    Propstrike
    Participant

    Think Sunday Sport versus The Spectator 😉

    in reply to: Raf Wickenby memorials stolen for scrap #851278
    Propstrike
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    That is really cheering news, thank goodness right has prevailed.

    in reply to: Shackleton WL795 #851984
    Propstrike
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    You are looking at perhaps 20 tons of aluminium at say £900 a ton, four Griffons, at maybe £5-10 K each, a saleable cockpit ( (£4,000 ?) , so I can see why a commercial breaker might well pitch in at £40-50,000.

    Moving cost after the JCB treatment are a lot less than moving an intact airframe.

    We should not even be thinking of scrapping such a historic airframe in 2015.

    in reply to: Doug Gregory DFC 1923-2015 #853162
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    Oh no ! This is the saddest news.

    A great man, from a great generation.

    in reply to: ME 109 G for sale #853829
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    At Hermann Historica , there is a ME 109 G for sale , it has been restored during a few yrs , looks fine to me!!

    Best Jabba.

    No link ?

    Standby………….

    http://www.hermann-historica-archiv.de/auktion/hhm59.pl?f=NR_LOT&c=9009&t=temartic_F_D&db=kat59_fahr.txt

    The “Yellow 1” and its history: the Bf 109 G-6 with serial number “441059” left in April 1944, the factory Vienna Neustadt, was delivered to a unit of Imperial Defence and crashed, probably in June 1944, after a dogfight with the US Air Force units in the vicinity of Lake Attersee in Austrian Salzkammergut from. Your pilot was able to escape by parachute. Several decades in which it went quiet around the wreck remained began to investigate to avid airplane enthusiast.

    Mid-1990s, there was a private initiative salvage aircraft parts, under the sometimes very severely deformed fragments there was also a fragment of the rear fuselage with original factory license plate, so that the identity of the aircraft wreckage was established beyond doubt. 2007 started with the construction of the Bf 109 G-6. A team of aircraft restorers analyzed the existing fragments and came to interesting conclusions. Although these Bf 109 was only completed in April 1944, she showed some characteristics of early G-6 models. On the one hand was on a fragment of the right engine cover so-called “bump” for the air compressor pressure cabin version of the G-5, which is found only at the first G-6 from the middle of 1943, on the other hand were found on the two (!) Lower frame members with the side glazing Ventilationshutzen on the outside and not the openings to fire the flare gun on the right side, as under the existing knowledge from autumn in 1943 standard. The information on the early version of the engine cowling led to the use of an existing fortunately original Bf 109-hood, which was combined with the restored “bump” the serial number “441059”. The salvaged trunk, fixed-wing and cockpit parts of the Bf 109 G-6 441059 been made ​​to ensure processed and integrated with the rear fuselage fragment with nameplate in a shell of the fuselage.

    Also present was an original chassis, which had to be only slightly adapted and original 660 x 160 tires from German World War II production in excellent condition, as well as numerous components which 109 G-14 were left over from the previous restoration of an applicant. Of these components and small parts, only those were used for the reconstruction shown to be installed in the G-6. The closing panel of the cockpit MG could be remade perfectly in aluminum after an original, arms cover in front of the windshield glass, however, is only slightly restored original G-6. For the interior of the cockpit as many original parts and instruments were used as possible so the foot control from the original material was manufactured for the lines along the left side of the cockpit wall, there were unobstructed, but already preformed tubes of a bundle of Messerschmitt-original parts The Vienna from the possession of a former aircraft mechanic of the Messerschmitt factory Neustadt come.

    The wings are made ​​of many parts of original material and wear old designer names from the 2nd World War, aileron, elevator and rudder were constructed from old parts new and expertly covered in special fabric and painted. The propeller blades were newly manufactured and assembled together with an original hub and spinner with an original nameplate. The restoration took a total of over two years now and was late October 2009 concluded with the patina of the surfaces. The Bf 109 now gives the impression of an airworthy machine that has just returned from a sortie. Previously, it was impossible to assign the work number in a specific unit. However, the location and the supposed time of the crash lead to the conclusion, this could be have been a machine of III. / JG 3 “Udet”, which was stationed in Bad Wörishofen and several Bf 109 in operations on the field the Ostmark had lost. For this reason, the restorers, plane the camouflage, the white fuselage band of Imperial Defence and the yellow / brown tactical number of III decided. To give group of Jagdgeschwader Udet.

    Condition: III- Limit: 150000 EURO
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    in reply to: Favourite aviation film moments #856429
    Propstrike
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    In Final Countdown, the F14 almost hit the water, and only just got away with it

    Quote from a forum. http://theaviationist.com/2012/10/25/tomcat-vs-zero/

    ” I was a movie critic in Washington DC when “The FInal Countdown” had its world premiere there. I took the military advisor to the movie aside (long time ago, details fade) and said “There’s a scene in there where it looks like you almost lost a TomCat. Was it as close as it looked?”

    He rolled his eyes and said, “Let’s put it this way. When we screened it for the brass, we cut that scene out of the movie.”

    It’s when a maneuvering F-14 gets a little behind the power curve and appears to almost pancake into the drink.”

    in reply to: Favourite aviation film moments #858280
    Propstrike
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    Oh well, here’s a few.

    Grumman Duck sequence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aED7xvYbMfw

    Engine start . flight of the Phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACjOvyx5hs

    Dark Blue world Train attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PABnJcx_cE

    great waldo Pepper trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ui8LUFNjMM

    Air America C 123 crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ui8LUFNjMM

    Dogfight in Biggles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INP3Wfxww7M

    The last one is John Jordan in his Stearman, and my friend Mike Peare in the Stampe, operating out of old Warden, and flying through the forest at Millbrook testing range near Milton Keynes.

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    in reply to: Former RN helicopter pilot traces all his old birds. #858365
    Propstrike
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    What a lovely story, and a bit melancholy to see the once pristine aircraft now shattered hulks.

    As for the ‘luxury’ Wessex, I think there is a Trades Description discussion to be had 🙂

    The article is so coherent it must be a copy/paste job, that the Daily Mail chimps have not managed to mangle.

    in reply to: Favourite aviation film moments #858847
    Propstrike
    Participant

    That gunner is ‘Frank Spencer’ as in Some mother’s do ‘ave ’em, otherwise known as Michael Crawford !

    in reply to: Chariots of Fire FW190 landing incident #858863
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    This was on the DM comments section.

    ”all the images were captioned correctly as supplied by me and then as displayed by REX…..after that however……and as posted by several people the 190 incident and the “explosion’ are completely separate in that the 190 did indeed have a brake failure after landing and then ground looped but is repairable. The explosion was a replica V1 made of wood, cardboard and fibreglass and was done deliberately for effect as the Spitfire flew by.”

    in reply to: Favourite aviation film moments #858879
    Propstrike
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    We’ve been here before, but that’ s not your fault 🙂

    I always enjoyed the low pass in the B-17 in The War Lover, just up the road from me at Bovingdon.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqkJccDx6xc

    in reply to: Chariots of Fire FW190 landing incident #858930
    Propstrike
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    There is no journalism to be seen here. It is a random collection of photos, assembled with odd quotes and phrases supplied by a third party who does have some knowledge.

    Literally anyone could cobble together this rubbish, but DM seem to have made a commercial decision to employ cheap computer operators with negligible abilities as it makes no difference to the popularity or profitability of the website.

    They may be correct, but it is still sad. The more information at our disposal, the more ignorant we become.

    in reply to: Chariots of Fire FW190 landing incident #859149
    Propstrike
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    You have to laugh, or else you cry !

    If the FW was blown to splinters like the photo implies, then it would indeed be beyond repair :rolleyes:

    And then to suggest someone would walk away unharmed………..

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