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  • in reply to: Information needed on fligth crash from 1985 #1412450
    Hot_Charlie
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    Rather the opposite – fire on the runway on take off.

    737 Airtours Manchester

    in reply to: Information needed on fligth crash from 1985 #1412453
    Hot_Charlie
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    Have you tried contacting the AAIB at Farnborough (I take it they’re still there)?

    Air Accidents Investigation Branch

    in reply to: Duxford today #1412472
    Hot_Charlie
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    Considering what had been made unavailable (BBMF, RNHF, Shuttleworth) due to weather, unservicability etc), I think they did rather well. Nice to the the SHAR display on last time, and at least we got to see Peter Vacher’s Hurri…

    in reply to: Duxford Today 06/05/05 #1413633
    Hot_Charlie
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    Did the Wildcat fly?

    in reply to: Spitfire IAC161 #237407
    Hot_Charlie
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    Yep – the banner is still on the Aeroplane Heaven site. I expect they’re rather busy sorting the patch for Just FLight at the moment – there Corsairs certainly being delayed…

    in reply to: First Casualty Of New Ins. Rules.. #1416892
    Hot_Charlie
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    Well, since I don’t have an MP at the moment, I’m going to write to Mr Darling expressing my views on this madness.

    Not that it will make a blind bit of difference. 🙁

    Paul

    Maybe we should all take a leaf out of Tim Robbin’s character from The Shawshank Redemption. A letter or two per week asking your MP how he’s progressing with his enquiries…

    in reply to: Bbmf #1421485
    Hot_Charlie
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    Well, they could have done, as Black 6 was and MoD owned aircraft whilst it was airworthy (it still is of course an MoD airframe), but obviously as Black 6’s team was (mostly) unattached to the BBMF they kept it seperate, and quite rightly too…

    I think Damien hit the nail on the head though

    in reply to: So what preserved aircraft have you flown in? #1421952
    Hot_Charlie
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    What about historic types still in service, such as the Harvard and HS748… Do they count?

    Flew in Harvard KF183 the other week, and as the tower at a well known museum in Cambridgeshire asked our registration, he was pleasantly suprised to find the pilot announcing “the only Harvard in military service in the world*”

    *maybe – although I suspect some are flown as members of historic flights…

    in reply to: Spit MkXIX in France – from monday to friday #1422388
    Hot_Charlie
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    That would be nice 😀

    in reply to: Spit MkXIX in France – from monday to friday #1422409
    Hot_Charlie
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    who is this mr R Goode?

    Richard Goode of Yak importing and aerobatic fame perhaps?

    Russian Aeros/Richard Goode Aerobatics

    in reply to: Spit MkXIX in France – from monday to friday #1422422
    Hot_Charlie
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    Whats the story with the Yak?

    Could the Yak coming to the UK be behind the reason the Spit was briefly registered to a Mr R Goode?

    in reply to: Duxford 30/4/05 (19 photos) #1424050
    Hot_Charlie
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    The Curtiss arrived a few weeks ago, The lettering on 434 and the kill markings have been there for as long as I can remember…

    … and the turret and bits… B24?

    Nice photos – some interesting ones there… Looking forward to next weekend now…

    in reply to: First Old Warden of the Season. #1424079
    Hot_Charlie
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    The commentary for the Barnstorming section was very good though, much better than the rest. Ought to sack the Tiger Moth pilot though. Can’t he do Limbo? 😀 😀 😀 😎

    in reply to: WWII Combat Spit marks.. #1425077
    Hot_Charlie
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    The XIX entered service June 44, and THUM closed (and the 3 XIXs went on to form what would evolve into the BBMF) in 1957…

    in reply to: WWII Combat Spit marks.. #1425092
    Hot_Charlie
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    The XIX would have been in service certainly during the last year or so of the war, and onwards til the mid 50s with THUM and in the far east…

    Other than that, Spits went up to F Mk 24, as the Meteor and Vampire superceeded the piston engined fighters in the front line units of Fighter Command.

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