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  • May 3, 2012 at 12:31 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1046741
    Snoopy7422
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    Argh…

    Tragic to see this gem getting wrecked. Anyone got a Chinook handy…?

    May 2, 2012 at 9:00 am in reply to: Korea – Mig Alley 1950s – Chinese version #1048051
    Snoopy7422
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    Crikey…

    …and there was silly me thinking all the pilots were Ruskies…:o

    May 2, 2012 at 8:41 am in reply to: Memorial Flight Strutter #1048066
    Snoopy7422
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    Handy Cap.

    Open-cockpit, no headset, in a cap, breathing a waft of Castor oil. That’s flying…:)

    May 1, 2012 at 1:40 am in reply to: Items wanted for airworthy projects. #1049094
    Snoopy7422
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    Thanks For Replies.

    Jeepman; Thanks for that Link. It’s a bit of a beast! The Thompson-refuellers were fairly small self-powered three-wheelers. These are ideal in a small civil setting. The Zwicky refuellers were a lorry type tanker with several refuelling booms. I suspect these were also used by the RAF. The chances of either of these surviving is pretty slim…but one has to ask..!

    Avion Ancien;- No, I am still persuing that. I’ve been hampered by domestic pressures.

    Firebex;- Thanks for that Mike. I will see if they can help. PM sent re Kraguj.

    Please keep the replies coming, these parts are all needed to help get airframes up where they belong…:) Further down the line there will a disposal of surplus items.

    April 27, 2012 at 6:17 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1053061
    Snoopy7422
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    Speculation.

    A lot of speculation on this thread, most of it pretty pointless until detail are confirmed.
    Two quick points;-
    1. From the air, that bit of desert might have looked pretty good. However, mown grass often turns into standing corn on contact…
    2. If this a/c was being ferried with u/c locked-down to extreme range (An unlikely scenario in any case.), then it’s most unlikely that he’d have flown fully-armed with all that unnecessary weight.

    I’m sure the real facts will surface soon enough. 🙂

    April 24, 2012 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1058439
    Snoopy7422
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    Fingers Crossed.

    Great photos, but I hope this a/c doesn’t share the fate of Lady Be Good and end up as a tattered pile of scrap. As for a ‘time capsule’, well, you’d have to leave it in situ and …… Naaaaa….. Not another pile of scrap cluttering up a museum – puleeeease….:rolleyes: Lets hops she gets back into the air, or at the very least, into proper static condition.

    April 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Items wanted for airworthy projects. #1058579
    Snoopy7422
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    Tacho.

    Is this tacho any use to you?

    Thanks for that. I’m actually after the Smiths mechanically-driven type.

    Many Thanks for the offer 🙂

    April 23, 2012 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1060296
    Snoopy7422
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    Did I see tyre tracks..?

    The photos in the original Link seem to have gone now. I did notice however, when I originally looked at them, that there seemed to be some old tyre-marks, filled-in with sand close to the a/c. This may well mean that the pilot was picked-up. I rather doubt that the RAF would have bothered to recover a possibly tired and quite badly damaged a/c from so deep into the desert anyway.
    Lets hope the a/c survives it’s current custodians…:(

    April 23, 2012 at 2:49 pm in reply to: What kind of reaction would this idea get? #1060308
    Snoopy7422
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    It’s been done many times.

    The BoB film a/c were (over) weathered. ‘The Piece of Cake’ were too. I seem to recall even one or two of the BBMF had ‘cordite’ weathering at one stage. Schemes naturally weather with use and fade in the sun.
    ‘Bullet holes?. Now we are being childish… What about blood…? :rolleyes:

    April 22, 2012 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Items wanted for airworthy projects. #1061431
    Snoopy7422
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    More.

    ..more…

    – Percival Prentice Spinners. Complete or just front or rear shells.

    🙂

    April 22, 2012 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1061754
    Snoopy7422
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    So much for Photoshop.

    Like I said. Blindingly obvious it was real…..:rolleyes:

    April 20, 2012 at 7:49 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1065133
    Snoopy7422
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    Not that big. Bigger.

    How likely is it that an intact aircraft in that environment would not have been seen before now?

    Yes, the Sahara is big, but THAT big?
    It’s been a half century since the “Lady be Good” was found.
    I don’t think there are many surprises left to be found in the desert.

    The Sahara IS vast. Hardly anyone lives there. Stuff gets lost in it’s vastness. In one place you can see tyre tracks from the 1930’s. In another, tracks are wiped-out in hours and buildings and vehicles lost. During the war, the RAF regularly buried supply dumps. It was not unusual to lose them. The British authorities cleared the main battlefields of scrap in the years after the war. Did they scour the rest? The 99.99r%..? Of course not…
    As for looking on Google Earth…well, at full resolutiion, you’d probably spend the rest of your life scanning the Sahara, and then you be wasting your time, as the resolution is poor and many areas will have totally changed since the photo was taken…..:rolleyes: It’s the gap between looking at a PC and the real world.

    April 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1065279
    Snoopy7422
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    Should Have Gone To Specsavers…….!

    I wouldn’t like to comment on when those photos were taken, but I find the huge number of daft comments surprising. It’s obvious they are real -Blindingly so. :rolleyes: Argh..

    April 20, 2012 at 5:32 pm in reply to: Items wanted for airworthy projects. #1065402
    Snoopy7422
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    More Items Wanted.

    More items wanted;-

    – Pre-war Ratier electrically operated VP Prop’, 200hp range. SBAC No.1 splines preferred.
    – Original Spinner to suit above.
    – Motor;- ADC Hermes inverted 100hp motor, preferably the Cirrus IIB.
    – Propeller;- 2-bladed, metal, Fairey Reed, 84526A/XI, 5.88″ Pitch, 6.3′ dia.
    – Propeller;- 2-bladed, wooden, Z.255/2, pitch 6.42′, 6.25′ dia.
    – Propeller;- 2-bladed, wooden, Z.256/, pitch 5.58”, 6.25′ dia.

    One never knows……:)

    April 19, 2012 at 3:53 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1068157
    Snoopy7422
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    They Look Gen’.

    Those photos look 100% genuine to me. Parts of the Sahara are extremely dry. I was out there in the 1970’s, and there were various old vehicles from the war. There are no dunes in the photos, but in those areas where there are dunes, anything left will soon get covered with sand as the Erg moves. Much of it is not the classic sand dunes however, such as the rough rocky area in the photos and the mixed sand and gravel area where Bill Lancaster came down. Some is very rocky and rugged. It’s remote, huge, hot and dry. Not the sort of place where you wander around just on the offchance of finding things…..:diablo:
    Not the ideal sort of place for a forced landing…..let’s hope the pilot made it home.

    I hope they bring this one back pronto, at least it’s real and not corroded to hell.

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