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  • July 1, 2004 at 9:19 pm in reply to: Me 262 pics #1595272
    station357
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    Thanks for posting the photographs, Roger.

    The third photograph could almost be a training flight in 1945, with an Alpine backdrop…

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 29, 2004 at 10:08 pm in reply to: MS Joysticks… HELP!!! #254119
    station357
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    I’ve owned a Logitech Wingman Extreme 3D Digital for about 18 months now. Can’t seem to calibrate the twist (rudder) now. 😡
    OK towards the right, but not to the left. Anyone else had the same problem?

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 29, 2004 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Pics from Canada #1604078
    station357
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    Shame the Beaufighter is sitting outside. Will this go indoors on completion of the extension work? Nice pictures by the way.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 28, 2004 at 9:14 pm in reply to: Errrr ! #437172
    station357
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    “Don’t worry dear, I missed the speed camera, so I shouldn’t get any points on the licence…”

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 28, 2004 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Large piston multi over London? #1606460
    station357
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    Ask the Commercial guys next door, perhaps they may have seen it?

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 24, 2004 at 7:09 pm in reply to: Wet day at Kemble – Harrier #1611424
    station357
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    “As the dry ice clears, Farnborough proudly unveils the Eurofighter replacement…” 😉

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 20, 2004 at 3:03 pm in reply to: What is this plane? #437447
    station357
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    why do aircraft need flaps down for take off anyway?

    Flaps have the benefit of generating additional lift during the take-off phase.

    Or, to put it another way, has the benefit of allowing the aircraft to take-off with a shorter amount of runway than with the flaps up or ‘clean’.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 16, 2004 at 7:25 pm in reply to: Blenheim rebuild #1792822
    station357
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    Any truth in the rumour that the Blenheim Mk.1 car was only recently discovered in a Duxford airshow queue? 😮
    And you thought you guys had a long wait to get in!

    It would be nice to see this nose incorporated on the rebuild though.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 13, 2004 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Seafire LF Mk.III RX168 #1798242
    station357
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    Thanks Mark12.

    I thought this would probably be the case. So give or take, allowing for productionisation, the costs would still be comfortably over £1.5m by today’s values.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 13, 2004 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Seafire LF Mk.III RX168 #1798441
    station357
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    If I sit and look at a freshly restored Spitfire, unemotionally in 2004, as an engineer and project manager in a parallel industry, I see £2m of engineering at sensible labour rates and a profit margin commensurate with the risk.

    Just out of idle curiosity, how much did it cost to produce a Spitfire in WW2 by today’s values? Even with the economies of scale I suspect it must still have been relatively expensive?

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 12, 2004 at 11:25 pm in reply to: German museum pics: Flugwerft Schleissheim (Munich) #1798906
    station357
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    I don’t suppose you know what the missile/launch vehicle is in the background of the jet row photo is ?

    Looks like a Europa rocket from the 60’s.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 12, 2004 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Wings & Strings 2004 #1799838
    station357
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    Thanks, DaveB.

    Well, it looks like I’ve got my sister well trained in aircraft recognition then. Good gal! 😀

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 12, 2004 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Wings & Strings 2004 #1799858
    station357
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    Anyone go?

    My sister e-mailed me to say she saw a Dakota flying low over my other sister’s house, and also 5*Spitfires. 🙂
    She lives in Loughborough, which is not far from Donington Park.

    Not a bad representation for the main Rolls Royce Centenary event, which also included a Rolls Royce car show.

    The ‘Wings and Strings’ follows this evening.

    The aircraft listing looks quite good: http://www.wingsandstrings.org.uk/pages/aircraft.shtml

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 12, 2004 at 10:46 am in reply to: Famous People In the Air Force #1800360
    station357
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    Clark Gable (actor) USAAF WWII (I think, can anyone confirm?)

    Clark Gable, USAAF gunner/observer 8th AF: 91 BG, 303 BG, 351 BS, 359 BG (Hermann Göring offered Luftwaffe pilots a $5000 reward for his capture, dead or alive).

    Taken from the following site: http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

    Also lists mainly Hollywood actors who served in the air force during WW2.

    Regards,

    Paul

    June 8, 2004 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Why Do We Shun Jets!!! #1806785
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    A&AEE Boscombe Down’s Buccaneer XW988 at RIAT in 1991. Nice scheme.

    Now in South Africa.

    Regards,

    Paul

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