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October 31, 2014 at 5:45 pm in reply to: Happy birthday Avro Lancaster #913948

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The iconic aeroplane of bomber command as were the crews that flew in them.

October 21, 2014 at 9:24 am in reply to: The "Then and Now" Thread #924193

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Excellent stuff once again Peter. You make the imagination run wild. The best on going thread on the forum.

October 6, 2014 at 11:08 am in reply to: Greenham Common control tower funding for refurbishment #856325

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This is great news. I remember filming the Air Tattoo in the 1980’s. Sadly don’t have the footage anymore. Thought Greenham Common would be operational for ever at the time. I remember the campaigner’s outside the fence, and nuclear bunkers. Unbelievable to see what’s left of it now. Fantastic Airshow’s just about every flying machine on the planet were there. Stacks of barbeque burgers and Budweiser.

October 5, 2014 at 9:47 am in reply to: German Airfields #856777

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The problem was if we bombed the airfields they either repaired the damage or moved to another location close by within a couple of days and operational again within a very short time. Most airfields were grass with no concrete runways. As quoted in the Battle of Britain film. Turning on London could be the Germans biggest blunder. Leaving our Airfields alone.

Even with bombing the munitions factories they where back in production in no time. Look at the Dambusters, the dams were repaired in a few months. It is said that bombing of factory’s wasn’t having the effect. So Harris targeted the civilian factory workers by bombing the cities were they lived, there by reducing the work force numbers.

September 28, 2014 at 11:19 am in reply to: My crashed merlin engine #863440

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The first photo looked so real and convincing, till I read the smaller Merlin. Obviously a good deal of time and effort went into this. Excellent very well done!

September 25, 2014 at 12:11 pm in reply to: Red Arrows future at risk #867366

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All it takes is someone in Whitehall that’s not interested in the Red’s, is to use money as an excuse not to fund them as the country is in a financial mess so we are lead to believe, personally I don’t think so.
All three services have all but been obliterated now so where has all that surplus trillions gone? They have built two new aircraft carriers, why I don’t know, cant see we need them. They have no planes for them anyway. keeping the Reds going even replacing the aircraft with new ones would to me seem a pittance.

The B52 Has been flying for 50 years and they recon to keep them going for another 40 years.

August 21, 2014 at 1:52 pm in reply to: How to cause a traffic jam, using a British 500 kg bomb… #901170

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Amazing it still went off with such a big bang and could do so much damage after 70 years. Makes you think there are still a lot of WW2 UXB’s just waiting to be discovered. Time delay fuse bombs were known to cause more trouble than the ones exploding on impact.

July 23, 2014 at 8:36 am in reply to: Congratulations to Andy Saunders / Tangmere #928069

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Excellent News! Congratulations and good luck Andy. :eagerness:

July 16, 2014 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Peenemunde Lancaster DV202 remains – Daily Mirror report #930318

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I flew over this lake and the Peenemunde site in May in Spitfire T9 MJ772 from Hangar 10 at Heringsdorf. The attached photo shows the Peenemunde site upper left and the lake which contains the Lancaster wreck upper right.

Brilliant photo. I have always been fascinated about Peenemunde when you think the Moon rockets and missiles all started from here a very busy place, you can imagine V1 and V2’s being tested. To think those Lancaster crews may have seen this same shot. Love to go there one day I bet the atmosphere is still electric. Very moving story in the DM.

June 16, 2014 at 8:37 pm in reply to: Unexploded WW2 bomb discovered down the road #887238

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Great Stuff. Now lets see The Crabtree. Clock stopper. Liquid discharger. Oh and liquid oxygen. May need to steam out the explosives. I’m on my way. :eagerness:

June 4, 2014 at 12:02 pm in reply to: First time fire up BMW801 #898032

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I know he has at least two for his Tempest.

WOW! Will be staying tuned.

Thanks Bruce for the confirmation of this aircraft. There is a good description accompanying the video of this FW190 click “show more” its a very interesting read for those that may have missed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueDXiuU6aM

June 3, 2014 at 6:33 pm in reply to: First time fire up BMW801 #898546

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Kirmit Week’s Tempest will be the favourite for for that.

You mean some one is actually going to fire up a Sabre?

June 3, 2014 at 5:51 pm in reply to: First time fire up BMW801 #898552

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Can anybody give us a quick history of this particular aircraft.

I thought the Leningrad FW190 in a forest was another one in a different colour scheme. I Could be wrong though.

Quote, according to comment on Youtube.

The Fw190 A-5 above is Werk. No. 0151227 delivered to service in April 1943 and lost on July 19, 1943 from engine failure. It crashed in a wooded area and the pilot was taken POW. The wreck was discovered sometime around 1988-89 and it was removed in 1991. A full restoration was completed to airworthy in December 2010.
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June 3, 2014 at 5:06 pm in reply to: First time fire up BMW801 #898676

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Sounds awesome…..pity the person shooting the video could spare so little time once it was actually running!

I thought that too. Shame, it would have made music to my ears in surround sound. Would now be great to have some DB’s and Jumo’s fired up as well. Oh and a Napier Sabre!

April 20, 2014 at 11:59 am in reply to: Battle of Britain Images #931219

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That picture was in a pub I visited a year ago , the info with it didn’t mean much as I wasn’t from the area. I later looked it up and found the 111 came down 2 miles up the road from the pub. On a later visit I found the location of the pic., which hasn’t changed much.

There was a good vimeo documentary on this incident posted a while back cant seem to find it. Any help please guys would be most appreciated.

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