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September 24, 2004 at 11:37 am in reply to: Info on the I-16 needed!! #1432448

Alistair
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There is a Red Star book on it by Yefim Gordon and Keith Dexter:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857801318/

Hope this helps

Alistair

September 14, 2004 at 1:32 pm in reply to: G-hhaa #1553648

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G-HHAC Did depart and return as planned apart from a weather hold on Friday. The aircraft is still at Cambridge as planned . We may have another tasking for HHAC, hence it will stay at Cambs until we plan to bring it back. If you want to know anything please ask, either through the forum or through a personal email, as it avoids speculation and rumour, I will always reply to any enquiry. The aircraft is serviceable and apparantly delivered two very good displays at Leuchars, despite the weather being less than great.

They *were* very good – thoroughly enjoyed them. Thanks to all involved.

Alistair

September 14, 2004 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Lady Parachutists 1937 #1553658

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The ‘plane looks like a Vickers Virginia or something similar, such as the Valentia (the engines look like radials)…

Cheers

Alistair

September 13, 2004 at 4:05 pm in reply to: Hendon's Supermarine Stranraer #1554775

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I’m really looking forward to this book – are you taking pre-orders, James? And are you going to be doing any more books on flying boats?

Cheers

Alistair

September 13, 2004 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Lancaster: The capital ship bomb variant #1554862

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The Tirpitz bomber from No.9 Sqn looks similar with a similar bomb bay, but the maritime special is from No.106 Sqn; Admiral Prune (W4118). It was one of only six aircraft modified for the Capital Ship Bomb.

Admiral Prune? Any relation of a certain Pilot Officer?

Cheers

Alistair

September 9, 2004 at 2:58 pm in reply to: Defiant Walkaround #1558188

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At the risk of being wrong wasn’t the turret fighter the result of introduction of the Hawker Hart, which was faster than all the RAF fighters on its introduction? As a stop gap measure to get a faster fighter, the ‘Hart Fighter’ was introduced, which became the Demon and was effectively a faster Hart. As the next generation of ‘planes arrived, someone decided they need a new turret fighter, with the Defiant being the result.

As a result, an emergency measure, became policy…

September 9, 2004 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Defiant Walkaround #1558417

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Did the Defiant have forward firing guns? Your photos don’t show any from the angles they’re taken. Did the pilot have any guns to attack with too in case the turret seized or anthing went wrong?

Also, did Boulton Paul ever have a go at designing further fighters after the Defiant? Did they make anything else as good or better?

The Defiant didn’t have any forward guns, which was its downfall as a fighter. Once the German aircrew identified it as only having turret armament, they just flew at it head on, where the turret couldn’t reach.

I’ve no idea why it didn’t have forward firing guns – its predecessor, the Hawker Demon did.

There’s been a couple of articles in Air Enthusiast over the past year on the history of Boulton Paul and how the Defiant could have been a good fighter – can’t remember the issue numbers offhand though…

Cheers

Alistair

September 8, 2004 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Ok Gents GDL has put me some up, So here 2 lucky 7s together,Have FUN #1558866

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Got to my books now – Top right in batch 1 is the BartiniVVA-14 (with the undercarriage from a Tu-22!)

Cheers

Alistair

September 8, 2004 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Ok Gents GDL has put me some up, So here 2 lucky 7s together,Have FUN #1559237

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Top right is an Ekranoplan – can’t give you the exact type at the moment though…

September 8, 2004 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Catalinas #1559380

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Ta much for this – I’ve been looking for something like this for the colour scheme for my Catalina model.

Cheers

Alistair

September 7, 2004 at 9:06 am in reply to: Leuchars Airshow – 11th Sep #1561006

Alistair
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I’ll be there with my better half and her dad.
Are they doing the special trains from Dundee this year?

Cheers

Alistair

August 31, 2004 at 1:03 pm in reply to: RAF Airships downunder? #1585498

Alistair
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Thanks Mark and Alastair,

Very interesting indeed. Had R.101 not crashed a great service would undoubtedly have eventually been formed. Another of those great ‘what if’s.

Cheers
Dave

My book didn’t specifically mention mooring masts in Australia, but it did talk about the planned route to from Britain to Oz and about the advances in mast design…

as for the R.101, it was apparently a bit of a duff design and over-weight (in part due to the plush carpets that I think the Air Minister, Lord Thomson, insisted on :rolleyes: ).

Thomson also hurried up the R.101’s maiden flight to India as he had hopes of becoming the next Viceroy and sought to impress the locals. Who know what would have happened if there’d been more tests…

The R.100, on the other hand, had a radical geodesic structure, designed by Barnes Wallis, which resurfaced in the Wellington.

(It’s a big year for airship anniversaries. Sunday saw the 75th anniversary of the Graf Zeppelin’s round the world flight and it’s also the 85th anniversary of the R.34 making the first East to West flight of the Atlantic.)

August 30, 2004 at 12:55 pm in reply to: RAF Airships downunder? #1593250

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Tonight on a NZ National Radio programme “Sounds Historical” in the today-in-history section there was a snippet about how on the 29th of August 1928 some representatives from the RAF arrived in New Zealand with a view of establishing an Airship mooring station for their airships to visit. Apparently it never went ahead because the Australians didn’t set up any on their east coast.

The question was put by the presenter, Jim Sullivan, were any set up on the west coast of Australia then? or was the RAF refused altogether by Australia?

Does anyone know, were any mooring stations for RAF airships ever established in Aussie?

From the date, it strikes me that they would have been intended for use by the R100 and R101. As the R101 blew up on its first flight and the British airship programme was then cancelled, it may be be cause of them never being used.

I’ve got a book on airships and aircraft that was published in 1930. I’ll see if there’s anything in it tonight.

Cheers

Alistair

August 30, 2004 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Swaztika on a Vildebeest #1593281

Alistair
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Sure it’s not the Audax with a Bristol Pegasus engine?

Nope, it’s definitely the Hart – there’s a very nice article here:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/07/stuff_eng_detail_hart.htm

Cheers

Alistair

August 26, 2004 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Sea planes #1604100

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It’s an Air Tractor, AG plane with floats. In various parts of the world they’re used to fight brush fires.

Thanks for the answer!

I think I’ve heard of them – didn’t the Greek Air Force used to have some for crop spraying (albeit without floats)

Cheers

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