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  • December 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm in reply to: Unknown – English Spitfire airplane #1097424
    Scouse
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    That tail flash running the full height of the fin looks more like something from an earlier date that any of yours. From memory it looks more like P9374, buried for so many years in the sands at Calais, but I can’t find a photograph at hand to confirm or deny this.
    X3485 is listed as a Wellington in my book, by the way.
    Welcome on board anyway, Vin, I’m sure someone will have nailed this before the night’s out: the level of expertise here is quite remarkable.

    December 28, 2009 at 11:44 pm in reply to: My kid met a true hero today #1098311
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    Couple of nice happy smiles there – they both look as if they’ve made each others’ day!

    December 27, 2009 at 7:47 pm in reply to: Birdstrike #425430
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    This has been widely circulated but bears watching again…utter professionalism on the part of all concerned

    757 vs birdie. This time the Boeing won.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg1lEXcm3oo

    December 24, 2009 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Merry Christmas Everybody #1100775
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    Same here, and let’s hope that Santa brings the presents you always wanted. But above all, be happy, be merry and stay safe.

    December 22, 2009 at 1:37 am in reply to: General Discussion #354912
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    I did physics at uni and it brings back memories of the intractable Hungarian-accented English of one of the lecturers in thermodynamics.
    The postscript to that is that a few years later I was introduced to a girl in Liverpool who, on discovering my background, persuaded me over a drink or three to deliver an impersonation of the eccentric Hungarian. Only when I’d dug myself right into the hole did she reveal that he was her father:D

    December 22, 2009 at 1:37 am in reply to: Physics simplified! #1920484
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    I did physics at uni and it brings back memories of the intractable Hungarian-accented English of one of the lecturers in thermodynamics.
    The postscript to that is that a few years later I was introduced to a girl in Liverpool who, on discovering my background, persuaded me over a drink or three to deliver an impersonation of the eccentric Hungarian. Only when I’d dug myself right into the hole did she reveal that he was her father:D

    December 20, 2009 at 10:34 am in reply to: New warbird flying in Russia #1104560
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    I managed to pick up samolyot (aeroplane) and istribitel (fighter) Add in a bit of sign language and we’re up and running in make-it-up-as-you-go-along aeronautical Russian!

    December 15, 2009 at 1:07 pm in reply to: The World's Latest Warbird, An Su27!! #1109095
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    The aircraft have been restored and relabeled (Russian placards don’t help English-reading pilots)
    http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1532-full.html#201675

    At the risk of going off-topic, does anyone remember that the MiG-29 that first appeared at Farnborough in 1988 was placarded in English? Anyone know why, apart from a Russian sense of humour? There was a theory going the rounds that the placarding was bog-standard Nato stuff, and had the Cold War had suddenly got hot the Russians could have rolled up at any Nato base and “persuaded” the local ground crews to do the necessaries. Or was that just paranoid gossip?
    I’ve got a negative somewhere I’ll get scanned in.

    December 13, 2009 at 1:44 pm in reply to: Carvair #1111440
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    They always got my attention when I was growing up near Southend and they regularly thundered overhead.:)

    Similarly in Liverpool in the 1960s when Aer Lingus used them. The engine note always seemed a little bit heavier and louder that the standard DC-4s and C-54s of the day: were they re-engined, or did the engines just have to work a bit harder?

    December 8, 2009 at 12:59 am in reply to: Pre Digital Aircraft Photos #464517
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    Yes, I see what you mean! There’s an even better picture of the same Farnboro flypast on airliners.net, btw. Obviously done on a top-class scanner and very carefully cleaned up from a properly exposed original.

    December 7, 2009 at 11:03 pm in reply to: Pre Digital Aircraft Photos #464523
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    Here’s another for the Victor fans, from Farnborough 1968. If anyone thinks I’m stuck in a 1968 timewarp, by the way, it’s just that most of my photographs from the mid-1970s onward are on negatives, and nowhere near as well indexed, alas!
    The C-135 at Heathrow was from the same Farnborough excursion. To this day I don’t know what it was doing there.

    December 6, 2009 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Pre Digital Aircraft Photos #464828
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    So all these aircraft at Abingdon, such as the Wellington, Defiant, Hurricane etc, were they airworthy at the time, or were they just stored there prior to going to Hendon?

    Someone at Hendon would know for certain, but as far as I’m aware the Wellington and Defiant last flew in the late 40s or possibly early 50s. Don’t know about the Hurricane.

    I’m pretty sure they weren’t Abingdon residents, either, just brought in for the show.

    December 6, 2009 at 2:14 pm in reply to: Engine Rotation Direction #1117883
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    Weren’t the Merlins in the Hornet handed? I’m not sure if they count as limited production.

    December 5, 2009 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Pre Digital Aircraft Photos #464868
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    This lot are also from Abingdon, but the Battle of Britain display in September 1967. Not as good quality I’m afraid, from the days when as a 15-year-old I couldn’t afford an SLR.
    We had (still have) family only about 5 miles from Abingdon, so my dad hardly needed much persuasion to pop down and see his sister at the drop of a hat!

    December 5, 2009 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Pre Digital Aircraft Photos #464934
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    Can’t throw any light on the Hurricane but pic 4 is a Valetta, VW197. According to the Air Britain website, it was broken up at Birmingham in about 1991.

    Edit: Got it. It’s P2617, now at Hendon. You can read the serial on the original slide, just.

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