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November 12, 2006 at 9:10 pm in reply to: Flying Dutchman – photographer extraordinaire #458450

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RobAnt is right, but they’re cracking pictures and I’d rather see them in the ‘wrong’ forum than not at all.

William

November 11, 2006 at 12:16 am in reply to: Oddest looking aircraft #1311583

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zishelix and WP840, you’ve made me come over all nostalgic at the sight of a Breguet Deux Ponts. OK, then, Duck Pond with apologies to our French friends.
And that after having seen one just once, hauling itself out of Heathrow at the crack of dawn one summer morning on a late 1960s planespotting marathon. A sight never forgotten.

William

November 10, 2006 at 10:05 pm in reply to: RAF Abingdon – Jubilee Show 1968 #1311794

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I was there with my newly-bought Practika Nova SLR and came back with the thick end of 100 slides – a big expense for a 16-year-old.
I’ll have a look and see if there’s one that fits the description. Can’t make any promises though.

William

November 9, 2006 at 5:41 pm in reply to: Oddest looking aircraft #1313897

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Ermmm,

How about the Amiot 143 for starters:

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/amiot.html

and our old friend, the Blohm und Voss Bv141

http://members.fortunecity.com/phreke/cs/bv141.htm

William

November 8, 2006 at 1:01 am in reply to: Fury Trainer #1316237

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It can’t be a scouse mod, it’s still got its wheels on.

I’m keeping well out of this one!

William

PS I rather seem to recall that in the early 70s a Liverpool company (AP?) was making aftermarket wheels for Indian MiG-21s. Rather flies in the face of the predicatable jokes, doesn’t it?

November 4, 2006 at 2:20 am in reply to: ID anyone? (WW2) #1321074

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By jingo, they don’t make ’em like that any more. Actually, I suspect that Armours in Bournemouth probably do, but this is an aviation forum and not an old bikes one, so I’ll shut up.
My money’s still on a Typhoon.

William

November 3, 2006 at 1:53 am in reply to: General Discussion #344273

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If you actually do manage to take off by a broom, can you be accused of flying in controlled airspace without permission? Or flying on a device not certified as airworthy?

What about insurance? Or maybe in a magical world insurance can be retrospective :dev2:

William

November 3, 2006 at 1:53 am in reply to: Is transvection legal? #1943035

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If you actually do manage to take off by a broom, can you be accused of flying in controlled airspace without permission? Or flying on a device not certified as airworthy?

What about insurance? Or maybe in a magical world insurance can be retrospective :dev2:

William

November 2, 2006 at 11:57 pm in reply to: ID anyone? (WW2) #1322647

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Definitely either a Typhoon or Tempest V. Just look at the undercarraige doors.
As the picture has been framed tightly around the pilot, I reckon it’s prety well impossible to tell one from the other. On the grounds that there were more Typhoons than Tempest Vs, I’d go for a Typhoon as the more probable.

William

October 21, 2006 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Wikipedia clanger in need of correction #1334316

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Still can’t find the Gunston book. I might just remove the US-built Spitfire reference and leave it at that. I presume the reasons for the Packard licence were (a) to provide a source of Merlins far removed from the threat of German acton and (b) to supply the Canadian Hurricane and Lancaster lines. Anyone reckon they know better? I also see from my Hurricane book that Packards were available from 1941, and not 43.
Even so, “presume” isn’t really a good enough reason to start modifying the entry, though, in my opinion.

William

October 19, 2006 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Ebay ALERT #1246961

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[QUOTE=Phantom Phixer]Yep definately czech markings.

Ive heard of a guy who has got a number of russian types including a few Hinds and I think Sukhois (or similar). Wonder if this is the chap. I thought the guy Ive heard of was in Cheshire though. Maybe wrong.

QUOTE]

See this thread of a few weeks back:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=61446&highlight=broughton

William

October 19, 2006 at 1:20 pm in reply to: . . .and Spitfire relic trawled from the Channel #1247398

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Try this:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19490506-0&lang=en

Anyone know exactly where this item was found?

William

October 15, 2006 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Power Jets without Rover? #1250787

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In effect they did. It’s well documented how Rover and Rolls-Royce agreed mid-war that the jet project would be better off under RR’s wing, and a swap of factories and projects (and some personnel) was done.
So maybe the answer is that development would have been a year or so faster. Hmmm…Meteors in service in 1943 – that’s an intruiging bit of ‘what if’ history.

William

October 15, 2006 at 1:55 am in reply to: Gloster E28.39 Drawings. #1251209

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Will it be at…..

[wearily and languidly] It’s a jet, dear boy.

William

October 11, 2006 at 11:09 pm in reply to: The WAAF who flew on a Spitfire tail… #1254913

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Is the Spitfire she hung onto still flying in the uk?

None other than the BBMF’s AB910.

William
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