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April 13, 2006 at 11:47 am in reply to: Can anyone identify this photo #1330230

Scouse
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Here she is in her final days on the Stansted dump. Although the picture is from my collection, I didn’t take it, so I can’t offer too many details apart from the obvious, ie Stansted mid/late 1960s.
Nor can I identify the gentleman apparently relieving himself!

William

April 12, 2006 at 11:14 am in reply to: Easter quiz (2) #1331215

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I’m a bit surprised that two of these went uinidentified, but here are the answers anyway.
From top left, Boeing B-17 (somewhere over England, Duxford-Blackpool, July 1978); F-111 (Upper Heyford, 1971); Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy, Liverpool about 1980; Shorts 360 (Over the Irish Sea, Liverpool-IoM, 1981-ish); Airbus A310 (Toulouse, December 1980 – thought someone would get this, or at least have clocked it as an Airbus); dH-89 Dragon Rapide (Liverpool’s gate guardian, April 2006. Not a real aeroplane, but a convicing replica from a few feet away. Close up you can see the difference – but why didn’t they make a dH-86 instead?); Bombardier Q-400 (Liverpool-Southampton, October 2005).

Have a good Easter everyone,

William

April 12, 2006 at 11:02 am in reply to: Easter quiz (1) #1331228

Scouse
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OK, it’s answers time. Between you all, you got 100 per cent on this batch.

From top left: HS 748 (somewhere over the North Sea, Liverpool-Rotterdam, November 1980); Yak-141 (Farnborough 1992); Transall C160 (Upper Heyford, 1971); Messerschmitt Bf110 (as flown by one R Hess, Duxford, July 1978); Airspeed Ambassador (Schiphol-Liverpool April 1967); Boeing 737 (Manchester-Gatwick, over Farnborough, April 2004).

April 5, 2006 at 12:51 am in reply to: Southend's most unusual visitor? #1335786

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Globemaster II wasn’t much better looking. Clocked one once years back – 1968-ish – in the binos trundling its way across southern England.

William

April 3, 2006 at 12:29 am in reply to: Air Force Two at Liverpool #579772

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Pedantic points accepted in the interests of accuracy! :p
However, as we’re going down that road, Baghdad-Liverpool ain’t the same as Liverpool-Baghdad. Anyone know better?

William

April 1, 2006 at 6:04 pm in reply to: The "But that aircraft never flew with that airforce"-picture thread #2603339

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Anyone got pix of the “USAF VC-10” (a film mock-up) and the RAF Coastal Command Antonov (Polish, I think) that appeared at the Air Tattoo a couple of years back?

William

March 28, 2006 at 1:46 pm in reply to: German aircraft strafing civilians #1336683

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I caught a re-run of a BBC programme last night (UK History channel) in which Max Hastings, usually a fairly sober and thoughtful historian, presented the American strafing of civilians at Dresden as fact.
At the risk of opening a dreadful can of worms, is there any incontrovertible evidence that this happened, eg squadron operations records or individual pilots’ log books?
If there isn’t, then chroniclers of the Dresden raids will probably argue until doomsday about what is fact, fiction or second-hand anecdote.

William

March 27, 2006 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Multiple Centauri in loose formation #1336918

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Only photographically. The original isn’t very good quality, and the gear has got a bit lost in the course of tweaking the contrast in photoshop.

William

March 27, 2006 at 5:05 pm in reply to: Just Javelins #1336935

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Here’s another one for the collection. XH909 at the Battle of Britain display at RAF Finningley, September 1966. A rather murky day, it was.

William

March 27, 2006 at 12:04 pm in reply to: First Flight #1337086

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Not so much a first flight as a first aeronautical memory. As a very small child I was reduced to a shrieking, bawling wreck by the sight and sound of a Sea Fury doing a rocket-assisted take-off. From what my father told me later, it would have been the last air show ever at Hooton airfield in the Wirral (now Vauxhall Motors’ plant) in 1956, when I was four. I can just remember it…
My father in his turn could recall Gustav Hamel flying along the Mersey in his Bleriot in about 1912, while his older sister could trump us all with a pre-Wright brothers memory of watching Samuel Franklin Cody’s kites in Birkenhead Park.
She served in the RFC and RAF, and even in her 90s took great delight in the inter-island flights in the Channel Islands – although what the Islander pilots thought of the old lady going into raptures about ‘dear old Rumpities’ (Maurice Farman Shorthorns) I don’t know.

William

March 23, 2006 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Air Wales scrap more routes: Going Under? #594926

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Yes, it is very sad that many people are suddenly facing an uncertain future.
I don’t think anyone on this forum would disagree with that. But there’s also a commercial point of view, that says that it’s time for an obviously creaking operation offering an at-best patchy quality of service to give up and let someone else have a try.
It’s not yet clear whether Air Wales has fallen on its sword or has had the plug pulled on it by someone it owes money to, but I don’t see that these opinions are neccessarily contradictory.

William

March 18, 2006 at 9:09 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1343527

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Many years ago – 1974 to be precise – I was co-pilot of a Ford Transit making its way along the northern fringe of the Sahara desert when this blighter appeared from the opposite direction.
If he really wanted a roof rack I’m sure he could have found one in the souks of Marrakesh or Tangier, so why was he trying to snatch ours?
Swiss Hunter pilots used to take a a very close interest in climbers and mountaineers, but when you’re half way up that pile of cornflakes that calls itself the Matterhorn the last thing you want to be doing is analysing the camouflage patterns on a passing fighter.
Some time later I had a chat with a Swiss ex-Hunter pilot and bent his ear a bit about this. He laughed and bought me a beer, so I suppose they’re forgiven.

March 17, 2006 at 12:43 am in reply to: Origins and outputs of Putnams, Harleyford & Macdonald #1345099

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Agreed – they’re indispensible. I’m glad to say I assembled a full set of seven volumes of Aircraft of the Fighting Powers when I could do so without taking out a second mortgage, and Warplanes of the Third Reich still amazes me with its scope.
Shame Macdonald never completed the small-format Warplanes of World War Two series, but you can’t have everything.

William

March 16, 2006 at 9:26 am in reply to: How the 'ell did he fly that home!!(old thread 2006) #1345735

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I actually recalled both Neil Williams’ name and the fact that he rolled back again just before landing the second I pressed the ‘post reply’ button. But that’s life….

William

March 16, 2006 at 1:31 am in reply to: How the 'ell did he fly that home!!(old thread 2006) #1345786

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Refresh my memory (‘cos it’s getting late), but who was the British aerobatic pilot a few years back who heard the proverbial sudden twang, and realised that the wing of his Zlin had failed at the root and was rapidly folding upwards.
He rolled the Zlin away from the failing wing which, given that the aerodynamic forces were now reversed, more or less popped back into place. He then landed the Zlin upside down, escaping with little more that an accelerated heart rate. Presumably his plane was a write off….

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