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  • May 16, 2013 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Dambusters veterans today.. #990896
    Scouse
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    Well, I got to the Ladybower dam at 12 noon, and drove straight up to the visitor centre by the Derwent Dam where there was loads of parking space:) Oh the joys of being a motorcyclist – I did feel a bit sorry for the cagers (biker-speak for car drivers) who faced a fair old trek.
    A few sample picures here, plus a rather fine old Lagonda which somehow got in on the act.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/45494926@N04/sets/72157633510846042/with/8744992420/

    May 15, 2013 at 11:17 pm in reply to: Dambusters veterans today.. #991437
    Scouse
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    I’m certainly planning to be there, aiming to arrive about 12 noon in case there’s any hiking involved. From the visitor centre to the foot of the dam is only a short walk, but I suspect the best photo viewpoint will be from a bit higher up. To be honest, I suspect the spectators will be in the hundreds rather than thousands, anyway, to the parking may not be too bad (fingers crossed!)
    I may be on the motorbike as well – any excuse for a rideout!

    May 14, 2013 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill and Farnborough Air Shows 1968 #992910
    Scouse
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    And these are the Farnborough highlights. I’d just bought my first long-focus lens with my carefully-saved penniesand was a snap-happy as ever a 16-year-old could be within the tight budget for slide film. The originals are all on Agfa, by the way.
    One of the Comets is now at the Mosquito Museum at Salisbury Hall, and I’ve been told that the fuselage portion at the rear of the Comets picture is in fact the last remains of the prototype G-ALVG, usually recorded as having been scrapped a few years earlier. Can anyone comfirm?

    May 14, 2013 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill and Farnborough Air Shows 1968 #992953
    Scouse
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    Got them. These are from Biggin Hill 1968. There are some more, but these are the best ones.

    May 14, 2013 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill and Farnborough Air Shows 1968 #993117
    Scouse
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    I was at both of these shows as a teenage planespotter. I’ve got some slides already scanned but on another computer – watch this space!

    May 12, 2013 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Conman who faked pilot's licence flew British passengers into Gatwick airport #512229
    Scouse
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    I would imagine that somewhere within the Civil Aviation Act 1982 is a clause allowing him to be prosecuted as a UK resident who has flown passenger-carrying services into UK airports without the appropriate licence. Also perhaps a straightforward case of obtaining money by deception (ie his salary) from his employers, the offence having taken place in UK airspace.

    May 4, 2013 at 12:54 am in reply to: What mark of Seafire is this? #1002681
    Scouse
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    Mark IIC, going by the wing.

    April 26, 2013 at 12:49 am in reply to: What are these? #1010461
    Scouse
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    Yes, it’s a new one to me, and I’ve seen all the standard pics of P-51s, P-47s, P-61s, P-38s etc being towed through the streets of Liverpool. The reason I thought it was en route to Burtonwood because it seems to have been taken in north Liverpool rather than the south end.
    The source is here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=375696072518659&set=a.375695772518689.93635.117209091700693&type=3&theater

    April 24, 2013 at 12:32 pm in reply to: Surviving Hercules Engine numbers #1012364
    Scouse
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    The Bristol Hercules…..the greatest engine never to be flown in a single-engined aircraft!.

    I asked about this a while ago and was quickly disabused! Strictly speaking the Hercules never saw a production single-engined application, but there were the two Northrop test beds used by Bristol (a Gamma and an A-17) and also the Folland Fo108 all-purpose test beds which used a single Hercules to get them from A to B with a minimum of fuss when they didn’t have something exotic at the front end.

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    Hercules or Centaurus?

    Rob

    Centaurus, I’m pretty sure. Four cylinder apertures visible on the front row – the spacing is for a nine-cylinder row, rather than the seven of a Hercules.

    April 16, 2013 at 12:06 am in reply to: Discovery at Radlett #935449
    Scouse
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    The Halifax is PN323, and the nose is now in the IWM. More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkstreetparrot/6991226795/

    Edit: snap!!

    April 6, 2013 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Short SC.1 funny shot #941732
    Scouse
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    A good one to slip into a recognition quiz, methinks:D

    April 6, 2013 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Sydney Harbour Bridge – flying under during WW2 #941898
    Scouse
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    Has anyone underflown the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s British twin, the Runcorn-Widnes bridge? It’s about two-thirds the size of the Australian bridge, so clearances are tighter, and it was opened about 30 years after the Australian bridge in a time when the authorities would probably be less forgiving of any transgressors.
    Maybe I should ask if anyone has heard of a friend of a friend who’s flown under the bridge:diablo:

    March 31, 2013 at 12:32 pm in reply to: Leuchars Air Show on two wheels #946972
    Scouse
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    MightyOz, my biking mate says thanks, it was just what he was looking for:)

    March 29, 2013 at 11:12 pm in reply to: Leuchars Air Show on two wheels #947783
    Scouse
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    Thanks for that, I’ll pass it on:cool:

    March 26, 2013 at 10:31 am in reply to: John Cleese becomes de Havilland Comet #951641
    Scouse
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    Admit it – we’ll all be watching it when it comes out:D

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