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  • July 16, 2012 at 9:43 pm in reply to: another great find in Russia: C-47 #952667
    Scouse
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    Quick Google search throws up 42-32892, c /n 9118. To USAAF Feb 24 1943, to Russia Feb 12 1943.
    No, I don’t understand the sequence of dates either!

    July 3, 2012 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Bomber Command Documentary – 3 July #969820
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    Just seen it and it was a good ‘un. Catch it if you can.
    Lovely interviews with some of the old boys, and no major technical howlers that I spotted.

    June 25, 2012 at 1:10 pm in reply to: What Britain used to look like from the air #981943
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    The main site is here
    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/
    but beware, demand is such that it’s crashed:eek:

    June 6, 2012 at 11:51 am in reply to: WWII RAF in colour #1005700
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    I’m pretty sure some of these are Charles E Browns, especially the Avenger, Spiteful, Firebrand and the air to air Firefly. Good to see them again, though I’m not sure about the copyright position.

    June 2, 2012 at 10:06 pm in reply to: BEA Tristar a Glasgow 1972 #1009833
    Scouse
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    And here is the other side, in Eastern livery, spotted at Gatwick on August 17 1972.

    (Edit)…err, hang on, it’s the same side. D’ohhh..can anyone throw light on it?

    May 23, 2012 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Blimey I wouldn't want to get on this guys bad side #1017171
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    Of course, it’s ever been so. Agincourt, 1415. After three hours of bloody, ****ty and muddy hand to hand combat the English were gaining the upper hand and had taken many French prisoners.

    Then news arrived of a possible French rally.

    ‘In this crisis, Henry gave the only order possible…he commanded his men to kill all except their most eminent prisoners “lest they would involve us in utter disaster in the fighting that would ensue.” ‘

    (From Agincourt, by Juliet Barker)

    ‘****ty’ is quite deliberate, by the way. Dysentery was rife, and even though it sounds like a bad joke, people did have the uncontrollable trots in full suits of armour. Not nice.

    May 22, 2012 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Blimey I wouldn't want to get on this guys bad side #1017545
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    Taken the words out of my mouth, but let’s not squabble about it, please. And thanks to the old boy for being so straight about it all.

    Were the attacks on parachuting air crew referred to by Peter sanctioned from above? I’m not so much thinking about people who’d bailed out of bombers over enemy territory, who were almost certain to end up as PoWs, more fighter pilots defendimng their own territory. It may by cynical and cold-blooded, but during the Battle of Britain it would have suited the Luftwaffe to have destroyed both the RAF fighter and its pilot, who otherwise could have back in another cockpit very soon.
    Same argument could apply, of course, to the air war over Germany in the closing stages…

    May 15, 2012 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo for sale #1021068
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    A Google search throws up this picture in Wikimedia Commons (which means it’s OK to use it here):

    May 15, 2012 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Brewster F2A-1 Buffalo for sale #1030368
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    A Google search throws up this picture in Wikimedia Commons (which means it’s OK to use it here):

    May 14, 2012 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Seeing more classic civilian aircraft. #1022313
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    Years ago, you could identify an approaching car before you saw it… )

    Especially a side-valve Ford or a BMC B-series engine

    (Apologies for nostalgia-drift:D)

    May 14, 2012 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Seeing more classic civilian aircraft. #1031815
    Scouse
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    Years ago, you could identify an approaching car before you saw it… )

    Especially a side-valve Ford or a BMC B-series engine

    (Apologies for nostalgia-drift:D)

    May 11, 2012 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Cranfield 1971: Part Two #1024960
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    That’s definitely a Napier Naiad at the back of the engine collection, with the cropped propeller. In 1982 it went to the Science Museum.
    It certainly looks like a Clyde to its right, though I always thought there were no survivors. Can anyone confirm?

    May 11, 2012 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Cranfield 1971: Part Two #1034927
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    That’s definitely a Napier Naiad at the back of the engine collection, with the cropped propeller. In 1982 it went to the Science Museum.
    It certainly looks like a Clyde to its right, though I always thought there were no survivors. Can anyone confirm?

    May 2, 2012 at 10:52 am in reply to: VC10 IS 50 #1047987
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    Anyone else out there got one of these?

    May 2, 2012 at 10:35 am in reply to: Flt/Sgt G W Hooper #1048024
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    The chap on the family history forum is absolutely delighted and sends his thanks. Seems he’d been banging his head against a brick wall for a while – you just need to ask in the right place!

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