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  • May 4, 2012 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1044514
    Jayce
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    As I mentioned earlier, I’ve heard rumors of some substantial wing components in France but never heard any details or location mentioned in connection.

    Let me reformat this…

    Other:
    BR369; The rear fuselage Cees has been talking about.

    Actually it is RB396

    cees

    D’oh! I’m not dyslexic AFAIK… but maybe I should get myself tested….

    May 3, 2012 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1045869
    Jayce
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    As I mentioned earlier, I’ve heard rumors of some substantial wing components in France but never heard any details or location mentioned in connection.

    Let me reformat this…

    Major Projects:
    1) JR505; Brian Barnes, Coventry
    2) ‘Michelle‘; Jet Age Museum, Gloucester
    3) JP843; Roger Marley, Market Drayton.

    Other:
    EJ922; ex-Peter Smith
    R7708; ex-Peter Smith
    RB396; The rear fuselage Cees has been talking about.
    Duxford Cockpit section.

    Sabers are a bit thin on the ground too and the only ones in restorable condition I’m aware of are Kermit’s and the ones in the Smithsonian and the Science Museum.

    May 3, 2012 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1046186
    Jayce
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    I think there is a large element of truth there, but as someone who has worked with large reciprocating engines most of my working life, I know dust does not have to be visible to be damaging, given the volumes sucked into the engine. The Spitfire by the time of D Day was being produced with a filter for all theatres of operations, or at least the housing was in place. Its even more puzzling given a Typhoon or 2 were shipped to Egypt for tropical trials.

    Never underestimate the ability of the human mind to overlook the bleeding obvious…

    May 3, 2012 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1046192
    Jayce
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    I believe they’re members of the Polish & Egyptian team who first stumbled across it.

    May 2, 2012 at 4:49 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1047643
    Jayce
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    There was a Tempest with a Griffon, Mk.III (I think). Then there was the Tornado but that wasn’t a Griffon….

    May 2, 2012 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1047715
    Jayce
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    I recall a rumor of a pair in France, a few years ago but haven’t heard anything since, so you never know.

    May 2, 2012 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Hawker Typhoon parts. #1047754
    Jayce
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    It’s a shame no one’s been able to persuade the various parts’ owners to pool their resources. There’s probably enough out there to put at least one more largely original Tiffy back together.

    Then again, given the cat herding exercises group projects often become….

    April 25, 2012 at 7:16 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1056298
    Jayce
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    Not sure if this link worls but in picture 29, is that a parachute D ring aft of the trailing edge of the wing in the sand??

    Rigged it up as a sun screen/tent, maybe….

    April 25, 2012 at 4:55 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1057446
    Jayce
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    If it helps any, I’ve been messing with the contrast on some of those pictures and the aircraft is definitely marked HS-B, no trace of a visible serial though. Ironic given the pic posted by Mark Pilkington!

    April 23, 2012 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Richard Hillary's Spitfire #1059530
    Jayce
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    Thanks, Robert!

    April 23, 2012 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2012 #1059958
    Jayce
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    Apart from Tigercat, TBM, Lancaster, Swordfish, B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, A-26, P-38, P-39, P-63, Firefly, MS-406, Bf-109, Fw-190, Zero, most of the trainer types, most of the transport types………

    Duxford’s a great place, but a little sense of proportion is needed here I think! 🙂

    Ahh, but I wasn’t just talking flying from there but resident there. So I’m pretty sure they have most of the above. :p

    April 23, 2012 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1059962
    Jayce
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    Could’a been lost, could’a been a standing patrol looking for enemy movements way out there, Could’a been a pursuit…. we could speculate all year. Lets wait for the serial to become known and see what the ORB tells us.

    April 23, 2012 at 7:35 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2012 #1060921
    Jayce
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    Y’know with Snafu airborne, there can’t be many extant WW2 types that Duxford doesn’t see these days.

    April 22, 2012 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1061109
    Jayce
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    I hope to god the El Alamein museum has been made aware of it and is doing something. I get a sickening feeling it’ll soon on its way to becoming razorblades if they don’t move quickly… if it hasn’t already. 🙁

    April 22, 2012 at 12:09 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1062753
    Jayce
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    As someone who’s built all kinds of scale models over the years and worked with the real thing, I know what details and tricks of the trade to look for. I don’t see any of the usual signs.

    There’s only two ways it could possibly be a fake: Incredible CAD skills or incredible Panel beating skills and both with a lot of man hours in play.

    It’s either THE best fake in history or it’s very much the real thing.

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