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July 6, 2011 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Hawker Harrier GR7 ZG532 – 86 3(F)Sqn #1038552

Jayce
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Try PPRuNe – Military Aircrew, though expect to be grilled on why you want to know before anyone may offer an answer.

July 5, 2011 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Spitfire mystery (from 2004) #1041516

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Dan,

At the time of the BoB film, and to the dismay of many, all participating aircraft had the stubs on the ‘chimney pot’ casting sawn and chain drilled off flush to represent early aircraft fitted with 8 Brownings. Sacrilege – 😡 So anything used in the film is suspect. When you think they later went on to represent Hurricanes with Buchons – crazy!

Mark

Ahhh, I have an old photo of Neil Williams flying a ‘shroudless’ ‘434 and had wondered for many years why they were missing.

July 5, 2011 at 12:14 pm in reply to: RAFBF East Kirkby Airshow 2011 #1042240

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One of the down sides of Bomber Command building out in the countryside, EK is compass boxed by poultry farms!

July 4, 2011 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1043398

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Thanks, James!

July 4, 2011 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1043544

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Merlin P40s? Forgive my ignorance, but I never imagined there was such a shortage of Allinsons that there’d be call for that.

What am I missing? 😀

PS; Well you live and learn. I had no idea the P40F had a Packard Merlin!

July 2, 2011 at 7:56 am in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1047373

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Definitely the same spade grip, the patina matches. Although it it appears to have been slighty retouched as well as remounted.

July 1, 2011 at 8:24 am in reply to: Canadian based Spit Mk IX returning to the UK (?) #1049364

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Am I reading that right? Three consecutive serials?

June 30, 2011 at 7:31 am in reply to: Canadian based Spit Mk IX returning to the UK (?) #1051662

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My bad, I should’ve said that I don’t think there are any Mk.Is (currently being rebuilt and associated with Peter Monk) still at Duxford!

Unless ‘4650 is back..?

June 30, 2011 at 5:49 am in reply to: Canadian based Spit Mk IX returning to the UK (?) #1051680

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are these different Spitfire I’s to the ones being restored at Duxford? How many in total?

I don’t believe there are any at Duxford right now since ‘4650, departed. The bulk of them are under the umbrella of Mark One Partners but I don’t know the exact number. I think they’re all at Sandown.

June 27, 2011 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1056371

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Very much doubt it

You never know…

Does Ken Ward still have that front turret?

June 27, 2011 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Duxford, Again…. #1056516

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Hi Cees,
I took some more photos of the Fraser Nash Turret this week if they are any use.They are busy on Mary Alice so no-one seemed to be working on it.

Lets see, a forward fuselage and two Pegs at Brooklands, wings at East Kirby, tail plane at Morton in Marsh and that turret. I sense a a future Wimpy project… if someone can round all those up!

June 24, 2011 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Canadian based Spit Mk IX returning to the UK (?) #1060377

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If she so does that mean she is joining TA805 and becoming “The Kent Spitfires”?

Flipping heck! How many is that now? Is Peter trying to build his own squadron! 😀

June 24, 2011 at 10:10 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1060429

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Zero-timed Merlins ‘found’ on an airfield – a unique opportunity !

He’s having a laugh if he thinks anyone would a pay a runner price for an engine with zero paper work!

June 16, 2011 at 9:04 pm in reply to: Info request. 603 Squadron 1940 Spitfire Photos #1072470

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There is a photograph of XT*M /X4277 on page 11 of Wojtek Matusiak’s Polish Wings 6 Supermarine Spitfire I/II. Looks like it has been cropped.

Interesting. Richard Hillary’s ‘Shredni Vashtar’, IIRC.

June 16, 2011 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Info request. 603 Squadron 1940 Spitfire Photos #1072471

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Thats why I was asking for photos mid to late 40s.

Its P7550. I think she would be the only W on the squadron at that time. As far as I can make out she was a BoB aircraft and came to grief with Bernard Clare Webber at the controls 31/12/1940.

Looking for photos of P7550 as XT-W with or without pilot. I would also like to find a photo of Webber but I know this might be a long shot.

P7550 was a Mk.II so would have been among the ones they began to recieve in Oct/Nov 1940 (so post BoB technically.) If she crashed at the end of December, she would have been with the squadron no more than 6-8 weeks, not a big window to be photographed I would think.
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