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March 31, 2025 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Location of Hanover Street Mitchells #1155284

TonyA
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Big Bad Bonnie

Big Bad Bonnie’s at Chino with Dave Tallichet’s collection isn’t it?

( and I’ve just checked with Wikipedia which agrees!)

Tony Andrews

December 1, 2012 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Me 410 engine run? #950961

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Focke Wulf 190

Here’s a video I recorded of the Focke-Wulf. Probably in 1987??

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oaJghobb1M

Tony Andrews

February 6, 2012 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Mossies x 2, happy days #1072225

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Mosquito Museum

A rather grey day at Salisbury Hall, I seem to recall

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December 16, 2011 at 12:30 pm in reply to: RAF Coningsby Airshow 13/6/92 #1057771

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Phantom Formation

Air Britain News describes the Phantom formation as being from Watttisham for the Queen’s Birthday Fly-Past, ” due over Buckingham Palace at 1300 hours,then on to Duxford, Wyton, displayed at Coltishall and back [at Wattisham] in time for tea.” (they obviously didn’t know about them visiting Coningsby!)

Phantoms in the formation are listed as:

56 Sqdn: XT903/X, XV422/T, VX424/I, XV460/R, XV467/F, XV470/BD, XV473/N, XV494/A

74 Sqdn: XV423/Y, XV433/E, XV465/S, XV469/N, XV474/T, XV487/G, XV497/W, XV499/I

plus 5 airborne spares: XV415/E, XV468/H, XV494/O, XT892/J, XT896/V

Flying participants in the Coningsby Open Day are listed as:
Catalina G-BLSC, Harrier GR5 ZD401/AA, Harrier GR7 ZD432/N, Hawk T1 XX230, Hawk T1 XX281, Phantom FGR2 XT914/Z, Phantom FGR2 XV393/Q, Tornado F3 ZE339, Provost WW397, Bulldog XX713, Jaguar GR1A XX965

Tony Andrews

September 18, 2011 at 10:14 am in reply to: Starfighters at Airshow – Can anyone ID the airshow? #498398

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IAT 1985

I should have expanded:

The photo shows 4 aircraft with the same tail badges and then two with a different badge. The Fairford 1985 attendance log lists 5 starfighters from one unit, two of which match with the front two in this photo. The log shows four of the five being on the North side and the other South. Additionally there are 5 other German Starfighters shown as present including three from the German Navy display team.

This photo shows 4 from one unit including the identifiable ones from above:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1199378/

This one shows a static line-up from the opposite end:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1199558/

Looks about right.

Definitely nothing comparable in the lists I have from Greenham 1983

Tony Andrews

September 17, 2011 at 6:46 pm in reply to: Starfighters at Airshow – Can anyone ID the airshow? #498596

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Starfighters

I think it’s Fairford in 1985. The attendees list shows 5 German Air Force Starfighters from the same squadron including 26+37 and 25+18

Tony Andrews

August 9, 2011 at 10:23 pm in reply to: BoB Spitfire formation at Duxford in 2000 #1061946

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Huh, I’ve always had it in my head that 614 was present as static, ( I don’t think it had it’s permit to fly, yet) but I’m probably misremembering.

Maybe “AR654”? – which was Mk VIII G-BKMI’s identity at the time.

Tony Andrews

August 9, 2011 at 9:41 pm in reply to: BoB Spitfire formation at Duxford in 2000 #1062088

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Duxford 2000 Battle Of Britain Display

20 flying each day according to Flypast and 22 present in total. I think your list is missing PL983, SM832, MK912 for the attendees.

MK912 was static only. According to the show report MK356 flew Saturday only and MK732 only on Sunday.

All made complicated by the fake Pearl Harbor codes on several aircraft.

AR213 is definitely not listed as present and I can’t recall any sign of AR614 flying while it was in the UK.

Tony Andrews

December 21, 2010 at 6:45 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill Air Fair, but what year? #1109157

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Biggin Hill

Spitfire trio was 1989 as was P-38 Miss Behavin’ and also Doug Arnold’s F4U-5 N179PT

1990 had Sunderland on Saturday only. Here are the two Buchons:

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Tony Andrews

December 21, 2010 at 8:12 am in reply to: Biggin Hill Air Fair, but what year? #1109628

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Biggin Hill 1990

I remember the Sunderlan display now – and Tony Bianchi’s display in AR213 was superb – but how can BM597 hav ebeen there – it would have been at Audley End at that time (dismantled) and did not fly until 1997. Also, I’m sure Buchon D-FEHD was not there either (we would have been looking after it as we had the previous weekend) – its sole appearance was at Boscombe for IAT. :confused:

Have to agree about BM597 – AB got that wrong. The full entry is BM597/PR-O/G-MKVB, Would MH434, which is suspiciously missing, have been PR-O at the time or have they duplicated AR213 which was PR-D?? I’ll look at more pics later.

I’ve got photos of D-FEHD as 15+< so that must be a definite yes

Tony Andrews

December 20, 2010 at 10:41 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill Air Fair, but what year? #1109895

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Biggin Hill

I’m not sure Tony – I do not recall seeing the F7-F there that year (or the Corsair for that matter) and I would certainly have remembered the former….

I’ve checked some more pictures and I’m 100% sure that all the aircraft in pictures 12-17 were at Biggin in 1990. Can’t be 100% about #11 because it could be 1 of several but for sure one or more Dakotas in those colours were there. Although digitised pictures could conceivably have got mixed up on the computer I’ve just checked some original slides and they certainly wouldn’t have the wrong year written on them. Independently the Air Britain report does say that both the Tigercat and Corsair (and others) were there.

The AB list is too long to type in but here’s an abbreviated selection of the more interesting aircraft (apologies for any transcription errors):

A-10A: 80-205, 80-271
Austers: TW536, WZ662, G-AHAL, XR244
Avenger: N3966A
Beaver: XP820
Beechcraft Duchess: G-OBLC (mis-typed in magazine – should be G-OLBC ??)
Buccaneer: XN972 nose, XT273
Buchon: G-HUNN, D-FEHD
Canberra: WH664
Corsair: NX1337A
Dakota: G-ANAF, PH-DDA
DH Dragon: EI-ABI
Harrier: ZD346, ZD348
Hawk: XX195
Hercules: XV291
Hurricane: XR-T
Jet Provost: XW359, XN637
Lancaster: PA474
Gemini: G-AKKB
Messenger: RG333
Pembroke: WV740
Piper PA-18: G-BROZ
Pitts: G-BIRD, G-IIIT, G-IIII
Scout: XT646
Sea Fury: WG655
Sioux: XT131
Skeeter: XL814
Spitfire: TB382 (as X4277), AR213, BM597, ML417, ML407, PT462, PS915
Stinson L-5: D-EONH
Swordfish: LS326
Thunderbolt: NX47DD
Tiger Moth: G-ADGV, G-AGzz, G-AJHS, T5424, G-ANFM, R4959, N6848, G-BFHH
Tigercat: N6178C
Vampire: WZ507
Venom: WR410, WE402

And, because this list is for the Sunday, they missed the Sunderland!!

Tony Andrews

December 20, 2010 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill Air Fair, but what year? #1110407

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Biggin Hill

I’d vote for the second batch being 1990 too.

In this case the Lynx would be ZD279.

On Saturday the Air Atlantique DC-3 was G-AMRA. Air Britain published a list for the Sunday and show G-ANAF as being present.

A lot of those aircraft were regular attendees and I haven’t thoroughly checked other years but my photo of the Lynx from 1990 looks in an identical spot to picture 14.

Tony Andrews

December 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill Air Fair, but what year? #1111253

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Hercules Biggin Hill 1990

Of the pictures above I have the following;

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3 – Hercules possibly XV291, can anyone confirm?
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Yes – the Air Britain report has the Hercules as XV291

Tony Andrews

November 24, 2010 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Bristol 188/TSR2 #1136769

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Scan

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The Bristol 188 is the one now at Cosford

Tony Andrews

November 3, 2010 at 10:56 am in reply to: Swiss Mustang… Double Trouble Two #1089283

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Actually I think it was the year before with a single day show in 1993.

Yep – sorry, I missed that one – I only checked the July shows.

3-4 July 1993 was the Classic Fighter Air Show but the May show (3rd May) was the Flying Legends Air Display

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