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  • November 16, 2008 at 10:03 am in reply to: Sea Devon C20 ID #1221257
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    Sea Devon C20 ID

    Well there you have it Steve, reckon Lee’s thrown another option into the melting pot! Now if you’d only taken the photo from a little bit of a higher viewpoint…. Air Pictorial magazine, of which I have a few kicking about, used to publish checklists of aircraft serials at events like this: it might be worth looking at a few for 1988 in the months after the show. Hope this helps. 😉

    November 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Sea Devon C20 ID #1222126
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    Sea Devon C20 ID

    Steve,playing around with the photo,(blowing up and into negative) I can definitely say it’s one of 771 Squadron aircraft by the badge on the fin (Three bees volant and two, proper. in heraldic lingo!) There were two aircraft on charge at this time, both based at Culdrose. To add a little element of doubt, however, if not XK895 it could possibly be XJ319 . Hope this helps, rather than adding further confusion. :confused:

    November 9, 2008 at 9:28 am in reply to: Alan Hall – RIP #1228638
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    I only met him once at Mildenhall, but I will never forget meeting him.

    RIP

    Tim S

    Likewise, I met Mr Hall once, at an IPMS Show in Perth, a few years ago. He had his Warpaint series with him : I’d been trying to get hold of the ‘Buccaneer’ Warpaint (then out of print) : he said he would look into the possibility of a reprint of that and several more similar OOP titles. Which he subsequently did. Thank you, Mr H.
    I have a fond memory of leaving him, surrounded by admirers, amidst clouds of smoke billowing from his pipe. (One could do such things in public places then, in less non-PC times.) We are left poorer by his leaving.

    November 9, 2008 at 8:56 am in reply to: Angels One Five #1228649
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    ……..which is perhaps why Joglo described him as a “stiff upper lipped Englishman”. But c’mon, it was half a century ago and so perhaps one shouldn’t judge by modern standards. If Mel Gibson can get away with it……………….!

    …Oh Yes, I’d overlooked him… AND Mel Gibson. Merci, avion ancien.
    … un Ecossais ancien 😉

    November 8, 2008 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Angels One Five #1229135
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    “Septic……answering……” Yes he was a Scot.

    …and never was there heard such a pseudo-Scots accent that makes true Scots cringe..apart maybe from that of Joely Richardson and Ian Holm in ‘Loch Ness’…but that’s another story…sorry , film! :rolleyes:

    November 2, 2008 at 1:41 pm in reply to: RAF Valley 31.10.08 #494106
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    It’s always a matter of opinion, for me the one on the right works better, I’d maybe crop just a little off the beach to bring the aircraft slightly lower: but I do like the overall effect very much. 🙂

    November 2, 2008 at 12:02 am in reply to: RAF Valley 31.10.08 #494121
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    Excellent shots Steve, thanks for posting. Such clear close-ups of the aircraft always welcome, but No 11 particularly appeals to my artistic side ; very well composed and skillfully framed with the moody clouds ; not much time to compose the shot : what would he be doing? 125 knots or so? : it would make an attractive poster. Cheers. 😎

    October 27, 2008 at 7:04 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1162944
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    The “Wot Plane” thread.

    Wot no pics? Come on Pimpernel…we’re waiting…:D

    October 26, 2008 at 10:59 am in reply to: Prefect TX1 WE992 #1163918
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    Prefect TX1 WE992

    A sister aircraft, WE 985. Maybe not what you require, but close! 662 VGS Air Cadets Gliding School. HMS Condor Arbroath,1965. Ahh! Fond memories of sunny summers (as per slide, but also cold winters), in an a/c with soaring qualities akin to a brick ****house. Regards, Brian S.

    October 21, 2008 at 11:33 pm in reply to: The High And The Mighty film #1167650
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    “The High And The Mighty”

    You’ll probably find yourself humming/whistling the theme tune forever! Good film, of it’s time, but imho we tend to get rather blase, and modern CG images and effects spoil us for the oldies. Good too, to hear the other incidental music…(of the four P&W Twin Wasps!) 🙂

    October 12, 2008 at 11:57 am in reply to: Last RAF air to air kill? #1179026
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    Last RAF air-to-air kill

    I think the last RAF ‘Kill’ was when a RAF Phantom downed a RAF Jaguar over Germany in 1982…………

    …Splash..one Jaguar.. not sure if this counts John, but here’s the culprit. The ‘kill’ marking has all the stigma of an ‘own goal’, I feel.

    October 12, 2008 at 8:56 am in reply to: Lovely day… #432314
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    Lovely day….

    …for a bimble

    It’s self -explanatory, I suppose, Bograt ,but would a ‘bimble’ be what I might have called a ‘jolly’, in days past? Where did ‘bimbling’, (presume that’s the verb) originate?
    Agree with Mike however, about the jammy git bit, never having seen DX from more than zero altitude! 😎

    October 11, 2008 at 4:28 pm in reply to: Fleet Air Arm Whitleys #1179766
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    Fleet Air Arm Whitleys

    Steve, don’t know how I managed it… my careless cutting and pasting probably,but the thread on Wartime scrappings has some relevance to this thread. (And, by the way, there is at least one Barracuda panel at the Museum of Flight, East Fortune. I’ll dig out a photo of it that I have.I’ll probably post that on the other thread!) Regards, Brian

    October 11, 2008 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Wartime Scrappings #1179768
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    Fleet Air Arm Whitleys

    There was another bomber scrapping ground on the Black Isle to the north of Inverness, possibly a satellite of the Kinloss MU.
    Also Balado Bridge, No Whitley’s were broken up there, I did hear of a story of Barracudas, fresh from the factory, having their engines removed and then lined up and a bulldozer driven over them to break them up.

    Steve, I did Google ‘Balado Bridge + Whitley’ and was guided back to this forum : taken from a post last month, if you search you’ll find the thread: probably correct info on the Whitleys. As a youngster I recall seeing from windows of passing trains what I now know were Seafire wings stacked up in the yard at Balado Bridge/Milnathort. I never did have the opportunity, or the desire then, to get any closer.
    From Cher’s once-popular song however…(breaks into tuneless melody) …If I could tu-r-n-n back ti-ime ….. enough of that ! :rolleyes: Regards, Brian

    October 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Fleet Air Arm Whitleys #1182655
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    Steve, Air-Britain’s Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939-1945,( Ray Sturtivant/ Mick Burrow) lists quite a number (16) Whitley V’s, with serials : transferred from the R.A.F, and in service from 1942 through to 1946, and also includes a photo of one from 734 Squadron, Worthy Down.
    Hope this helps…I haven’t ‘Googled’ this either. Regards, Brian S.

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