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  • September 16, 2017 at 5:53 pm in reply to: RAF F111K desktop model -found at Legends! #832878
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    I’ve never heard what they would have named it since the type had no official “nickname” at the time

    How about the Healey bomber? Flaps about a lot, overweight, over budget but in the end goes nowhere (for the RAF)

    September 16, 2017 at 5:39 pm in reply to: 'The People's Spitfire Pilot' Engaging with history, or ghastly PC tokenism ? #832888
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    I was going to say It’s the Royal Air Force museum, not an adventure playground or ‘Airforce expeience’ but a place of contemplation, study and remembrance, but the more I thought about it, it isn’t, it’s an aviation themed tourist attraction with all the pressures and competing demands to be ‘this, that and the other’ to it’s public and at the whim of its political and ‘professional’ masters. I’m not happy about it, but that’s the way it is. Money and politics

    September 14, 2017 at 4:12 pm in reply to: 'The People's Spitfire Pilot' Engaging with history, or ghastly PC tokenism ? #833748
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    I’m sorry, I’m going to sound like a right reactionary twonk but “showcasing the RAF experience” :sick:
    Can we just have a ‘head of shed’ that has actually served in the Mob and therefore has an intrinsic understanding of the subject?

    September 9, 2017 at 8:42 pm in reply to: RAF Museum Hendon – Closure / Dispersion of Battle of Britain Hall #836073
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    …….so because the only Zero we’ve got is in bits we should dispose of the Ki100 – rather than, say, recover another Zero as well?

    September 6, 2017 at 12:21 pm in reply to: RAF Museum Hendon – Closure / Dispersion of Battle of Britain Hall #837402
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    But the CR42 on display was the one Axis aircraft (other than the Bf-109) in the Battle of Britain museum that actually saw service against the RAF in the Battle…..so if any airframe should be there it’s that one

    September 3, 2017 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Aerobatting AN2 crashes in Moscow show- 2 crew lost #838384
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    Same incident, different angle

    September 3, 2017 at 8:39 pm in reply to: RAF Museum Hendon – Closure / Dispersion of Battle of Britain Hall #838386
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    The IWM got rid of it’s ‘Ju-52’ recently because ‘it didn’t fit’ who is to say they wouldn’t do the same for any Enemy/non-sexy Aircraft if the ‘Director-General’ feels like it?

    July 21, 2017 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Dunkirk film – Merged For General Updates And Chat #790571
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    Quoting Infowars on anything is not a good move if you wanted to be taken seriously – the journo doing the review actually said some people* might complain about the lack of women or ‘people of color’, not that he himself did…..still, that didn’t stop the far-right going into apoplexy and faux outrage

    *but then there are stupid people everywhere – what would someone expect in a film about the British Army being evacuated from a French beach in 1940, Will Smith and Maddona?

    July 18, 2017 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Did my grandfather fly in a ghost lancaster? #792706
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    If your grandfather had flown ED950 before it’s loss he’d already have its number and letter in his log book, he may have not even noticed he was flying in a replacement with the same individual letter and used the old serial number when writing-up his book after the flight

    July 14, 2017 at 7:55 pm in reply to: With Dunkirk out can it get any better?, you bet, Ridley Scott is going to do the BoB #794927
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    or a nose?

    May 21, 2017 at 8:10 am in reply to: Metal detector finds thread #823940
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    I remember ‘Time Team’ doing a dig on a B-26(?) and getting all ‘ancient monument’ on it, no, you’ve not discovered some previously unknown artefact that will change people’s concept of world history, you’ve got a few scraps of metal from an aircraft that hit the ground at warp factor six, better to save what you can than leave it in the ground where it will disappear relatively quickly – Aluminium isn’t Samianware or stone

    May 18, 2017 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Metal detector finds thread #824925
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    If you remember the early days of ‘Flypast’ they used to make quite a thing of Aviation Archaeology – so the problem would be……?

    May 14, 2017 at 8:34 am in reply to: Hangar10 will use QEC system for their Bf 109 G-12 #827563
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    ‘T1ts on sticks with a U/S donk….’

    May 9, 2017 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Ilyushin -14 And 18 #829985
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    I do miss the variety of Russian aircraft from our skies, things are very sterile at the moment with Airbus and Boeing dominating the industry.

    Have to agree there, never realised when I was a teenager I was living in a golden age for civil airliners with Concorde, VC-10s, Tridents, Comets, Il-62, Tu-154 etc – now all dull, dull, dull – The rot set in with the A-300 to my mind, :very_drunk:

    April 30, 2017 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Bf109E replica being built in Cornwall #833992
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    Just a thought but there’s probably good money in making more rudders and painting them up like this:

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    Photo credit on photo

    After all, you’ve done the donkey-work

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