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February 7, 2011 at 7:08 pm in reply to: Cockpit collector – sensational news / shock / horror #1128192

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Get in rentokill. Chipmunks don’t like rat poison, so your infestation should go quickly.

If you have a jaguar on the drive, I can recommend a decent game hunter…

Buccaneer?

February 7, 2011 at 11:17 am in reply to: Spitfire Mk 9 #1128756

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Being more interested in aeroplanes with wooden skids instead of tailwheels, my ignorance will show here. Is there any “give” in the tailwheel structure of a spit – a pivot and spring or some such thing?

I must admit it’s a whole different level of obsession if this is what J-P is actually after

Richard

February 7, 2011 at 9:34 am in reply to: Spitfire Mk 9 #1129020

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Whilst not an exact measurement and given that the wheelbase distance will vary with the weight

John

From J-P:

Thank you very much for your response, but on a spitfire scale 1/1 the rear wheel backs up leaves the weight of the airplane and the enfoncement of the shock absorber. On my spitfire, there is not shock absorber and the distance is not exact, IT IS for this reason that I ask you the exact distance.

This seems to be exactly what and why J-P is asking his question – presumably so his model can “stand” correctly even though the scale weight/construction is wrong. I presume you can only get the answer with a Spit IX and a tape measure.

As an advanced sufferer of AMS* myself, I recognise the symptoms

Richard

*Advanced Modeller Syndrome. Do you get worried about how many rudder wires a Sopwith Pup had? I do…

February 1, 2011 at 3:37 pm in reply to: A Heron – and what is this? #1136806

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Perhaps it’s a male heron

Richard

February 1, 2011 at 9:39 am in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1137257

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There is a complete FW190 production line up for sale.

Or how about bringing back the Boeing Skyfox?

Brilliant! You could start a bidding war for sponsorship. Those media corporations have lots of money!

Richard

Mind you, do I want Fox or Sky to have their own airforce 😮

January 31, 2011 at 11:29 pm in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1137499

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It was offered up as a contender for the AX (Attack eXperimental) specification with the A-10 and Northrop A-9. At that time, the mid-70s, two original Mustangs were converted. The first had turbine power.

In the 80s, the USAF gave Piper for $12 million for two more improved prototypes. The USAF didn’t take it too seriously, I’ve heard the contract for two test items to Piper (yes, that Piper) was done to placate some Pennsylvania politicians. By the time the aircraft were turned over, the A-10 was well into production and I don’t believe the USAF had a requirement for the aircraft. Perhaps they were looking at possible MAP use.

Unlike Demert’s proposal, it wasn’t seen as a mass procurement aircraft…”Let’s buy 200 for the cost of a jet”, rather as an attempt to simply get “More bang for the buck” and something that would operate alongside more conventional types and not as a replacement for them.

Thanks for that. I was beginning to think I must have dreamed it, but the details here sound right.

Hmmm, turbine powered Mustang

Richard

January 31, 2011 at 6:53 pm in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1137940

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I won’t call him a nut, but he forgot that pilots are very expensive…no one seems too keen to send pilots into battle in basic airframes whose life expectancy against modern systems might be measured in minutes.

Mass semi-suicide battalions may work in some cultures, but I don’t think Canada is one of them. 😀

It’s in my mind that there was an American plan like this in the 1980’s for an up-to-date Mustang. The interweb is silent on the matter but I’m fairly sure I read about this as a spotty apprentice

Richard

January 30, 2011 at 11:46 pm in reply to: What was the airfield on Top Gear tonight… #1138776

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Ahh, gotcha. Those triangular shapes bottom right look familiar.

Wroughton on Google maps

Looks like someone has spilt a box of matches across the airfield

Richard

January 30, 2011 at 11:24 pm in reply to: What was the airfield on Top Gear tonight… #1138791

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They were some where else today 🙂 but I dont Know where :confused:

Which sequences were at Wroughton?

Richard

January 30, 2011 at 11:11 pm in reply to: What was the airfield on Top Gear tonight… #1138807

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Googling reveals: Dunsfold

Top Gear test track

Richard

January 30, 2011 at 9:11 pm in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1138939

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Sopwith Pup? Just think how low the radar footprint would be!

Richard

Bleriot XI if you want a smaller frontal signal

January 22, 2011 at 12:11 am in reply to: Something to keep you all out of trouble for a few hours….. interesting too #1148733

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Slip Wing Hurricane, been here before:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=44261

Baz

Thank you for that Baz.

I’d really want to be sure that all the fixings were going to let go before trying to jettison that top wing

Richard

January 21, 2011 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Fourth Stalag Luft 111 Tunnel to be excavated #1149055

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I wish you hadn’t mentioned the Stork Hotel stuff. I went and found out what you were talking about, and several hours of my life just drifted futilely away…

Richard

January 21, 2011 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Something to keep you all out of trouble for a few hours….. interesting too #1149092

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Is it the slipwing Hurricane

Could you tell me more? What’s a slipwing Hurricane

Richard

I suppose I could google that

January 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Something to keep you all out of trouble for a few hours….. interesting too #1149139

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What’s this about then?

HAWKER-HILLSON FH.40 HURRICANE

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