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January 30, 2013 at 3:18 pm in reply to: Rene Mouchotte #938470

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Programme BBC 1 on 28th February to watch

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10193686.TV_crews_heading_to_film_French_airman_programme_at_air_museum/

January 28, 2013 at 8:02 am in reply to: Rene Mouchotte #942753

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“Les Carnets de Rene Mouchotte” = Rene Mouchotte’s logbooks is an even better testament to a great Frenchman.

Nice to see the BBC remembering him as well.

January 25, 2013 at 11:26 am in reply to: Beach find……… #946693

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You can find several rotting on airfields in almost every country whose politicians once flirted with the USSR!

January 24, 2013 at 2:56 pm in reply to: P7350 Photos #948041

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If it’s the BBMF in general rather than just the Spitfires, I managed to get inside the Lancaster at RIAT a couple of years ago and took a lot of pictures of areas of the aircraft which are not often seen (inside the rear turret etc). It was a very sobering experience.

PM me if any might be of help.

January 15, 2013 at 2:44 pm in reply to: T.21 Restoration #962769

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So which one designed it 50 mm too short so you had to put that extra little box in the rear door to accommodate the release hook! :D:D

January 15, 2013 at 10:35 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #963135

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Come on Tony, how long has that Grashopper been in progress now? Be good to see the Oly Monster though.

Eric’s certainly got the ultimate weird-looking trailer – a T38 seems higher than it’s long!

January 14, 2013 at 9:43 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #965102

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Excellent! I’m planning to be there with my “other” Skylark 4. Plus the usual suspects from Oxford with the T21, Skylark and maybe Capstan

January 14, 2013 at 8:13 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #965298

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Bombgone

slight thread drift but I never heard of anyone bombing the Mona dam – hell of a navigation error, Dingy ending up over Kingston Jamaica!:D:D

Eric – best of luck to you & the boys for the New Year. You guys going to be able to make it to Lasham for the VGC rally? – Not with the T21 I know!

Dave

January 9, 2013 at 8:46 pm in reply to: 303 (Kosciusco) Squadron Emblem #972557

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Hi Antoni

sorry, me again! I looked at the Pirat/ACM Lloyd photo on my Ipad which seems to give much better resolution than a computer screen. It looks to me as though there are 5 stars between the scythes on the side of the Kosciuszko emblem. That could make it the version with 303 at the bottom, 5 stars either side and 3 at the top. I’ve got reasonable images of that version.

If you have the original photo could you check for me, then I’ll go quiet, honestly!

January 9, 2013 at 3:28 pm in reply to: 303 (Kosciusco) Squadron Emblem #973038

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Also if you print the photo of ACM Lloyd with greater contrast a shadowy “Kosciusco” emblem can be made out on the glider immediately in fron of the cockpit

January 9, 2013 at 1:25 pm in reply to: 303 (Kosciusco) Squadron Emblem #973239

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Hi Antoni

best offer I’ve had so far! Where did you get it and is it possible to copy it?

Interesting that the feather in the hat is sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. Also mostly 3 stars at the top, 4 each side and 2 at the bottom.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30373

Also interesting that in the picture of the old gentleman sitting in the Pirat glider, it has the Polish checkerboard in front of the “Polish AFA Gliding Club” The recent photos I have of that glider doesn’t show it. Wonder if my Skylark had the same

Any idea who was the old gent and when was the photo taken? Is he the same man as the Spitfire pilot – who I think was Jan Zumbach

January 7, 2013 at 12:14 pm in reply to: Cockleshell Heroes – agreeing with Andy in Beds #976597

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“The sea shall not have them”??? Been a while since I last saw it mind

January 2, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: James May Toy Story Sunday 23rd #984647

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Personally I loved it – a bit of genuine enthusiasm works wonders compared with “Strictly come prancing” etc etc etc etc etc ad infinitum.

Romanes eunt domus!

December 13, 2012 at 12:18 pm in reply to: What Did You Do In The War Dad/Mum/Grandad #1012162

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What did Ma/Grandma do in the war?

Years back when I was a student I worked one summer on a farm in Sussex. I won’t mention the actual name of the village.

There was an old boy named Jasper (true) working there who had some good stories.

“Back in the war they sent us some of they Eytalian prisoners of war to work on the farm. B*****y useless! Slept under a hedge all day and chased the village women all night. Got half of them pregnant, so the Eytalians had to go. Then they sent us some Germans. By Gor did they work! Their own sergeant would march them out every morning and he made b*****y sure that they worked!

Only trouble was they got the other half of the women in the village pregnant”!

December 12, 2012 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Aerial Cropspraying #1014108

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I remember being in a Lincolnshire field in the early 70’s. A plane came & sprayed the next field (potatoes I think it was). The pilot was flying under a row of high tension cables, over a set of telephone wires, high trees at one end of the field and through the farmyard when the opportunity presented. All to get down to about 6 feet above the crop and maximise spray coverage.

A wonderful free demonstration of precision flying but it’s not surprising that it’s all been replaced in the UK by terrestrial spraying. Elfin safety for a start – both for the pilot and me!
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