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December 12, 2012 at 8:02 am in reply to: Soggy – Your Swallow flies again! #1014855

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Re the James May question – the answer has appeared in the Christmas version of a TV listings comic

Sunday 23rd December BBC2 9.30 pm “James May’s Toy Stories – Flight Club”

Apparently he (and his little helpers) have set out to build a model glider which will be used to attempt to fly the Channel. There is a photo of 3 guys holding what appears to be a large model of a Swallow.

Must admit, if I wanted to fly a model across the Channel I’d have picked something more aerodynamic to copy than a Swallow! Anyhow it could be interesting so I must remember to set the video recorder.

December 7, 2012 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Soggy – Your Swallow flies again! #942136

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Mr Soggy and friends

as another aside I was contacted recently by a researcher for the company making the James May “Toy Story” series. He was asking permission to possibly use the photo of BZL landing in one of the programmes. I don’t know what connection Mr May has with a Swallow (anyone know?) but it will be interesting to watch out for the said programme.

December 7, 2012 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Soggy – Your Swallow flies again! #942279

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Thanks Phil, will resend email address by PM

Dave

November 15, 2012 at 8:04 am in reply to: Polish Air Force Association Gliding Club #970981

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Gentlemen (well I assume that you all are!)

Thanks very much for all that information. I’ve long been an admirer of the Free Polish forces and it sounds a good opportunity to reproduce the chequerboard markings etc on the glider. I’ll try the Google contacts for PAFA and Wally Kahn (if I can retrieve his email address) but if anyone else comes up with a photo or description of the markings I’d be very grateful.

Just as an aside I still remember once seeing an interview with Michael Bentine who I think was an Intelligence officer with one of the Polish bomber squadrons. He obviously held the aircrews in huge respect.

TwinOtter – PM sent

November 14, 2012 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Polish Air Force Association Gliding Club #971995

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Thanks

I assumed that PAFA was a WWII Polish expatriate organisation. I now believe that it was based at Lasham, so I’ll try Wally Kahn etc there.

November 9, 2012 at 8:27 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #979546

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The CofG winch hook modification (which Erik and the boys have naturally fitted) reduces the traditional need to heave back on a T21 stick by a huge amount. Much higher launches too!:D

November 7, 2012 at 8:37 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #982731

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Oooh Er Missus

and when I first saw that T21 at Enstone I thought that the fuselage looked fairly OK………..

October 30, 2012 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Soggy – Your Swallow flies again! #991489

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Phil

sorry for the delay in replying. I was overseas earning a living for 7 weeks. PM has been sent. I’ll be grateful for any early photos of BZL for the archive.

Last weekend I had 1 1/2 hours in her on the ridge at Feshie. Kept up reasonably OK with the glass gliders by flying slower and closer to the ridge!:D

September 23, 2012 at 11:48 am in reply to: Recommended honest biographies / autobiographies #1043057

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I still think “The Big Show” is one of the best, but there are people out there who thought that Clostermann (like Bader and Guy Gibson) was a bit of an ****hole.

Personally I think that any failings that such men had were utterly forgiveable at the time.

And “Rene Mouchotte, Mes Carnets” if you can hack the French

September 14, 2012 at 5:09 pm in reply to: T-21 Glider cockpit or similar…sought! #1054584

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Couple of weeks ago I saw 16 dead Blaniks stored in one hangar in Lithuania!

A T21, Blanik or T31 all have a deep cockpit and not easy for kidlets to get into or out of. In that respect a lower, more modern e.g. glass cockpit might be easier (and safer). There must be some fuselages around which have been written off but the cockpit fairly intact.

September 6, 2012 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Wrecks From Asia? #1064504

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The recent high prices of scrap aluminium have had a very bad effect on aircraft wreckage in New Guinea.

September 1, 2012 at 12:01 am in reply to: Black powder – really? #1070993

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A lot of the hard rock cuttings and tunnels that we still travel through on the railways were “engineered” with black powder!

August 31, 2012 at 11:57 pm in reply to: Grand Slam – this aint the tennis Toto #1071000

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Not sure of the claim in the attachment to the original post that had the (alleged) live Grand Slam at Scampton gone off, that it would have flattened half of Lincoln (about 4 miles away). The Grand Slam had less explosive content than a 12000 pound light case blockbuster and German cities soaked up a lot of them without being half flattened.

August 31, 2012 at 12:30 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1072155

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No worries Tony, I’ll come & drink their beer! Not sure about your cooking though. Got any of that millet dope left from the Colditz glider?

Dave

August 30, 2012 at 11:40 am in reply to: T.21 Restoration #1073088

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Eric – she’s looking as good as new, probably better in fact! Are you still going to paint her yellow though?

Dave
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