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April 28, 2004 at 11:55 am in reply to: Avatars…??? #1566650

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Don’t think there is qualification limit, just a hic-up with the upgraded forum.

Comments please webmaster…

April 28, 2004 at 11:53 am in reply to: Anson VM325 #1566653

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What a shameful state! At least she’s under cover.

Seeing the pics of the Anson in her prime has answered a small question for me. I was wondering about the aircraft just visible (to the left) in the pic of a Whitney Straight I posted (you can now add links to specific posts! http://forum.airforces.info/showpost.php?p=341077&postcount=32). Looks like an Anson.

April 28, 2004 at 11:17 am in reply to: Avatars…??? #1566669

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I did have the custom avatar option before the upgrade (before I’d even posted) but didn’t use it.

Now its gone 🙁

April 28, 2004 at 8:44 am in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1566772

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Valletta T3 WJ465

No caption; presumably Hurn 1952.

Only reference is a listing at http://www.worldmiltair.co.uk/aircraft/aaaacaaaok.htm.

Anyone know anymore?

(Not very happy with the quality of this pic and the Varsity; may try and do better.) Edit – removing the dust using a filter looses too much definition on the aircraft.

April 28, 2004 at 8:30 am in reply to: Comets and Nimrods #1566777

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For what its worth I was in Cairo in September 1999 and recall seeing a VC10 and pointing it out the (future) wife as ‘amazing what you see’. My memory is light overall with no visible markings; I was sure at the time that it wasn’t an IL-62. It was parked in the same general area as Libyan Arab Airlines IL-72. I don ‘t know if LAA every operated either of these types but was surprised to see a Libyan aircraft outside of Libya.

April 27, 2004 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1567330

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Varsity WF377

No caption, presumed to be at Hurn 1952.

Aircraft reported at Biggin Hill (http://home.wanadoo.nl/showreports/mil/show/showreports/biggin59.htm) and Tangmere (http://www.scramble.nl/mil/show/showreports/tangme59.htm) Battle of Britian displays on 19th September 1959 as Varsity T.1. The latter report indicates that it carried the serial WF377/G, took part in the flying display and appartent notes that it was used by “2 ANS”, presumably Air Navigation School.

It is also listed at http://www.worldmiltair.co.uk/aircraft/aaaacaaaok.htm.

April 27, 2004 at 3:38 pm in reply to: New Thread #1575895

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just spotted the bullet beside the username in replies, appears to be green for online users, and blue for offline. Comments Webby?

Ken

How do I know mine goes blue when I’m not here? 😀

April 27, 2004 at 2:44 pm in reply to: New Thread #1576125

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Dear Webmaster…

I thought I would add an Avatar but I find that my profile has no options but a “do not use Avatar” radio button which doesn’t switch off.

BTW why are some people here now “Rank 3 user” or something of the sort?

BTBTW how does a person change from ‘member’, ‘senior member’ etc to free text like ‘Spitfire mad’ ( :rolleyes: )?

Cheers

aka Ray

April 26, 2004 at 8:40 am in reply to: How many of us have il2 F/Battles computer sim #1576547

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Bring back Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!

April 25, 2004 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1585658

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🙁

No Spitfires

🙁

Don’t know that there were any at Hurn back then. Mosssie, Wellington, Lincoln & Washington are the closest.

Varsity and Valletta next if I get time to scan then.

April 25, 2004 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1585686

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Miles Whitney Straight G-AEVG

Here’s the next.

Captioned “Whitney Straight (Hamble 3 March 1952)”; writing is my own and presumably was made by checking my Dad’s notebook.

This aircraft is listed at http://members.aol.com/warwicaero/milesaircraft/aircraft/m11afhis.htm as “Whitney Straight M.11A 319 G-AEVG DP854 Untraced Australia 1955 VH-EVG DP845 Known History: On the 15th March 1937 the CoA was issued to W. & A. Norman, Heston; On the 30th March 1941 impressed as DP854, later DP845 at Northolt (may have been mis-painted with RAF serial number?); On the 25th March 1947 restored to Air Service Training Ltd., Hamble; In March 1954 to W.A. Strauss; Flown to Australia, arriving at Moorabin on 16th October 1954; On 27th May 1955 re-registered as VH-EVG”

A photo in Australia is at http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Coates/1234.htm.

There seems to be no further record; VH-EVG is now used by another aircraft.

April 23, 2004 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1601705

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One for Auster fans

Caption (not original) “Auster 5 G-AKXR, Hamble 3rd March 1952”. Caption probably derives from cross-referencing a notebook.

Civil register has this aircraft as s/n 1289, built 1944 by Auster Aircraft Ltd with a CoA expiry in 1959. Livery is consistent with Air Service training Ltd’s. A/c on the left is probably Tiger Moth G-AHWB.

At http://www.jparkin.net/fairoaks/history/oldlogs.htm it was said to be at Fairoaks on 16th February 1958; a photo of this aircraft is in the AJ Jackson collection.

According to http://pascal.brugier.free.fr/registre/txt/se-aaa.txt it was registered in Sweden as SE-CGL, TAYLORCRAFT AUSTER A.O.P.V, 1289, TJ200(G), G-AKXR, SE-CGL. It is mentioned (if my Swedish is OK) as being with the Nordöstra Smålands Flygklubb (NSFK) at Jönköping in 1966 (http://pub.hultsfred.se/nsfk/historia.htm).

I’ve asked a chap at Swedish Auster Owners if he knows anything about its fate.

April 23, 2004 at 10:20 am in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1602369

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There’s one of a Lanc I think. RF531?

SH*T another one.

I just Googled it and hit on

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/line1950-59.html

12 Mar 1953 – Seven airmen are killed when the Avro Lincoln B2 they are flying in, RF531, is shot down by a Soviet fighter in the Berlin air corridor. The aircraft, from the RAF Central Gunnery School, was on a training flight.

RIP

Edit. The picture I have is of RF533. Feel relieved strangely. I’ll post it in due course.

April 23, 2004 at 9:30 am in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1602545

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Thanks for the feedback. As long as there’s some interest I’ll keep them coming. This tread just shot down the running order so fast I wondered if anyone was out there!

I want to do this for my Dad anyhow and have decided to try to put together some sort of scrap book for him with any vailable details of the aircraft and more recent pics where possible.

There are lots more (at least 50) but of variable quality; the Valiant is about average, the Tiger Moth good and you haven’t seen the worst yet!

The next couple are an Auster (I’ll try to post later today) and a Miles Whitney Straight if there are any fans out there (slight tease).

There’s some Mossie’s and a Wellington, a B-29 Washington (more my sort of thing, meteors and vampires, more civil prototypes and strange (to) me general aviation types(bigger tease).

The last one is not rare but a lovely pic and my Dad’s all time favourite (that he hasn’t seen for thirty years).

April 22, 2004 at 8:17 pm in reply to: Pics from 1952 – where to post? #1603173

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