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January 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Spitfires from Birmingham/Brum (or not?) #937081

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Not again!

This was well reported about 35 years ago.

There is at least one Forum member who has first-hand experience of this matter.

Suffice to say the newspaper report is somewhat “embellished”

January 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm in reply to: P7350 Photos #948207

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Peter Arnold’s superb book Spitfire Survivors, Vol 1 also carries a copy of the same photo on page 43. But not, I am afraid, anything earlier than that in his book.

I think its “Gordon Riley, Peter Arnold & Graham Trant” actually 🙂

January 23, 2013 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Napier Sabres #948857

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MN235 film footage from 1945

MN235 (and EN474) appears a couple of minutes into this quite remarkable film taken at Freeman Field, Indiana, in 1945.

MN235 is at 1:33 (bottom of frame) and EN474 is at 1:15, 4:59 & 6:39.

Its just a fleeting glimpse but you can see the cowlings and prop are off the Typhoon.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1723870789084

BTW – If anyone has an leads on tools, manuals or anything else that could help Andy Salter rebuild Kermit’s Sabre to airworthy condition I’d be happy to pass them on. He was putting out feelers when I was there last week.

January 21, 2013 at 12:30 pm in reply to: DH4 Survivors and Replicas #953238

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Fantasy of Flight 13 January 2013

I saw these two at Fantasy of Flight last Monday. Weather was a lot warmer than today!

January 18, 2013 at 2:44 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #957684

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Freeman Field Airshow

Take a look at this video:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1723870789084&set=vb.100776559984890&type=2&theater

EN474 and the RAFM Typhoon appear between 1:30 and 2:00 in.

Interesting flying shots of a captured Ju88 too.

January 18, 2013 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Crated Spitfire #957757

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Could we put all the ‘spam’ contributions in General Discussion or somewhere, and try to restore the content/quality on the main board?

The top crate contains MV262.

January 18, 2013 at 1:35 pm in reply to: Aircraft and aero engines disposed of by burial (merged) #957911

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Freeman Field

The Freeman Field Recovery Team have an active Facebook page which they update almost daily – if you haven’t seen it it’s well worth a look:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freeman-Field-Recovery-Team/100776559984890

As well as the Typhoon radiator they turned up a pair of Spitfire undercarriage doors some years ago – have a look at the postwar photos of EN474 for a clue as to where they came from 😉

Regarding the Farnborough / M3 scrap. A recall when I was working at “Aviation News” back in 1972 we had a news item about an engine from a Heinkel He177 having been dug up.

Honington might be worth a look if this website is anything to go by:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafhonington/aboutus/history.cfm (3rd paragraph)

January 18, 2013 at 1:34 pm in reply to: Spitfire at Car Saleroom Stourbidge 1970s #957913

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SM411 outside Meteor Ford in 1972

October 6, 2012 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Anyone know the current location of BAC Drone etc drawings ? #1017570

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Have you tried Bob Ogden? He rebuilt G-AEDB before selling it on to Mike Russell (I facilitated the sale)

October 4, 2012 at 11:51 am in reply to: When was the last flight of a BAC Drone #1018254

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Slightly off-topic …

But I thought you might like this photo of four fuselages under construction in Lowe-Wylde’s workshop/factory in Maidstone:

And another of Bernard Collins (who went on to become the Airport Manager at Luton in the 1980s) flying a Drone “hands-off” from Broxbourne, Herts, in May or June 1938.

October 4, 2012 at 11:51 am in reply to: When was the last flight of a BAC Drone #1029034

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Slightly off-topic …

But I thought you might like this photo of four fuselages under construction in Lowe-Wylde’s workshop/factory in Maidstone:

And another of Bernard Collins (who went on to become the Airport Manager at Luton in the 1980s) flying a Drone “hands-off” from Broxbourne, Herts, in May or June 1938.

October 4, 2012 at 11:48 am in reply to: Concorde gets airborne again #1018256

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Slightly off-topic …

But here’s Brooklands in its heyday!

October 4, 2012 at 11:48 am in reply to: Concorde gets airborne again #1029039

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Slightly off-topic …

But here’s Brooklands in its heyday!

September 23, 2012 at 3:39 pm in reply to: 7 Chipmunks #1042704

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Wonderful! Thank you thank you thank you.

I was trying to work out in which direction you were pointing on Hatfield Aerodrome. It’s hard to tell as the sun is almost directly overhead and I cannot tell if the concrete is a runway or taxyway.

The flight line was parallel to the runway and in front of the main flight shed, with the Control Tower, executive offices etc, so I would have been looking across towards the runway (NW?) with the A1 and main factory buildings etc behind me.

September 21, 2012 at 7:11 pm in reply to: 7 Chipmunks #1044939

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G-ORDY – I’m loving the photos. I’m friends with the guys who operate G-AKDN in Saskatoon. May I forward your photo to them please?

Be my guest!

Here’s a few more:

G-ALWB at Sywell around 1968

G-APTS – unknown location & date

G-AOTV at Tollerton, 16 May 1970

G-APOS at Tollerton (Kings Cup Air Race) 24 Aug 1968

G-ARGG at Sywell, 12 April 1971

G-ARWB at Tollerton, 16 May 1970

G-BAPB at Hatfield, 7 July 1973

G-BARS at Hatfield, 7 July 1973

G-BCXN at Old Warden, date unknown

That’s all the slides I have.
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