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  • August 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm in reply to: A Collection of U.K. Aviation Photos from 1930's #1043458
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    Surely these images have all come from the “Flight Global” photo archive website? The Mildenhall photos look very familiar.

    July 26, 2011 at 4:32 pm in reply to: A Spitfire for £8 million #1083304
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    Has anyone ever seen this aircraft fly? Who ever happens to own this aircraft throughout the years always seem to generate a lot of noise but it never seems to show up at airshows?

    Graham

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/8-MT818G-AIDNAbingdon18-9-71Gordon1b.jpg

    🙂

    July 10, 2011 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Vickers FB5 2345 #1026195
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    the film I was thinking of was Shout at the Devil released 1976, set in WW1. The biplane used was in Portugese markings.

    Ok found it…
    BAPC.123, ZS-UHN, “P641”, Vickers FB.5 Gunbus replica, 1186/2, 1975, small components only remained – stored, Cranfield, b), stored 03.90 …

    Vickers FB.5 Gunbus fsm. 1186/2. ZS-UHN. A.Topen. Cranfield. (Built IES Projects Ltd 1975). (As “P641”) (Built for “Shout at the Devil” film)

    so perhaps it was a full scale mock up that I saw hung on the cinema frontage? Although it did have a South African reg.

    Have a look half way down this webpage for “Shout at the Devil” Gunbus photos and video clip:

    http://ships.bouwman.com/DH-1/Shout%20At%20The%20Devil.html

    July 10, 2011 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Vickers FB5 2345 #1032414
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    the film I was thinking of was Shout at the Devil released 1976, set in WW1. The biplane used was in Portugese markings.

    Ok found it…
    BAPC.123, ZS-UHN, “P641”, Vickers FB.5 Gunbus replica, 1186/2, 1975, small components only remained – stored, Cranfield, b), stored 03.90 …

    Vickers FB.5 Gunbus fsm. 1186/2. ZS-UHN. A.Topen. Cranfield. (Built IES Projects Ltd 1975). (As “P641”) (Built for “Shout at the Devil” film)

    so perhaps it was a full scale mock up that I saw hung on the cinema frontage? Although it did have a South African reg.

    Have a look half way down this webpage for “Shout at the Devil” Gunbus photos and video clip:

    http://ships.bouwman.com/DH-1/Shout%20At%20The%20Devil.html

    July 10, 2011 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Vickers FB5 2345 #1026549
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    I think this photo was taken at the Farnborough SBAC display September 1966

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/IMG.jpg

    For a full history of the aircraft you can check here:

    http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/aircraft-history/73-A-1066%20Vickers%20Gunbus.pdf

    July 10, 2011 at 12:19 pm in reply to: Vickers FB5 2345 #1032784
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    I think this photo was taken at the Farnborough SBAC display September 1966

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/IMG.jpg

    For a full history of the aircraft you can check here:

    http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/aircraft-history/73-A-1066%20Vickers%20Gunbus.pdf

    July 7, 2011 at 4:31 pm in reply to: Anyone like Beech 18s? :) #1037137
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    Here’s a few from my slide collection

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/Beech18_0002.jpg
    N15750 at Baginton in 1968

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/Beech18_0003.jpg
    G-AXWL at Heathrow on 30 August 1971

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/Beech18_0001.jpg
    N4910N at Harlingen, Texas, in August 1974

    July 5, 2011 at 8:31 pm in reply to: What happened to the Edinburgh and Leuchars Spitfire replicas ? #1041287
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    “6 June 1986
    Dedication ceremony at Leuchars for refurbished aircraft now on display as a gate guardian.”

    http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/LA198LeucharsJune1986.jpg

    (It’ll all be in Volume II :))

    June 29, 2011 at 2:43 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1052849
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    I agree, probably a Cadet 3 seater. If so, the registration, as judged from the photograph, might be G-ACFT

    G-ACFT, c/n 645, Reg 18 May 1933 to Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd, Renfrew. Utility Airways Ltd, Hooton Park, July 1935. Destroyed in hangar fire at Hooton Park on 8 July 1940.

    June 29, 2011 at 11:39 am in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1053185
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    My dad at work in the 30’s , with a Moth of some sort ?? Type , Mk? Please!

    Many thanks ….

    Not a Moth – looks like an Avro 640 Cadet three-seater to me. There were nine British-registered aircraft.

    June 25, 2011 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Spitfire 12 #1059277
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    Hello Dan ,

    I have some exciting news about Spit EN223 , could you please contact me off board at laurent.viton(at)neuf.fr ?

    That would be great !

    Zorglub

    ” 91 Sqdn … Abandoned after fuel problems on Ramrod, 6-1-44 …” 😉

    June 25, 2011 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Halifax/Hastings wing #1059280
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    Just been browsing through C.H.Barnes’ “Handley Page Aircraft Since 1907” and there is a very detailed explanation of the development of the Hastings/Hermes.

    Nowhere does it suggest that the Hastings used a Halifax wing, however it does say this:

    “… an even better plan would be to go into production with a new transport project, H.P.67, combining the H.P.64 fuselage with the H.P.66 wing …”

    The H.P.64 GA drawing looks pretty much like a Hastings – but the wing planform is more like a Halifax, the H.P.66 was to be called the “Hastings B.1” and was the final development of the Halifax.

    I wonder if the story came from a mis-interpretation of Barnes’ book?

    BTW – the Handley Page Archive is held by the RAF Museum so it should be fairly straightforward to get to the bottom of this.

    June 20, 2011 at 4:25 pm in reply to: My dad flying solo #1067519
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    Gordon, was your dad the photographer or was he in G-ADEI being photographed?

    Roger Smith.

    Dad was a passenger in the Avro, photo taken from a Blackburn B-2 IIRC. Dad can just be seen in his white overalls … not flying type but milkman type! He was working part-time on a milk round while waiting to start his apprenticeship at “The Rudge” 🙂

    June 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1067531
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    Ah well, it was 50/50. And usually when it is, the die don’t roll my way! What’s the source of the photo, G-ORDY?

    The late Sid Miles.

    June 19, 2011 at 9:17 pm in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1068506
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    It looks rather like a Parnall Pixie II, one of the Blackburn Tomtit engined varieties. If it is, presumably it is either J7373 (which seems to have had a civilian career but not a civil registration) or J7374/G-EBKM and in their post RAF careers. But the reasons why I have my doubts as to this are (1) I’ve never seen this photo before and (2) if one had been named ‘Satan’s Baby’, it seems probable that some commentator would have made mention of such an unusual name! But I’ll stick my neck out and guess at J7323, Watford and 1935.

    Parnall Pixie II, G-EBKM, seen at Bedford c.1936, when in the ownership of Geoff Chamberlain and Sid Miles, who many years later, built the Stolp SA500 Starlet, G-AZTV.

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