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January 24, 2011 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Saab Safir G-ANOK #1145923

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From G-INFO

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ANOK-2.pdf

January 24, 2011 at 3:31 pm in reply to: Cranfield College Relics(2008 thread) #1146097

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I guess we were just “members in waiting” then 🙂

January 21, 2011 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Cranfield College Relics(2008 thread) #1148874

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Somers-Kendall SK-1

And the Somers-Kendall SK-1 moved on to Denham where it was stored in a small open blister hangar when a bunch of MAPS members did a “Grand Tour” of Southern England on a beautifully sunny day (22 February 1967).

The wings were lost before John Evetts got hold of the fuselage, I believe it moved on to Breighton and is now under restoration somewhere (France rings a bell)

January 21, 2011 at 7:18 am in reply to: Baginton 1960s #1149423

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Batch 4

A few more Dove and Heron photos plus a selection of locals and visitors from the late Summer of 1966 – after I got my first 35mm camera ….

Bristol Siddeley’s D.H.104 Dove, G-AJGT, was a regular visitor on its flights between sites at Filton, Hucknall and Baginton.

Israeli Heron in for service and/or onward sale with Executive Air Engineering

A couple more Doves

Locally based Avro XIX, G-AHYN, colour was dark blue with white trim

Locally based Percival Provost T.1, G-ASMC, in those days this was the only civilian Provost as the type was yet to become a popular “warbird”

Shorts Skyvan in Emerald Airways colours

Visiting Cessna 310G of Williams Air Charter, eventually became G-XITD

British United Dart Herald landing – daily vistors on regular services to and from the Channel Islands during the Summer months

Thanks for your contributions guys – that’s almost all the black and white – I guess I’ll have to dig out my colour slides!

January 19, 2011 at 7:42 am in reply to: Baginton 1960s #1151497

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Batch 3

Thanks for the comments and contributions chaps – loving the new scanner Mark!

Here’s today’s offerings, all dating from January 1967:

D.H.104 Dove, G-AOFI

D.H.114 Heron, OY-DGR

Beechcraft (Twin Bonanza?) HB-GBG

John Coggins’ Percival Prentice, G-APIU

Edward Eves’ Miles Falcon, G-AEEG

Ace Scotland’s passenger-carrying Connie, G-ASYF

NAPS Bristol F.2b fuselage frame en route to Stockport from Weston on the Green

More tomorrow …

January 18, 2011 at 7:32 am in reply to: Baginton 1960s #1152758

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Batch 2

Here’s some more shots from Baginton in the 1960s – the Doves and Herons were with Executive Aviation Services who specialised in the type:

D.H.104 Dove c/n 04476 G-AOUF then D-IBYW and OY-DHZ. Preserved Dansmarks Flyvemuseum, Billund.

Sudan Airways ST-AAC taken outside

I think this is really c/n 04484 (PH-IOL) mis-painted … anybody know?

Shorts Skyvan G-ATPF – demo flight for Emerald Airways?

Locally based Tiger Moth, G-ALBD, colours were red with yellow trim.

Blurry shot of Jurca Tempete, G-ASUS

Batch 3 tomorrow!

January 18, 2011 at 7:09 am in reply to: Spitfire TVIII G-AIDN/MT818 #1152773

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If i recall, MT818’s Packard Merlin was to be removed and replaced with the Brit version.

MT818 was fitted with a Merlin 76 in 1959 and this was the engine still installed when acquired by the current owner (330 hours total time, 31 since a top-overhaul was carried out in 1966).

The Merlin 66 fitted on 2 June 1947, and removed by Viv Bellamy in 1959, has been acquired and it is intended that this engine will power MT818 when it flies again.

January 18, 2011 at 7:03 am in reply to: Spitfire TVIII G-AIDN/MT818 #1152776

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Was this the machine that Leonard Cheshire used to fly when he was involved with Vickers at Predannack!!.
If so it would have been one of the last (if not the last) aircraft he was involved with.

Yes

January 11, 2011 at 9:18 am in reply to: Spitfire Survivors out? #1090050

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That bit of EE853 already proves what a magnificent book this will be.
We still have to wait but good news nevertheless.
Thanks chaps for your persistance.

Let’s hope enough new “raw” Spitfire material will be found in the coming years to keep you updating it.

Cheers
Cees

Thanks for your kind comments Cees – much appreciated – although I’m not sure about any more updates 🙂

January 11, 2011 at 9:13 am in reply to: Wings in a shed #1090051

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Hi Roger – Nice to see those shots of the now-extinct leather elbow patches so beloved of Physics teachers in days gone by 🙂

January 9, 2011 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Spitfire Survivors out? #1091381

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The good news is that we had a very productive meeting with our printer on Thursday 6th January and we have signed off the proof copies of both the colour and black and white editions.

It has been a very long, tortuous and at times very fraught wait but I can say that we have been told that we shall have books to sell by February 2011.

I hope you will agree that its been worth the wait!

You can download a sample entry for Langdon Badger’s EE853 by clicking this link http://www.i-tri.co.uk/survivors/downloads/Sample1.pdf

December 16, 2010 at 12:23 pm in reply to: What Is There To Look Forward To In 2011? #1114774

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Our book becoming available …

December 16, 2010 at 12:22 pm in reply to: Spitfire Survivors out? #1114779

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Just interested ,how did your meeting go today G-ORDY?.Hope it all went well for you all.

You don’t want to know ….

Still experiencing R.I.P. errors (Raster Image Processor) – another file sent off today.

No chance of books before Christmas I’m afraid. 🙁

December 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm in reply to: Spitfire Survivors out? #1118530

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Production problems ….

For those of you still waiting their Christmas “fix” of Spitfire stuff I’m very sorry to say that we are still experiencing massive problems with our printer.

Just to bring you up to speed:

1: The first bound proofs revealed that we needed to increase the page width by 10 mm – a trivial problem (one would think).

2: The second batch of bound proofs suffered from random errors caused by the print equipment misreading our supplied PDF files.

3: The printers totally screwed-up the dust jacket design (despite having been given precise dummies to work from)

4: The “corrected” dust jacket contained numerous typos.

5: The “corrected, corrected” dj is the wrong size.

6: The printers asked for new PDF files broken down chapter by chapter to try to alleviate the random errors.

We have a Director-level meeting with them on Tuesday ….

We’ll put any hard news on the website and the Facebook page as soon as we have any.

Trust me, if we didn’t already have grey hairs then this would have given us more than a few!

Gordon Riley & Graham Trant

October 26, 2010 at 9:07 am in reply to: Out in time for Christmas? #1096210

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Gentlemen – no need for concern.

We have an issue with the dust-jackets which is holding up delivery but nothing else.

If you have registered an interest we will be keeping you in the loop via e-newsletters.

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