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  • in reply to: Navy Wings Sea Fury T20 back in the air. #837309
    Denis
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    Watched her depart today while at work, great stuff ! well done to all involved 🙂

    in reply to: M6 Jaguar… #837947
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    Ah!
    Many thanks, I have a feeling that will end up like the A1 lightning in a few years !

    in reply to: P47 wreckage #776819
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    A scrapyard and a half that!

    in reply to: P-51 "Marinell" in Italy #777909
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    Although Mustangs are not my absolute favourite, I am glad it isnt that far away in the grand scheme of things. That brings me on to say, how is Maurice lately?

    in reply to: WW2 crash sites in Hertfordshire #782882
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    Add this one to the list..very near to Sawbridgeworth airfield….On the 31 3 1944 Lancaster II, LL683 from 514 Squadron, force landed in field next to airfield when fuel ran low after many diversions. Returning from the infamous Nuremburg raid, this aircraft was the last one to put down. Pilot W/O W.L McGowan. All crew safe.

    in reply to: WW2 crash sites in Hertfordshire #783542
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    Well you can discount the Hunsdon Heinkel as the crash site was cleared prior to the airfield being built in 1941, and the Hertingfordbury JU88 (the one that bombed deHavillands at Hatfield) crashed where a gravel pit was sited post war and then the site was a landfill.
    The Sawbridgeworth Spitfire was also removed at the time.
    I mildly ‘assisted’ with that particular book…feel free to PM me.

    in reply to: East Kirkby runways #784694
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    Was there not talk of extending the grass runway?

    in reply to: Dunkirk film – Merged For General Updates And Chat #790552
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    Just got back from watching it myself, I’m not as enthusiastic about it afterwards as I thought I would be. There are some very harrowing scenes indeed…. but I thought the flying scenes…lacked something?
    I didnt go just to see aircraft, but to see if a different side was put forward to the original Dunkirk film. it did show a different angle overall, but in many parts I found the story line lacking real depth.

    in reply to: Halfway through the show/flying season, hows it going? #792016
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    I attended my first Old Warden display recently, I have long since given up on Duxford and its corporate feel (and the Frenchman!) I did like Sywell, but now that has gone OW will be the only show I shall attend in future. A wonderful atmosphere, ans something for the wife with the house and gardens too.

    in reply to: North Weald Diary (2017) #792512
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    Ha!
    ..and thats me in the blue shirt, camera slung around neck under the C-54 !

    in reply to: Miss Velma P51 Landed in cornfield at Flying Legends #798922
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    While we are speculating on the crop may I add Cereal to the discussion 🙂

    in reply to: Duxford Diary (2017) #799121
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    A friend has just texted me to say that a Mustang made an emergency landing in a field close to the M11?

    in reply to: Fencing of WW2 airbases #801112
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    We have found evidence at Hunsdon of barbed wire coils strung on four foot long angle iron posts. Huge amounts of wire pickets and barbed wire is to be found all around the airfield and has been bulldozed into heaps that brambles and nettles have colonized.

    in reply to: 'After The Battle' RAF site plans #802865
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    They also pop up on fleabay now and again, I managed to acquire airfield plans for Matching Green, Sawbridgeworth and Hunsdon, and have recently seen plans for Gt Dunmow and Boreham listed.
    With no immediate interest in Blackbushe, I have not searched for it but you ever know !

    in reply to: Investigating a dump – questions #809412
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    I also have partaken in the digging of ex RAF dumps, both on non MOD land.
    Interested if there are willing diggers wanted, just one question, where would recovered items go?

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