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Beverley moving to Carlisle
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Archer » Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:57 am
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The Solway Aviation Museum has taken on the job of transporting the Blackburn Beverley from Fort Paull to Carlisle airport and looking after it:
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They reached the £60k goal and are currently at £62k and the amount is still going up. Looks like the big move is on!
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Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:22 pm
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Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found?
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:16 pm
Is this Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? Explorer believes he’s solved the great mystery with sonar
“There’s no other known crashes in the area,...
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Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:16 pm
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B-25 Mitchells Do Fly in IMC
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OneHungLow » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:05 am
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I was prompted to watch my copy of 'B-25 Mitchells Do Fly in IMC' again after reading this advert for Mr. Grumpy ...
If I had a spare $2000000 lying...
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I realised I could add photos of two other ex-Jeff Hawke/Hanover Street Mitchells:
151645 Marvellous Miriam B-25J-20NC 44-29366 N9115Z, at RAF...
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Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:53 am
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Another Navy Wings article...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:24 am
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Another anecdote brought to us courtesy of the Navy Wings folks. Please feel free to bung them a contribution , or even better, join up as a...
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Talking of Stringbags... from the week's Navy Wings Newsletter...
Flyback.JPG
Anybody for a game of hockey?
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Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:36 am
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Hawker Tempest flies
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Archer » Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:08 pm
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I guess this fits in here.... Hawker Tempest MW763 has made its first post-restoration flight today, from Sywell Airfield in the hands of Pete...
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I hadn't realised they were so big - it's a beast!
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Wed Oct 11, 2023 6:29 pm
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The Last flight of Buffalo 33 - RCAF
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:16 pm
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In November 1944, an RCAF Mosquito fighter bomber crashed into an isolated hillside in Nova Scotia, killing the two men on board. One was the son of...
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A fascinating article, OHL. This snippet was especially poignant for me:
No. 31 OTU at Debert was the first OTU to be built and was originally...
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Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:47 pm
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Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:26 am
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A new toy for Boac.....?
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:37 am
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.......although it is a SHAR not ex-RAF, but a non-serviceable GR-3 is included.. A bit more than pocket money though - $4,500,000
Here's an...
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Keep those subs rolling in................ =))
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Sun Sep 03, 2023 10:14 am
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Escape from Loch Ness - The Rescue of Catalina Miss Pickup
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:36 pm
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This is a 47 minute documentary of the rescue of Miss Pickup from Loch Ness after an engine failed to start. It's on BBC iPlayer and the channel is...
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We had visits to Sunderland (International) Airshow on a couple of years from a Catalina.
It seemed awfully slow . . .
That's Miss Pickup...
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Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:00 pm
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The Last Great Air Race - Part 1
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OneHungLow » Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:29 am
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There is a fascinating article in July's edition of FlyPast Magazine covering the 1953 London to Christchurch air race . It marked the apogee and the...
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Another long forgotten air race was the Coupe Montana, the cup being named after the Montana Hotel in Cannes, owned by French WW2 patriot and...
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Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:03 am
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The Boeing Stratocruiser Part 1
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OneHungLow » Sun May 21, 2023 2:32 pm
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I wonder if any of the retired stalwarts who post here ever flew Boeing The Stratocruiser. Here is a wonderful old article (in 3 parts) written by...
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Then there were two...
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at 6:42, Coast Guardsman Ronald Christian boards the aircraft and finds it empty of people
Courage. ^:)^
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Sun May 21, 2023 8:48 pm
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Fastest Passenger Airline Crossing of the Atlantic
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OneHungLow » Sun May 07, 2023 10:06 am
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I was apt to wonder about the fastest passenger airline crossing of the Atlantic. It was no surprise to find that this was in Concorde but the story...
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SR71 pilot Ed Yeilding describes setting the US coast-to-coast speed record and the problems in-flight that almost thwarted the attempt. ......
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Sun May 07, 2023 7:58 pm
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Mon May 01, 2023 1:16 pm
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Difficult Approaches...
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OneHungLow » Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:12 pm
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Anybody want to guess precisely where this one is. My provenance might be a clue!
Diffiult approaches and departures..JPG oo
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Since one of my first RAF flying instructors had flown Liberators in WW2, I was taught, unofficially, how to land if all the lights suddenly went...
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Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:59 pm
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Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:39 pm
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Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39 pm
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Concorde Memory
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FD2 » Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:55 pm
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A friend sent me this. It shows Concorde about to descend for Barbados on the 17th November 2003 from FL600 and Mach 2. I wonder if the new SST will...
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Then there was the noise...
I used to have a bumper sticker that read ' I LOVE the noise of a jet engine in the morning
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Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:06 am
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Lightnings en masse! Big formation.
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:42 pm
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Quite something to see such a big formation of the venerable Lightning (from Aeroplane Monthly) ...
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I cannot say I particularly...
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I recall the day at Gutersloh when 19 Sqn put up two 19-ships on the same day. It was the final party piece of the sqn WO Eng (Jack Lawrence) who was...
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Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:08 pm
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Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey
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by Capetonian » Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:41 pm
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A great place for a day out and not just for 'boys', there's a huge amount to see, historic civilian and military aircraft, cars, motor bikes, and...
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Looks like it’s got a tv programme all to itself :-bd
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Last post by Woody
Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:50 pm
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Development of the Hawker Typhoon
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Nov 13, 2021 6:32 am
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I bought a copy of Aeroplane magazine yesterday, and was fascinated to read about the long and troubled tale of the Hawker Typhoon's development by...
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'Not that accurate' can be said of virtually all unguided ordinance. The RP development led the the SNEB and CRV7. Like the original RP only one...
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Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:18 am
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Best and nicest and most clever and most fit-for-purpose designs
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Undried Plum » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:17 am
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As a starter, I propose:
Tiger Moth
Spitfire
DC-3
Catalina
Concorde
Other non-pretty, but very good designs for doing what they do, might...
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....the reason for my question, Boac, was that on the ground there would be an element of doppler shift to the observer but on the inside you are...
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Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:15 pm
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Final Approach to Stradbroke Island 'International'
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EA01 » Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:26 pm
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So called because Kooralbyn & Boonah also used fly to this island....
That's the back of Fliegs head, it must be winter, because a side slip into...
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One of these...an 'A582 Drifter',.....they were an awful lot of fun....(The above photo from the rear seat passenger)
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Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:54 pm
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SpaceShipTwo
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by Cacophonix » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:46 pm
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For those of you ppruned, if any, who are interested in Virgin Galactic's alliance with Scaled Composites and their SpaceShipTwo programme based upon...
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OK.
Your's is bigger! :ymdevil:
PP
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Sat May 22, 2021 6:57 pm
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What was the first single-engined turboprop aircraft to fly?
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 12, 2021 1:49 pm
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Take a bow if if you said the Boulton Paul Balliol.
The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol are monoplane military advanced trainer aircraft built...
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powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine, available in large numbers from surplus stocks,
Imagine that today - Merlins aplenty.
When I...
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Wed May 12, 2021 4:25 pm
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The N9MB Flying Wing
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:34 pm
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The Northrop N-9M was an approximately one-third scale, 60-ft span all-wing aircraft used for the development of the full size, 172-ft wingspan...
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And what of the B21?
B21 Raider
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Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:47 am
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