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Forgotten pilots or flights...

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:40 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:04 pm
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A flight in the trail of Bert Hinkler that ended in tragic circumstances.

Early 1930: It had been a depressing English winter – cold, dark and wet...

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Was reminded of this fine bird and Richard Bach in an e-mail today...

Bach served in the United States Navy Reserve, then in the New Jersey Air...
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Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:40 pm
A Flea...but what's the car?

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:01 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:52 pm

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I think it's a Flying Flea but what is the three wheeler towing it? Never seen anything like it...

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Possible?

Yes, it's a four-wheeler, but maybe they made three wheelers too?

What interesting find G-CPTN! ^:)^

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Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:01 pm
Cockpit Nostalgia

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:51 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:23 pm
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FD2's post of a Concorde panel prompted this look back - maybe other's have cockpit photos of their steeds from way back? FD2 will be familiar with...

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Anybody want to take a guess at the aircraft type?

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She's for sale!

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Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:51 am
Flawed aircraft of bygone eras....

Last post by k3k3 « Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:55 pm
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by TheGreenAnger » Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:36 am

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TU104

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The only stainless steel aircraft I knew of was the Bristol 188.

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Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:55 pm
"Maverick's" Cringe Worthy Quote

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:21 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Thu May 05, 2022 3:51 pm

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Tom Cruise helicopters in for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ premiere

The “Top Gun: Maverick” world premiere was a star-studded affair, with Tom Cruise...

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IIRC he said Functional limit, not absolute limit , or something to that effect.
Not defending, just quoting.

PP

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:21 pm
Thunder City, ZU-BEX and Mike Beachyhead RIP

Last post by Boac « Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:22 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:55 am

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Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:22 am
VOLMET, the Prince of the Airwaves

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:25 am
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by John Hill » Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:59 am

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It is funny that mention was made of VMW marine weather transmitter, it is one of two in Australia covering ocean areas surrounding Sandy Isle....

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my Dutch girl friend, driving her car on the motorway into Hilversum, would turn a mottled red colour, stop the car in the fast lane as traffic...

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Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:25 am
‘Northern Venture’ - RAF (Part 1)

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:28 am
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by TheGreenAnger » Fri Jul 22, 2022 4:27 pm

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Navy Wings has the Bill Purchase Book

- Read the full account here with the excellent photographs

As the Chipmunk entered its middle age with...

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Thanks TGA. I am familiar with many of those airfields with driving 748s around the world. Wouldn't like to do it in a Chippy though.

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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:28 am
Bays that we may have visited by air... the Good, the Bad and...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:39 am

by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:39 am

Plettenberg Bay

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The Bad - I was minded to think of Plettenberg Bay in the last fortnight when I, belatedly, learned, of...

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Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:39 am
Gerry Sayer & Michael Daunt

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:07 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:12 am

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Have been reading a lot about Frank Whittle's travails (more like a Greek tragedy in truth) and two test pilots that emerge with honour from that...

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Extraordinary man and story of a cadre of very brave men suggested by Rossian and his recent reading matter, name, 'Arctic Airmen'.

Telegraph...

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Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:07 am
Air India Flight 101

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:39 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:58 pm

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A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the...

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Many years ago, the fifties I think, (actually just checked and it was 1948), a KLM Constellation came down in the hills to the south-east of...

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Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:39 pm
In flight refuelling! AAR.

Last post by Woody « Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:18 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:12 pm

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There is a good article in this week's Aviation week.

Infight refuelling

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The future :-o

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Last post by Woody
Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:18 pm
Ashburton Aviation Museum NZ.

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:17 am
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by John Hill » Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:22 am

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This link should take you to a collection of 75 or so display boards that we have prepared to accompany the exhibits in our museum.

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I was also very interested in the detail on the Aermacchi. The MB-326 was flown by the SAAF, where it was designated as the Atlas Impala, being built...

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Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:17 am
Lofty Lance SAAF, RCAF, RAF and RAAF, killed in the Vietnam war...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:18 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:18 pm

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I am often accused of being a Saffer chauvinist, and in truth I am, but this guy's story deserves to be told and allows me to show respect to the...

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Wouter van Warmelo I meant.

I almost typed Waatlemoen (watermelon). I am beginning to lose it, I really am...

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Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:18 pm
RNZAF Bristol Freighters in Vietnam

Last post by tango15 « Sat May 22, 2021 2:15 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Fri May 29, 2020 5:27 pm

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I had been aware that New Zealand had been involved in supporting her allies, the USA and Australia, in supplying logistical, medical and sundry...

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A mate of mine used to fly Bristol Frighteners for BKS. He ended up losing a couple of teeth, which he swore were loosened by the constant...

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Sat May 22, 2021 2:15 pm
Nostalgia!....Fliegs' congratulatory post Solo piccy!! :)

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by EA01 » Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 am

Actually the solo flight was over at South Stradbroke Island...this photo was taken after returning to 'Home Base' Albatross Field ...Coomera. It...

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Last post by EA01
Fri May 21, 2021 11:20 am
Aviation's eccentrics and rogues...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:54 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon May 04, 2020 9:24 am
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I suspect we all know, or know of, some folks that fit the description of this thread...

I had not heard of this rogue until recently...

History...

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This guy, Coleman Andrews deserves a mention!

Did you read Dennis Beckett's book 'Jetlag' which gave Andrews far too easy a ride. I must fish it...
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Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:54 am
Queen's Flight

Last post by ian16th « Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:50 pm
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by Capetonian » Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:37 am
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This article was in the latest Brooklands Bulletin and I thought would be of interest to the Ex-As as well as others here.
Sorry for the poor quality...

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They be the refuelling pods for when it has to do its day job.

Or as we called them, 'hoodo's'!
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Last post by ian16th
Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:50 pm
"Creativity"

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:15 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:58 am

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He and I merely swapped NCP carpark tickets on the helideck changeover every fortnight so that we paid a day's parking charge at Dyce instead of a...

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Not a plastic can then.

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:15 am
Airline Execs -List of famous, infamous or otherwise interesting people

Last post by tango15 « Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:40 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:21 am

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As a starter I present one of the more infamous of this motley crew.

Erhard Milch

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Following Hitler’s suicide, Milch attempted to...

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In the mid-80s, I was involved with Tony Ryan and his sons as they were leasing two 748s to start up the airline. We had been in Shannon for a couple...

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Last post by tango15
Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:40 am
In memory of the Vickers Viscount

Last post by Woody « Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:34 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:21 pm
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Britain's most successful airliner... outdid the Convair, Martin and Lockheed marques in that market.

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Martin...

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I’m sure Mike would approve :D

Mike would have also reposted a memorial to those so cruelly killed by an infamous act.

Two of those aircraft...
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Last post by Woody
Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:34 am
SR-71 inlet unstart...

Last post by Boac « Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:37 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:52 pm

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Last post by Boac
Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:37 pm
The Race to the Cape...

Last post by G-CPTN « Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:03 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:01 am

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One hundred years ago the effort to fly where no one has flown before, set speed and altitude records, and take risks that were more likely to fail...

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Perhaps the persons in the empty seats get up and move around thus evening-out the proximity.

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Last post by G-CPTN
Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:03 pm
Found WW II Documents 10 EFTS Temora

Last post by Hydromet « Wed May 27, 2020 11:52 pm

by Hydromet » Wed May 27, 2020 11:52 pm

Please have a look at the Military Nostalgia thread 10 EFTS .

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Wed May 27, 2020 11:52 pm
Messerschmitt Me 262 "Schwalbe" - First Flight Over Berlin after 61 Years, Historical Footage!

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat May 02, 2020 11:03 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sat May 02, 2020 9:23 am

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My gosh, I didn't realise that one of these was flying again...

Saw my first Messerschmitt Me 262, as an exhibit, in the Johannesburg War Museum...

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There is more than 1 way to skin a cat!

^:)^ :-bd

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Sat May 02, 2020 11:03 am

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