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Ashburton Aviation Museum NZ.
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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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Pleased to hear you visited! Fund raising for the extension is going well. The new hangar will be about the same size as the existing big hangar and...
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Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:41 am
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Valiant Air Command Museum - Space Coast of Florida
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CharlieOneSix » Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:21 pm
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Just been in contact with an old Fleet Air Arm mate by email and I thought this paragraph may be of interest to anyone visiting the area.
I still...
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I lived in Titusville for a year and was based at the Space Coast Airport. One of th epilots I worked with is now a pilot at the museum there. Well...
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:00 pm
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The Day the Mucic DIed...
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OneHungLow » Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:29 pm
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Why aviation and the sometimes irregular nature of a musician's life are sometimes not a safe mix. The statistician in me just says, musicians fly...
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Thanks for that, tango15 - it seems to have developed after I left in 1977.
I would like to visit the Fire Service museum - my father served in the...
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Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:00 pm
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Forgotten pilots or flights...
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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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Ask this man.
Retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel James H. Harvey III, 100, boasts many military honors to his name. Harvey was one of the...
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Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:36 am
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Aviation Severe Weather
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OneHungLow » Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:55 pm
As one of my father's ex-business partner's found, it can all go tits up in a moment in a cloud...
I will talk about UK weather later, If I am...
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Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:55 pm
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
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OneHungLow » Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:03 pm
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition , the story of an ill-starred expedition lost in the evanescent Arctic summer, and finally in time itself.
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I remember as a young boy thoroughly enjoying The Red Tent a film portraying the attempted rescue of the crew and scientists aboard the Italian...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:02 am
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In memory of the Vickers Viscount
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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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Just finished reading Barry LLoyd's Vickers Viscount 1948-1949 , a slim, but lavishly visually illustrated and well written account of the history of...
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Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:26 am
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Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:11 am
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When did you last speak to a real Meteorologist?
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OneHungLow » Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:32 pm
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I remember the old days when beset by weather forecast doubts you could ring up the Met Office if your outfit or airfield didn't have a local tame...
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Happy Camp where this accident occured, or at least the base from which he took off is considered cursed by fire fighting pilots. This was the...
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Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:34 am
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Tue May 02, 2023 3:44 pm
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Only Surviving Lockheed Electra 10-E Goes on Display
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:00 pm
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See a twin of Amelia Earhart’s last plane as new museum opens
Amelia Earhart’s achievements in the early decades of aviation captivated the...
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Seaburg said the museum’s Muriel is one of only 14 Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft ever produced. It’s a twin of the one Earhart flew. It was second...
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Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:38 pm
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Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre - Bad News..
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OneHungLow » Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:14 pm
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A country that forgets its heritage has lost its way... Anon.
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child....
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Am flying to Perranporth on Monday and may drop by to see what has happened at Newquay!
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Last post by OneHungLow
Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:06 am
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A Flea...but what's the car?
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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
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Cockpit Nostalgia
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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
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Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:55 pm
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"Maverick's" Cringe Worthy Quote
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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.
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Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:22 am
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VOLMET, the Prince of the Airwaves
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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
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‘Northern Venture’ - RAF (Part 1)
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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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Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:28 am
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Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:39 am
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Gerry Sayer & Michael Daunt
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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
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Air India Flight 101
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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
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In flight refuelling! AAR.
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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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Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:18 pm
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Lofty Lance SAAF, RCAF, RAF and RAAF, killed in the Vietnam war...
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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
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