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Ashburton Aviation Museum NZ.

Last post by John Hill « Sat Nov 30, 2024 6:52 pm
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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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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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Sat Nov 30, 2024 6:52 pm
Pensioners build and fly a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter replica

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:41 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:09 pm

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(Video in the link)
A group of pensioners from East Lothian have made history and fulfilled a 24-year dream by flying a homemade replica of an iconic...

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Brilliant.

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Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:41 am
Valiant Air Command Museum - Space Coast of Florida

Last post by G~Man « Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:00 pm
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by 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
The Day the Mucic DIed...

Last post by G-CPTN « Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:00 pm
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by 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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Last post by G-CPTN
Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:00 pm
Forgotten pilots or flights...

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:36 am
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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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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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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:36 am
Aviation Severe Weather

Last post by OneHungLow « Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:55 pm

by 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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Last post by OneHungLow
Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:55 pm
Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition

Last post by OneHungLow « Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:02 am
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by 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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Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:02 am
In memory of the Vickers Viscount

Last post by tango15 « Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:26 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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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
Argentine dictatorship’s 'death flight' plane returned to country for a historical reckoning

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:11 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:44 am

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Argentine dictatorship’s 'death flight' plane returned to country for a historical reckoning
The plane, which was discovered in the U.S., is the...

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The apparent reason for death flights was disposal of captured insurgents who could either not be turned, or askaris who had outlived their...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:11 am
When did you last speak to a real Meteorologist?

Last post by OneHungLow « Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:34 am
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by 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
The French château with more than 100 fighter jets

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Tue May 02, 2023 3:44 pm

by PHXPhlyer » Tue May 02, 2023 3:44 pm

The French château with more than 100 fighter jets

Use link for pics.

The sleek, dark-gray lines of a F-16 Fighting Falcon jet, flanked by two...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Tue May 02, 2023 3:44 pm
Only Surviving Lockheed Electra 10-E Goes on Display

Last post by OneHungLow « Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:38 pm
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by 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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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:38 pm
Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre - Bad News..

Last post by OneHungLow « Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:06 am
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by 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
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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Last post by TheGreenAnger
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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Last post by TheGreenAnger
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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Last post by k3k3
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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Last post by Boac
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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Last post by Pinky the pilot
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
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
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

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