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Another Navy Wings article...

Last post by OneHungLow « Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:03 pm
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by 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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This week's Navy Wings newsletter featured this photograph of their Swordfish and I was apt to link to the superb Fairey video kindly posted by...
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Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:03 pm
The Last flight of Buffalo 33 - RCAF

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:47 pm
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by 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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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:47 pm
Messerschmitt Me 410 (Schnellbomber)

Last post by OneHungLow « Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:26 am

by OneHungLow » Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:26 am

I have just come across a WW2 German bomber that had hitherto escaped my notice... what could I have been doing as a spotty faced young Herbert when...

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Sat Sep 16, 2023 7:26 am
A new toy for Boac.....?

Last post by Boac « Sun Sep 03, 2023 10:14 am
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by 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
Escape from Loch Ness - The Rescue of Catalina Miss Pickup

Last post by OneHungLow « Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:00 pm
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by 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
The Last Great Air Race - Part 1

Last post by OneHungLow « Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:03 am
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by 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
The Boeing Stratocruiser Part 1

Last post by Karearea « Sun May 21, 2023 8:48 pm
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by 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
Fastest Passenger Airline Crossing of the Atlantic

Last post by Karearea « Sun May 07, 2023 7:58 pm
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by 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
Gifted technological advantage to USSR - Mig15

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by OneHungLow » Mon May 01, 2023 1:16 pm

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Mon May 01, 2023 1:16 pm
Difficult Approaches...

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by 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
Sopwith 1½ Strutter replica almost ready for flight

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:39 pm

by CharlieOneSix » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:39 pm

A Sopwith 1½ Strutter replica that has been under construction for more than 20 years nears completion and is almost ready for flight.....

Scottish...

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Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:39 pm
For the Papua Wallahs here...

Last post by Woody « Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:18 pm

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Sheer luxury I hear them cry...

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Have any of our members with PNG experience seen this

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Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:39 pm
Concorde Memory

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:06 am
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by 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
Lightnings en masse! Big formation.

Last post by 4mastacker « Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:08 pm
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by 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) ...

No 226 OCU.JPG

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
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey

Last post by Woody « Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:50 pm
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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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Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:50 pm
Development of the Hawker Typhoon

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:18 am
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by 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
Best and nicest and most clever and most fit-for-purpose designs

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by 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
Final Approach to Stradbroke Island 'International'

Last post by EA01 « Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:54 pm
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by 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
SpaceShipTwo

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Sat May 22, 2021 6:57 pm
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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
What was the first single-engined turboprop aircraft to fly?

Last post by ian16th « Wed May 12, 2021 4:25 pm
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by 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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Last post by ian16th
Wed May 12, 2021 4:25 pm
The N9MB Flying Wing

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Mon Feb 15, 2021 11:47 am
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by 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
We miss our Pigs....

Last post by EA01 « Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:51 am
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by EA01 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:14 pm

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Not sure if this should be in 'FIXED WING It is a 'polymorph'?....anyway, blazing through my home town.,.not me regrettably,...but lovely footage...

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:)

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Last post by EA01
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:51 am
Ripley's Believe it or Not...

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:12 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Feb 01, 2021 9:10 am

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Sent to me by a correspondent yesterday... Unbelievable but true...

Otter 449 was delivered to Trans Provincial Air Carriers Ltd., (later re-named...

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Helicopters to the rescue once again...

There were also two helicopters in the area, which were also involved in bringing in fuel and other...

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Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:12 am
What a beautifully restored Tiger Moth...

Last post by EA01 « Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:23 pm
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by EA01 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:53 am

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Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:23 pm
Westland...

Last post by CharlieOneSix « Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:02 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:14 pm

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Prompted by the high quality of their film unit in the 50's...

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I assume that this was the crash to which refer C16?

Yes, that's the one. Some years before, maybe 71/72, the Captain, Ben Breach, was...

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Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:02 pm

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