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Whosthedaddy
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Popped along to RAF Air Museum at Hendon today. It has been years since I've been there, some exhibits remain the same and others have changed. Some nice examples and brought back a nice warm feeling looking at them again.

Enjoy.

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PostPosted: 22:36 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went to the Coventry Transport Museum today and stood next to a nice car.
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PostPosted: 23:30 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool pics, cheers for sharing Thumbs Up

I've been promising myself a trip back to Hendon for years, its well overdue now.

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and stood next to a nice car.


I used to bump into the pilot/driver from time to time, he was the OC Operations at RAF Wittering while I was drafted there.

Not that I ever got to converse with him in depth but he seemed like a surprisingly down to earth bloke, considering his chosen hobby.
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PostPosted: 23:36 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Sopwith Strutter
Sopwith Pup
Fe2
P51 Mustang
Euro Fighter (I think)
P51 Mustang
Hawker Hart (probably)
Me 109 underneath it
Sopwith Camel & Euro-fighter
Me 262
B27 Liberator (in a state)
Lancaster bomb-bay
Lancaster
B17 Flying Fortress
A trainer, the name of which I've forgotten
Goblin
Lightning
A cockpit
Tempest or Typhoon
Stuka (G model)
Me 110 night-fighter
V2
V1 and a Sunderland

Is there an anorak prize? Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
Sopwith Strutter
Sopwith Pup
Fe2
P51 Mustang
Euro Fighter (I think)
P51 Mustang
Hawker Hart (probably)
Me 109 underneath it
Sopwith Camel & Euro-fighter
Me 262
B27 Liberator (in a state)
Lancaster bomb-bay
Lancaster
B17 Flying Fortress
A trainer, the name of which I've forgotten
Goblin
Lightning
A cockpit
Tempest or Typhoon
Stuka (G model)
Me 110 night-fighter
V2
V1 and a Sunderland

Is there an anorak prize? Laughing


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I'm sure it's a ( De Havilland) Chipmunk Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 23:49 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
Sopwith Strutter
Sopwith Pup
Fe2
P51 Mustang
Euro Fighter (I think)
P51 Mustang
Hawker Hart (probably)
Me 109 underneath it
Sopwith Camel & Euro-fighter
Me 262
B27 Liberator (in a state)
Lancaster bomb-bay
Lancaster
B17 Flying Fortress
A trainer, the name of which I've forgotten
Goblin
Lightning
A cockpit
Tempest or Typhoon
Stuka (G model)
Me 110 night-fighter
V2
V1 and a Sunderland

Is there an anorak prize? Laughing


Yes, it's called 'shame' Wink
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PostPosted: 23:54 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

WishayKillie wrote:
I'm sure it's a ( De Havilland) Chipmunk Thumbs Up


It is. I have flow in them a load of times (as I suspect quite a few on here have).

All the best

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PostPosted: 23:58 - 08 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:

A trainer, the name of which I've forgotten


Of all the ones not to get!

Chipmunk T10.

Probably the longest serving aircraft in the RAF. 1946 to present day (still in service as a tail-wheel trainer for the Battle of Britain memorial flight so they don't prang the spitfire).

I (and many others I'm sure) will have happy memories of one being the first aircraft they ever flew, very nimble little aircraft, fully aerobatic with a slight underlying aroma of burned engine oil and vomit.
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PostPosted: 00:03 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Kickstart wrote:
WishayKillie wrote:
I'm sure it's a ( De Havilland) Chipmunk Thumbs Up


It is. I have flow in them a load of times (as I suspect quite a few on here have).

All the best

Keith


I was an Air Cadet too Smile flown in them loads of times. Although I always preferred going gliding Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chipmunk!
I built a model of one of them and had to go to hospital to have my hand stitched back up after putting it through the 11" propellor on the 4-stroke engine at full chat in my dining room. My wife had to clean the blood off the walls.
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Geri wrote:
Chipmunk!
I built a model of one of them and had to go to hospital to have my hand stitched back up after putting it through the 11" propellor on the 4-stroke engine at full chat in my dining room. My wife had to clean the blood off the walls.


Lol, I did that whilst trying to hold a plane down and answer the phone in Zimbabwe, it certainly is efficiant at spreading blood.
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PostPosted: 07:00 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
B27 Liberator (in a state)


Is there an anorak prize? Laughing


Probably, but you ain't getting it.... Libs are B24s...
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Bollocks, I always get the Mitchell and Lib numbers mixed up. Laughing

Yes, the Chipmunk. Don't know how I could forget that, I built a couple of them too when I was a kid. Probably because it has no weaponry. Embarassed
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PostPosted: 09:58 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Re: One for you anorak wearing spotter jotters out there. Reply with quote

WishayKillie wrote:
I was an Air Cadet too Smile flown in them loads of times. Although I always preferred going gliding Thumbs Up


Yep, ATC although I never went gliding. In NI we had Bulldogs rather than Chipmunks.

All the best

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PostPosted: 20:53 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hetzer wrote:
Bollocks, I always get the Mitchell and Lib numbers mixed up. Laughing


Er...Mitchell is a B25....
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teabag wrote:
Hetzer wrote:
Bollocks, I always get the Mitchell and Lib numbers mixed up. Laughing


Er...Mitchell is a B25....


Fvck damn and bugger. Laughing
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They did have both the B25 and B24 but the picture in question was a Halifax.

The cockpit was from a F4 Phantom and no Hetzer, its not a Goblin, its a Venom, the strange little twin tailed plane (sister plane being the Vampire I believe?).

I have to admit as to staring at awl at the Lightning, stonking plane.

The picture of the Typhoon is of the only one left in existence. Seems a little weird as the numbers built and the number remaining.

The Stuka was shot down by a Spitfire and restored as was a Me109.

I have to admit the German's did build some attractive planes.
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 09 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whosthedaddy wrote:

The Stuka was shot down by a Spitfire and restored as was a Me109.


That would be some achievement Wink .

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Whosthedaddy wrote:
They did have both the B25 and B24 but the picture in question was a Halifax.

The cockpit was from a F4 Phantom and no Hetzer, its not a Goblin, its a Venom, the strange little twin tailed plane (sister plane being the Vampire I believe?).

I have to admit as to staring at awl at the Lightning, stonking plane.

The picture of the Typhoon is of the only one left in existence. Seems a little weird as the numbers built and the number remaining.

The Stuka was shot down by a Spitfire and restored as was a Me109.

I have to admit the German's did build some attractive planes.


Yeah, I was guessing on the Goblin. Similar from the front though (if I'm remembering the Goblin correctly, that 50s/60s stuff isn't my bag at all).
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PostPosted: 02:25 - 11 Nov 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whosthedaddy wrote:
They did have both the B25 and B24 but the picture in question was a Halifax.

Looks like a Lib tail behind it tho... Wink
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