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Just this morning we announced the new paint scheme for the entire fleet at our airline.....
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Just this morning we announced the new paint scheme for the entire fleet at our airline.....
Woo , Are you the pilot or crew ,
I have a soft spot for the Avro Anson (probably because it was the first Airfix kit I managed to complete)
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My other all time favourite is that other brilliant example of British engineering, the Harrier. Not least because my late brother-in-law was Senoir Engineering Officer for two squadrons of them.
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They based a few of those at RAF Northolt in the fifties and sixties. I saw loads of them. And regularly saw Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, Fairchild C-82 Packet, Douglas C47 Dakota, Avro Shackleton, Lockheed P-2 Neptune, Fairy Gannet, Super Constellation, C-130 Hercules, Bristol Brittania, Vampires, Meteors, Canberras, Comets, Javelins, Hunters, Vickers Varsity & Valetta, Percival Pembrokes, De Havilland Devon, Blackburn Beverley, Handley Page Hastings, (flew in the last four from there). There were loads more that I've not recalled.
They filmed The Battle of Britain movie there, so I saw loads of ex Spanish air force Heinkel HE111 bombers and ME109 fighters, all sporting Merlin engines. Plus all the WW2 British fighters doing dogfight simulations.
The Harrier was tested there too.
I was brought up around planes as my father worked for Hawker Siddeley/de Havilland at Hatfield which means we went free to all the yearly air displays at Hatfield
I guess it was inevitable that I would go on to be a pilot. Firstly gliders and later on hang gliders. I owned my own glider, an Astir like this
http://i.imgur.com/jJUnbxN.jpg
And then an Elan hang glider like this
http://i.imgur.com/v8hbtKT.jpg
I love everything and anything to do with planes
It's a real shame that the Vulcan is now grounded as I always loved the 'howl' of all those Olympus engines but I did support the Vulcan financially as much as I could
always fancied being in a glider. no noise just the air rush... Dunno about the landing mind lol
There is nothing to beat a glider Grant..
I tried powered but hated it because of the noise and in my opinion 'little skill'