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by AFKAMC
Sat 19 Feb 2022, 9:22 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Type on Type combat
Replies: 6
Views: 1026

Re: Type on Type combat

Spiny Norman wrote:
Sat 19 Feb 2022, 9:14 pm
Now there's a thought. Am sure have read that RAF Spitfires engaged in combat with Israeli Spitfires, which would have been 1948-ish?
https://www.historynet.com/spitfire-vs- ... ndence.htm
by AFKAMC
Sat 12 Sep 2020, 8:28 pm
Forum: IWM Duxford Events
Topic: Battle of Britain Airshow 2020 - Cancelled
Replies: 258
Views: 74706

Re: Battle of Britain Airshow 2020 - Cancelled

Night time sewing machine runs (floodlit) I don't know why people find the quilt festival so funny. Yeah it's not my bag, but to each their own. (Might be a pun in there, not sure - no, hold on a minute, QUILTBAG means something else apparently...) Seriously, I don't think the words "fun"...
by AFKAMC
Thu 21 May 2020, 5:54 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Aircraft music?
Replies: 80
Views: 10682

Re: Aircraft music?

Sodom's Vietnam war themed album "Agent Orange" includes the song "Magic Dragon", about the AC-47. David Bowie's "V-2 Schneider" - named after the V-2 rocket (and Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider). And the main reason Run Run Rudolph is one of my favourite Christmas songs ...
by AFKAMC
Tue 19 May 2020, 2:07 pm
Forum: Heads Up/OTT
Topic: P-51 G-SHWN over Birmingham
Replies: 6
Views: 2338

P-51 G-SHWN over Birmingham

Just heard something interesting pass over the front of my house (Sutton Coldfield). Missed it, unfortunately, but according to Flight Radar 24, it may have been Flying Legends P-51 Mustang G-SHWN.
by AFKAMC
Thu 16 Apr 2020, 8:53 am
Forum: Flight Simulators
Topic: FSX/Prepar3D payware now free
Replies: 0
Views: 4568

FSX/Prepar3D payware now free

A couple of formerly payware aircraft have now been made available for free: A2A Simulations Accum-sim P-40 Warhawk https://a2asimulations.com/product/accu-sim-p-40-fsx/ Aeroplane Heaven Globe Swift GC-1A https://www.aeroplaneheaven.com/product_swift.php I've grabbed the FSX versions, but as far as ...
by AFKAMC
Tue 11 Jun 2019, 10:08 am
Forum: RAF Cosford Air Show
Topic: RAF Cosford Air Show 2019 - Sunday 9th June 2019
Replies: 323
Views: 111846

Re: RAF Cosford Air Show 2019 - Sunday 9th June 2019

Selection of stalls seem to get worse year on year, very few seemed to have an aviation focus. Completely agree with this. There was a time when every other stall in a show would sell model kits but as far as I could see there was one this year! More and more stalls selling crap like the one that w...
by AFKAMC
Mon 15 Apr 2019, 6:33 pm
Forum: Heads Up/OTT
Topic: Harrier road runner on A42 today
Replies: 7
Views: 2526

Harrier road runner on A42 today

The odd looking thing on the back of a lorry I overtook this afternoon turned out to be the fuselage of a Harrier... with what looked like the engine and one of the wings on another lorry in front. Heading south on the A42 between Nottingham and Birmingham.
by AFKAMC
Fri 08 Mar 2019, 11:32 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Aviation books?
Replies: 25
Views: 4104

Re: Aviation books?

Ed Cobleigh: War for the Hell of It - A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam Memoir of a Vietnam era F-4 Phantom pilot. Stephen Coonts: Flight of the Intruder Fiction, but Coonts had been a real life A-6 pilot in Vietnam before turning to writing. James Salter: The Hunters Fiction, but again Salter wrote...
by AFKAMC
Wed 15 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Single or twin seat?
Replies: 40
Views: 5191

Re: Single or twin seat?

I always thought that the 2-seat F-100 Super Sabre was better looking than the single-seat version.

But the 2-seat TF-86 Sabre just looks wrong; maybe that's why they only built a couple of them.
by AFKAMC
Fri 13 Jul 2018, 8:45 pm
Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
Topic: Red route shambles - came home.
Replies: 62
Views: 13330

Re: Red route shambles - came home.

Just out of curiosity, at what time did you hit the queues? It'll be my first RIAT tomorrow: setting off from Birmingham at 6am Hi mate, you will undoubtly be stuck in queues if you are leaving Birmingham at 6am, I left Wolves at 6am in 2012 and didnt get into the base till well after the flying ha...
by AFKAMC
Sat 19 May 2018, 9:16 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Plane's of Fame B-25 Europe bound
Replies: 20
Views: 6159

Re: Plane's of Fame B-25 UK bound

FarnboroJohn wrote:Nice that its coming over, but that surely is going to be the most pointless and underwhelming remake in history.


It won't be completely pointless if it persuades me to finally read the book - I've had a copy sat on my shelves for years, and never got round to it.
by AFKAMC
Sat 19 May 2018, 9:14 am
Forum: Royal International Air Tattoo
Topic: RIAT 2018 discussion
Replies: 6194
Views: 808406

Re: RIAT 2018 discussion

I don't know about RAF, but wasn't there a UAV display some years ago? '06? I think that was a USAF one. I'm sure RAF UAVs have been at the show in some sort of capacity on the static showground. The "Eurohawk" was present in German markings in 2012, IIRC on static. And there is that (may...
by AFKAMC
Tue 24 Apr 2018, 8:11 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: YF-22 v YS-23 frivolous poll
Replies: 6
Views: 1651

Re: YF-22 v YS-23 frivolous poll

I can't really choose between the F-22 and YF-23. But if you're going to make an aircraft ugly, you might as well make it fugly... which is why I wish the Boeing X-32 had won the JSF competition; it looked like the front end of an A-7 forcibly mated with something reverse engineered from that UFO th...
by AFKAMC
Thu 19 Apr 2018, 11:54 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Burying aircraft?
Replies: 7
Views: 1732

Re: Burying aircraft?

Would this be a cheaper way of getting XH558 under cover than building a hangar?
by AFKAMC
Sun 11 Mar 2018, 11:04 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Whoops...
Replies: 3
Views: 1961

Re: Whoops...

I love the way it says DANGER on the landing pad; they weren't kidding.
by AFKAMC
Wed 21 Feb 2018, 3:48 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Biggest regret in aviation enthusiasm?
Replies: 57
Views: 9910

Re: Biggest regret in aviation enthusiasm?

1. I visited the BBMF at Coningsby in September 2004. The Lancaster was outside waiting to depart somewhere, so after the tour everyone waited by the fence to watch her take off. Everyone except me; I ambled back to the car to eat my sandwiches. Of course, by the time I had heard the racket and legg...
by AFKAMC
Sat 03 Feb 2018, 9:45 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: The Works - Books
Replies: 11
Views: 4585

Re: The Works - Books

Bumping this thread because I noticed today that my local (Sutton Coldfield) branch of The Works has copies of "Cobra! The Attack Helicopter" by Mike Verier for £10. Good book for any AH-1 fans out there.
by AFKAMC
Sat 13 Jan 2018, 10:59 am
Forum: Aircraft Modelling
Topic: Free Airfix Spitfire with the Daily Mail
Replies: 4
Views: 1832

Re: Free Airfix Spitfire with the Daily Mail

Thanks, will do.

Got the kit too. If anyone's interested, it's kit no. A68206, depicting Mk.Ia of 610 Squadron. Includes acrylics, brush and cement.
by AFKAMC
Fri 12 Jan 2018, 11:14 pm
Forum: Aircraft Modelling
Topic: Free Airfix Spitfire with the Daily Mail
Replies: 4
Views: 1832

Free Airfix Spitfire with the Daily Mail

Just spotted on Newsnight's round-up of tomorrow's front pages (of all places), it seems tomorrow's Daily Mail (or Fail, if you prefer) is offering a voucher for a free Airfix Spitfire, for collection from W.H. Smiths. Think it might be a 1:72 Mk.1a. By the way, standards are slipping on Newsnight t...
by AFKAMC
Fri 12 Jan 2018, 11:22 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: RAF P-40 found in the Sahara???
Replies: 93
Views: 21954

Re: RAF P-40 found in the Sahara???

And most egregious of all - the desecration of what is essentially a war grave by the Egyptian authorities. Was the wreck itself a war grave, though? Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_grave ) suggests that military aircraft are only classed as war graves if they crashed in water; “this ...
by AFKAMC
Fri 05 Jan 2018, 9:33 am
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: Last surviving Dambuster interviewed on BBC
Replies: 1
Views: 830

Last surviving Dambuster interviewed on BBC

This morning I caught an interview with the last surviving Dambuster, George "Johnny" Johnson, on the BBC News HARDtalk segment.

I think it's available on the BBC iPlayer, if anyone wishes to see it.
by AFKAMC
Tue 02 Jan 2018, 7:20 pm
Forum: Aviation Waffle
Topic: RAF Museum Cosford Spring Clean on the BBC
Replies: 0
Views: 955

RAF Museum Cosford Spring Clean on the BBC

There's a (very) short video on the BBC website regarding the ongoing spring clean in the National Cold War Exhibition hangar at Cosford: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-shropshire-42545975/raf-cosford-cleaners-need-a-head-for-heights Rather them than me, I'm not good with heights
by AFKAMC
Mon 20 Nov 2017, 1:46 pm
Forum: Aircraft Modelling
Topic: Airfix Starter Sets in Aldi @ £4.99
Replies: 3
Views: 1786

Airfix Starter Sets in Aldi @ £4.99

In case it’s of interest to anyone, Aldi are currently doing Airfix starter sets for £4.99.

According to their website, the following are available (in store only):

HMS Victory
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia
Cromwell Mk.IV
Messerschmitt Bf109E-3
RAF Red Arrows Gnat
Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.4