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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Jun 2005, 00:42
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Boffins at Farnborough were always reaching for...

Boffins at Farnborough were always reaching for the sky but were always too busy with boffinry to acquire the additional skills needed for flight testing. They must have felt on the ground what the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Apr 2005, 02:36
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Meanwhile here is another snippet of Farnborough...

Meanwhile here is another snippet of Farnborough history in 2 parts as the word count is too high for one post.

Target Aircraft Development

Extract from memoirs by Geoff Taylor, an Australian...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Apr 2005, 08:22
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

JF Perhaps Hugh Warren will have his...

JF

Perhaps Hugh Warren will have his presentation in 'computer speak' in which case we who cannot join for a reunion at the Queen's might have the opportunity to appreciate an important slice of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jan 2005, 22:42
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Continuing with Farnborough’s early history ...

Continuing with Farnborough’s early history

At the outbreak of WW 2, in contrast to that of WW1, aviation, and with it the R.A.E., were mature organisations and ready to meet the emergencies...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Jan 2005, 01:06
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Farnborough History Continued. When war...

Farnborough History Continued.

When war broke out in 1914 Farnborough had for the first and only time a fourfold function; to combine the main supply of aeronautical information with the conduct...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Jan 2005, 01:04
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Farnborough History Just happened to be at...

Farnborough History

Just happened to be at Farnborough during the year of its 50th anniversary.

A booklet produced for the occasion summarises the history and is well worth repeating here.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Dec 2004, 05:25
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

jf Is there a way I can download a copy of...

jf

Is there a way I can download a copy of the Lincoln Photo ?

There was a Lincoln at Woomera with two Pythons which may have been installed by NGTE ? Have photo.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Dec 2004, 03:09
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

JF Any more pearls like that one ? and...

JF

Any more pearls like that one ? and complete with fascinating picture.

What was the pitch up like when reheat lit up?

And was this the first airborne trial with reheat in the UK ?

I'm...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Dec 2004, 21:37
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Snippets of Farnborough History. Great stuff. ...

Snippets of Farnborough History.
Great stuff.

How about someone from the National Gas Turbine Establishment telling us what went on over there.

JF did you ever visit that place? Is it still...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Dec 2004, 21:42
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

What fascinating stuff coming now out of the...

What fascinating stuff coming now out of the "back rooms" or should I say from within the black sheds.

If only we embryo TPs at ETPS could have had the opportunity to have seen more of that...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Dec 2004, 09:40
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Hawker Hunter at ETPS Farnborough and sundry...

Hawker Hunter at ETPS Farnborough and sundry adventures with others of similar vintage.

If there was an F1 Hunter then that is the one that caught my attention at Farnborough in 1955. It was the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Dec 2004, 03:20
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

This post completes my memoirs concerning...

This post completes my memoirs concerning Farnborough.

I must disappoint those wanting some details of my "Preview" of the Canberra as my final ETPS event as I will be hard pressed to separate...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Nov 2004, 00:28
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Farnborough and ETPS Continued From...

Farnborough and ETPS Continued

From Unpublished Incomplete Memoirs covering most TP activities. Experience before ETPS, post flying training, was combat tour flying Mustangs in Korean war, QFI 3...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Nov 2004, 23:43
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

More memories of Farnborough. Memoirs...

More memories of Farnborough.
Memoirs continued.
Unfortunately LOMCEVAK those days are gone forever.

One Saturday afternoon at Farnborough I found myself sitting in the right seat of the ETPS...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Nov 2004, 02:21
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Farnborough and ETPS Memoirs continued. ...

Farnborough and ETPS Memoirs continued.

There were lots of visits to aircraft and engine manufacturing plants during the year (1955). These were always of great interest, permitting us to see the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Nov 2004, 08:26
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

John Farley - thanks for that superb shot of...

John Farley - thanks for that superb shot of Cody's Tree and the Brabazon.

Farnborough ETPS Memories Continued.

We soon settled into a daily routine. Each day started with a batman waking me up...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Nov 2004, 21:39
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

TD&H Memoirs? They started in response to...

TD&H

Memoirs? They started in response to "What did you do Dad?"
Now they are quite a tome and I am now trying to get into chronological order the 5 years I spent in the USA managing the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Nov 2004, 07:22
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

TD&H Well if you insist!! A few more...

TD&H

Well if you insist!!

A few more Farnborough recollections.
From Memoirs.

After an overnight at Mallala, Ken and I set off for the long grind from Australia to the UK in an RAF Hastings...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Nov 2004, 22:46
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Farnborough Recollections Farnborough 1955. ...

Farnborough Recollections

Farnborough 1955.

About mid year, the RAF put together an aerobatic team based at Odiham not far from Farnborough. The team leader was a USAF pilot on exchange,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Sep 2004, 23:59
Replies: 237
Views: 100,479
Posted By Milt

Cody's Tree During my year at Farnborough I...

Cody's Tree

During my year at Farnborough I used to often wander past the remains of Cody's tree which had a little fence for protection.

I would look at that tree and imagine Cody tying his...
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