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Old 3rd Oct 2012, 03:22
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Dan Winterland
 
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Dora - 9. As you know, I flew your aircraft many times when she was in the RAF and the VNE was 173 then. I probably exceeded 155 in her once or twice - sorry!

A fabulous restoration, and good to see she has the original instruments. The stopwatch isn't quite correct though. Although it's a Tag Huer Monte Carlo as fitted to many RAF aircraft, it's not the one fitted to the Chippy. The RAF Chippys didn't have one fitted pernamently, but we needed them for navigation training. So they had a clip in each cockpit to hold a standard hand held Monte Carlo which we had to sign out from the adjutant before flying, on pain of death and a large bill for non return!
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