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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 06:46
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DH 88 Comet a possibility? Uncertain of my position.......
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 06:59
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Nice try but no. However, there is a DH88 connection - keep thinking along those lines.
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 08:06
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Wouldn't be a Miles Mohawk perchance?
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 10:03
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India Four Two. As you say it now looks less cramped. Please check PMs.
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 11:19
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When Mel says 'check the pms' I know it isn't a Miles Mohawk!

Wild stab at a Percival Mew Gull?
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 12:48
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Sorry about that aviate1138, but at least I put you on the right path as I am sure India Four Two will confirm.
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Old 2nd Oct 2008, 16:38
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Wild stab at a Percival Mew Gull?
Not just any Mew Gull - Alex Henshaw's Mew Gull G-AEXF. This photo is of a replica in the RAF Museum, which is configured to look like it was in 1939 when he broke the London to Cape Town return record (set by a DH 88).

Four and a half days elapsed time for a total distance of 12,700 miles - 40 hours each way with a 28 hour stop in Cape Town! No wonder he had to be lifted out when he arrived back. I cannot imagine spending even two hours in that cramped cockpit.

An excellent web page here Flight details and of course Alex wrote a book The Flight of the Mew Gull which I have on order and am eagerly awaiting.

A nice picture of the present day cockpit of G-AEXF can be seen here Percival P6 Mew Gull (G-AEXF) #03 - 30th March 2008 :: (G-AEXF) #03.jpg, along with other photos of her restoration


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The Mew Gull cockpit shown has been updated. An original Mew Gull cockpit can be viewed at wonwinglo.scale-models.net. The bag hanging on the cup-hook is ballast. Yes, the aircraft was out of C of G, so bags of ballast had to be placed in the cockpit, the amount depending on the pilot's weight.
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aviate1138! Where are you? Let us have a mystery cockpit photo pleeeze!
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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 07:31
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Here I am comrades!

Not expecting any lengthy wait for this one.

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Amazing, but it seems the Douglas DC-3 has not been done before now!!
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Not a DC3 actually........
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Not a DC3 actually........
....says he, smugly.

We knew there must be a catch.
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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 10:37
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I even left a clue.......
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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 11:28
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Lisunov LI2 perhaps - open house if correct
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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 12:06
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Well done paulc!

This particular Li-2 is the RA-01300 (23441605) 'Red 03' federation of Amateur Aviators of Russia.



Open House it is.........

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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 12:10
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I even left a clue.......
Well done Aviate1138, I walked right into it.

My excuse is that it was 0330 here - one shouldn't challenge the sharp minds around here while sleep walking.
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Old 3rd Oct 2008, 18:38
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What cockpit list.

I believe there is a problem with the Geocities website. I have tried to update the current lists but am unable to get into Geocities. Am I to believe this is the case for all pruners? Mel
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Finnish aircraft Tuuli III?
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