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Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)

3rd Jan 2009, 23:30

Replies: 5

Quiz question - Help needed

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Posted By mephisto

Thanks all. Going with VC10. Btw its Sun.Times...

Thanks all. Going with VC10. Btw its Sun.Times 28.12.08 Travel Quiz Q.13

Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)

3rd Jan 2009, 21:11

Replies: 5

Quiz question - Help needed

Views: 778

Posted By mephisto

Quiz question - Help needed

Which commercial airliner has the fastest cruise speed?
a) Boeing 777
b) Airbus A320
c) Embraer 195
d) Vickers VC10

I had thought it was cut and dried - a)Boeing 777

However, in the...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Oct 2008, 16:57

Replies: 0

Abandoned Airfields and Aircraft

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Posted By mephisto

Abandoned Airfields and Aircraft

Came across across this recent article. Plenty of interesting pics and stuff.

Abandoned Airfields, Airports and Aircraft | WebUrbanist...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

14th Oct 2008, 22:41

Replies: 3

Ken Norris RIP - RAF Robinson Crusoe

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Posted By mephisto

Ken Norris RIP - RAF Robinson Crusoe

From today's Manchester Evening News

Stockport war hero dies - News - Manchester Evening News (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1072171_stockport_war_hero_dies)

Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting

11th Oct 2008, 12:26

Replies: 1

You Tube - Full Screen View

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Posted By mephisto

You Tube - Full Screen View

When on You Tube or viewing similar clips on other sites, the picture freezes when I click on Full screen. The sound however, carries on as normal. This never used to happen. Any ideas?

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

10th Oct 2008, 12:28

Replies: 80

B-36 over Manchester late 1950s

Views: 35,172

Posted By mephisto

B-36 over Manchester late 50s

For over fifty years I've assumed it was one B 36 circling over Manchester that evening. ANW's mention of several aircraft offers a more feasible explanation. They would have been spaced at short...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Oct 2008, 21:50

Replies: 4

Telair - Manchester 1982ish

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Posted By mephisto

Telair - Manchester 1982ish

I recall a Manchester company Telair (not to be confused with Tellair) which set up with a couple of Aero Commanders or similar around 1982. It was their intention to set up a daily Manchester-...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Oct 2008, 19:57

Replies: 80

B-36 over Manchester late 1950s

Views: 35,172

Posted By mephisto

B-36 over Manchester late 1950s

Burtonwood in news today as proposed site for new 'super prison' which prompts me to make this post.

As a ten or eleven year old around 1957 I lived in Rusholme, just a couple of miles south of...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

4th Oct 2008, 22:14

Replies: 236

Manchester Airport - Then & Now

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Manchester Airport - Then & Now

I have just stumbled across this thread and it has prompted me to make my first PPRuNe posting

From around 1955 to the early sixties my father worked for BEA in a uniformed 'reservations'...

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