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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jan 2004, 05:20
Replies: 108
Views: 7,314
Posted By tharg

Treadders Please log me as 'probable' to...

Treadders
Please log me as 'probable' to 'definite maybe'. We discuss next week at Coulsdon?
:ok:
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jan 2004, 05:07
Replies: 18
Views: 1,238
Posted By tharg

Unhappy Tredders Microbash next week great idea....

Tredders

Microbash next week great idea. Check your PMs (first I've sent, hope it works). Am well stuffed on extracting snap/drawing of PigeonPlane from Fred T's mighty organs - 1919 edition too...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jan 2004, 19:40
Replies: 18
Views: 1,238
Posted By tharg

Mr Tredders... we are not worthy! Re a full snap...

Mr Tredders... we are not worthy! Re a full snap of the beast... might be able to oblige if someone could give me date of construction?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jan 2004, 11:23
Replies: 18
Views: 1,238
Posted By tharg

JDK - I hate you! Was about to go to bed...

JDK - I hate you!

Was about to go to bed then found this thread. Three hours gone. Still searching zzzzzz

Best guess is Marcel Besson design cos of almost separate fuselage/hull shape and the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Jan 2004, 11:18
Replies: 61
Views: 6,381
Posted By tharg

Needs must add my vote for the Sunderland -...

Needs must add my vote for the Sunderland - thought Kermit Weekes' one was airborne. If mothballed, how sad! That's Florida off me hols destination list then. Saw that particular ship when she came...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Jan 2004, 10:51
Replies: 10
Views: 1,244
Posted By tharg

MOTF Thanks for excellent pix. Particularly...

MOTF

Thanks for excellent pix. Particularly the Typhoon - oh to see (and hear ) one of those beasts in the sky again.

I am sure you have already done so but, if not, troll down to the USAAF...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Dec 2003, 00:36
Replies: 23
Views: 2,703
Posted By tharg

Ooooooh! Hasn't he got a big'un, Jools? And what...

Ooooooh! Hasn't he got a big'un, Jools? And what bonar exposures he does. Don't you just love taking a vader at 'em Mr 'Orne.

<Jools 'n' Sandy mode off>:eek:

Heartily endorse all of the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Dec 2003, 00:06
Replies: 108
Views: 7,314
Posted By tharg

Tredders No-go on evgs in coming week,...

Tredders

No-go on evgs in coming week, regrettably. Thought a lunchtime stroll through library at Fred T's might appeal but if you're working that's boogered that idea. Perhaps the week after...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Dec 2003, 11:35
Replies: 108
Views: 7,314
Posted By tharg

Treadders - excellent idea Wherever....

Treadders - excellent idea

Wherever. Whenever. Up for it bigtime. Given our proximity, we could car-share for journey (if Thargette will allow use of her Nissan 200ZX).

BTW what are you doing...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Dec 2003, 11:29
Replies: 1
Views: 653
Posted By tharg

flightline Lovely snaps, my friend. Can...

flightline

Lovely snaps, my friend. Can really smell castor oil, glue and canvas. More please, soon (?)...

You've done this before, haven't you?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Dec 2003, 08:27
Replies: 6
Views: 1,158
Posted By tharg

Oh pleeeeeese. Most excellent news (I hope :ooh:...

Oh pleeeeeese. Most excellent news (I hope :ooh: )

And, well, Damian - just when you thought the days of snapping big triangular noisy things were over, eh?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Dec 2003, 03:14
Replies: 10
Views: 1,358
Posted By tharg

Metrovick BERYL! Goddit... dunno why though -...

Metrovick BERYL! Goddit... dunno why though - probably someone's wife/daughter/doxy etc.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Dec 2003, 09:23
Replies: 26
Views: 3,305
Posted By tharg

Mr Treadders - now don't go all off-key, old chap...

Mr Treadders - now don't go all off-key, old chap Compose yourself. The ancient sages say 'A man cannot miss what is not there...'

Delighted to meet for a glass of Chateau Collapso sometime....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Dec 2003, 09:03
Replies: 29
Views: 3,642
Posted By tharg

Percival Proctor - just because it was the first...

Percival Proctor - just because it was the first machine I which I took to the skies. Can't have been more than five or six years old. Day trip to Margate; flight along seafront from grass field in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Dec 2003, 02:38
Replies: 26
Views: 3,305
Posted By tharg

Risky R - don't remember the doco about Cranwell,...

Risky R - don't remember the doco about Cranwell, but do remember earlier one the Ark Royal (late 70s, early 80s - maybe). The Ark in question was not the dinky-toy rampy thing we have now, but the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Dec 2003, 10:37
Replies: 26
Views: 3,305
Posted By tharg

Must mention The Final Countdown 1980-something,...

Must mention The Final Countdown 1980-something, I think. Neat little mix of time-travel science fiction and USN bigtime hardware. Starred Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, USS Nimitz and excellent...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2003, 11:53
Replies: 22
Views: 8,786
Posted By tharg

Zlin & Speechless Gents, thanks for that -...

Zlin & Speechless

Gents, thanks for that - have always been a great admirer of the art of Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman (killed in, or shortly after, filming of Flight of Phoenix and Murphy's War...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2003, 10:47
Replies: 10
Views: 1,237
Posted By tharg

Now, I do reckon that there is a Douglas RD-2...

Now, I do reckon that there is a Douglas RD-2 from early thirties. Boat in b/g is just as interesting. More later... if I type too much, someone else'll beat me to it

Yup - Douglas RD-2 or -1...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2003, 07:20
Replies: 26
Views: 3,305
Posted By tharg

Agree on 633 sqn (just watched it) plus Coates'...

Agree on 633 sqn (just watched it) plus Coates' Dambusters and the march. For my money, though, Ron Goodwin excelled 633 with his rushed score for the Battle of Britain. This was commissioned after...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2003, 06:51
Replies: 22
Views: 8,786
Posted By tharg

Zlin - good spot on the Anson, I missed that....

Zlin - good spot on the Anson, I missed that. Loved the Miles Messenger (?) at the opening though.

Can confirm Bovingdon as main location. Understand from fellow Merlin followers that three...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2003, 00:05
Replies: 18
Views: 1,834
Posted By tharg

Ahhh - Mr Padhist - the Tiger Moth ...

Ahhh - Mr Padhist - the Tiger Moth

Unforgettable experience for me involved quite unexpected chance to fly in one of Mr D.H.'s finest as 'talking ballast' in front seat with v. highly qualified...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Dec 2003, 12:21
Replies: 10
Views: 904
Posted By tharg

karrank - your kind words much appreciated. Just...

karrank - your kind words much appreciated. Just got lucky with timing - and fact that still have much treasured book "Aircraft of the Fighting Powers" (pub. 1943-ish) featuring Wirraway.

Messrs...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Dec 2003, 07:53
Replies: 18
Views: 1,834
Posted By tharg

Mr PPRuNePOP, sir Nothing to match your...

Mr PPRuNePOP, sir

Nothing to match your powerful recollections of Coulsdon in 1940 (born too late). But one of my most powerful moments was close by - at the Croydon Airport War Memorial two years...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Dec 2003, 07:34
Replies: 10
Views: 904
Posted By tharg

Do believe yer resplendent flying machine is a...

Do believe yer resplendent flying machine is a Commonwealth Aircraft Co Wirraway. Made in Oz under license from N American (Harvard, or variant thereof??)

Heard tell that one had a pop at an A6M...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Nov 2003, 12:07
Replies: 31
Views: 3,915
Posted By tharg

Damien, thank you so much. Your impossibly...

Damien, thank you so much. Your impossibly beautiful images have done so much to preserve the beauty now missing from our sky.

We will not see her like again.

*sniff* I'mm with dd here. Where's...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Nov 2003, 03:19
Replies: 7
Views: 838
Posted By tharg

Okay - so who nicked the JAWAs for 1919, 1920,...

Okay - so who nicked the JAWAs for 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923 :mad:

When - IF - they turn up, hope to be able to discover something about the working of the beast - till then will cherish...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Nov 2003, 10:34
Replies: 7
Views: 838
Posted By tharg

Ooops! More haste, less speed for tharg then....

Ooops! More haste, less speed for tharg then. Realise now that I, too, saw the snap of the Gastambide-Levavasseur on PPRuNe - must have done, 'cos came up with me rather rushed "Cole aircraft" pitch...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Nov 2003, 01:34
Replies: 7
Views: 838
Posted By tharg

It is, I think, a very odd beast made by Cole...

It is, I think, a very odd beast made by Cole Aircraft of Hammersmith for the government of the day. Will check date later - but around 1918 to 1920 - and I have a nagging idea that there might have...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Nov 2003, 09:10
Replies: 8
Views: 1,704
Posted By tharg

Been some posts about that credit on BoB thread...

Been some posts about that credit on BoB thread in Mil Pilots. Have seen some reports elsewhere of a stunt pilot called Milton Rubenfeld who joined at outbreak of war. Says he flew hurricanes in a...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Nov 2003, 08:59
Replies: 55
Views: 6,366
Posted By tharg

Seems I was a bit previous with the DIY dubbing...

Seems I was a bit previous with the DIY dubbing of Walton's score on to the film. Announced in the Independent, late September, that Guy Hamilton is going to do just that sometime soon. Could just be...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2003, 19:44
Replies: 55
Views: 6,366
Posted By tharg

Jacko and Mr Mossie You are both right - almost...

Jacko and Mr Mossie
You are both right - almost - Walton was commissioned to write the score and delivered nine movements lasting just 22 minutes or so. Director Guy Hamilton, allegedly, rejected...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2003, 11:00
Replies: 55
Views: 6,366
Posted By tharg

Mr BEagle, sir Agree wholeheartedly re B o B...

Mr BEagle, sir

Agree wholeheartedly re B o B and Bridge Too Far. If they were released today they would be acclaimed as fantastic "Drama-Docs"

Mr Treadigraph

Glad I am not alone in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Nov 2003, 10:15
Replies: 61
Views: 6,381
Posted By tharg

Agree with all the above but, gentlemen, I give...

Agree with all the above but, gentlemen, I give you... the Saunders Roe SR45 Princess flying boat.


Big n beautiful (http://1000aircraftphotos.com/PRPhotos/SAROPrincess.htm)
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Nov 2003, 23:39
Replies: 55
Views: 6,366
Posted By tharg

Robert Shaw's Sailor-Malan-by-any-other-name C/o...

Robert Shaw's Sailor-Malan-by-any-other-name C/o to Ian McShane's dishevelled just-been-pulled-out-of-drink Sgt pilot:

Where have you been?"

Learning to swim!

-----------------------------...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Nov 2003, 09:09
Replies: 27
Views: 8,203
Posted By tharg

Slightly off topic, I admit, but only by the...

Slightly off topic, I admit, but only by the presence (or absence) of one engine: I distinctly remember being at a Farnborough show (1962, I think) and watching the prototype Trident coming into a v....
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