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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 20494 Location: Cheshire
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peter scott

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 6059 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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I can recall my brother-in-law knowing someone who privately owed a Vampire and how it cost £450 to fill its tanks for 30 minutes of flight but the Harrier is orders of magnitude more costly. £150/minute just for fuel!
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 20494 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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peter scott wrote: | I can recall my brother-in-law knowing someone who privately owed a Vampire and how it cost £450 to fill its tanks for 30 minutes of flight but the Harrier is orders of magnitude more costly. £150/minute just for fuel!
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As kids my brother and I used to play in a semi-derelict Vampire T11 stored outside on a farm. I often wonder what happened to it
R _________________ Rick (OCC Admin)
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Back in the 70s, when I lived just outside Ashford Kent. A guy two doors frm me had a Tiger Moth (with wings removed,) in the garage of his three bedroomed semi.
It was a type I had never seen before with an enclosed cabin. Wonder what happened to that? _________________ If you tie a piece of buttered toast to a cat's back, then drop it off a high building. It will hover just above the ground rotating slowly. |
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exbmc
Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 237 Location: Derby East Midlands
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject: tiger Moth |
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There may be others pigtin, but the enclosed cockpit Moths that i know of are Thruxton Jackaroo's. They had seating for three i think, and were used as early air taxi's.Conversions were done at Thruxton. There is one based at Baxterley i think, Nr Coventry. G-AOIR Google this and you should get a picture up. |
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pigtin
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: Herne Bay
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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That's the one and I remember now being told it was a Jackaroo. _________________ If you tie a piece of buttered toast to a cat's back, then drop it off a high building. It will hover just above the ground rotating slowly. |
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