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16-04-2008, 04:15 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK
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 | Vulcan to return to the skies
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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16-04-2008, 09:10 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Can't wait to see her at one of the big airshows. Think she's got some problems but they say by the end of June she'll be ready.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  |
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16-04-2008, 09:47 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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| Im so proud,Im sure my donation paid for at least one rivet 
__________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything."  Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney |
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17-04-2008, 12:15 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| They were (and still are) beautiful aircraft. I also loved the Victor as an aircraft. Very cool design.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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17-04-2008, 12:22 PM
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| I Like Tanks.  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| They were chatting to the project leader on local news last night while there was some problem with the undercarriage doors on a test flight. He replied "I'm sure it'll be fine" but the look on his face as he watched it roar over showed the real stresses involved in their magnificent project. During the film they showed of it landing my six year old declared "that's the cooooolest plane I've ever seen!". He may have a point.
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06-05-2008, 07:26 PM
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| Vulcan to undergo more tests A restored Cold War bomber is due to undergo further test flights over the East Midlands this week. BBC NEWS | England | Leicestershire | Test flights for Cold War bomber
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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06-05-2008, 07:53 PM
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| Angels one-five Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Fingers crossed. Be ready for the airshow season.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944. |
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07-05-2008, 02:14 PM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK
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| Test flight for Vulcan.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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