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Old September 28th 15, 10:33 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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=?UTF-8?Q?Ri=c2=a9ardo?= wrote in
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On 9/28/2015 6:47 PM, R2D2 wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:07:36 +0100, RiŠardo
wrote:

On 9/27/2015 9:53 PM, R2D2 wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:01:04 -0400, Joseph Testagrose
wrote:


Wth?! Someone time-traveled?!


Both aircraft were from the same company, and the Hurricane was the

one
that carried the legend "Last Of The Many" on it fuselage.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircra...icanepz865.cfm

Here's a picture of it in its current regalia.

On the day I took this picture it had just made an emergency landing

as
the hydraulic landing system fuel line had broken, spraying the pilot
with the fluid.

The RAF ground crew pulled all the stops out to get it flying again

for
its scheduled display.

RiŠardo


Landed in the same airfield of the P1127? What luck a photo! Thanks
for the story!


Well, not quite, as there's a good fifty years between the two
photographs, although it's the same Hawker Hurricane in both.

RiŠardo



British royal family aide, Capt. Peter Townsend, wearing helmet & goggles
while sitting in cockpit of Princess Margaret's plane (a Hurricane), in
which he finished 2nd in King's Cup air race.
Location: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Date taken: May 17, 1950



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