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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Bertie Vampire? The side by side version I presume? Remember that great scene in "Breaking The Sound Barrier" when the "hero" takes his wife on a trip from England to Egypt in a two seat Vamp? Beautiful black and white photography in that picture. I do actually. I love the way they make it look like they did it first... Yeah, Yeager was good at that too. I've yet to hear him give George Welch the credit he has always been due for being the first through mach 1.......but I have to admit, the Brits made some great movies about early aviation. The old B&W's were the best I think. The films they did on Bader and Guy Gibson were superb movies. Leslie Howard doing Mitchell might have been a bit melodramatic I think :-)) Hope you get to fly it. Nearest thing I can relate to that I've flown would be the Canadair Tutor. I flew the Snowbirds #10 as a guest of the team at one time. Great little airplane and very easy to fly. I'm sure you won't have the slightest problem with the Vampire if they ever get it running. D Oh it's often running, then its broken, then it's running, then it's broken! The lost the canopy on it once and it cost more to replace than it hadcost to buy the airplane! I'd say the trick here is to make damn sure it's on the "running" side of that sin curve the day you get to fly it :-)) I have a pic of the snowbirds in Sept Isle Quebec I took in 1979, I think. They had just flown through Mt St Helen's plume and damaged their airplanes! I didn;t get up close to them, but I was up in the tower and the controllers told me their windscreens had been badly frosted by the incident. I'll have a rumage around for it. I never knew that, but it would make sense. The grit in the air would have been quite dense. I once dove a Mustang through a rain shower and damn near stripped the paint right off it. My crew wanted to kill me :-) Bertie -- Dudley Henriques |
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