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figbat

Slippery scientist

Here she is again, by the looks of it some time later when she was reduced to serving as an instructional airframe. you can see there are 5 more raid tally marks.
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
No photo but sat at home, ears pricked as an aircraft flew over...my immediate thought was Dakota ?
Couldn't see it but a quickly ok at adsb ...its a Beech 18, G-BKGM twin engine from 1952.

Dakota ran on P&W Twin Wasps...the Beech on Wasp Juniors apparently so the sound comparison was there perhaps.
With hindsight, I've seen this aircraft overhead a few times.
 

DaveReading

Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
Location
Reading, obvs
No photo but sat at home, ears pricked as an aircraft flew over...my immediate thought was Dakota ?
Couldn't see it but a quickly ok at adsb ...its a Beech 18, G-BKGM twin engine from 1952.
That particular Beech lives at the strip at Alscot Park (the former RAF Stratford bomber base).

Some interesting background on it here: https://www.gonewiththewind.uk.com/projects (scroll down for the "On the Beech" video). The guy who flew it on that epic trip hired me in 1982, when his day job (and mine) was selling aeroplanes ...
 
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gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Found another couple of dads works, unfinished (unframed), Inevitably with the amount of work he did, there will have been some that just never sold, he never got round to finishing etc etc, hence these odd ones
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A little damaged from floating around for decades...
 

midibiker

Member
Hello All,

I like planes and I always wanted to be a Pilot.
I am going on a B787-9 tomorrow.
 
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gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Sat in the garden today and saw a strange phenomenon. Aircraft at altitude leaving contrails...but there was a visible but indistinct dark line in front of it, going into the distance
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Not sure if you can pick it up. I googled it and found so eone had asked exactly the same question but sadly just got stupid answers...
 
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