| My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 | |
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| Subject: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 3:21 pm | |
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00000
Number of posts : 879 Registration date : 2007-12-31
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 4:38 pm | |
| Bloody Hell Phil, you can see its your dad....Well done Edward Day | |
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Hamerite
Number of posts : 146 Age : 59 Location : Biddenden Registration date : 2010-06-16
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 6:58 pm | |
| - IronSide wrote:
- Bloody Hell Phil, you can see its your dad....Well done Edward Day
amaising.. you look so simular!! | |
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| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 7:58 pm | |
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rotorman
Number of posts : 487 Age : 62 Location : greatstone Registration date : 2010-09-10
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 8:09 pm | |
| thats cool Phil,I think your next model should be a miles majesty so we can have a reinactment of this piece of history down at the patch.i'm sure you'll find some volenteer hurricane pilots to race against. | |
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| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 8:28 pm | |
| - rotorman wrote:
- thats cool Phil,I think your next model should be a miles majesty so we can have a reinactment of this piece of history down at the patch.i'm sure you'll find some volenteer hurricane pilots to race against.
Pete!! |
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Worzey
Number of posts : 1298 Age : 51 Location : Ashford Registration date : 2008-02-09
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 8:52 pm | |
| Have we got a Pete in the club, or am I missing something?
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00000
Number of posts : 879 Registration date : 2007-12-31
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Mon 07 Nov 2011, 11:24 pm | |
| Is that not the Pilot in the racing Hurricane.? | |
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| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Tue 08 Nov 2011, 8:28 am | |
| - IronSide wrote:
- Is that not the Pilot in the racing Hurricane.?
Group Captain Peter Townsend. |
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Rainman
Number of posts : 1086 Age : 23 Location : Lympne Registration date : 2008-02-06
| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Tue 08 Nov 2011, 9:09 am | |
| Great bit of history Phil..... Did you all notice how very british and stiff upper lip it all was back then ie, "the oldest competitor, who crashed to his death a little later" !!!! | |
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| Subject: Re: My Dad beating a Hurricane/ wins the Kings Cup Air Race 1951 Tue 08 Nov 2011, 9:38 am | |
| - Rainman wrote:
- Great bit of history Phil.....
Did you all notice how very british and stiff upper lip it all was back then ie, "the oldest competitor, who crashed to his death a little later" !!!!
Absolutely. The King's Cup was a lethal low-level 'pylon' race - a kind of 'the Grand National of the Skies'. Couldn't stage something like it today. Health and Safety would have the screaming heebie jeebies. The Major |
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Hamerite
Number of posts : 146 Age : 59 Location : Biddenden Registration date : 2010-06-16
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