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Don't bullshit me, you didn't stop, just found a more secure location. :p:
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I got a fucking lock on the door is what I did!:lol2:
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Sounds like a misnomer to me.
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A his seamen died but his building still stands.
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Its chance discovery was made by a British backpacker, a keen aircraft enthusiast, who photographed a cannibalized DH9 in a new museum at the Palace of Bikaner in Rajasthan in 1995. He passed the word to an airplane restorer, Guy Black, who visited the palace in India 3 years later. But the aircraft had been moved to the palace's former elephant stables.
There, among piles of elephant saddles, was the airframe of the DH9, engineless, its timbers partly eaten by termites and much of its fabric covering missing. Along one wall, were a dozen DH9 wings. Several tailfins were nearby. He said: "I could not believe my eyes. The DH9 are as rare's as hen's teeth now and there wasn't a single one in a collection in Britain." In the stables were the remains of three DH9s that been given by Britain to the Maharajah of Bikaner in the early 1920s to help him establish an air force under the post-war Imperial Gift Scheme. Mr Black bought two of the rotting hulks. D5649, the plane he restored and sold to the Imperial War Museum for nearly £1 million was unveiled at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. The Imperial War Museum, by luck, had a DH9 engine to install in the restored plane. |
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Jap dive bomber faw down go boom...
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Flying disc actually worked...
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I've never knowingly seen this stuff, but it was used for a number of things including Olympic torches.
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The above was published in 1969, the company having been absorbed into the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co by 1965. A check of the Companies House website shows the existence of 'High Duty Alloys Ltd' in its own right, but it now appears to be in the financial sector and is described as an 'Intermediate investment holding company'. |
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The 1948 Olympic torches Ba Concorde - Paperweight British Aviation |
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Helicopters don't really fly. They are just so ugly the Earth repels them. :)
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:lol2: That's not just a random snark, it has an aesthetic basis. :thumb:
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The largest private Air Force in the world, Draken in Florida.
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