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25 Jan 2011 04:54 #1741
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Welcome to AiX EELightning, with a user name like that you must have some interest in the type?
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26 Jan 2011 16:35 #1742
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It was my favourite airplane as a boy. When I had to come up with a username it was the first thing that came to mind. I guess those pictures took me back - I hadn't seen them in 50 years. They'd been sitting in the lost and found.
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26 Jan 2011 17:38 #1743
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Welcome to the forum 
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26 Jan 2011 19:13 #1744
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Dear All,
I am a British ex-pat, scientist and private pilot, currently resident down here in southern Florida, but a native of sunny East Anglia. As a child, I cycled (and persuaded my long-suffering dear Mother to drive me) around many then still relatively intact former air-fields. Nearby RAF. Debden still held its annual Gala, Duxford hosted the Battle of Britain filming and many sites had plenty to be explored, with much still remaining to be discovered. I actually have an old rusty Lee Enfield .303 and a 25lb. bomb casing, both recovered from such sites. How I wish that I could have carried that old RAF. Gravely airfield sign back then...
My primary interest is airfield buildings, especially control towers (my ambition is to retire eventually to a restored one) and I feel that a field guide to such buildings would be of great help...
Any way, Please feel free to keep in touch and I shall hope to meet more of you, during one of my annual pilgrimages home.
All the best,
Huw.
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I am a British ex-pat, scientist and private pilot, currently resident down here in southern Florida, but a native of sunny East Anglia. As a child, I cycled (and persuaded my long-suffering dear Mother to drive me) around many then still relatively intact former air-fields. Nearby RAF. Debden still held its annual Gala, Duxford hosted the Battle of Britain filming and many sites had plenty to be explored, with much still remaining to be discovered. I actually have an old rusty Lee Enfield .303 and a 25lb. bomb casing, both recovered from such sites. How I wish that I could have carried that old RAF. Gravely airfield sign back then...
My primary interest is airfield buildings, especially control towers (my ambition is to retire eventually to a restored one) and I feel that a field guide to such buildings would be of great help...
Any way, Please feel free to keep in touch and I shall hope to meet more of you, during one of my annual pilgrimages home.
All the best,
Huw.
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26 Jan 2011 19:26 #1745
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Welcome to the site, and Im amazed that you actually found a .303!
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26 Jan 2011 20:26 #1746
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I'm amazed he got the .303 to America!
"When you stop remembering you start forgetting"
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Welcome to the site, and Im amazed that you actually found a .303!
I'm amazed he got the .303 to America!
"When you stop remembering you start forgetting"
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27 Jan 2011 06:50 #1747
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Welcome to AiX ThatZip, presumably your retirement ambition is to live in a US airfield Control Tower and not a UK building?
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27 Jan 2011 08:57 #1748
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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Welcome to the forum. Would an old control tower make a good dwelling?
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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28 Jan 2011 00:40 #1749
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You can buy several Brit 303s in America... I have a 1917 version on me wall. Shoots great, once was a prized deer gun post war.
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I'm amazed he got the .303 to America!
You can buy several Brit 303s in America... I have a 1917 version on me wall. Shoots great, once was a prized deer gun post war.
8th Air Force Home Page mighty8thaf.preller.us/
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28 Jan 2011 09:29 #1750
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Only for gnomes!
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Welcome to the forum. Would an old control tower make a good dwelling?
Only for gnomes!
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