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Lwt Big Cheese

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Reply #30 on: October 07, 2012, 06:44:06 pm
That stuff was flying today at the Shuttleworth collection.

Talking of bi-planes here's one from earlier (!):
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Reply #31 on: October 07, 2012, 08:10:04 pm
Good old Sopwith Tripehound, the plane that  brought on the more famous Fokker Triplane. The Tripehound was quite successful in its day though.
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Reply #32 on: October 07, 2012, 08:20:28 pm
Bare they flew the following:
Red Gnat Team
Hawker Hunter T7 A G-FFOX
de Havilland Vampire T11
Gloster Gladiator
Jet Provost
DH60X Moth
Comper Swift
DH Chipmunk
Douglas Dakota (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight)
Miles Gemini
Avro Anson
de Havilland DH89 Rapide
Slingsby T13 Petrel Glider
Eon Primary Glider
Percival Piston Provost
Edge 540
Sopwith Pup
Sopwith Triplane
Bristol F2b Fighter
SE5a
Hawker Hind
Hawker Demon
Bleriot
Bristol Boxkite
Deperdussin
Avro Triplane
Blackburn Monoplane Type - D (100th Anniversary 1912-2012) The oldest british-built airworthy aeroplane in the world!
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Reply #33 on: October 08, 2012, 12:08:51 am
That Shuttleworth Gladiator is a lovely airplane. I made a skin pack of it for the WWII game IL2 a few years back.

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=5244

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Reply #34 on: October 08, 2012, 07:43:54 am
Oh wow!
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