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On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from |
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> the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. |
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You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the |
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last airworthy model left anywhere. |
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For those who don't know, Evelyn was a Mk IXe and spent years in a kid's |
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playground in Pretoria (the city I grew up in) before someone started |
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restoring her in the late 60s. She was rebuilt at Zwartkop Air Force |
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Base (where I spent time as an apprentice) and stored at Lanseria |
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Airport (where I've spent many a happy hour drinking fine wares at the |
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restaurant above the apron). |
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Last I heard, she was sold and ended up in Brazil... |
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> Yoo-hoo! |
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> I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts from |
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> the 40s |
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> Apologies to those of a more serious disposition. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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