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By: 6th September 2019 at 16:08 Permalink
-The person who started the thread could have deleted the whole thread...
...it is a bit of a blunt instrument but the only way to delete something that somebody else wrote.
For example, if you divulged something that they didn't want in the public domain?
By: 6th September 2019 at 16:26 Permalink - Edited 6th September 2019 at 16:52
-Look up the new GDPR regulations; by being 'helpful' you (and this forum) may have broken the law!
Say, for example, somebody asked: 'Hey, does anybody know who that guy is who is restoring an Armstrong-Whitworth Albemarle to flying condition near Brighton?'
And you answered: 'Yes, he is called Frank Made-Up-Name, and restoration is being done at Made-Up-Name Farm.'
Well, think for a minute; do you think Frank wanted the whole world (potentially) to know what his name was, what he was restoring and where, perhaps, thousands of pounds worth of aircraft artefacts and tools were being kept?
Not saying this is what you did.....just maybe a reason that the thread got deleted?
Personally I think if GDPR protects this sort of personal information, that can only be a good thing!
By the way, I'm certain nobody is restoring an Armstrong-Whitworth Albemarle to flying condition, anywhere!
By: 6th September 2019 at 17:37 Permalink
-Well, it's a good job that it's a Whitley that I'm restoring to flying condition near Brighton. Otherwise the letter from Sue Grabbit & Runne would be in the post tonight! ;)
By: 6th September 2019 at 18:40 Permalink
-How ironic, I'm restoring a Brighton in Whitley!
By: 6th September 2019 at 19:31 Permalink
-It's queer that Brighton has never featured - as far as I'm aware - in an aircraft name. No BAC, Blackburn, Boulton & Paul, Bristol or Britten-Norman Brighton. Not even a Beagle Brighton, which would be as close, geographically, as one might get!
By: 7th September 2019 at 07:01 Permalink
-Of course, the Brighton Aircraft Manufacturing Co. built the Blackburn Roc under licence, the Brighton Roc; and they wanted to build an aircraft to the design of Sir Malcolm Early, to be named after him, but they couldn't get up in time.
By: 7th September 2019 at 07:59 Permalink
-And there's me thinking that I knew all the British aircraft ever produced. It just demonstrates what you can learn from this forum. False news, did I hear someone say? Nah, mate, if you read it 'ere it must be true!
By: 7th September 2019 at 13:11 Permalink - Edited 7th September 2019 at 13:15
-Was 'The Free Life' the tiny yacht-shaped gondola / balloon that was featured on 'Blue Peter' (what irony) on the BBC and which was lost without trace?
By: 7th September 2019 at 14:31 Permalink
-Oh, I'd forgotten that there were plans to build the US 'no cockpit' RLU-1 under licence on the Sussex coast. It was going to be called the Brighton Breezy! OK, I'll get my ..... :D
By: 7th September 2019 at 15:02 Permalink
-Well, it's a good job that it's a Whitley that I'm restoring to flying condition near Brighton. Otherwise the letter from Sue Grabbit & Runne would be in the post tonight! ;)
Yes, I know the project!
A green farm gate off Brumble road.
. I read in Historic Aviation Quarterly the lock combination to get in is: 24-66-34. Should be an exciting project.
By: 7th September 2019 at 16:14 Permalink
-It's queer that Brighton has never featured - as far as I'm aware - in an aircraft name. No BAC, Blackburn, Boulton & Paul, Bristol or Britten-Norman Brighton. Not even a Beagle Brighton, which would be as close, geographically, as one might get!
This might be true but ‘queer’ and ‘Brighton’ have oft been used in the same sentence.
By: 7th September 2019 at 16:24 Permalink
-Gondola looked more like a life raft I think. It was September 1970 they launched.
Must be a different one; the tiny yacht-gondola must have been later maybe 1976 to 1978?
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By: T J Johansen - 5th September 2019 at 09:38
I am fairly convinced I did reply to a thread regarding a Yak under rebuild and its South Coast owner. It seems to have vanished however. What happened?
T J