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Monday, 6 October 2014
Shuttleworth DH 88 Comet, last show of the season, 5 October 2014
"...The season finale at Shuttleworth, in superb weather on Sunday 5th October, brought a massive crowd. It is a few years since I had last seen the car parks so full! The day was about air racing and centre stage was the DH88 Comet Racer, winner of the MacRobertson Air Race in October 1934. Here is Dodge Bailey taking off in the Comet.." Tad Dippel. More from Tad on his FB page here
and via 'Alpha Delta 210' on britmodeller, this nice selection
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Despite the nationalisations of the Front Populaire during the mid-1930s, French industry was still manufacturing fewer than 100 airc...
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According to Russian site 'Kommersant' Russia and Algeria are holding closed negotiations on the purchase of a squadron of MiG-29 ...



