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Ah! Those were the days when the attendant actually came out and refuelled your plane. None of the self service they have now. ;)

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It's just come over on the return journey (weird as it wasn;t due to leave Culdrose will 12:30 so either forced into an early departure slow or weather's moving in

Managed to grab the 720p little handycam thingy I've got and take some vid as it passed overhead (only about 15 secs) that's currently in the vimeo convert queue so will be 30+ minutes until it's ready, will post a link then

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http://www.vimeo.com/13729902

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Question for you lot..

Just had a small jet (circa late 40's <> 50's) fly over head..

Size was about the same as a provost, swept back wings, twin engine (under wing nacelles) and likely to be based/visiting Duxford as it came from that direction..

Any ideas??

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Just wondering if it was underwing engines and not tanks instead.. In that case it could have been a Hawker Hunter

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swept wing design eh any other things standing out on it or too far away to see it properly

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More like too fast overhead, 400mph at VFR level doesn;t give you a lot of time :)

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even if it's wrong this is worth the link for such a great pic of a truly elegant aircraft.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...anform_arp.jpg

:)

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hmm could be quite a few jets that are towards the discription.... my guess is that it could be a F-80 shooting star as the other guess is a ME262 but dont know if any of those are still in flying conditions

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just had a look at Duxford and some other sites and cant find any airshows with vintage jets on them for around this weekend.

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Duxford is used as a private field for those with vontage aircraft quite often.

I'd say that it definately wasn't a meteor/me262 (wings were more swept) and that it was more like the Hunter with the drop tanks

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Could you tell if the nacelles were fabbed into the wing surface or if they were on pylons?

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Pylons..

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There are the Supermarine Swift or Scimitar, which are similar to the Hunter, but I don't know if any are airworthy?

Could it have been American - e.g. an F86 Sabre?

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De Havilland aviation are operating a Hunter and a Gnat out of Bournemouth so if what you saw were ferry tanks Kymmy it could possibly have been one of those. The gnat is in red arrows colours though so I guess you would have mentioned if it was that.

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I wondered about whether it could have been a Gnat, but Kymmy seemed sure it was an older 'plane.

http://www.warbirdalley.com/articles...s/Gnat4wba.jpg

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definately not a gnat... The paintwork was a light color (blue or silver)..

Definately Hunter shape/size

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Hubby suggests an F86 Sabre as there is one based at Duxford.

Apparently it quite regularly displays at Old Waden. The evening Battle of Britain flight-show is this Saturday and not too far from you!