A barn find, perhaps?

[Keith Webb]

Have a look at this
Hopefully this will work for you - you'll need the quicktime player from Apple (free from www.apple.com).

[Keith Webb]

Did it work for you?

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Keefy

I think everyone else uses IBM or compatibles whilst you must be an Apple.

Bob

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi Keefy

I think everyone else uses IBM or compatibles whilst you must be an Apple.

Bob

You're right, Bob I'm a bad apple... but try this link
This is software you should have on your PCs anyway.
I'll have a look from someone else's PC later today to check. If there's still a problem I'll get my expert onto it Monday.
No excuses this time!

[Don Dingwall]

I was just too busy crying into my beer , that it wasn't me in that video!

Don

[Steve Guthrie]

Hi there

Good grief, inflation at it's worst.

I knew a guy claimed he bought a P-47 for one bottle of CC!

Course, this was in '44.

STeve

[Tony Smith]

Reminds me of the time I discovered a Mosquito MkVIb bomber in a fruit packing shed. While the Mossie was complete and intact, it had been in the shed for 25 years and pine trees had grown up all around the shed, making removal a major forestry harvesting operation. In addition, the shed was crammed full of all sorts of gear packed in crates and to roll the plane out would have required shifting all of these (delayed, of course, by peeking into each one). The owner didn't want to part with the Mossie for love or money. Actually, to be honest, the money I offered was easy to turn down and I wasn't comtemplating offering love.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Tony Smith
Reminds me of the time I discovered a Mosquito MkVIb bomber in a fruit packing shed.

The owner didn't want to part with the Mossie for love or money.

Tony,
What happened to it all? Was it saved or is it still there?

There is a fruit packers near to you with some interesting items in it, no doubt you know who I mean

Richard

[Tony Smith]

The owner was quite keen to keep it in his shed and was not going to break it up or anything like that. His Dad and uncle had bought it at a salvage auction in the '50s. All the aluminium bodied aircraft were snapped up by scrap metal merchants but plywood aircraft like the Mosquito were worth more trouble than the metal that could be recovered. It was bought for a relatively cheap price. It was brought home from the auction by removing the wings and strapping the tailwheel onto the rear of a truck and towing it down the road. Once home, the wings were replaced and wheeled into the shed. The owner has many memories of sitting the cockpit (Which is still complete with all gauges, etc) and playing Biggles as a kid.
And no, this is not THAT fruit packing shed, Richard. This is someone else who wishes to remain anonomous for fear of being swamped by Warbird restorers eager to buy his plane. It is definately not for sale, and huge offers of cash would only weaken his resolve to keep it.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Tony Smith
And no, this is not THAT fruit packing shed, Richard.

Ahh. Tony,
A ray of light..................you know who I mean, then!

Richard

[Keith Webb]

The Canuck who "bought" the C15 is named Matt and comes from Ont, but he's definitely NOT in Canada...
But who can guess the location and circumstances of the hoax? (Those involved please refrain from telling for the moment).
This shouldn't be too difficult

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
The Canuck who "bought" the C15 is named Matt and comes from Ont, but he's definitely NOT in Canada...
But who can guess the location and circumstances of the hoax? (Those involved please refrain from telling for the moment).
This shouldn't be too difficult

I'm a bit too befuddled to sort this mystery out... but I CAN tell you I missed an F15A in similar circumstances by a half-hour several years ago; I saw it advertised in a buy-and-sell newspaper and called immediately, but it had been sold - for $500. Running, new rebuilt engine, good cab with new doors, serviceable tyres, no body. I asked the owner to pass my contact info to the buyer, but never heard a thing.

These things DO happen. They just never happen to ME...

[Tony Smith]

And here we all are just dying with envy! However, being listed under "The Seargeant's Mess" we should have known this might be BS as we all know you can't trust those "........".
Now, a bit of detective work.
1. Keith has got hold of this video and Keith has just returned from sunny New South Wales.
2. Keith owns a "Blonde" blitz, but is not likely to drive it all that way just for a practical joke on us suckers.
3. A "Blonde" blitz lives near to where Keith told us he went to in NSW, could he have also visited this one?
4. This 2nd blitz has some conspicuous signwriting on the doors, and the doors in the video are open, thus preventing a view of any signwriting thereupon.
So..... I say it's professor Plum in the Conservatory with the Lead Pipe, No sorry, wrong game, I say it's Bay Kelly's Blitz from Boorowa!
Now who's "Matt the Canuck", or is he a ring-in, too, Keith?

[Keith Webb]

[i] I say it's Bay Kelly's Blitz from Boorowa!
Now who's "Matt the Canuck", or is he a ring-in, too, Keith? [/B]

Nice try, but wrong, Tony, although you're in roughly the right area, or at least the correct state... here's a clue: You start this one with a lever on the floor, not a button on the dash.
Matt is the genuine article, though and recently was interviewed on ABC Local Radio. (I heard the interview on the way back from Canberra).
Keep guessing!