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Never jumped out of a DC-3/C47- more than about 6 feet, anyway! Got to fly one a bit on an overnight cargo run hauling car bumpers to St. Lous, though. Slept most of the flight back. Wonderful drone from those round motors.
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The rear pad screws look wrong to me....... Should be slightly diagonal - higher at the rear to avoid the hard area
whoops; you mean higher at the front to avoid the locking recess:
and it is
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Originally Posted by
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Wonderful drone from those round motors.
I grew up near the local airport. Lots of DC-3s flying cargo back then, loved the sound of them on final over my upstairs bedroom. Good Memories. Now many years later I live many miles south and is all MD-11s roaring over. No problem with the noise I suppose I'm Imune.
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Yep, just had to re-check that L-E....... In fact that's made it look like the real McCoy to me now.
I note what Warren says about the Mk3 scope being a converted bog standard British
one but if you file/polish out the original markings, you're getting pretty damn close to danger if you want to re-engrave. But it is what you see I suppose!
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Interesting that it has two "T" stamps: the earlier, smaller 'add on' variety that armourers seem to have put on the earlier No.4(T)s when they came across them, and what looks a lot like the usual-sized "T" found on the later H&H conversions.
The finish on the front pad has the RSAF(E) look about it. I wonder if there was an Enfield inspection stamp on the top face? I almost think I can see a hint of something like this in one of the photos...Attachment 35592
I'm going to hazard a guess that this rifle was converted at Enfield, right at the end of their conversions, or very early in the H&H conversions when they were possibly using up pads they received from Enfield.
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Very nice pics, thanks for sharing.
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Looks like the body sides have splayed out a bit around the charger bridge. Someone had a go at undoing the front pad screws and wisely gave up.
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Were all the firearms deactivated? A display like that in UK would only have "scrap metal" on display. Real guns being far to nasty for the public to lay eyes on
And far to "portable", if you get my meaning.
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The guns were live (at least the Bren, and the Enfields) The .50's in the airplane were not.
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