Hurricane G-HURR, now painted to represent BD707 of 402 Sqn RCAF in September 1941, will be featuring in the Southend Airshow this weekend. http://www.southendairshow.com
The original BD707 was based at RAF Rochford, (now Southend Airport) and G-HURR will be landing and night stopping there on Sunday. It might make an interesting photo for all you Southend based forumites – Jamie etc and I intend to try and get back down there myself to watch my colour scheme handywork in action over the Thames, and point the camera in its direction from my beach-hut:) The aircraft will be accompanied by the Buchon and will be routing in from the La Ferte Alais show, so could get affected by any dodgy weather. I’ve tried to get some interest out of the local paper “The Evening Echo” but they seem to be a bit disinterested in their own local history, there’s probably a “hot” story on wheely bins or something like that taking up their column inches. :rolleyes:
By: RAFRochford - 22nd May 2007 at 23:38
Hi Roobarb…
Thanks for the heads-up regarding the Hurricane…will certainly add a nice touch to the airshow to see a representation of a Rochford based Hurricane back in the skies over the airport…As a Southend lad, I will certainly be there on Sunday to see this for myself, although I am opting for the Airport open day this year.
Hardly surprised at the lack of interest from the Evening Echo…they wouldn’t know a newsworthy story if it smacked em in the face!! I think that the most interesting headline I’ve ever seen on the front page of their rag was probably along the lines of; “Firemen Rush To Chip Pan Blaze”….or that sort of thing;)
Anyway, great news about the Hurricane…All I need to do now is convince the BBMF to paint up the baby Spit in Al Deere’s KL-B “Kiwi” markings and get that down to Rochford too…Ahhh, if only!
Regards;
Steve
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May 22, 2007 at 10:22 pm