THAH’LL NAY LOOK BACK LAD…

I can only echo the posts above. Trust me, once you start helping conserve old aircraft you’ll not look back! And I can still say that and mean it despite our recent goings on in Yorkshire.

It’s true, Ive been doing it since ’93 and I’m still single and have never looked back, so it works……..! 😀

If you go I’ll see you there in the new year and show you around the V’s, in the meantime just talk to a member of staff and you can get to meet the Chairman Ian Hancock and others and you’ll find that all sorts of jobs will need to be done so you’ll gradually increase what you can do from the basic chores to more specialised areas that you can be taught in, or that you might have a hankering for.

Latest exhibiit is a beautifully restored 1961 MV Agusta 150cc Rapido Sport motorbike which was picked up by van in Surrey after a drive from London in late November, with a power-nap thrown in just before delivery and a fairly swift turnaround back to the smoke.

Transiting her earlier through the Dartford Tunnel and up the A12 along to the museum on a dark and cold Sunday 20th November, she looked splendid when placed in the Ken Wallis extension and will undoubtedly be a pleasant surprise for the many bikers and rallies which attend the museum during the course of the season.

The aviation tie in is that the Augusta company also have a helicopter division and in late November ‘Friends of 138 Sqn’ Valiant man Geoff Dann duly sent in one of his special cartoons showing an unusual combination proposal for the next C Fest, where it is hoped it will be possible to take the repainted trailer and revamped cockpit.

Not sure I’d like to brake going downhill with that behind me…