I´ve not seen any mention of this on the forum, but Reno modified Sea Fury Riff Raff stopped in Reykjavik on it´s ferry flight from the US to the Czech Republic. It arrived at around 17:20 local time on the 12th and left around 10:00 local on the 13th. It´s destination was Egilstadir on the east coast of Iceland, and from there it was headed to Norway. The general understanding is that the aircraft has been sold to the Czeck Republic, but I don´t know if that is true.
Baldur Sveinsson captured the arrival and departure, and his photos can be seen on this link: http://www.verslo.is/baldur/20110912_SeaFury/
By: Mark Hazard - 25th September 2011 at 00:21
Other magazines were indeed available to the schoolboy of the time but they were generally placed on the top shelf at newsagents…:D
Unfortunately FlyPast and others of that ilk are now on the bottom shelf at my local WHS, which I can get down to easily enough, it’s just getting back up that I have problems with.
Can’t add anything about OAH-B, but there was a “trial” forerunner of FlyPast in 1980 called Classic Aircraft (a WHS publication), only number one saw light of day (I keep my copy with the reast of my FlyPast mags), although I have been told that number 2 was ready to go, Mike Twite and Ken Ellis were two of the names involved, and the layout was the same as FlyPast when that emerged the following year.
By: Oxcart - 15th September 2011 at 13:41
I remember an article about a Sea Fury ferry flight in Warbirds Worldwide-but doubt if that info helps at all!
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