Coltishall Air Show Pleasure Flight Rapide

Who, me?

No – ’twas at Turnhouse

I never got to Coltishall until a few years later..here’s a thread about Coltishall in 1967. Were you at that one?

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=88719&highlight=Coltishall

Dave T

Can only add that flying the Rapide/Dominie was like using a sewing machine!!

= Tim

PS Would it have been an 86 or 89 that used to take us to Jersey pre-war, landing in St Aubin’s Bay?
PPS Google suggests it might have been the 84?

Great head’s up T-21. I’ve been around aeroplanes most of my life and whilst it would have been nice to say my first flight was in Leicester Aero Club’s Cessna 150, G-AYPK, it was actually in the Rapide, when I was a sprog with my dad, who was in the RAF.

Scillonia Airways were giving airshow joyrides around this time using two Rapides,as I remember them at Leicester East Airshow in 1967.

Thanks T-21. I’ll give that a try.

The City of Norwich aviation museum at the airport have a lot of information on RAF Coltishall. Worth giving them a call.

Shucks! you right Ozplane. Will keep looking.

If it was a Rapide then it isn’t if you see what I mean G-ADDI is a DH84 Dragon, i.e. no Rapide.

Thanks a stack T-21. No luck, although I see there was a Rapide, G-ADDI, doing flips at Yeolvilton in 1965. I wonder if this was the same aeroplane.

Could try here http://www.scramble.nl/showreports.htm click on Europe show reports then United Kingdom.