Guy Black – HAA Con-Rod Trophy

ABout time too!!

Very well deserved and very very long overdue!!!

You should see the Stirling fuselage, wing sections and boxed Stirling cockpit parts in the other (very big) shed, Hindenburg!

Well Deserved by the look of it!! Congrats

A few highlights.

Certainly worth joing the HAA for that alone…although I am a tad “spoilt” with the facility being just in the next lane.

Very droll, old chap…..

A “Black” project indeed, Low’n’Slow.

It was good to meet you at last, and to put a face to the name, btw.

Likewise Tangmere. And what a privilege to be shown around the facility. Hopefully now working on an HAA Members visit. Worth joining the Association for that alone! 😎

I thought it wasn’t an FB5 Gunbus, but actually the RAFM’s FE2?

Very droll, old chap…..

A “Black” project indeed, Low’n’Slow.

It was good to meet you at last, and to put a face to the name, btw.

Thanks Tangmere, you beat me to it.

Well deserved congratulations to Guy and the whole Retrotec team.

The quality of the engineering is literally world class. Not just by restoration standards, what we saw yesterday would shame many aircraft manufacturers.

As far as the aeroplanes, can’t show pictures of the FB5 as it is a ‘black’ project – but the Fury in the background of these shots is very definitely taking shape – and yes, there were an awful lot of other Hawker biplane constituents elsewhere!

Trophy awarded by HAA Chairman, Air Marshall Cliff Spink.

Yes Well Deserved…

Interesting “A further dozen or so Hawker biplanes wait in the wings, including the only known surviving Hawker Fury fighter and a rare Hawker Hind two-seater”

DOZEN !!!

BTW In the Aces Falling documentary, a Lewis Gun was seen being ‘fitted’ to a WW1 ‘like’ aircraft I thought it looked like a Gunbus was it ?