Mentioning looking at any aircraft

I am very surprised how few of you actually mentioned looking at any aircraft. I was there Saturday and Sunday (ok not the official aerojumble day) and the majority of people through the gate were ,like me, spotters. For us this event is second only to the LAA rally in terms of aircraft present and the admission for that is £20! Most of us would be happy pay £10+ for admission as Popham bends over backwards to welcome us. I do think it would be better to have the Saturday and/or Sunday aerojumble days and Monday auto jumble day so not to dilute it all over 2 days.

I did use to post up some of the planes, but I think many posters on this thread are really into preservation ‘bits’ as opposed to seeing the mainly lightweight stuff that flies in – but quite why spotters don’t post images up (most have cameras on them I see) I don’t know (probably time-poor and can’t be bothered) but I have shot a good number over the years and maybe if a thread exists on another website I can upload them there, as my image allocation as you may know, is out on this one.

I also noted a nice Tiger (G-ANON)? climbing out, a Spit cut across but too high up, a YAK took off but thy’re a bit boring to be honest, a Fokker III replica flew over plus the usual static was on the ground. The Sherwood Ranger ‘Escapade 2’ (Men in Tights) by the Light Aircraft Company Ltd (not to be confused with The Light Ale Company Ltd) had 2 over-wing monoplanes on offer re “Two fantastic British designs, One British Manufacturer” while the red ‘Magni-Gyro’ 2-seater looked very swish.

A WW2 Argus prop was on sale in the aeroboot for £650, ’86A854 Sensenich’. Wish the jet-pack glider from 2003 would come back, it was a rare chance to hear a jet over the airfield.

The slightly portly Jodel DR 105A low-wing monoplane with upturned outer wings had a very tasteful cream/dark brown scheme with sedate lines and roomy cockpit, ‘G-AXLS’. The best for me however was a repro – part repro(?) ‘G-ERIW’ which had a period styling featuring stained box wood with a shiny metal composite front, rad gills and what looked like a modern flat-four portruding engine on each side with an old-worlde feel in its design; all set on a stark period all-black undercarriage with big, bespoked wheels and overall, seemingly just a distinctive exercise to highlight ‘Hercules Propellors’.

The propellor really was fine too, and exceptional in its highly varnished finish with the aircrafts’ metal-faced nose and engine cylinder head cut-outs exuding the olden days charm of a golden era and traditional hand-crafted skills to boot.

Er, but I can’t upload any pics of it………:(