ADS Aerial sprayers

before my time at Southend…

http://www.airliners.net/photo/ADS-Aerial/Pilatus-PC-6-B1-H2-Turbo/1414743/M/

I remember having a pleasure flight in the Turbo Porter at a later Southend show on 26th April 1970.
Reg was G-AWDS-not sure who the pilot was-but we took off from the taxiway down by the railway line in what seemed about 100yards!!
Does anybody have a photo of this aircraft?

Sorry dont have a photo but the line up:

Southend Airsow 1970 Sunday 26th April 1970
RAF English Electric Lightning acrobatic display
Handley Page Hercules
Shorts SC5 Belfast
De Havilland Comet
Bristol Brittania
Armstrong Withworth Argosy
Hawker Sidnley Andover
Vickers VC10
RAF Falcons
RAF Red Arrows
Gliding Display
Banner Snatch by a Percival Prentice
The Tiger Club
Neville Browning’s Flying Circus
The Vintage Aircraft Flying Club (Anyone know what types thay had?)
John Fairey’s aerobatc Spitfire G-AIDN

Who would have thought 10/11 years later Southend would become home to most of the Belfast fleet!

Happy days and memories indeed.

I can remember a fly in at Rochester in the early 1960s (possibly the one when the Jenny Wren put in a rare public appearance?), when a fleet of ADS aircraft, comprising 4 Pawnees and the EP-9 G-ARLE, flew overhead going southbound, no doubt en route to another season’s spraying contract in somewhere like the Sudan or Ethiopia.

Wicked Willip :diablo:

I remember having a pleasure flight in the Turbo Porter at a later Southend show on 26th April 1970.
Reg was G-AWDS-not sure who the pilot was-but we took off from the taxiway down by the railway line in what seemed about 100yards!!
Does anybody have a photo of this aircraft?

Now you have set my grey matter churning……
I remember particularly the Lightning which after its spectacular display was leaking fuel from the ‘wet’ wing at an interesting rate – apparently completely normal. I also remember the Argosy and the comment that someone made that it ‘could carry an elephant to the end of the runway or a feather to the moon’ such was the balance between fuel and freight. I think it was the only time I saw a Bristol Freighter. Probably I arrived as passenger in a Jodel D140 but that memory is a bit dim. I also recall the scheduled flights arriving during the display.
Happy days……

Now this is what I call a line up!

Southend Airshow 1968 Sunday 24th March 1968
21st Anniversary Open Day

Static Park.
Belroit—RAF Museum
Gloster Gladiator—Shuttleworth Collection
Hawker Hurricane—RAF
Supermarine Spitfire—RAF
Hawker Siddeley Dominie—RAF Stradishall
Lockheed Hercules—RAF Support Command
Westland Whirlwind—RAF Manston (22sqn)
Avro Shackleton—RAF Coastal Command
Avro Lincoln—Southend Historic Aircraft Museum
Hawker Sea Fury—Southend Historic Aircraft Museum
Hawker Sea Hawk—Southend Historic Aircraft Museum
Saab J-29f—Southend Historic Aircraft Museum
De Havilland Vampire— 1312Atc Sqn
De Havilland Hornet Moth—Historic Aircraft Group
De Havilland Cygnet—Historic Aircraft group
De Havilland Cirrus Moth—Hawker Siddeley
Avro Anson—E K Cole
Tippsy Nipper—Altair
Bristol Freighter—British Air Ferries
Aviation Traders ATL98 Carvair—British Air Ferries
De Havilland Fox Moth—Tiger Club
De Havilland Puss Moth—Tiger Club
Hawker Siddeley Trident—Channel Airways
Pipper Apache—Automobile Association
Shorts Skyvan—Shorts (Belfast)
Elizabethan—BKS
Piper Cherokee—Southend Light Aviation Centre
Aircoupe—Southend Light Aviation Centre
Gliders—Marmol Aviation
The ATEL & other hangers will be open.

(The museum aircraft were located in a compound by the railway lines)

Flying Display
Handley Page Victor Air to Air re-fuelling demo with English Electric Lighting
Handley Page Victor Touch and Go
English Electric Lightning—Display
SAR Westland’s Whirlwind—SAR Demo
Hawker Siddeley Dominie—Display
Lockheed Hercules—Display
Avro Shackleton—Display
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy—Take off RAF Flacons
Supermarine Spitfire—Display
Hawker Hurricane—Display
RAF Flacons Freefalll
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy Flypast and land to close RAF Section
Glostor Gladiator—Display
De Havilland Tiger Mothx2
Stampex2
Gliders
Shorts Skyvan
Tipsy Nipper
Percival Prentice
Aircoupe & Cherokee’s Formation
De Havilland Foxmoth
De Havilland Pussmoth
De Havilland Hornet Moth
Cygnet
Scheduled Services will arrive and depart during the show

The perfume spray was at the 1968 Southend Air Show and I think the Blanik was also on the bill that day.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the Turboporters that Ladi used to fly. His short take offs and landiings were pretty unbelievable and he often used to exchange banter with the tower when he was on finals about the expected length of his landing run.
He also displayed the Cmelak Bumble Bee at very low level during th opening display for the museum. An exceptional pilot and one who added some colour to the Southend scene at the time.

I remember at the Southend Air Display, probably late 60s, when they sprayed the crowd with perfume. Rose I think it was.
I can remember wondering what pesticide residue might have been left in the tanks!
I don’t think you would be allowed to do that nowadays, but then perhaps, it was just seen as a solution to the problem of the ‘great unwashed’ !!!

A few memories below from the Air Britain site

http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1098765
http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1098762
http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1091276
http://www.abpic.co.uk/popup.php?q=1039598

I remember ADS being packed out with aircraft in the late 70`s.

At least 8 Thrush Commanders all off to Sudan if I remember correctly, the usual flock of Pawnees, a Cessna Skymaster and of course the Bumble Bee who`s radio never worked, with the tower asking Ladi to push the PTT button “once for yes and twice for no”.

Ladi Marmol sadly no longer with us, and remembered as someone who always welcomed you to his hanger for a look round. He lived just up the road from me in a house named Avalon which is still there. I wonder if it was named after the Avro Avalon?

Courtesy of the Evening Echo and Old Fart…

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/Southendnick/Southend%20Town/firebommimgpier.jpg

One from the ‘archive’ Pawnee G-ASVP one of the ADS fleet at Southend taken during a spotting trip back 1974.
Wrote ahead asking permission for a visit, got airside no probs..What a great place lots of old wrecks lying about..happy days!

It was all kind of winding up in my spotting days in the early to mid 80’s.

They still had the Bumble Bee, GAVZB, a Thrush Commander GBCKC, a couple of Pawnees and a Blanik glider, GASVS. I remember the Thrush Commander dropping water of the Pier fire in 1976 and watching it spraying in fields near Wakering sometime in the late 70’s. The Blanik, with owner Ladi Marmol at the helm, did a breathtaking low-level aerobatic display one evening having been towed by one of the Pawnees.

They had quite a few overseas contracts, Sudan, Libya etc. and I have a vague recollection of Ag Cats being assembled upon their return.