Yesterday we made, what feels like the yearly school holiday traditional, trip to the James Herriot museum in Thirsk. This year I managed to get control of the camera for long enough to snap the log book extract in one of the displays.
James Herriot (real name Alf Wight) undertook some flying training although I don’t think he went operational- it’s pretty much skipped over.
Anyway the serials look like T7161, T6190, R5177, R5034, N9346 (1st solo) and T4244. I haven’t done any more ackground but over to the Tiger nuts- has anyone got aclaim to owning the world’s most famous vet’s Tiger?
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By: low'n'slow - 11th August 2008 at 11:05
Back in the early 1970s I seem to recollect that Alf Wight, who still was running his vets practice in Thirsk, took a close interest when the late Bill Meynell restored his Tiger Moth G-ANEL back into its wartime camouflage as N-9238, based at Catterick.
I don’t know whether ‘Mr Herriott’ ever got to fly in the aeroplane though.
By: adrian_gray - 11th August 2008 at 10:36
James Herriot (real name Alf Wight) undertook some flying training although I don’t think he went operational- it’s pretty much skipped over.
No, he was discharged on medical grounds according to the biography written after he died. He suffered on and off through his life from an anal fistula (google if you really want to know… but carefully!) and it chose the middle of his flying training to open up again.
Adrian
By: Cees Broere - 9th August 2008 at 18:48
Moooooooooh!
I was a great fan of the series and in one of the episodes he is watching a Spitfire land shortly before the war I think. He always seemed to have his arms in things they don’t belong.:D
Cheers
Cees
By: paulmcmillan - 8th August 2008 at 22:16
Can’t help with the Tiger Moths, but I did hear he had to put his hand up an exhaust!
By: T-21 - 8th August 2008 at 21:05
N9346 was with No 18 EFTS at Fairoaks.
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