From a family member of a good friend, I have just received a report that a single engined aircraft with a five blade propeller was seen at Finmere airfield, near Buckingham, at 14:00 today, Saturday.
Very strange. A mock up? A film? …a problem?
Can anybody confirm?
Mark
By: adrian_gray - 7th July 2008 at 10:37
And doesn’t she look fabulous in front of a period hangar?
Thanks for posting that, it’s made my morning!
Adrian
By: Mark12 - 6th July 2008 at 19:17
It is. He lives locally, is a member of the Windrusher’s gliding club and he and 434 are relatively regular ‘stopover’ visitors if display commitments bring him in this direction.
Many thanks for closing the loop.
“Send reinforcements we are going to advance”
Mark
By: low'n'slow - 6th July 2008 at 17:59
It is. He lives locally, is a member of the Windrusher’s gliding club and he and 434 are relatively regular ‘stopover’ visitors if display commitments bring him in this direction.
By: 92fis - 6th July 2008 at 11:22
Revison at 19:55
For Finmere read Bicester….just down the road.
Still a puzzle.
Mark
Alister kay was the pilot of MH434 friday, maybe it’s local for him.
By: old eagle - 6th July 2008 at 09:19
Don’t you just love smoke and mirrors ?
By: Mark12 - 6th July 2008 at 09:06
Well I didn’t actually say Spitfire. 🙂
My concern was the report of a five blade propeller, which cuts down the number of Spitfire possibilities considerably…and alarmingly.
MH434 of course has a four blade prop.
“Send three and four pence we are going to a dance”
Many thanks.
Mark
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th July 2008 at 08:47
There is still a fair section of runway at Finmere as it is used for micro lights but you should be able to get something bigger into it.
But there is no hangerage there anymore or any running ATC so was it an emergancy landing and isn’t MH434 a spitfire?
curlyboy
By: Mudmover - 6th July 2008 at 07:48
MH 434 nightstopped there Fri night,now back at Dux
By: old eagle - 5th July 2008 at 20:55
Mark – my bro in law is gliding out of Hinton, but due to F1 GP helis etc this w/end they are operating out of Bicester.
He did tell me 2 days ago that one of this variety of aeronautical carriage was due to overnight at Bicester tonight between displays elsewhere and he hopes to get pix….but no more info
Hope you’re well, best regards
DC
By: Mark12 - 5th July 2008 at 19:57
Revison at 19:55
For Finmere read Bicester….just down the road.
Still a puzzle.
Mark
By: Ewan Hoozarmy - 5th July 2008 at 19:50
5 blader….?
There’s a Glasair flying around at the moment with a turbine and 5 blade prop (G-ICBM), but i remember Finmere as being rather short
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