Hurrah – I was beginning to think that no-one else took any pics (mine are still latent, on the old emulsiony stuff, what do they call it nowadays?) – in fact you can’t have been far from me when they were lining the Hucks starter up, I was on the audience side of the fence.

We took Dad for his 80th birthday, and despite watching most of it from the car (benefit of a Berlingo – huge windscreen!) he loved it. He was delighted with the Lysander. It really made his day as he’d not seen one since they were in service, and as we came back from the gents in near-darkness I took him into the hangar and he had a proper look up close. You don’t get much of that at DX… And Mum has a bad eye and has real trouble with bright lights, so saw a lot more than she would have on a sunny day. So it wasn’t all bad news weather-wise, even if it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a Watt’s Patent Governor.

Now imagine if you could get the Storch, the Lysander, a Westland-Hill Pterodactyl and a Grainger Archaeopteryx – what a stunning assembly of prehistoric flying creatures you’d have!

Very nice, Nick, thank you for posting.

Adrian