When I were a wee lad and went to lots of airshows (late 60’s and early ’70’), there were lots of noisy jets and so forth, but the only two aircraft I really remember was a Lanc (BBMF one?) and a Spitfire.
My memory is the Spit was a two seater, painted (PR?) blue and perhaps privately owned by someone who I remember (probably wrongly) as Paul somebody. IIRC it was the only Spitfire doing the airshows back then.
What, who, when, now etc?
By: Flood - 17th July 2004 at 21:33
This one? Supermarine Spitfire T.8 G-AIDN probably at White Waltham in 1969.
Says Mick Elliot in the corner. Thanks, Mick.
Flood.™
By: DazDaMan - 17th July 2004 at 18:03
MT818/G-AIDN as she is now
By: Ray Jade - 17th July 2004 at 11:21
Thanks Melvyn,
Hants makes sense as I lived near Bournemouth (which wasn’t in Dorset at that time). I went to Middle Wallop for sure and maybe Thruxton??
My Dad keeps threatening to find his slides from that era so who knows…
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 17th July 2004 at 11:13
MT818/G-AIDN bought from Vickers by Viv Bellamy and the Hampshire Aeroplane Club. Sold in about 1962 to Viv’s brother-in-law John Fairey who displayed it until the early/mid seventies. It is now in the Tilamook museum of Jack Erikson but has not, apparently, flown for some time.
This is the first aeroplane I ever remember seeing and is part of the subject of a forthcoming article in Aeroplane (remeber, other listings magazines are available).
Melvyn Hiscock
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