Diversity @ Norwich …..

mike currill. Thank you once again …. only too happy to help with a smile at times ! 🙂

jeta1. Thank you also for your nice comments, and welcome to the forum ! 🙂

My humble camera … Nikon D40x …. all these photos using a Nikkor 70-300 VR lens.

Yes we are lucky enough to have Air Livery at NWI, they do a quick turnaround on many and various spray jobs, there are three spray shops, each one half of a hangar.
To give an example of the activities …. todays clients ….

Spray One. This contains Alitalia A320 I-BIKO … previous tenant Austrian F100 OE-LVB.

Spray Two. This contains Boeing 757 200 G-OOBN Thomson, arrived all white following lease to Air Berlin, possibly to emerge as Thomson ?? …. previous tenant OH-SAG .. RJ85 .. Blue 1 .. end of lease back to City Jet as EI-RJL ??

Spray Three. This contains ATR72 … N385FA …Precision Air ? to emerge as …… ?? previous tenant British Aerospace Hawk T2 ZK010 !!

Keith.

Excellent pictures, all pin sharp as well as interesting subjects, can I ask what what camera you use?

I understand there is an aviation paint shop at NWI which draws some of the interesting aircraft there.

Thanks for posting the extra photos of the S-38 Keith. I definitely think it is a nice machine.

James. Thank you ! you are a connoisseur, and a gentleman !

Keith.

Nice shots there Keith like the Eagles airlines F100, F70 & the S-38

JAmes

Thank you gentlemen for your nice comments 🙂

Strange, wierd, wonderfull, different …… just some of the words used to describe this unique machine ….. a few more ….. enjoy.

Keith.

Just love the S-38, it is beautiful in a strange way. A wonderfully diverse collection of types there, many thanks for sharing them.

Hi Keith….Saw the weird little flying boat passing over my house that day of the Eye show and could’nt get my camera in time to catch it and for some time thought nobody else did,well done.

You should play poker as you always pull out your best photos till the last moment,cheers.:cool::)

Keep ’em coming Keith:)

Thanks Steve for all of you nice comments and continued support 🙂

Keith.

Great shots Keith..i think the KLM lvery really suits the Jungle jet

civilspotter. Excellent photo and info ! thank you ! If you Google search the aircrafts name “OSA’S ARK” it comes up with a lot of info including photos from its tour of Africa and the original one still in a museum in the US.

Thanks again.

Keith.

I’ve been reading up on that Sikorsky S38 flight. From Norwich it went to Frankfurt. I found a photo of it being pushed into a hangar

foto credit Stefan Rebscher, Fraport

A series of this type flew in the Dutch Indies (Indonesia these days) before WW2. There is a dutch aircraft illustator called Hugo Hooftman who made a drawing of this type in flight.
A print of this drawing was hanging in one of the classrooms at my old school, it looked a bit of a phantasy drawing to me at the time.
Later I learned more about the Sikorsky flying boats and discovered it was flying for real.

bit of nostalgia for you

rgds
EC

Hello Rob ! ;):D Thats my zebra ! she is Osa’s Ark ….. How is your sheep ? someone told me her name is baaaaarbra …..

Keith.:diablo:

Nice to meet your Zebra!!
Oh Baaaaarb Is great thanks Mate!! Very Tasty! 😉

Rob
😀

Keith, i believe were planning a museum members trip to flixton for the near future…so thatl be the first visit, if you want to meet up for that one

Hello Rob ! ;):D Thats my zebra ! she is Osa’s Ark ….. How is your sheep ? someone told me her name is baaaaarbra …..

Keith.:diablo:

civilspotter. Thanks for that ! Yes the S38 was a surprise for a lot of people …. waiting at the airport for the Red Arrows to arrive, when this supurb aircraft diverted into NWI on a trip from Inverness to Duxford, stayed for two hours ish, then departed to Frankfurt or Brussles ??? never realy got to know where it went ?? but got lots of photos of it at NWI !

Keith.

Whats with the Flying Zebra Keith ;):D

Great collection!
Rob
🙂

Thanks for those nice comments Scott, The museum is ‘The City of Norwich Aviation Museum’, maybe on your next trip down we could meet again and walk around, A very good half day or more !

Keith.

Hi Keith, very good collection of sharp shots.

I love the Sikorsky flying boat, I didn’t know we had one flying in this part of the world

keep postings

rgds
EC