Doug Arnold

Hi 😀 Only kidding . . .good luck 😉

No I am not a baliff lol!
Doug was my Mother’s Uncle and she wants to get in contact with her cousins.

You sound like a Bailiff to me . . . 😮 😀

I used to see Pete’s sister around quite a bit, but not since her late husband tried to aviate with the control locks in place. I assume she’s still here in Calif some place.

Flying A Services, with an alleged facility at Greenham Common (Berkshire ) is said to be owned by the Arnold family. Google does not seem to know of them, but it could be a start.

If Doug’s relatives are as secretive as he was, I wish you luck!

PS. His son lives in Monaco (or did)

Please if anyone has ANY information on any of Doug’s relatives or their whereabouts I would appreciate it if you could forward me a message.
Thank you

Digby – My information came from the owner and restorer of an Indian Tempest. Do you have a stash of Indian Tempests which somehow managed
to ‘disappear’ between the AM pictures and the tender going through? Or indeed do you have the elevators which also ‘disappeared’?
I am more than happy to be ‘shot down’ – please tell us your version
of the Tempest saga .

There is a book on the Doug Arnold stories in there somewhere. Melvin. 🙂

Mark

Des St Cyrien told me a few!

Melv

Read the real message from BMFB.

I could well imagine Doug Arnold just letting slip that he had ‘junked’ several low grade Tempests in India. I remember the story circulating at the time. I suspect it was just part of the market strategy – “stay away from my territory”.

He was a big man, a wealthy man, he loved ‘the deal’, he liked a fight and he liked to win, be it with local planning officers, the Australian Government or fellow Warbird owners.

I well remember the sale of the auction of Spitfire BR601 at Christies in 1986. The aircraft had been erected outside one of their London sale rooms. For the majority of the viewing day he positioned himself by the trailing edge and glowered at anybody showing more than casual interest – “stay away from my territory”. They got the message and he got a cheap Spitfire.

There is a book on the Doug Arnold stories in there somewhere. Melvin. 🙂

Mark

Mr Burke I’m pretty sure youre wrong in fact I know your’e wrong sorry

Not about elevators he is not!! A well known collector (who will remain nameless) kept one set of Tempest/Tyffie elevators and trashed all the others (I had a couple of pairs at the time so could help others out). This is not folklore, sadly, several collectors did this with parts. The other thing was to find stuff and then buy it all up to keep it from others and control the market.

Mr Burke I’m pretty sure youre wrong in fact I know your’e wrong sorry

I spoke to various individuals involved in the import of the Indian Tempests and certainly it’s very likely that a few where disposed on on site to keep the prices
higher. Interestingly the elevators also seem to have disappeared en mass when
compared to the pictures featured in AM circa 1973.

Here’s a shot of Doug with his Spitfire XVIII, I seem to recall the Spit was going off to Hurn for the application of its paintwork.

Septic.

Thermal/Digby

Just about far enough thanks. 🙂

Mark

And people let you fly their Spits? I’d have thought that was only for people with integrity.Thermal

Clearly you do not know him. May I suggest some moderation Thermal – this is no place for personal insults.

Dehra Dun side trip.

Mark,

Thanks for the interesting inputs. The Harvards, Vampires and Mysteres were phased out of the IAF around 72-73 . So tons of stuff must have been disposed off then.

I notice from the Survivors list on Chris Landbergs site that there are 7 ex IAF Tempests listed as being in the US and UK. So I wonder if the remaining four are still lying around somewhere?

That Harvard, was the one from Doon School right? so only the wings were shipped out ? what happend to the Harvard? Any pictures of that?

Jagan,

Well I had to dig pretty deep to find the neg of this one. It has never been printed. FT105, The Doon School, Dehra Dun, 29 Feb 1976.

Although Doug Arnold assured me at the time that the outer wings standing to rear were Harvard, I suggested and it was confirmed that they were in fact Hurricane. Also within the wire meshed ‘carport’ was the reduction gear, propeller and nose cone of the self same Hurricane. Well who was a lucky boy then?

It does beg the question – did they scrap off a Hurricane fuselage and centre section with attendant Harvard outer wings? 🙂

Mark

Mark,

Thanks for the interesting inputs. The Harvards, Vampires and Mysteres were phased out of the IAF around 72-73 . So tons of stuff must have been disposed off then.

I notice from the Survivors list on Chris Landbergs site that there are 7 ex IAF Tempests listed as being in the US and UK. So I wonder if the remaining four are still lying around somewhere?

That Harvard, was the one from Doon School right? so only the wings were shipped out ? what happend to the Harvard? Any pictures of that?

Digby

Here’s one for you from Aesop’s fables.

The gnat and the bull (don’t over-estimate your own importance)

A gnat settled on a bull’s horn. After a while the gnat asked the bull, “Do you mind if I go now?” The bull replied, unconcerned, “It’s all the same to me: I didn’t notice you when you came, and I won’t notice when you’ve gone.”

Nice quote dear chap, good user name as well is that because you are full of hot air or the stuff that comes out of your bull you seem so fond of 🙂

I really don’t think so do you, youre memory really aint that good is it? Imagination seems really good though

Digby

Here’s one for you from Aesop’s fables.

The gnat and the bull (don’t over-estimate your own importance)

A gnat settled on a bull’s horn. After a while the gnat asked the bull, “Do you mind if I go now?” The bull replied, unconcerned, “It’s all the same to me: I didn’t notice you when you came, and I won’t notice when you’ve gone.”