Just thought you might like to see some pix from the Sywell Summer Ball held at the weekend – thanks to Blue Max we had an excellent small airshow beforehand – commentated on by the inimitable G-ASML…Thanks to Taff Smith for putting on a marvellous show along with Tony Richards in the T-6 G-DDMV – which looked superb…
For many the highlight was Susy coming home….
So anyway – here are some pix, i have a very cheap digital camera so i did me best – not up to Damien or Robbos standard – so best to imagine the photos they WOULD have taken if they’d been there (I did tip you off DB….)
Captions:
Blue Max to Taff Smith ‘ so once i do this BE then any chance of a swap for the P-15?’
GASML (with mic) ‘Would you buy a used Luton Minor from this man?’
All the best
TT
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 20th July 2005 at 11:09
Awww didums …..be a brave little Falschirmjager….
By: philip turland - 20th July 2005 at 11:06
you guys are so funny, that ripping noise is my sides splitting.
you make i chuckle
my poor attempts at photography pale into insignificance compared to yours mr B….i was trying for the Battle of Britain atmospheric shot with the Hurri and the moon….
and what do i get??????? abuse……tut tut
think i might have a bit of a cry
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 19th July 2005 at 17:19
AND he had a stepladder (chained to a fence with windbreak obviously)
By: GASML - 19th July 2005 at 15:56
No, but he’ll catch his death rolling around on that damp grass!
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th July 2005 at 12:12
I’m like that with the silver Chippie. She’s so… pert! 😀
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 19th July 2005 at 12:02
Oooh lots of lovely T-6 porn, I’ve come over all wobbly… 😀
By: philip turland - 19th July 2005 at 11:57
here are a few more pictures
hope you like them
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th July 2005 at 22:14
While we’re on. Chippie’s 60th Anniversary next year. How about a 60-Chip balbo into Sywell?
If nothing else, it’ll keep Dennis Neville in formation flying instruction for a whole year!
Sounds good, where do I sign? 😉
By: GASML - 18th July 2005 at 17:40
While we’re on. Chippie’s 60th Anniversary next year. How about a 60-Chip balbo into Sywell?
If nothing else, it’ll keep Dennis Neville in formation flying instruction for a whole year!
By: GASML - 18th July 2005 at 17:38
Fish’n’chip van in the VIP enclosure at Sywell Airshow next year I reckon!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 18th July 2005 at 17:18
Can the Pomme Frites supporters Club (expensive enclosure at Leg-Ends, free tizer, you know the gig) be called the Small Fries – Youngie can be honorary president….?
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 18th July 2005 at 15:13
Ahem, ‘hic’
By: GASML - 18th July 2005 at 15:13
Silver Chippie… aha… that’ll be where it was off to on Saturday afternoon then. Observed it from B&Q car park in St Neots (bit of a pattern emerging here Ben) and happily announced to the missis that it looked distinctly like the one from Gransden.
At which point the missis decided that she’d lost me in a ‘Chippie moment’ and went off to load the barbeque gas into the car while I stood there like a lemon, sighing and drooling in the middle of the car park and mumbling to nobody in particular about how lovely the Chipmunk is, and wondering where on earth was it off to this afternoon… 😀
Not quite Steve. Said silver Chippie is based at Sywell, the ex-Morgan family aeroplane now owned by Paul Redden (lucky devil)
2/3 of the Flying Frites was Sywell-based, Tony Richards was flying Steve Wilsch’s aeroplane in 1970s ‘raspberry ripple’ colours, but ‘staffelkapitain’ Dennis Neville’s aeroplane is a Gransden inhabitant.
Pity the Pimms overcame TT before he could get a piccie!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 18th July 2005 at 15:13
Wrong Chippie mate – the Silver One in question used to be owned by Paul Morgan and was purchased by Paul Redden about four months ago – it is based at Sywell (And won best chippie at last years Great Vintage Flying Weekend – it is IMMACULATE…
Blue Max was driving…
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th July 2005 at 15:04
Sorry Matt – cheap £50 camera I’m afraid and the silver Chippie kept wobbling about allover the place…. :D….or maybe it was me with the free Pimms…
Brill show as ever we were VERY lucky…
TT
Silver Chippie… aha… that’ll be where it was off to on Saturday afternoon then. Observed it from B&Q car park in St Neots (bit of a pattern emerging here Ben) and happily announced to the missis that it looked distinctly like the one from Gransden.
At which point the missis decided that she’d lost me in a ‘Chippie moment’ and went off to load the barbeque gas into the car while I stood there like a lemon, sighing and drooling in the middle of the car park and mumbling to nobody in particular about how lovely the Chipmunk is, and wondering where on earth was it off to this afternoon… 😀
By: GASML - 18th July 2005 at 14:52
TUFL eh? Be careful Meester Slater because i have incriminating pix of you aerobatting the bull! 😀
TT
I think technically it was aerobatting off the bull. The equestrian equivalent I’m told is ‘unhorsed’!
Good laugh though!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 18th July 2005 at 14:20
Sorry – no pics of Taff Smith – ‘fraid only know him by name not to talk to !
TUFL eh? Be careful Meester Slater because i have incriminating pix of you aerobatting the bull! 😀
TT
By: GASML - 18th July 2005 at 14:16
Nice pics Ben.
As a former ‘brown job’, I hasten to point out that I didn’t initiate the wearing of a “trumped up Flight Lieutenant’s hat” (quote from Museum senior). It got placed on my head mid commentary by said TUFL.
What about the pictures of Taff Smith etc., ‘aerobating’ the rodeo bull!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 18th July 2005 at 11:13
Sorry Matt – cheap £50 camera I’m afraid and the silver Chippie kept wobbling about allover the place…. :D….or maybe it was me with the free Pimms…
Brill show as ever we were VERY lucky…
TT
By: The Blue Max - 18th July 2005 at 11:06
Nice shot of SUSY with the lights, get any pics of “The Pomme Frites”!?
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