Leuchars airshow 2003.

Originally posted by ken_murray
Thanks Alastair

I didn’t ken that Ken is Ken, so now that I ken Ken is Ken then when you address Ken I’ll ken that you mean Ken and not Ken.

In our office its Iain’s in their multiple spellings that cause problems. We even have an Iain who isn’t but prefers to be called Iain (he is in fact John).

Ken

Ken , that is strange – my dad’s name is John M George , but – he has always been known as Iain !!! . At least you ken which Ken I’m referring to , thanks Ken

Originally posted by ageorge
I ken the Ken that I was looking for

Thanks Alastair

I didn’t ken that Ken is Ken, so now that I ken Ken is Ken then when you address Ken I’ll ken that you mean Ken and not Ken.

In our office its Iain’s in their multiple spellings that cause problems. We even have an Iain who isn’t but prefers to be called Iain (he is in fact John).

Ken

Originally posted by ageorge
I ken the Ken that I was looking for , so you’ll ken which Ken I’m looking for next time I Email Ken.
I ken that Ken ( DHFan ) is the lucky sod with a pint of ale in his hand in one of the recent photo threads .

Almost as bad as our office , we have

Alastair George (me)
Alastair Brown
and Alastair Kerr – there is only one other person in the office so as you can imagine there is a fair bit of confusion in the office every day !!

Sounds like it would be much simpler to call everybody Bruce. (Hoping everybody remembers the Python sketch).

Re the RAF Staff car pic. As far as I can tell, although I wouldn’t bet more than a pint or so on it, it’s a 1938 or ’39 Hillman Minx.

Originally posted by dhfan
Alastair was right, but you’re the wrong Ken!:)

I ken the Ken that I was looking for , so you’ll ken which Ken I’m looking for next time I Email Ken.
I ken that Ken ( DHFan ) is the lucky sod with a pint of ale in his hand in one of the recent photo threads .

Almost as bad as our office , we have

Alastair George (me)
Alastair Brown
and Alastair Kerr – there is only one other person in the office so as you can imagine there is a fair bit of confusion in the office every day !!

Originally posted by dhfan
Alastair was right, but you’re the wrong Ken!:)

I’ve been called many things but ….. 😀

Originally posted by ken_murray
Alistair, methinks you confuse me with someone else, not sure which bookseller you mean.

Ken

Alastair was right, but you’re the wrong Ken!:)

Originally posted by ageorge
Thanks Ken … I’ve lost that addy for the chap who was selling books

Alistair, methinks you confuse me with someone else, not sure which bookseller you mean.

Ken

Originally posted by dhfan
Staff car looks like a Hillman at a glance. I’ll dig a couple of books out.

Thanks Ken , could you do me a favour ( again ) I’ve lost that addy for the chap who was selling books could you send it to
[email]ageorge@haemonetics.com[/email]
I thought the chap was selling second-hand books – I got the Atkins RAF Ground Equipment book for £8 and it’s brand new !! – excellent listing – highly recommended !!!.
I would be very interested to find out about the Staff car and any other cars the RAF may have used in wartime , I can’t afford an Aeroplane but I wouldn’t mind restoring a car .

Originally posted by ageorge
Was the Lightning still on display too ???

XR713 was moved over to the 111sqn HAR a couple of days before the show. The guys in the squadron that i spoke to thought they should have waited.

Ken

Staff car looks like a Hillman at a glance. I’ll dig a couple of books out.

Good photos Scott , nice to see some photos of the ground equipment too , the truck looks immaculate and I would be interested if anybody could give us the type and model of the staff car . Was the Lightning still on display too ???

And lastly one for you Ian. Sally B from the side.

Bedford RAF truck if I remember correctly.

RAF Staff car. can anyone tell us more about this one.

A Tiger Moth. No idea of it origin.

Some more of what was in the hangars.

Neil Geddes replica SE5A.

Thanks for the photos Scott, didn’t do the hangars so good to see some of the stuff hidden in there. Must agree that Leuchars isn’t the best place for ground-to-air shots, since you have the sun in your face most of the time.

Pity the Draken couldn’t take-off for display (reheat failure)

Will post some of my shots when i get round to loading them into the computer.

slainte
ken

Originally posted by RadarArchive
it’s goo to see what I missed.

That should, of course, read good! I really must learn to type!!

Thanks for the photos, Scott. I had to work on Saturday, so it’s goo to see what I missed. I would have loved to see Sally B, but I’m just glad there was at least some interesting aircraft there. It’s also no surprise that there were multitudes of Tornadoes on display! :rolleyes: Having said that, I love the Luftwaffe Tornado paint scheme.

Do please post your photos of the flying display when you get them developed.

Thanks A330 and TJ.

I knew the Ukranian was an IL? something but couldnt remember. It was well impressive anyway.

TJ thanks for that I can never remember all the F types and somehow I always get them wrong. Problem is they all look the same to me.