Martlesham Heath (Two year old thread updated to 2011)

This Sunday 11th November at Barack Square Martlesham Heath at 3-00. We now have it confirmed there will be an Honour Guard present as a tribute to 2nd Lt James Des Jardins who went MIA from here during WW2 and was recently found in Germany and repatriated to his home town Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Flypast over Martlesham Heath Aviation Society and Control Tower Museum on Sunday 9th September 3 Brilliant passes and the crowd were delighted

BBMF Spitfire “Posh” with Sqd Ldr Ian Smiffy Smith CO BBMF

and yes a U.S. visitor

Richie Piper in his Ryan PT22 just turned up Thanks Richie

Another good night to come

Get your tickets early

RING TO GET YOUR TICKETS

Martyn 01473 614442

Bob 01473 624510

Howard 01473 274300

BTW We had a wonderful day Sunday at our open day The BBMF did 3 passes and the crowd loved it. We were also visited by a vintage US training plane who just flew over between venues and for this we are grateful

Its a pity we cant hire fly pasts but we have a NIMBY nearby are are banned from private flypast and have to rely on RAF ones. Let me say THEY DO US PROUD THANK YOU

What time the Spitfire is expected?

Open Dau 2012

A Day for your diary NEXT WEEK 9th September Martlesham Heath Aviation Society and Control Tower Museum Annual Open Day

BBMF Spitfire flypast confirmed

Season’s Greetings from all at Martlesham Heath Aviation Society and Control Tower Museum

Photos of Tower and Holly by John Cooper

Great thread, great museum – keep up the excellent work!

Cheers

J

Tarkey talk

Hi Tarkey….It was good to meet up again on the Sunday at M.Hs place and listen to some of the exploit’s of Eric”Winkle”Brown.Certainly is a must read book and will now keep mentioning it round the shop’s and maybe Santa will be kind.:)

Good luck with the site and the society and see you next year mate.

Some pictures from the night

Me with the great man ( thanks Tony G )

Below he talks about his friendship with Hanna Reitsch. I just watched her as a character in the movie operation Crossbow where she piloted a specially adapted doodlebug to find outwhy the kept crashing the previous 4 flights had ended in crashed with the deaths of the pilots.

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

Taylor Downing the other speaker talking about ” Churchill and the Boffins “

Open Day

Hot of the press

Open Day Report. Interesting little piece at the end about the P51 ****pit

http://www.mhas.org.uk/events/nr20110911.html

RAF Lakenheath Visit

Martlesham Heath Aviation society had a great visit to RAF Lakenheath on the 29th September 2011 Our main subject to see was the HH-60G Pave Hawk, but we also got some more including a visit to the control Tower. Although we had been there before the Tower is always an exciting place to be.

Thanks to all the Guys and gals and Mag Mark Ledbetter and his Pave Hawk Crew.

Pave Hawk crew including a lady gunner.

Pave Hawk Pilot talking to members. we had a full close up look at the awesome machine

Pave Hawk unique tailplane assembly. The tailplane moves just like a conventional aircraft and the tail rotor is angled at 20 degrees

Martyn Cook MHAS Chairman looking very much at home in the ****pit

Mag Ledbetter holding 4 Squadron patches. The older ones amongst us will remember the Jolly Green Giant

The Pave Hawk

Bob Dunnett MHAS Vice Chairman with the Pave Hawk and information sign

Member David ****hall and the Pave Hawk

Veteran Vic Skeet being photographed by ace photographer and member Jim Empson

Chiefy Bill Grant and a F15 on a stick

Tribute to Radar Pioneer

from the Martlesham Heath Braodcast List

A Memorial is being unveiled on the !4th August in honour of the late Keith Wood.
Keith was a member of Martlesham Heath Aviation Society. Keith was one of the original members of Robert Watson Watt’s team that discovered Radar or Radio Direction Finding. He worked at Orford Island and then at Bawdsey Manor. Radar played a very important part of the Battle of Britain and its possible that we would not have won without it.
I have included 2 links connected to Keith and Radar

http://www.bawdseyradar.org.uk/oralhistory/keithwood1.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1557631/Keith-Wood.html

Radar still continues to be a very important part of Aviaition today and also in many other area of todays World.
The ceremony will take part at Felixstowe Ferry just across the river from Bawdsey Manor at 2-30 Pm on Sunday 14th August. Keith’s daughter Judith will be present, to see this tribute to a man to whom we all owe so much.

CONTROL TOWER MUSEUM OPEN DAY

YES YES YES

WE ARE HAVING AN OPEN DAY OR FUN DAY AS SOME CALL IT

SEPTEMBER 11TH 2011

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE www.mhas.org.uk

AND ALSO FROM THERE FOLLOW THE LINK TO OUR DEDICATED FACEBOOK PAGE

Open Day 2011

It was decided at our AGM on Friday that there will be an Open Day on September 2011. This goes against an earlier decision not to hold one this year.

We havnt a lot of time but if anyone is interested please contact me at control.tower.mhas.org.uk. we are looking for traders and exhibitors alike. It has been a good day out with no addmission charge although donations would be nice.

Watch this space

There is a lot to see including a display by theb Raptor

Just for a moment I’d thought you’d whistled up an F-22:diablo: Dream on…I hope it goes well for you

2 events on the calender

This Sunday is our Open/fun day. There is a lot to see including a display by the Raptor Birdman from RAF lakenheath

and at our next monthly meeting we have Clive Denney. Amongst his many talents he is a dispaly pilot with teh Kent Spitfire and the ME !08

see

http://www.mhas.org.uk/meetings/forthcoming.html