'Mosquito Heaven'

Thanks for the the pictures all. We will I’m sure see a mossie back in the air some day, even if it is a new build.

A bit of Medicine

Here you are Der this might make you feel a bit better 🙂

Ah yes – where were we?

Mosquito Heaven.

At the time of the Halton Mossies, they were still being operated by second line units CAACUs etc.

Biggin Hill BoB days for 1957 and 1958 had one in the static park and I seem to remember a flight of three or four made a flypast at one of these displays.

Can anybody confirm?

Mark

Yup, thats where I saw it. Depressing stuff.

And-the last British ww2 aircraft carrier. Despite the best efforts of a group trying to get it preserved back in the u.k., it now lies in a scrapyard in India, being unceremoniously chopped up.

As pictured in the Daily Mail last week, I think

How easily we seem to have cast aside our aviation heritage, such beutiful and elegant flying machines.

And-the last British ww2 aircraft carrier. Despite the best efforts of a group trying to get it preserved back in the u.k., it now lies in a scrapyard in India, being unceremoniously chopped up.

Hi All

There should be a stirling recreated somewhere my great uncle was a tail gunner on stirlings and was lost on a mine laying op and ive never seen one.

Scott c

Stirling

Hear hear.
Here’s to a restored….
….Supermarine Walrus
….Avro Rota (go on, look it up if you must)
…..Short Sunderland

(Sobs.)

I agrtee with all the above.
How about a Stirling…the fact none survive is a disgrace and an affront to the Bomber Command crews that flew them. We need is someone to get a Lottery Grant to rebuild or build one.

A nose for it?

Again at this time – 1957/58, you could find this example on the far side of White Waltham airfield. Why or what it was doing there – who knows/nose?

These shots captured at the RAeSoc. garden party.

Mark

At a glance they’re mostly B35s, or two-stage Merlins anyway, but with one interloper that appears to be a late model nightfighter, NF30 possibly.
IIRC, there’s only one of those left now, in Belgium.

Hear hear.

Here’s to a restored….

….Supermarine Walrus

….Avro Rota (go on, look it up if you must)

…..Short Sunderland

(Sobs.)

Mustangs are mostly vanilla. A little vanilla is nice, but a lot is dull.

I too, miss a flying Mossie and would be nice to have more variety, but when you think of all the extinct (or nearly so) WWII types, I’m happy any survived the last 60+ years.

Besides, the sights and sounds of a Mustang are wonderful…just like a Spitfire or the recently restored Seafire. 🙂

I presume you refer to the Supermarine Southampton, proplover?

How easily we seem to have cast aside our aviation heritage, such beutiful and elegant flying machines.

Yes, but I had to put up with thirteen of the things whizzing about last weekend. Who was it who said ‘seen one, you’ve seen ’em all’? 😉

And there were only 4 P-51Ds there this year 🙁

Damn!

I must have missed them watching the Avro Triplane. Or was that while the C150 was on?

Moggy

Heartbreak 😀

Nope. Mike, do pay attention in class. 😀 😉 Spitfires, like ice cream, come in a range of different flavours. Mustangs are mostly vanilla. A little vanilla is nice, but a lot is dull.

damn what a sight did not want to see its a real shame would have been a gd restoration

“Oh no, another Mozzie!”

***zing****

Nope, din’t work, they’re all still P-51Ds.

Still, was worth a try!

Cheers / Salut

Bristol Hercules collector rings… Meteor (?) nacelles… sigh…