Oh No Another Spitfire Thread!

Rocketeer

Have you managed to find that pic of the Fairey Battle at Hendon?

tc

Thermal / Rocketeer

My father has spoken to me of the first aircraft he remembers seeing being a silver Fairey Battle which flew over the Burn’t Oak area. He has always assumed that it was appearing at the Hendon display.

His description was of an aircraft with what to him as a child appeared to have a green house on top.

On his behalf please post away with any pictures or info that you have.

regards

tc

Wilco, the Spitty & Condor shots were on my ‘puter….the rest will need scanning in when I get back to the UK!
Regards
Tony

Rocketeer

Did your grandfather take any photos which showed the Fairey Battle painted in Silver? I think it may have been parked next to K5054.

Thermal / Rocketeer

My father has spoken to me of the first aircraft he remembers seeing being a silver Fairey Battle which flew over the Burn’t Oak area. He has always assumed that it was appearing at the Hendon display.

His description was of an aircraft with what to him as a child appeared to have a green house on top.

On his behalf please post away with any pictures or info that you have.

regards

tc

[QUOTE=Rocketeer]I am ferociously proud of him.

And so you should.

Take care.

Steve

You should be proud of your grandad. I should think his photographs will have more than a few forumites drowling.
Please, when you have time, could you post more.

I am ferociously proud of him. He was an instructor teaching many many pilots to fly before joining 190/210 as a Catalina pilot (sank a UBoat). After I was accepted into Queen Mary College to read Aero Eng, he quietly told me he’d studied there in 1938! When I return to the UK, I shall post more phots.

If you still have his Leicas, they are probably worth a bomb – but priceless as a family piece if you like that sort of thing of course!

I bet I’m not the only one who’d love to see what he was pointing Leicas at if he was pointing his earlier camera at K5054…

Why don’t we all come round and clear out your attic for you? :diablo:

Adrian

I will be sorting out photos as time permits. I need to draw on some for his memoirs which hopefully will be doing the rounds of publishers later this year. He took some fantastic shots and was an avid photographer right up to his untimely death in 1986.

I think he did

Please may we see?

Sorry all, another Spit thread, a couple of phots of a rather famous Spitty taken at Hendon New Types Park 1936 by my Grandad, sorry about quality

You should be proud of your grandad. I should think his photographs will have more than a few forumites drowling.
Please, when you have time, could you post more.

Rocketeer

Did your grandfather take any photos which showed the Fairey Battle painted in Silver? I think it may have been parked next to K5054.

I think he did

It is Clive himself – he joined the replica discussion group not so long ago (not sure if he’s still about, though).

Lancman – did you view the video clip? If it’s as good as that….!

Interesting, I’ve never seen that site before, despite searching the net for info on the Du Cros ‘Spitfire’.

Who runs the site? Clive himself? I heard he’d left his family and gone to live in Spain? Can anyone vouch for the content/quality of the VCD that is being sold there?

It’s a pity she can no longer fly, however! 🙁

The queue to get into the aircraft was quite long, and right before the end of Legends, too!! Everybody else paid their small donations (and I mean small – I’m sure I saw someone put in a couple of 5p coins!!) and sat in the seat for a few seconds, but yours truly stuffed a fiver in the bucket and climbed aboard – that and the Spitfire tailchase at the start of the show were my favourite bits! 😀

I’d have enjoyed that.

I had the opportunity to sit in the cockpit of the Mosquito prototype a couple of years back – that was a great experience!

Fab. What a brilliant project that was.

It’s a pity she can no longer fly, however! 🙁

The queue to get into the aircraft was quite long, and right before the end of Legends, too!! Everybody else paid their small donations (and I mean small – I’m sure I saw someone put in a couple of 5p coins!!) and sat in the seat for a few seconds, but yours truly stuffed a fiver in the bucket and climbed aboard – that and the Spitfire tailchase at the start of the show were my favourite bits! 😀

Sat in K5054 at Duxford last year – Clive DuCros’ replica. Check out www.spitfireprototype.com for his book on the project.

Fab. What a brilliant project that was.

Later he went onto a Leica (well 2 just after the war). I have thousands of his phots, there are lots of othe Hendon shots….one day I will get round to doing something with them.

If you still have his Leicas, they are probably worth a bomb – but priceless as a family piece if you like that sort of thing of course!

I bet I’m not the only one who’d love to see what he was pointing Leicas at if he was pointing his earlier camera at K5054…

Why don’t we all come round and clear out your attic for you? :diablo:

Adrian

Sorry all, another Spit thread, a couple of phots of a rather famous Spitty taken at Hendon New Types Park 1936 by my Grandad, sorry about quality

Rocketeer

Did your grandfather take any photos which showed the Fairey Battle painted in Silver? I think it may have been parked next to K5054.

Sorry about the quality!?!?!? 😮

Oh come on, Rocketeer! How many photos have you EVER seen of K5054 that weren’t official pics taken by a smart photographer with all the bells and knobs on his camera? I reckon your Grandads Box Brownie shots are fascinating BECAUSE they aren’t the fancy high-quality ones! How many ENTHUSIASTS pictures of her are out there?

(mind you, I am biased towards Box Brownies!)

Adrian

Later he went onto a Leica (well 2 just after the war). I have thousands of his phots, there are lots of othe Hendon shots….one day I will get round to doing something with them.

Sorry all, another Spit thread, a couple of phots of a rather famous Spitty taken at Hendon New Types Park 1936 by my Grandad, sorry about quality

Sorry about the quality!?!?!? 😮

Oh come on, Rocketeer! How many photos have you EVER seen of K5054 that weren’t official pics taken by a smart photographer with all the bells and knobs on his camera? I reckon your Grandads Box Brownie shots are fascinating BECAUSE they aren’t the fancy high-quality ones! How many ENTHUSIASTS pictures of her are out there?

(mind you, I am biased towards Box Brownies!)

Adrian

Sorry all, another Spit thread, a couple of phots of a rather famous Spitty taken at Hendon New Types Park 1936 by my Grandad, sorry about quality

Sat in K5054 at Duxford last year – Clive DuCros’ replica. Check out www.spitfireprototype.com for his book on the project.

I’m gonna keep a tally of how many Spitfire threads get started over the next nine months and see how many we average per year…anyone wanna venture a guess? 5 pounds or $10 gets you in, winner take all….

M