By: wessex boy - 15th June 2006 at 10:44
Lovely Aircraft 😀
I’ll add this event to the must-do once I am current again
(PPL Re-currency on-hold until August due to spur of the moment job Resignation to start new business…. 😮 )
By: mike currill - 14th June 2006 at 13:21
OK Rob, what’s the next project then? Or are you going to be too busy flying this one to start another?
By: RobL - 14th June 2006 at 13:10
Thanks for the kind words,
The last photo above (nice piccies, Moggy!) is an approach to land diagionally across the runway.
Mike It took 4 1/2 years; first flight was less than two weeks ago:
[with apologies to Rob L for using a similar username, but he nicked mine!]
Moggy pasted in the spare pic when Rob’s disappeared
By: mike currill - 14th June 2006 at 10:35
That’s some cross wind. You were nearly in the next county. Any more? They really are good pics and a fantastic restoration. There are 5 year old aircraft looking worse than that. How long ago was the restoration completed?
By: Moggy C - 14th June 2006 at 10:30
I keep returning to this thread just to enjoy those pictures again
OK, here’s another. Finals for Bourn (with crosswind)
Moggy
By: mike currill - 14th June 2006 at 08:29
That was some shopping list, but all in a good cause. I keep returning to this thread just to enjoy those pictures again
By: Chiefy - 14th June 2006 at 08:11
Sorry for the delay, I was away from the office yesterday. Moggy has already explained where the proceeds go to but the other reason for so many people being at Bourn on Saturday was to celebrate Lindsay’s (owner and all-round-good-guy of RFC)birthday.
OK, here are the final figures
£750 was the fantastic final total!
43 aeroplanes flew in which is a ‘Bourn Bacon Butty Fly In’ record. (It was so busy I didn’t get airborne at all; mind you, the crosswind looked nasty!)
38 French sticks
328 slices of smokey bacon
252 eggs
35 Onions
11lb of low fat Cheddar
7 vegetarian sausages
12 pints of milk
360 tea bags
2 jars of coffee
148 cans of soft drink
48 cans of John Smiths
80 stubbies of Stella
24 bottles of wine
24 bottles of Cava
12 fruit juices
4 drawing books and pens
1 box of sweets, the remainder of which were passed to Jonathon Webb
on his way out in order to make his sister Sophie jealous
On behalf of Lindsay and everyone at Bourn I thank you all for your generosity.
By: neal h - 13th June 2006 at 16:43
Looks great.
I have flown with Rob in his other Taylorcraft.
By: Moggy C - 12th June 2006 at 17:01
(Thanks to everyone who turned up at Bourn on Saturday; a substantial amount of money was raised. I have more details if anyone is interested.)
I haven’t explained that this was en-route to a fund raiser for the wonderful ‘Burned Children’s Club’ an organisation that gives breaks to youngsters, some of whom are terribly scarred. Over the last few years they have laid on a day at Bourn when volunteer pilots bring their aircraft across and take the kids flying for free.
But there are costs, hence the weekend’s shindig.
Chiefy, I’m sure we’d like the details.
Moggy
By: Chiefy - 12th June 2006 at 16:55
A lovely specimen indeed and it looked even nicer close up.
(Thanks to everyone who turned up at Bourn on Saturday; a substantial amount of money was raised. I have more details if anyone is interested.)
By: Trinny - 12th June 2006 at 16:08
A lovely specimen, and wonderful to see it at Bourn on Saturday. Well done Rob L.
By: mike currill - 12th June 2006 at 15:12
I see. A good circuit should be flown within gliding distance of the airfield not like Kidlington where the circuit upsets the neighbours in three counties.
An elegant aircraft if I may say so, he’s done a grand job on her.
Glad you enjoyed yourself, unless you fly for a living that is what counts.
By: Moggy C - 12th June 2006 at 13:35
Regrettably the elegant landing was all the owner’s, not mine.
As he flew a lovely tight circuit he was inside the trees at all times.
It was so good it totally phased the PA28 that shares the field who promptly took off in the opposite direction accepting a 10-15 knot tailwind in the process.
I was granted some yoke time though, and thoroughly enjoyed it.:)
Moggy
By: mike currill - 12th June 2006 at 13:22
I’m glad you decided to post those Moggy. Looks like the weather was kind to you as well. Did you, perchance, sideslip in through the gap in the tree line of pic#1? Yes, put them on historic. It’s older than me so that definitely makes it historic.
By: beech19a - 11th June 2006 at 22:55
If I recall correctly it is just post war, certainly 1940s.
Moggy
1946
It looks very nice.
By: Moggy C - 10th June 2006 at 22:50
If I recall correctly it is just post war, certainly 1940s.
Moggy
By: Auster Fan - 10th June 2006 at 21:50
Indeed a beautiful specimen, from whicch can be see the lineage of my favourite aircraft. Congratulations to the owner/restorer on a job well done and thanks to people like him, Melvyn Hiscock et al for keeping the older aircraft flying. I assume this is an original rather than a later production model, judging by your comments?
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