Santa's 'historic' presents ?

Dave,

Looks like Mark has a bigger back yard than you. First the Lincoln and now a PBY!

Bruce

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Had to resort to buying My own Chrissie Present this year, so I bought this…..

http://www.lonestaronline.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=847057766

Strewth 😮

A PBY for only $4K…. ! Nice one….. 😀

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Had to resort to buying My own Chrissie Present this year, so I bought this…..

realised when filling out the virtual museum list that I hadnt mentioned it previously.

regards

Mark Pilkington

http://www.lonestaronline.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=847057766

The usual, aeroplaney calendar, Spitfire key ring and mug,

Oh and XS177 ! YAHOOOOO !

We will be trying to keep XS177 as an externally whole airframe, despite her main purpose being that of a spares ship to help the return of XS186 to running condition.
This should be possible, as her spares usefulness is for non visible internal components, wiring,fuel pipework etc. not the external panelwork.
I hope that during 2007 her presence will be felt as a surviving and almost complete JP in her own right.

Sat Nav from Mrs C. So now I can get lost three times as fast as before Christmas.:D
DVD on the B-25 from No 2 Son
A screw together 1/32 Fokker Dr I from sis-in-law(she knows how to please me):)
Unfortunately I seemed to miss out on the mandatory Spitfire mug, key ring, ale and socks.
Oh forgot to mention ‘Command Of The Ocean: A history of the Roal Navy 1645-1815’ from No1 son. Not aviation I know but a subject of interest to me.
All in all a good Christmas for me, also the first one off in 12 years. On that basis I’ll have been retired 6 years by the time I’m allowed another Christmas off.

Here area couple of nice items I picked up for xmas

Below Robert Shaws signiture is Air Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding if I am not mistaken. John.

This was the signature that initially gave me the most concern.

Unlike film stars, Dowding’s later signature is not flopping about on the internet, to be copied by the unscrupulous.

Thankfully copies of some of Dowding’s letters to his biographer, Robert Wright, also a consultant to the BoB film, were in the ‘Mahaddie papers’. The hesitant signature of this frail 86 year old man is identical.

Mark

Looks like Kenneth More to me as well.

Stuart and MarkG,

Well, Kenneth More…yes I can see it…and an unexpected bonus.

Many thanks,

Mark

I also got Piece of cake on DVD, ..

I hope it was Christmas cake,Stuart,?!:diablo:

Ahem, I got a copy of Thunder and Lightnings, the story of Thunder City’s operation at Cape Town and a copy of ‘Wings on my Sleeve’, Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s, autobiography.
Cheers, Alan.

Below Robert Shaws signiture is Air Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding if I am not mistaken.

John.

Piece of Cake on DVD 🙂

Moggy

I also got Piece of cake on DVD, but unlike everyone else on the forum/ in the known universe, I’ve never seen it (until now) presumably it was first aired in 89, and a quick check through my diary of that year, reveals a long gap between entries, when I was abducted by aliens (for tax purposes); Moggy your avtar looks suspiciously like one of the characters in the series, but I’m only 3 episodes in ,and they all seem like decent chaps…

Looks like Kenneth More to me as well.

Just the one at the top to go..

Kenneth More I think.

one looks like Harry Andrews the actor and other Hughie Green!!!!

Rockeeter,

Well spotted and ‘I mean that most sincerely folks’.

A quick Google search on ‘Autograph – Hughie Green’ turns up a memorabilia UK site with 100% match.

Hughie Green was a WWII pilot RAF or RCAF on the heavy stuff. He owned a Catalina at one time. He was a pretty big UK TV celebrity in 1969.

Harry Andrews, together with Robert Shaw, was one of the ‘obvious’ ones – playing ‘a senior civil servant’ in the film.

Thank you.

Mark

ps. The bottom signatures are in fact just one. After some scrutiny, I thought it perhaps looked like Mary Ure – she of ‘Where Eagles Dare’.

A quick google search and low – the wife of actor Robert Shaw – ‘Sqd Ldr Skipper’.

Just the one at the top to go..

one looks like Harry Andrews the actor and other Hughie Green!!!!

This came ‘down the chimney’ this morning.

Apart from the obvious I would welcome comment/recognition on the ‘other’ signatures, possibly pilots.

Mark

Vulcan 607 from the missus. Just makes me glad to know that she pays attention to my obsession with all things aviation related! Now to work on her letting me have a cockpit in the back garden……………………..

how did she wrap that:eek: good luck with the back yard cockpit 😎

My UK based daughter picked me up a pair of cufflinks at Covent Garden markets with what can only be an Avro 504 on them.

However, the innovative “stealth” move of the Season was my younger son borrowing my memory stick for a presentation [he said], and the two of them taking photos from the files thereon of aircraft I fly plus personal flying shots and mounting them in two frames. A delightful montage and so unexpected!!:D

G’day and a Happy New Year to All;)

Hi,

The complete set of Chorley’s Bomber Command Losses, The Broons and Oor Wullie annual and a couple of DVDs.

Alex

Vulcan 607 from the missus. Just makes me glad to know that she pays attention to my obsession with all things aviation related! Now to work on her letting me have a cockpit in the back garden……………………..