These sorts of societies are either ‘your thing’ or they are not…but joining now might just have an appeal to the latter.
Saturday 24th April is the Annual General Meeting of the Spitfire Society. This year it will be at Duxford, the conference centre, and hosted by John Romain who is a ‘patron’.
All members are welcome to the AGM and entrance to Duxford on the day I understand will be free on production of ones membership card.
..now here is the plus. Escorted tours, starting at 10:00, around HFL/ARCo/’Area 51′ for members are on the agenda.
I can’t imagine that, weather permitting, they wont be firing up the odd Spitfire. 😉
http://www.spitfiresociety.com/
Mark (patron)
By: Mark12 - 4th April 2010 at 15:58
Perhaps the cynic in me asks why they have opened up the membership.If you aint welcome or qualified when it first started then they are losing members or need more money,oh cynical moi.
I think they realised that about 15 years ago. 🙂 and they addressed the membership criteria before that.
Just a easy and relatively cheap way to see the treasures of Area 51.
No politics please in the mess.
Mark
By: trumper - 4th April 2010 at 14:03
Perhaps the cynic in me asks why they have opened up the membership.If you aint welcome or qualified when it first started then they are losing members or need more money,oh cynical moi.
By: stuart gowans - 4th April 2010 at 12:45
“Membership is open to any person of any nationality. He/she may have had personal experience as a pilot, designer, constructor, researcher, historian or restorer, but the primary requirement is a wish to join us and support the aims of the Society”
From their website, seems times they are a changing.
By: Mark Hazard - 3rd April 2010 at 23:18
I’m afraid that this is one society that I will never join.
Many years ago, probably about 25-30 years, I enquired at a society tent (recruiting members?) at an airshow how I could go about joining, only to be told by a rather snooty fellow (looking down his nose) that it was only open to Spitfire pilots and ground crew or anyone closely involved with the aircraft, fans were not welcome.
Thankfully when the Cavalier Air Force and the Sally B Club started they weren’t so picky.
By: QldSpitty - 3rd April 2010 at 07:37
Thanks Mark12 but bit far from me to attend or join 🙂
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