don’t know if this is of any interest to anyone. but couple of weeks ago, on 2 diffrent evenings, i heard a Broadway callsign call up from penzance outbound to a ship(can’t remember the ships callsign) now at the time i thought it must have been one of the FOST Dauphin from plymouth useing PZ for fuel. but the next night the same callsign was out again but was defo one of the
S-61??! as i clocked it out over mounts bayon the way to the ship, seemed abit odd? but then it got me thinking maybe BIH have a plan.
am i right in thinking that BIH also own the 2 FOST Dauphins?
maybe the plan is when plymouth close’s and PZ closes. would thay move both the Dauphin’s and the S-61 to St Mawgan (were i think BIH allready have a hanger?) there and do the FOST/ scily island work from there?
what you think? one of the tec crew for skybus told me some thing similor last year.
sorry for going on and admin if you feel this should be moved please do.

oh and very nice photos to.. drive past there most weeks and never think to stop to take a shot.. should do really looking at yours;)

glade you like;)i’ll scan some more and pop them up when i have time.
oh and for baz, his cranberry nose, a spit i took after having a chat with him for near on an hour!!


and just to prove SM still has life left in her! this is what the rest of the day turned up(after a mad drive round to water gate bay end,after hearing Alien 1 calling up on the box!








just like the good old times:D
there that will do for now.. i’ll stop posting!!

Ah so you would know Chris, Jeremy & Len?
I was probably stood next to you when you took the EC-24 shot. Absolutely agree the 1990 to 1997 era seemed fantastic times.

yes know chris(was my first boss! on his milk round when i was 14! see him from time to time) and his bro jeremy(use to see him every day on his post round when i worked in gweek.) remember len, but have’nt seen him in years!

Hello Buzzer, I remember the “Wednesday Boys” as we used to call them. In fact it was Baz that coined the phrase……more photo’s please 😉

ok i have some more if you like:D








i have more and will scan them when i have time.
did have loads more, but lost them in a house move some years ago:(
lots of good memorys of day trips to SM.. was only say to mouth the other day, remember the day we went up and the went up and the weather was anything but good! but about half way though the day my little radio(VHF only!) picked up something on finals to land?? over the sound of the rain on the roof of the car! im shore i heard the words italian air force?!!:eek:
no really? can’t be we said.. and then out i the gloom poped a IAF
PD. 808!!:D
well that made it worth the trip up for me;)first time i had seen one…..

then ****** me 10 minutes later the secound one turned up:eek::cool:
only at SM would you get visitors like that on what must have been the wettest day of the year, or so it seamed;)

Welcome aboard Buzzer, and thanks for posting the lovely pics (especially the F-111s!), I dare say I would have met you on the hedge at some stage!

more than likely. me and my mate (mouth as he is called!) use to pop up most wednesdays from helston, with some of the other gang from down west.:diablo:last time i spent a good day theres was back in the mid 90s!
then i found mrs Buzzer, had kids and that was the end of my spotting days..
but now there that little bit older (them and the mrs!:p)i seem to have found the time to get a little spotting back in again:rolleyes: shame theres not the movements around (at SM or CU for that!) like there use to be:(

either way, as said it still a blumming good display by a rather large machine;)

well first of hello, new to this forum. found it (and this tread) when searching
for photos of the SC9.. then spent good couple of hours reading all 16 pages:cool:
couple of names i have spotted in the replys. NICK B is one and baz. i had a good chat with you couple of weeks ago. knocked on your door to ask if ok to photo your canberra nose. (was the day the reds landed and the 2 tornados popped in for fuel.)
was good to see some of the old shots of SM movments. do miss the weekly trip up to spend the day parked up with camara in hand.. 😀
anyway couple of shots of mine just for old time sake:cool:
made my day catching this one

miss the swingers?!!

good walk across the field was always worth it.

and crash gate at gravel pit end(as we use to call it) made for some easy shots of taxing visitors!

got loads more in print, must scan them all up when i have the time.
hope its ok to post these up here?