[QUOTE=TonyT;1781053]There is a modelling site I frequent and someone on their does the most stunning digital art I have seen in a long while….

Here you go, here is the one in question ………………….”

Sadly not – that’s the larger powered A.W.52 – the A.W.52G was a little more modest.:) See: http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/arm_aw-52g.php

Interesting news. Presumably that means work to be carried on behalf of existing owners with view to new permit – or has ownership now changed? Is it possible to photograph it?

New permit? The CAA website indicates its current permit is valid until June 2012.

Tim

Air Atlantique still fly old propliners on night time cargo runs….

I guess you mean Atlantic Airlines. The DC-6s are now looked after as part of Air Atlantique’s Classic Flight and retained at their Airbase heritage facility at Coventry – one is now a static restaurant (DC 6 Diner) the other in Eagle scheme is retained in taxiable condition.

The Electras are no longer operated by Air Atlantique and the few that remain active are with Atlantic Airlines which is a separate organisation and is now linked to a Swedish organisation which also flies ATPs.

To whet your appetite here’s one of a series of air-to-airs I took of the Meteor en route to Cambridge when Stan H was at the controls.

The second view is one I took during a sortie from CVT in the back seat and you can see Dan G concentrating on doing a run over the field before we headed off over Northamptonshire for some aerobatics. He describes it as a real honey to fly.

Tim

There was a Press Day at Airbase, Coventry this week and the newly repainted Shackleton was one of the stars when it was run up thanks to the hard work of the SPT.

Before engine start the pull through of the Shack props involves a fair deal of manpower and rivals a maypole dance!

Once up and running the roar of the Griffons thrilled all present and some of the crew can be glimpsed in this shot concentrating hard on their responsibilities.

Tim
AACF / Airbase Volunteer

An absolutely superb effort. I greatly admire all of the skill and time that went into designing and building this.

My only issue with scale replicas is not with the builders but that some spectators who have never experienced seeing the real type don’t always know it’s a scale representation and take it for granted that’s what the real aeroplane was like and they’re poles apart.

Tim

Just before Valentine’s day, a friend sent me some photos of a ‘surprise’ he had organised.
I did not hear from him for a fortnight and started to wonder if his beloved had him at the bottom of the garden along with his ‘surprise’. However, he is still alive. I have yet to ask him how much it cost. Not the cost of the Nimrod, but calming his beloved.

I won’t be long dear – I’m just going to have a nose around the garden.:D

Roger

Shame it’s gone. You can see the blue painted hut in this shot which I took of CVT when returning to base from Sywell’s show last year.

Tim