If you’re the Graham Simons who has produced books / booklets about the DH.86 etc then you already have a good record as a researcher. If you’ve got interesting information on esoteric aircraft matters and you’re generous enough to share it here then it can only be a good thing as it helps improve our collective knowledge. Bring it on!

Tim

Wasn’t there a D.520 flying a few years ago ?

There was indeed. I recall it before its restoration to airworthy condition and its appearances at Ferte Alais in the 1980s. It was IIRC destroyed in a crash. Here’s a link to a website showing some photos of the machine:
http://www.choiquehobbies.com.ar/revista/notas/d520/d520e.htm

I hope this photo might be of some help? I took it this month on board the UK’s only airworthy ex RAF Anson. It was on the occasion of the aircraft’s return to flight for the first time since Oct 08.

Tim
AACF Volunteer
http://www.classicflight.com/

UH-1 just flew over Redditch heading SE(ish). It was the standard green with a grey underside and a red/white/blue band around its tail. Has G-UHIH been repainted? I am sure when I last saw it the colour sceme was green all over.

Phill
http://www.outflankeduk.com

A friend who visited Halfpenny Green on Friday witnessed the Huey departing there, according to the crew heading for Lasham.

Tim

My thoughts go out to the family of the pilot. From the emblem visible on the fin of the remains of the aircraft it is fairly evident which example was involved. Very sad indeed.

Further information here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8140907.stm

Very pleasant videos ….but would they get a wider audience perhaps if posted instead on the GA section of the forum, there are a couple of “historics” (Auster and Chippie) but most of the videos coverage depicts “modern” homebuild or flex-wing types?

The present G-ACZE started life as G-AJGS which was constructed by DH in c 1946 and given c/n W1001, being registered in 1947. It was reputedly based on a collection of spares plus remains of G-ACZE (c/n 6264) which had been salvaged after a crash. I well remember ‘JGS sporting a blue scheme and passing through Baginton shortly before it went to the US where it was stored until repatriated.

On return to the UK it was re-registered as G-ACZE and I see that G-INFO shows its c/n now as 6264 (that of the original G-ACZE). The historic registration data on that site provides the data for both G-AJGS and G-ACZE. So on paper at least there is recognition of a link with the original ‘CZE which was first registered in 1934.

So “G-ACZE”/G-AJGS is a “bitsa” put together at Witney post war with some older bits supposedly incorporated. Someone with experience from those days might be able to verify what proportion is from the original ‘CZE – but I haven’t a clue! So was the present G-ACZE built pre-war – well some of it may have been.:confused:

Tim

Yes it was a great event – seeing c. 50 Austers together was tremendous. Good to meet some other forumites. I didn’t have opportunity or time to get to fly, but was honoured to be able to escort many of the AAC veterans and help them strap in for their nostalgic flights. They had some interesting tales to tell.

Tim