Thanks for all the replies – very interesting.
For a while they appeared in almost every issue if Aeroplane at the time and seem to recall that she did very little flying herself.
Anyway thanks again.

I remember seeing the lady flying the Cub, Maule and Harvard at North Weald. Believe things went quiet after the death of Mr Perry and the problems with the wing spar of the Invader. Believe she is now living in Florida and owns a pink Stearman!

Martin

And now for something a little different….

Tried out the scenery around Cardiff and Pembrey today and came up with these. In the second Master photo, there are TWO aeroplanes in the frame.

Martin

She had/has a single seat ‘Yak something’ on which I did a little work on in the late 1990’s . It has the underwing blades and is pink and yellow from memory ! Another creation from the paintgun’s of Mick and Shea Allen.

Umm I remember this….it was a Yak-55.

Martin

Reading about Gary N I recall there was a lady called Barbette [spl?]who was on the scene in the 80’s with a Beech 18 and pilot.

The lady in question was Barbel Abela who had a number of aeroplanes based at The Squadron, North Weald in the early 1990s, including Harvard Mk.4 G-BRLV, a Lunar Rocket and the aforementioned Beech 18. The chief pilot for her collection was Len Perry who was killed in a flying accident in Russia. The British Aerobatic Association hold an annual competition in his honour.

She and Len were also owners of the Douglas A-26 Invader 44-33562 N7079G.

Martin

G-AZSC is now owned by the Goodwood Road Racing Club and operates from Goodwood Aerodrome near Chichester in Sussex.

Its a great shame the old Harvard formation team are no longer in existence.

Septic.

Also got killed off through lack of bookings due to the large number of high powered Warbirds in the airshow circuit. Thats why Norman Lees and Mr Numan formed the Radial Pair in order to try and succeed the team.

Last I heard was that Gary was buying a boat as Dad was interested in messing around on the water. Harvard is now at Goodwood and is available for rides and instructional flight. I had mine in her at a Fighter Meet, so wont be joining the queue.

And “Jagged” is good, even though I prefer “Pure” or “Hybrid” :))

Martin

From what I can remember (being at North Weald then), the airframe was duly scrapped.

Martin

Frightening to hear that they are now going for such high prices. I picked mine up from Truro on Saturday and am now awaiting a phone call from my local toy shop as they seem to think they are getting a number in this week. I told the lady what it was called and she kept asking for the aeroplane’s name, thinking that TSR2 was the product code. Somehow dont think this is going to happen – I’ll probably end up with something else 🙂

Martin

Well the Toy shop delivered (bought the lady a box of chocolates as a thankyou) and just now my local model shop has phoned to say that they are having another delivery of 6 this week and I’m down for one of those too.

Martin

Nice photos!!

Don’t suppose you have any photos of the hardworking Warbirds marshaller? 🙂

Peter Vacher’s Hurricane is due to attend this year.

Martin