My ‘beef’ is that I don’t think that the aircraft needs to go on a permit… And if the permit system is oh soooo fantastic, then why aren’t the tigermoth boys, chipmunk boys (to name but a couple) etc all jumping up and down asking for permits?

I feel (personally) that the permit system is inferior to a CofA. Weather I’m right or not, that is my opinion. I do think that the rules on permit aircraft will be tightened up and well, who knows what will happen.

I guess my days of scenic flights around Lincoln are finished… What is it… No flying over built up areas… I better start taking an interest in fields!!!!

Please tell me, apart from the fact that you can all put dodgy parts on your aircraft, what is the great appeal to the permit? In all seriousness, perhaps I’m uneducated on the matter, but i really don’t see the great appeal…

I can think of many Tiger Moth owners who would jump at the chance to go onto a Permit!!! they canot as DH Support ltd holds the TC. “Dodgy” parts as you call them are original parts, still in there wax paper, still in there original manufactures packaging that canot be supplied with an EASA form 1 or any other form of approved paperwork or CRS, therefore they canot be used on a CofA aeroplane. They can however be inspected and certified as servicerble to be used on a Permit A/C. also on a permit no longer available parts can be manufactured without going to an A1 approved company and incurring the relavent and huge cost!!!
The Permit Vintage Aeroplanes i have had the pleasure of dealing with are usually looked after to a much higher standard than you average C150 on a CofA.

If your concerns are based on the fact that you will no longer be able to carry out PT flights in your Auster then that is a different matter, i fear however that PT flights in vintage Aeroplanes may well be under threat whether on a CofA or not:(

But there is more to life than Legends… if the organisers dont want to do it there then maybe someone else might… Why does every discussion relating to Warbirds have to degenerate into as discussion about Flying Legends???? I admire the work that the team at TFC do and undoubtably they organise a good show each year, but then so do other people!!!!!

Sywell 2008, August 24th :diablo:

VX, what exactly is your beef with the Permit system that for years has kept many otherwise hard to look after and spares source vintage aeroplanes flying Quite happily. Your Auster will be much easier to keep in the air once its on a Permit.

Who was at the controls? Was it Clive Davidson?

Simple, every time the wheels leave the ground, thats special;)

Ollie,”SUSY” G-CDHI was not owned by RAC, it was owned by Taff Smith and the name changed to “Darling Ann”;) It has now since been sold i belive to Germany!!

During my post-op recuperating I started to tackle the huge task of trying to catalogue my umpteen thousand aviation phots before tackling my Grandads.
Well, to give me courage, I watched POC and could not believe that filming for this started almost 20 years ago. Certainly they were filming in Feb 1988.

With that in mind, I have scanned some of my photos and present them below.

I was thinking that it would be nice if this thread could be made a Sticky so that others can post their pictures and recollections. We could also cover what happened to the aircraft. The photos below show the late and deeply missed Mark Hanna as well as My Grey. Also shown is the B25 camera ship that I was lucky to fly in this year at the Gathering of Mustangs (now, or should I say, returning to her Pacific Prowler monocle a real combat vet with four sunk Japanese ships).

I think you mean Grace not Grey, Nick Grace was tragicaly killed in a car crash, Stephen Grey is thankfully still very much with us;)