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Bodmin is owned by the members of the Cornwall Flying Club.

Martin

He meant with all weather runways,has been in private hands since 1958,
and still fighting the council.

TSR2 AND OTHERS

TRY projects cancelled,and phoenix into ashes !!
both books give some of the answers !!
tsr2 was cancelled using the huge cost as the excuse.
it may have been expensive,but it would have at least worked,
thereby being cheaper in the long run.
as usual we ended up with nothing, but as luck would have it the
cold war started to melt, and our subs filled the big hole left.
in more current times we missed the boat with the great 1127 and its
offspring,and should have continued with the logical result (1154)
its strange that when the real fighting gets going how useful some
old machines get (laser plotting bucs),and that old girl the hp victor
tanker.
its like most things in life,when its someones elses money being spent
you usually get a bum deal.
anyway hawkers,and supermarine did us ok in 1940,so its not all bad.
ps i was quite impressed when a harrier flew the atlantic using a coal
yard as its base.(1121) would have been quite a machine prob.

ww11 aces

well there was the time i was taxying out (in a turbulent) after an airshow at Tollerton.
there i was in my fretwork fighter surrounded by all these spam cans,and then the door of the twin beech ahead opened up,and a head appeared and beckoned me up.
in a turb this meant swithing off,but it seemed important so thats what i did.
as i approached the cockpit the other pilot half got out,and there i was talking to Douglas Bader.
it seems that my non radio machine was causing concern with air traffic,and so a joint departure was arranged.
like myself he could not see what the fuss was about,but i just joined him on the line up,and made sure the mighty thrust from the 28hp ardem engine did not cause to much of a problem.
also made the effort to see P twiss and N Duke at yeovilton for the FD2 event,and bought J Kents Comper Swift in 1974.
B Kingcombe came up to a group of “Tiger Club” pilots after one Biggin Hill air fair,and asked us what aircraft we had come over in.
Told him i would fly over him on departure back to redhill and give him a wave.
Well i did,and so did the Zlin (inverted) !! (happy days):)

jeff was certainly larger than life.
i believe he was part involved with a 109 restoration project when he was a jet jockey in the RAF.
apparently during 633 squadron he was always late back in his mossie having used up any spare fuel beating up ships in the north sea!!.
got slightly conned into filling in for his missing copilot during a bouremouth display in the 70’s.had a 30sec briefing to operate flaps/bombdoors/u/c,and then spent spare time waving up at the control tower as we went past!!
he flew the mitchell like a stampe.last saw him in a casa/ ju52 wearing a spiked german helmet.great character

faam cel speed

just a point
it seems so sad that n duke had to sell his medals etc to pay for his wifes hip operation.what is this country like to those who actually did something as opposed to the civil servants who got the gongs and kept thier heads down,not to mention the pension!!! its a b………y disgrace

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DONT GET INVOLVED WITH THE LEGAL ROUTE UNTIL YOU DO THE SIMPLE THING OF SENDING THE PUBLISHER A NICE LETTER ENCLOSING WHAT YOU THINK IS A FAIR BILL.QUOTE THE PUBLICATION AND RELEVANT REF, AND SEND IT BY A SIGNED FOR SERVICE.
THE PUBLISHER WILL PROBABLY BE ONLY TO PLEASEDTO SETTLE WITHOUT ANY MORE HASSLE.
IF NOT, SMALL CLAIM COURT (WITH ALL THE PUBLICITY)

Thanks Ewan,
By recently I mean that I’d seen colour pictures in Flypast in the late twentieth century (!), from which I drew the conclusion that this aircraft was a possible/the most probable future flier – it carried the legend “Spirit of Butler” in recognition of Cecil Butler’s epic flight to Oz, my surname’s Butler so it struck a bit of a chord and I’ve loved them since…

G-ABTC STILL IS NAMED SPIRIT OF BUTLER, AS SHE CARRIED ON THE AUSTRALIA ATTEMPT (1981). FORCED DOWN BY A DOUBLE ROTOR ARM FAILURE JUST OFF THE COAST OF IRAN SHE HAD TO MAKE A LANDING ON THE OLD IMPERIAL AIRWAYS STRIP AT JASK!!
AFTER INCARCERATION FOR 11 DAYS SHE WAS ALLOWED TO RETURN TO DUBAI, BUT NOT CARRY ON TO PAKISTAN.THE AIRCRAFT WAS FLOWN OUT OVER THE SEA ON ONE (DUBIOUS MAG), AND MANAGED TO GET BACK.
THE WINGS, AND AREA BEHIND THE COCKPIT HAD BEEN FILLED WITH FOAM BLOCKS IN CASE SHE CAME DOWN IN THE SEA (NO LIFERAFT) THEY ARE STILL THERE!!
PP