Mark
(End of June)
To
Gatwick-Newark NJ.
two days later
Newark NJ-Kansas City MO

Two weeks later, home.
Kansas City-Cleveland OH
Cleveland-Gatwick.

Cost with tax £605.00

You can get it cheaper in the Winter, but it’s cold, dark and miserable when you get here and that’s just the people!
Later
Andy

Wow, someone doesn’t like Legends……beware traffic has been busier than the IWM showdays…and as it is THE event of the year don’t get caught out expecting less traffic.

I tend to agree with Mike J.
I went both days last year and traffic was very acceptable.
Certainly less than the May show.

As far as not liking Legends goes–well Mike J, I think will be there three days.
Unlike me who won’t.
Andy

It depends whether you think you have something that not many others have, like 1950s & 60s top quality original slides! My collection will NOT be ‘taken to the local charity shop in a cardboard box’ as Mrs. Ross knows they are worth more than that and ‘my little world’ will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at a well-known auction house specialising in aviation and transport memorabilia. This will ensure that (a) Mrs Ross is taken care of and gets the best deal and that (b) my archives go to someone that really wants them and appreciates them for future generations to see. If you have something worth preserving, I suggest you ensure its continued existance, as it is vital that aviation history is preserved. I have heard too many horror stories about stuff being ‘dumped’ in skips and similar places after their owner’s demise! The biggest culprits are the aircraft manufacturers!
Of course, it all depends on whether you think your collection is fairly unique or just another load of poor quality ‘snaps’ that no one else will want and only you can appreciate for what they are! ‘Horses for courses’?

All very laudible Albert.
Of course you make the assumption that your good lady outlives you.
What happens if she goes first?
Any kids???

If not the local council operative that clears Ross towers after the neighbours complain about the smell might have a field day.
It’s a thought innit???
Andy

PS. Me personally I don’t care because a) I’m a cr*p photographer and b) I carry all my best memories around with me in my Mk.I brain. Certainly not infallible but it’ll last long enough for my requirements.

So if they must stay why can’t they be displayed over the north side? Plenty of room & there is a fair sized hanger at the back. So those that are interested only have to cross the road.

Because some of us like the boats??

I find the story of the Great War coastal MTBs (actually they were CMB’s then) far more interesting than much of the rest of Duxford.

Why should a vessel on which a VC was won be relegated to the outer reaches at your whim?

JohnathanF,
today I find myself agreeing with you!

These boards have standards: they are yours, all of you. Do they fail these standards? Those failures, too, are yours. Have they treasures, too, to share? These also be yours.

I’ll follow-through with a summary to the Webmaster in my own time.

Dear Mr Clark,
I’ve watched your thread with increasing amusement over the last few days.
All I can say is that life must a barrel of laughs in your house.

Pompous, never!
Andy :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

An Ill Assorted Pair.

Hi all
I have in my possession the 1969 RAF year book and it contains an article called “An Ill Assorted Pair”, about the 1919 Alcock and Brown Atlantic flight.

This article is in my opinion the best short magazine article on any aviation subject I’ve ever read.
I see it was penned by a Stan Edwards. Does anyone know anything about Mr Edwards? Who he was or if he’s still with us?

I was reminded of the piece by the threads about the current attempt.
I’ve just re-read it and it seems as fresh today as when it was written–for the fiftieth aniversary of the flight.
Cheers
Andy

Harry Tate hung up.
As usual The Great War stuff is hung up or otherwise ignored.

If my memory serves me correctly, the IWM was originally formed to commemorate the first great unpleasantness. If that’s the case why does the management at Duxford behave as if it never happened?

I imagine that the perception is that the ‘modern paying punter’ neither knows or cares about the events of 1914-18.
Of course we could have a stab at educating them but that would rash and foolish in the extreme–don’t you think?

Also while I’m bashing Duxford, don’t you think the Great War CMB display could do with a bit of revamping? The CMB–Coastal Motor Boat hasn’t been touched in years.
More kindling in the eyes of the management I expect–again like that rather unloved product of The Factory, unique.
Later
A.

There were loads of memoirs of The Great War published between the wars and more than a few were about flying.
Sadly, many of these are now forgotten and rather swamped by the thousands of books on the Second World War.

There was an attempt some years ago to get a load of them re-published, I think by Greenhill Books.
Sadly, again I don’t think they sold terribly well.

The Great War was the hinge-pin of the twentieth century, nothing that came after it was ever quite like life before it.
It’s ramifications are still rumbling across time like a thunderstorm that has passed but One can hear in the distance.

Lest we forget.
Andy.
PS. Try “The Wind in the Wires” by Duncan Grinnel-Milne.
He flew BE2C’s on 16 Sqn, was shot down and taken POW and later escaped to fly SE’s with 56 Sqn.
An excellent read. Oh, and Hugh Dowding was his CO. on 16 Sqn.