And good for books as well, as a few of us on here know well 😉

Hi
I spent five years buying stuff (books and models) on E-bay and I’ve spent this year selling it back through E-bay!!!
So be careful it’s addictive.

Got any Putnams you want to sell-anyone!!! 🙂 🙂 😉 😉 🙂 🙂

Cheers
Andy

PS The Trumpeter 1/32nd Corsair is a very nice kit. Someone sent me one the other day.

BTW, I have some great nephews

You told me that young woman was your niece, you scoundrel!

I thought there was a documented successful combat between RN Hellcats or was it Corsairs? and Luftwaffe fighters off the Norweigan coast……. :confused:

I’ve looked but I can’t find any record of this action. As I said the raid in April 1944 was’nt intercepted. If anyone can shed any light on this I’d appreciate it.
Cheers
Andy

Crew safe, aircraft safe.
That’s the main thing here I think.
Cheers
Andy

1989

Andy in Beds and John C, I rember the event at Norwich you mean, this was Air Fair ’85 which was the opening of the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, 5 May 1985.

You are right, Norwich had declared itself a nucular free zone, so no military involvement or warbirds were officially allowed. This is how the event was advertised.

Despite this I can remember two F-15 Eagles and a C-130 doing flypasts and a display by a RAF Sea King.

18,000 people attended the event (5,000 were expected) a good deal of money was raised for the City of Norwich Aviation Museum. The Council were so suprised that they allowed the Museum to arrange a further event in September 1986, this time th military aircraft and warbirds were welcome, but the Council took 50% of the income!

Further airshows took place at Norwich in the 1980’s, these were organised by a privately owned company, set up for that sole purpose and not involving the Museum.

I’m sure that this is correct.

Kelvin Sloper
City of Norwich Aviation Museum

Kevin
there wa a much better airshow at Norwich about 1989. I was liveside with a friend at the time and really close to a Gannet AEW3 warming up. Wonderful noise with a lot off resonating ear-drum!!!
Sadly I think the Gannet is the one now at Sandtoft (see Sandtoft thread)–weather was good too as I recall.
Cheers
Andy

I remember Norwich City Council one year decided that they’d have an airshow at Norwich Airport. At the time The council had decreed that Norwich was a nuclear free zone(go figure) so there could be no military involvement. Well, that pretty much killed that airshow–there was no nothing! The bleakest airshow I ever attended. No war birds, no military jets–in fact no nothing.
I reckon this was about 1984-ish. Anyone else remember it? The sad contrast was that I also remember the official opening airshow there in about 1970 when I saw the best Lightning display ever.
I also the Red Arrows for the first time that day.
Cheers
Andy

Have they re-upholstered the seating since the filming of BoB?

Moggy :diablo:

Behave!!! 😉 😉

Can’t remember the name of the church Andy, but it’s the western one of the two. If you head into St Ives from Huntingdon, you come to a crossroads with a Toyota dealership; turn right into St Ives, past The Seven Wives pub, and just before the road swings left along the river bank you have The Aviator on your right, with the church just beyond it.

http://www.saint-ives.org.uk/pubs/Aviator.php

Thanks for that Steve
I’ve got it now.
The other church is in the market place.
The pub’s a free house too.
Must try that one.
Cheers
Andy