Bit odd them saying he is the first “Spitfire Apprentice since the war blah blah…” We’ve had them at ARC at DX since 2000…:rolleyes:

Baz

apart froms the Lancs dark earth but thats another story:rolleyes:.

Cheers
Paul

Ah, don’t you mean Cherry Blossom Mid-Tan (cowboy boots for the use of…) 😉 I’ve seen similar on a certain Mk1a Spitfire 😮

What a bunch of t*ats! Good job we didn’t do that on P7350. Looks like the ‘K’ is too precise (diagonals should be centred on the upright of the K, which is wrong in font terms but true to the original a/c) and the roundel colours look decidedly “iffy” to me. They’ll look dire once it has a bit of sun bleaching. :rolleyes:

I plan to participate. As a special treat for those present I plan on performing a wonderful act at Whittleford’s picturesque Red Lion on the Friday night. All of that without having a current CAA low level waiver…

T J

Better have your hard hat and hi-viz jacket on as it’s a building site at the moment. They’re either building a Travelodge, ops bunker, or a very big electricity substation…:D

I feel another new thread coming on….”I spent my formative years growing up near Southend Airport…” It seems there’s loads of us on this forum!

Well what a small world it is! I was born and lived in Thorpe Bay (near Southend for non-locals) in 1964. Spent endless time visiting the much missed HAM in Aviation Way and was always mesmerised when the Carvairs flew over our back garden. I clearly remember the first of the ex-RAF Belfasts being ferried in to Southend whilst playing Hockey on the School playing field in Southchurch! Many hours spent on the viewing balcony on the old terminal and some dodgy 110 camera snaps along the way of distant Carvairs, Heralds in the “old” BAF livery and the ex-Malaysian Heralds in storage complete with underwing drop tanks! Discovered Motorbikes and girls in my teens and then entered the world of aviation engineering at 19,with a nine year stint in the RAF as a Rigger on the lovely (yes I do mean it!) Tornado GR1. Did some volunteer work on the Cadman Invader in the National Airways hangar with Spencer Flack and his beautiful Mustang in residence in the “posh end”. Left the RAF and served a 7 1/2 year term at Marshalls at Cambridge before moving job to Duxford 11 years ago. Still known to be taking dodgy snaps that sometimes make it into Flypast etc…:)

Oh, and to avoid thread creep, I saw the “original” Catalina land and take off from the Thames beside the pier and was at the airport when the firebomber Catalina passed through before a slightly later nomadic existance with Aces High and then with the Arnolds…

Baby Spitfire heading west over Witham. Returned about a hour later heading east, 1400hrs 1800footish.
Boeing Stearman just south of Witham heading east 15.15hrs

It was T9 PV202/G-CCCA en-route for a South Coast tour of Beachy Head, White Cliffs at Dover and a low pass at Southend after a look at the Richard Montgomery wreck. And all in the sunshine, a hard life for some no doubt, especially piloting such a machine in such conditions on such a route on one’s birthday…;) Alright for some!

Is this your version of stepercise, Roobs?

Well it’s a variation on wing-walking…:D