Looks like someone has got the roundel colours right for a change 😉

There was a guy a that I corresponded with after I did the paint job for TD248. He flew TD247 with 74 Sqn, at the time you speak of. Unfortunately I can’t find his name at present, but he was a member of the Spitfire Society Eastern branch (?) and lived in Westcliff or possibly Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. He might be able to help, perhaps someone in the society can point you in the right direction. If I find the name I’ll drop you a pm.

Good job you didn’t get your camera out to photograph the lads when you were in at ARC Melv, you’d have come away with images of some ghostly shadows wrestling to get the Aurora out of Area 51 for the next mission 😀

JU52 as mentioned above. The 108 hadn’t arrived when I left at 17:30.
Only other arrival was the Hawk 75 returning from France.

Pretty slow day really (weather was pants until around 3) the only other movements being TFCs P51 pair, Irish T9 Spit and TFC Spit XIV just as I was leaving…

Pretty slow eh? I expect you get that sort of warbird activity anywhere on a normal day…….I mean you see Mustangs doing extremely close formation aero’s all the time don’t you :rolleyes: You could always go down the road to Stansted, I’m sure they have more movements for you. We”ll try to lay on a bit more “free” activity for you tomorrow, a few Spitfires and maybe the Buchon (if we let it out of our “secret area 51”) perhaps, oh and we’ll try not to do too much towing…..it spoils the pictures apparently :confused:
Oh by the way it’s a good job you saw that Irish T9 today, it won’t be on show at the weekend-too many Yaks. Hang on aren’t they trainers……….thought they wern’t allowed 😀

What’s with everyone trying to join the exclusive “Soft-Top Warbird Club”? We’ve had Rob Davies and now Stephen in recent weeks. Surely they must be aware that the pack leader is our own “Clueless”, who has the highest hours, having flown all the way back from Fairford a while back in the soft-top XVl model 😉

did notice that the spit v from arco is the desert camo one which has yet to fly. surely pushing it…. :confused:[/QUOTE]

Is that you want us to push it? We’d rather get someone sitting in it with that big fan thing whirling around at the front or we could always tow it….but then again there are people elsewhere on here who don’t like aircraft being towed, ruins their pictures apparently :rolleyes:

There is very little chance of it even being out of the hangar let alone flying. The colour scheme that I’ve put together for the owner hasn’t been applied yet and you wouldn’t want to miss that now would you? Should definately make the September Spitfire show along with RW386 🙂

Crickey, what a large step ladder.

DS

And I hate to think about the size of his windbreak and coolbox 😀