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November 3, 2007 at 2:54 pm in reply to: Spotted #1295667

g6hyf
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East Kirkby Spitfire T09 would be the one…I gather it did another fly by at Skegness at 2-50pm.

Clive.

November 3, 2007 at 10:37 am in reply to: Spotted #1295862

g6hyf
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10-28am..East Kirkby Spitfire T09 is out and about around Spilsby, E. Lincs.

Clive.:)

October 6, 2007 at 2:08 pm in reply to: Spotted #1241871

g6hyf
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East Kirkby Spitfire T09 has been out and about today…seen over Gunby, E. Lincs at 12-11pm..and over Spilsby 1-48pm….again at 2-44pm
..and again, manoeuvring with some verve,..heading East 3-12pm

Clive.:) 🙂

September 30, 2007 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Spotted #1245348

g6hyf
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2.40pm…BBMF Dak’ over my works at Gunby:)

Then was it 2-50pm.?..didn’t look too hard at my watch..too busy looking skyward;)

Dakota followed by Lancaster 3 Merlin Spitfires and the 2 Hurricanes turned from the North back onto West to pass just N of Gunby…
…:) 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Clive.

September 15, 2007 at 3:59 pm in reply to: Spotted #1262829

g6hyf
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East Kirkby Spitfire T09 out and about around Spilsby 2-50pm:) 🙂 prior to display at EK.

Clive.

August 31, 2007 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Spotted #1282975

g6hyf
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Spitfire around and about E. Lincs this afternoon…seen heading West passing South of my works at Gunby…2-44pm and 3-33pm….heard again a while later N of Gunby. Suspect it was East Kirkby T09.

Clive.

T09 about again this evening..SW of Spilsby 7-30pm running in for display at EK..40s dance night.??

August 27, 2007 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Spotted #1287011

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BBMF Lancaster, Spitfire PM631, Hurricane passing just South of Spilsby E. Lincs 2-15pm..from the East having crossed the Wash….en route flypast at East Kirkby.

August 20, 2007 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Spotted #1295631

g6hyf
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Lancaster spotted passing South of Spilsby heading home from the East.. middle of the afternoon yesterday….

August 18, 2007 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Skegness Aerodrome. #1297915

g6hyf
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Sorry they are not taken at Skeggie but having at last found out how easy it is to post photos on the forum (thanks avion ancien) here are a couple of G-AHCK, which you mentioned in your original post.

I also had a number of flights in ‘CK in the days when it was owned by first Laurie Mansfield and then Pete Woodman. Photos taken at Sywell (silver) and Shoreham.

Wicked Willip :diablo:

Hello,
Thank you posting on with the photos…..

AHCK was in the red colour scheme during its time at Skeggy..although I seem to think by then it looked a bit more jaded than in your photo.

I wonder where it is these days..??

I seem to think it may have gone at first to CFI DBCs home at Croft and then Wrecks and Relics suggests it migrated to just up the road here with Pat’ Miller at Mavis Enderby and then in 2001 moved to Thwing in East Yorkshire.??..but it still lurks on G-INFO with an old Skegness Air Taxi Service Ltd ref.

Thank you again for the photos,
Clive.

August 10, 2007 at 6:57 am in reply to: Skegness Aerodrome. #1307356

g6hyf
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Hello HP81,
Thank you for the update on this one…at the time that I posted my reply, back in 2003, I was not aware of the Burgh Road strip…but later found out about it..local sweet company etc.
A friend of mine made up some warning signs a while back with ref the nearby footpath.

I think the strip was quite busy in the last week with a couple of the local helicopters out and about.?

Following the recent “damp” weather the Water Leisure Park Airfield was out of bounds for a while, waterlogged..but recently I think the 150 from there has been about.??

All the best,
Clive.

August 9, 2007 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Vulcan escape question? #1307755

g6hyf
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I can confirm that the crew of XM600, Spilsby crash, all escaped ok…

I watched events unfolding from the school sports field…a Vulcan coming in from the coast with a large light visible….no light, but a fierce fire with as it got closer a trail of black smoke quite visible….somehow I felt it would keep going…but then we saw a parachute, then another, and then a third…even then I still felt it would fly on by..but it suddenly pointed 45 degrees downwards…another parachute was seen….then the Vulcan went out sight..and a huge fireball errupted..but I don’t recall any bang…a huge smoke ring slowly drifted off to the North.

I was very concerned at seeing no fifth ‘chute and it was only on the early evening news that I learnt that the pilot had in fact escaped ok..landing in Northorpe road Halton Holegate outside the home of a former squadron colleague.!!

How I discovered soon after that it was XM600 is another story;)

I learnt recently of a story that suggested one of the crew was briefly hung up on the exit door but was able to get free and away.

Clive.

August 5, 2007 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Spotted #1312855

g6hyf
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I am quite lucky living only 3or4 miles North of Gamston VOR/DME so tend to get 1 or 2 interesting A/C fly over now & then. In the last few weeks I have had the Lanc, a P51 & although not confirmed, a P40???. Can anyone please confirm this last one or am I going bonkers in my old age!!!

Hello Radpoe Meteor,

Check out the thread on the link below 😉

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=72761&highlight=g-kitt

Clive.

August 4, 2007 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Spotted #1314006

g6hyf
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12-50pm….East Kirkby Spitfire T09 has just overflown Spilsby and headed back towards EK..

Clive.:)

…and again at 1-35pm, 2-22pm, 3-14pm:)

July 31, 2007 at 8:40 pm in reply to: Spotted #1317664

g6hyf
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Wow………….such spotting.

The spirit of the Royal Observers Corps lives on!

Anyone seen one-hundred plus Heinkels heading for London?

No….but I have just seen parachutists out towards the East Coast..

…and our church bells are ringing…:eek:

They arrived by Caravan??..that has just headed back West..;)

July 31, 2007 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Spotted #1317852

g6hyf
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A lovely warm, still evening here in E. Lincs….and spotted at 7-47pm over Spilsby was G-ARAZ Tiger Moth…read reg easily with bino’s…in company with what I think was a red Tipsy Nipper?? ..damned if I could get the binoculars steady on it…good job it was nothing faster.:rolleyes: 😉
….but I think I read G-E?IE..so I wonder if it was G-ENIE.???

Clive:)
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