Hello Albert,

G-AHCL is the one linked with the G-OJVC reg’

G-AHCK was bought in to to work the Summer Pleasure Flights after G-AHSO and G-AJEI had been sold on.

AHCK was damaged in an arson attack at Skegness after which AHSO was hired back in from Pat Miller.

The Skegness “Butlins” Aerodrome closed early in 1993..and the bulldozers moved in with undue haste…!!

More in a previous attempt of mine to highlight the good old days at Skeggy….
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16121

I have a feeling that AHCK went up Yorkshire way in recent times.??

AJEI is shown with a change of C of A details in progress..??

While AHSO is shown as still with Pat Miller..??

Curious to know their current status…hopefully towards flight.??

All the best,
Clive.

Hello SeaFuryFan,
I can believe it.!!…several times before now one of the Sixes has caused me to wake the whole household and have me hanging out the bedroom window in the middle night..listening to it rumble across E. Lincolnshire and out across the North Sea.

Thinking on it may be last November since I heard one out and about this way on.??

Send one this way soon please..!!

All the best,
Clive.

Not quite in the same league.?..but last evenings excitement in these parts were 2x A10..not seen them for a while…

Now, do I recall a stunt at Finningley ??..might have been Waddington ??….

For quite a while between items an incorrectly parked car was being refered to….there was a final threat to move this if it was not sorted soon….

This moving involved a Puma I think ??…..which carried out the lift but then dropped the car….Austin 1800 I seem to recall ??…..might have been some pyrotechnic involved too as I recall a black smoke ring as the car hit the deck..

Well, I hope it was a funny….and no one posts on about their worst airshow when fathers car got trashed !!

Clive.

Now this has jogged my memory… to a formation I saw in the early 1980s.

It could have been 1983 ????

I was working in Skegness…

In from over the North Sea came a formation of single engine trainer types….which had me puzzled….

Long before the days of Forums..a letter was written to Air Britain ???…and the reply came that perhaps what I had seen was the anniversary re-enactment of the first Balbo…??

Was this info’ correct ????

Clive.

Turn in high speed mixture screw until engine starts to slow, weak….then turn screw out until the engine again slows, rich….then set screw in mid position.
Check to see if engine responds to throttle cleanly..if not open mixture screw by 1/4 turn and…..

Here’s one from an earlier trip, 10-7-04, to Sunny Skeggy…’cept it wasn’t sunny !!

Clive.

Interesting news….

I think this was the aircraft that visited Lincolnshire a few years ago and did some flights out of Wickenby?? out to Skegness, up the coast and return a couple or more times….I think this may have included a fly through of the current Skegness Aerodrome ??..

It looked and sounded lovely as it came low over Spilsby here…a real treat to see.

Clive.